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Refusing any food or water to draw people’s attention to human rights abuses at the hands of security forces, she was arrested and sent to a prison hospital in 2000, where she was force-fed through a nasal drip. Since then, the Manipur government has been arresting Sharmila every year, as the law does not allow for anyone to be held under the charge of attempt to commit suicide for more than 364 days.

AFSPA covers large parts of northeastern India and Kashmir and critics say it is a cover for human rights abuses. Sharmila is in a special ward of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences at Imphal, where her room has been declared a sub-jail. come only of policing, but also of planning and design of public places, among other aspects.

The concept of safety audits was later adopted by state home minister RR Patil and the BMC.

Some of the recommendations of the CAP are setting up a mechanism for gender clearance of major infrastructure projects in the city, including women’s concerns in the ongoing discussions about the Development Plan, following a luminescence index for different areas, making it ‘uncool’ to sexually harass or assault women, public campaigns to make sensitise people to gender issues, uniform and gender-sensitive protocols to care for survivors of sexual violence and their medico-legal documentation.

“The chief minister was very positive and receptive. The basic idea was that women use and interact with city spaces in a different way from men. That’s why the need for a comprehensive plan,” said Dr Nandita Shah, co-director of Akshara. unnamed Board official as saying that Fletcher should take the hint and step down.