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A smartphone app launched in the Indian capital Delhi aims to fight a rise in sexual assault cases by enabling women to immediately alert friends or family if they feel at risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The “Fight Back” app created by Indian non-profit Whypoll will — at the press of a single key — send an SOS message via text message, email and Facebook.<\/p>\n

Once the SOS is activated, recipients will be able to track the sender’s location via GPS and come to her aid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I grew up in Delhi and it’s always been an unsafe city. And it just keeps getting worse. As a woman, you just don’t feel comfortable on the roads,” Whypoll co-founder Shweta Punj told AFP.<\/p>\n

“I was disgusted by the violence and wanted to do something about it.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delhi now tops the list of India’s most unsafe cities for women, with 489 reported rape cases in 2010, up from 459 in 2009, according to police statistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

India’s rapid economic growth has thrown open new job opportunities for women, but many feel at risk of harassment or assault while travelling on their own to and from work.<\/p>\n

According to Whypoll co-founder Hindol Sengupta, while users can choose to include a number for the Delhi police in their SOS shortlist, the main focus of the app is to alert friends and family.<\/p>\n

The Fight Back app is priced at 100 rupees ($1.90) for a year’s use. Currently available only in English, the creators plan to offer it in Indian languages and expand its reach to include nine more cities by the end of 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The app comes a year after volunteer activists in Egypt launched HarassMap, an initiative which asks women to send text messages with details of their location when they face sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

The aim of HarassMap is to build a map of hotspots where women are more likely to be assaulted and demand an increased police presence in those places.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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