The NTUI condemns all acts of sexual violence and crimes against women in the public spaces, at the workplace and in homes. The visible rise in sexual crimes across the subcontinent could be correlated with on one hand, the increasing participation of women in social life and the workforce as also to the increase in the reporting of such crimes. Both of these appear to have provided the license to all sections of the political class to issue restrictive diktats on women’s movement outside their homes as ways to prevent such crimes.