GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEINDIAMEASURESSAFE CITY PROJECT FOR WOMEN’S URBAN SAFETY
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Safe City Project for Women’s Urban Safety
Type of Measure
Prevention > Work with public private sectors
Form of Violence
Sexual harassment
Year
2021
Brief Description

Implemented in 8 major cities, the Safe City Project maps high-risk zones and improves urban safety for women and girls through enhanced street lighting, CCTV surveillance, panic buttons, police patrols, and gender-sensitive public transport access. It is part of the Nirbhaya Fund initiatives.Implemented in 8 cities, the Safe City Project addresses safety of women in public spaces through lighting, CCTV, police patrolling, panic buttons in public transport, mapping of dark spots and convergence between civic and police bodies.

Source of Information
Progress Report on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action within the Beijing+30 Review, India, 2024
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