Enough is enough!

  Enough is enough!

               - Muskan Jain

You, me and Everyone has a right to be in an environment that is free from bullying, discrimination, violence and harassment. And speaking about harassment, sexual harassment is one of the most important subject matter to talk about.

It not only includes the undesirable and unwelcomed physical touches but also includes obscene gestures, texts or anything verbal as well as written.

We loudly talk about equality and equal rights to men and women, then why everyone is mum when it comes on speaking about sexual abuses?

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of which, 24,470 were committed by someone known to the victim that is 98% of the cases, which means you can not ensure your safety within your own house and even amongst your closed ones! According to an online survey by 'stop street harassment', 81% of the women have experienced some form of harassment at some point in their life. And most of these cases have gone unreported! Reason being that the person behind is someone known and instead of caring about self diligence, what "society would say" comes on top.

Also most of the children below the age of 7-8 do not understand what is going on with them as they are not made aware about the good and bad touches. Harassment is not gender oriented, boys are being harassed too, by relatives or at workplace.

Can we do something? Is silence the solution?

Being aware and speaking has always been a great way to connect with others who share the same problems and the ones who may give hands to get away with such problems.

Discussions about this issue amongst your family, friends and even at your workplace. A cell should be established at every workplace for redressal and to give punishment to such person causing mental disturbances. It's not the society who will be with you at your lows, instead of listening such society, listen and speak for yourself. It's not something that can't be swept away and together we can do wonders.

'Desperate times need desperate measures , so Stop enduring and start curing'.