ON behalf of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), a leading women’s organisation of the country, we have come here to express our anguish and anger at the spate of horrific incidents of violence against women and young girls that have occurred in your State. Many of the victims are Dalits and all of them belong to the poorest and weakest sections. We are also here to express our severe condemnation of the way in which certain organisations have been running so-called Protection Homes as places of intimidation and sexual exploitation of their inmates.