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By Sheba Rakesh - founder of Pankh, Safe World Field Partner in India:

"Sexuality for women --  the issues of the body are closely related to the issues of personal existence, and ironically, young women in India are still not well-equipped to handle these issues.

This is so  because of the Indian social structure in which talking about sex may be considered “modern”, but handling related concerns and issues are taboo questions that are preferably shoved under the carpet.

Pankh, has been trying -- and will continue to try its level best to generate an awareness on such issues and extend help wherever essential..."

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Safe World Field Partner in India - Pankh - organised a campaign against Female Foeticide:

Dr. Sheba Rakesh, Executive Director of Pankh, stressed the need to awaken the masses towards such heinous atrocities which have large scale social ramifications in the form of human trafficking, prostitution, dowry and domestic violence and other forms of harassment, both emotional and sexual against womenfolk.

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Second interview on Pravda.ru with Sheba Rakesh, founder of Pankh - Safe World Field Partner in India:

"In most cases the brides are burnt alive, in yet some of the others the emotional, financial and psychological torture is so intense that the girl, finding herself emotionally alone is driven to despair and ultimately suicide. Apart from the social and psychological behaviour of close ones that encourages such behaviour it is the legal problems that force women to see nothing but a dead end.."

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Pravda.ru interview with Sheba Rakesh - founder of Pankh, Safe World Field Partner in India.

"Pankh is one year old. Set up last year around the same time it has succeeded in doing some quality work for uplifting the status of women who needed its help.  

I have always been attracted to the idea of the upliftment of women who are not as fortunate as some of their privileged counterparts. My education, some of my very close personal experiences, and my family support helped me to go ahead with the idea of starting Pankh. After the completion of my Doctoral thesis in English Literature, activism had to be the next obvious step, and here was Pankh..."

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Women in India

The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia.

From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been eventful.

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