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India's Daughter - The Brutal Rape that Galvanized India

This is the story of the brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi of a 23-year-old medical student, Jyoti Singh. The clip examines the outrage the case caused in India, a country beset by extreme poverty and archaic cultural attitudes towards gender equality.

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