Jueves 06/06/13, seguros de desempleo

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Que terrible es ser mujer en India. De la pobreza a la explotacion.

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June 6, 2013, 9:29 a.m. ET
.From Poverty to Exploitation in India
Young Girl's Tale Highlights a Different Aspect of the Abusive Treatment of Women in World's Largest Democracy

By PAUL BECKETT And KRISHNA POKHAREL
NEW DELHI—Gudiya means "doll" in Hindi.

It was the nickname of a tiny 14-year-old girl with a light complexion, long black hair, and a round face. She was given the name by the people who sent her to have paid sex with men in neighborhoods on the fringes of South Delhi over five months, starting two years ago.

This year, India has been racked by the rape of a New Delhi student on a moving bus in mid-December. The brutal assault prompted demonstrations calling for better safety for women and new laws to toughen punishment for those convicted of rape and other sexual assaults. It also focused attention on the threats and harassment that many Indian women face daily.


.The Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins present an e-book—"Crimes Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India"—that, we hope, will not only provide the most informative and in-depth reporting on crimes against women on the subcontinent but will aid in the national dialogue about how India can better treat its women and the reforms needed to ensure that this cultural blight is effectively tackled.
.The story of Gudiya, pieced together through interviews and official reports, highlights a different aspect of the abusive treatment of women in the world's largest democracy: The exploitation of women, including many children, for sex, often in the poorer neighborhoods of India's sprawling capital. (Gudiya's name is being withheld in accordance with India's laws governing juveniles.)

In 2004, as a small girl, Gudiya lived with her parents on a quiet side street in Govindpuri, a messy, broiling New Delhi neighborhood. Her father,
Jitender Gupta, had recently
been released from prison after
serving a conviction for murder.
In 2005, Gudiya's mother died from tuberculosis. Mr. Gupta
had to raise their daughter
alone.

He worked long hours selling vegetables from the roadside. He struggled with Gudiya. He beat her with his belt and fists, his daughter later told authorities. His response, in an interview: I didn't. But if I did, it was for her own good.

Their relationship became so sour that Gudiya was put in an orphanage. She later said in a police statement that her father put her there. Mr. Gupta says Gudiya's aunt deceived him into it. Either way, the orphanage was convinced she was parentless. Gudiya stayed for three years.

The orphanage was, in its way, a refuge. Still, when she was roughly 13, Gudiya walked out. She bounced around various relatives before returning to her father.

They moved into a new neighborhood. Gudiya and her father—plus Mr. Gupta's new girlfriend, a woman named Geeta—crowded into one room about 10 square feet at a rent of 1,000 rupees ($18) a month.

There was close-quarters friction. Mr. Gupta asked his daughter to call Geeta "Mommy," Gudiya later said in a court statement. When she refused, she said her father beat her. Geeta split. In late May 2011, saying she feared violence when her father came home drunk, Gudiya, aged 14, took off, too.

Her first stop, according to a statement she later gave before a court, was the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a top government research hospital, where Geeta worked. (Geeta could not be reached.)

Geeta took Gudiya to see a woman called Pooja Pandey back in Govindpuri. They were already acquainted: Ms. Pandey knew Gudiya and her father because her husband also ran a vegetable stall. Gudiya stayed with them.

But the couple didn't tell Gudiya's father where she was. Instead, Ms. Pandey viewed the young girl as a possible wife for a nephew of hers. She tried to talk Gudiya into the marriage, but the girl balked.

Ms. Pandey presented her with a choice, according to a statement the older woman later gave to police: "You either marry with our nephew or do prostitution."

Gudiya was silent, according to her own later statement to a judge.

That night, Ms. Pandey and her husband, Sandeep, took Gudiya to Mr. Pandey's village in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders Delhi to the east, according to an account provided by Gudiya as well as police statements by the Pandeys. Gudiya still refused to wed.

Gudiya was given bitter white alcohol to drink. Then Mr. Pandey took her to the roof of the house, made her undress and told her to lie down. Ms. Pandey held Gudiya's hands. Mr. Pandey undressed and raped her, according to both women and Mr. Pandey's police statement. The couple could not be reached for comment.

The next morning, the husband and wife returned to Delhi, leaving Gudiya in the village. A month later, Gudiya rejoined them. Mr. Pandey raped her repeatedly—and with his wife's knowledge—over three days, according to all three. The couple brought other men to her as well, charging them each 500 rupees ($9), according to the Pandeys' statements and to Gudiya. Gudiya later told a counselor that there were other young girls working at the house, according to the counselor's report. (That report and others were provided, in redacted form, by Delhi's child protection agency.)

Engaging in prostitution is not illegal in India, but related activities, such as soliciting and running a brothel, are. Having sex with a minor is considered rape.

Around August 2011, Gudiya was subcontracted out for one week to another couple who ran a prostitution racket, Ms. Pandey's statement said. The deal was that Gudiya was to have sex with seven men a day for seven days, Gudiya later told a counselor. She also told the counselor that when the woman of the house realized how young she was, the number of days was reduced to four.

After her contract was over, Gudiya returned to stay with Pooja Pandey. She told a counselor she earned 20,000 rupees ($360) in four days but saw none of it.

Months later, the Pandeys were arrested and charged with a range of crimes, including gang-rape, earning from prostitution and inducing a person into prostitution. The other couple whom Gudiya said she worked for at that time face similar charges. All deny the charges, their lawyers say. Their trial has yet to begin.

Police also have charged Mr. Gupta, Gudiya's father, with behaving cruelly toward his teenage daughter, which is a crime under India's juvenile-protection laws. He denies the charge. He is currently out on bail.

For more than a year, Gudiya has been cared for in a juvenile rehabilitation home in Delhi. Her father says he met her toward the end of last month. "Papa, let me study right now," he says she told him. Of her stay in the juvenile-care home, she added: "I am fine here." She will turn 16 later this month.

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