Arianna Huffington, who founded the website "The Huffington Post" in 2005, launched the Indian edition along with TOI adding she wanted HuffPost India to 'tell the stories that matter most' to the country.
The Indian edition on Saturday led with a story headlined 'Uber and Out', about the US-based cab service being banned in New Delhi over the alleged rape of a female customer by a driver booked through the company.
Rape has no gender, caste, creed, region, or religion.
I recently watched a documentary film "The Invisible War", written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering and Tanner King Barklow about sexual assault in the United States military.
The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. 20% of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. Female soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims.
And it isn’t just women; according to one study's estimate, one percent of men in the military— nearly 20,000 men were reportedly sexually assaulted in 2009. The Invisible War exposes the epidemic of sexual assault in the military.
But I could not find a mention of the film in "The Huffington Post".
Surprised at how the rest of world still sees India, even today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/arianna-huffington/namaste-introducing-huffpost-india_b_6278606.html
#AriannaHuffington #HuffPost #Uber #TheInvisibleWar
The Indian edition on Saturday led with a story headlined 'Uber and Out', about the US-based cab service being banned in New Delhi over the alleged rape of a female customer by a driver booked through the company.
Rape has no gender, caste, creed, region, or religion.
I recently watched a documentary film "The Invisible War", written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering and Tanner King Barklow about sexual assault in the United States military.
The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. 20% of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. Female soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims.
And it isn’t just women; according to one study's estimate, one percent of men in the military— nearly 20,000 men were reportedly sexually assaulted in 2009. The Invisible War exposes the epidemic of sexual assault in the military.
But I could not find a mention of the film in "The Huffington Post".
Surprised at how the rest of world still sees India, even today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/arianna-huffington/namaste-introducing-huffpost-india_b_6278606.html
#AriannaHuffington #HuffPost #Uber #TheInvisibleWar
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