US offers help to India for combating violence against women

Washington: In the wake of Delhi Gang rape case, the US has offered its assistance to India in strengthening public and private organisations working to combat violence against women.

“Our goal is, whether it’s in India or anywhere else, to help strengthen all of the public and private organizations that are working to combat violence against women,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said on Thursday.

“…And we will continue to make this a strong tenet of our foreign policy wherever there is a problem, and unfortunately, there are problems in countries around the world, including our own,” she said.

The US, she said, has a long and strong relationship with the Government of India and with a broad cross-section of Indian NGOs on combating violence against women.

“Obviously, if the result of the investigation into this case indicates that the Indian Government wants to make changes or go in a different set of directions with regard to those programmes, we’d be interested in talking to them about it,” she said.