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Mother of Delhi gang-rape victim backs India’s rank as ‘most dangerous for women’

India topped a recent survey for being the ‘most dangerous country in the world for women’ (Photo by: DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images)

By: Lauren Codling

THE mother of a female student who was gang raped and killed on a Delhi bus more than five years ago supported a poll of experts on Wednesday (27) that ranked India as the world’s most dangerous country for women. India topped the survey of 548 experts in women’s issues due to the perceived high risk of sexual violence and slave labour faced by women, while war-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of Women and Child Development on Wednesday dismissed the survey as “an effort to malign the nation”. But…

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