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Indian spending on women’s safety “grossly inadequate”, says Oxfam

Mumbai/Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly a decade since the gang rape and murder of a student on a bus shocked India, state spending to combat violence against women and girls is “grossly inadequate”, Oxfam India said on Tuesday. Funds earmarked for setting up helplines, opening crisis centres and introducing gender-sensitisation training for officials remain unspent, […]