Courage, he reflected, was when a village woman in war-torn Congo left her house and walked to the well, knowing that she would probably be raped by marauding soldiers before she got there.

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One in three women around the globe will be beaten, raped, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.

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Chhaya Sharma, deputy commissioner of police for Delhi's south district where a 23-year-old woman was gang raped in December, will be moved to a job in the eastern state of Mizoram.

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