Yogita Bhayana is a well-known anti-rape activist in India, who heads People Against Rape in India (PARI), an organization that seeks to support rape survivors and help them get justice for their assailants. She has also founded and ran 200 homeless shelters in

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and landed support to rape survivors beginning anti-sexual violence efforts. She began a campaign "Nari Ke 2 Din" which seeks to create a special session of parliament on women’s issues.

Education

Bhayana got her

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in Disaster Management.

Early life

She has been a leading member of interviewing Anganwadi workers across Delhi NCR, expert committee on gender and education National Commission for Women, Rogi Kalyan Samiti Government of Delhi, and the Sexual Harassment Board of Delhi. Witnessing a road accident and watching the apathy of the police and hospital staff first-hand led Bhayana to become a

social activist Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...

. Bhayana has been closely working on Rape cases. Her protests were instrumental on the

2012 Delhi gang rape and murder The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South West Delhi. The incident took place when Jyoti Singh, a 22-year ...

case.

Career as an activist

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, many people from places far from Delhi were sent home with no treatment from the

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. Bhayana stated, "Most of these patients have nowhere to stay or live... We found a group in which heart patients, cancer patients, and others with burn injuries were there. Many of them were not even able to walk. They are poor and also suffer from disabilities or problems." She organized for buses to take them home, and paid for the transportation out of pocket.

Controversies

Delhi Police Notice

On 3 February 2021,

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sent a notice to Bhayana under

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section 153, 153A. 505(1)(b) to appear before Police. Responding to which, Bhayana accused the Delhi Police of suppressing her voice, and said her only crime was that she had been supporting the farmers protesting against three Central agricultural laws.

Protest at Bihar CM office

On 2 April 2022, Bhayana along with a rape victim's father and uncle protested outside

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's, Bihar Chief Minister's office. A police officer ( SI Rank) misbehaved with Bhayana stating "Now

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will tell, how ladies should live".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bhayana, Yogita Living people Indian civil rights activists Indian environmentalists Indian women activists Indian social workers Women civil rights activists Year of birth missing (living people)