VAWnet News Blog

by Shaina Goodman of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

In one corner of the campus in the Auroville Institute of Applied Technology, there are 365 bamboo sticks, all painted pink and placed in concrete blocks.

“A new study suggests domestic violence during pregnancy has long-term effects on the unborn child.”

“Survey data from 1995 to 2011. We found that the estimated rate of sexual assault and rape of female college students, ages 18 to 24, was 6.1 per 1,000 students. This is nothing to be proud of, but it is significantly lower than the rate experienced by women that age who don’t attend college —”

“Of 478 sanctions meted out for sexual assault, 12 percent were expulsions and 28 percent were suspensions, according to the data. The rest were reprimands (13 percent), counseling orders (12 percent), community service orders (4 percent) and other, unspecified types of punishment.