If one woman is raped every 22 minutes in India, one woman is raped every seven minutes in France. As for low conviction rates mentioned in the same report, these are not unique to India either. In France, only two per cent of the cases lead to conviction, according to the French National Institute for Advanced Studies in Security and Justice. In fact, a recent European Union-wide survey (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) showed that just 13 per cent women in Europe reported their most serious incident of violence to the police. In her sharp critique of the “neocolonialist” way in which the United States of America and the United Kingdom handled the December 16 rape coverage, Emer O’Toole, writing in The Guardian, shows how a BBC article points to the statistic that a woman is raped in Delhi every 14 hours. Yet, in England and Wales (3.5 times larger than Delhi), the figure for recorded rapes of women is proportionately four times larger.