Time magazine has listed "India's Rape Epidemic," the nationwide uproar over a number of rape incidents, especially following a brutal gang-rape in Delhi, as the ninth top world news story of 2013.
Mass protests at the time over the shocking gang-rape of a woman in a bus in Delhi at the end of 2012, the influential US news magazine noted "demanded greater protection for women and swift justice."
"The trial and sentencing of the culprits — four were given the death penalty — of the six suspects lasted through September," it recalled.
"Subsequent incidents, including the rape of another 23-year-old girl in Mumbai, also drew widespread attention nationally and abroad, and the uproar has shone a necessary spotlight on India's notoriously patriarchal society."
"It has also placed renewed scrutiny on the state of women's rights in the developing world where more than 2 million girls give birth before the age of 14," Time said.
"Bangladesh's Factory Disaster" - "the worst industrial disaster in recent memory, killing over 1,100 workers" - about the April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, is listed as the seventh top world news story.
{{/usCountry}}"Bangladesh's Factory Disaster" - "the worst industrial disaster in recent memory, killing over 1,100 workers" - about the April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, is listed as the seventh top world news story.
{{/usCountry}}The top three slots are taken by "Syria's Civil War - and the War That Didn't Happen"; "Iran's New Chapter" and "The End of Egypt's Revolution?"