In India, the identity of the woman who died after being gang-raped and mutilated with a metal bar on a moving bus in New Delhi has been publicly revealed. Jyoti Singh Pandey was 23 years old when she succumbed to her injuries after nearly two weeks in the hospital last month. The five suspects in her rape and murder briefly appeared in court today for a second time. A member of their defense team, Manohar Lal Sharma, is drawing ire after also saying he has never heard of a “respected lady” being raped in India. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Sharma said, “Until today, I have not seen a single incident or example of rape with a respected lady.” Sharma blamed the attack on the victim and her male companion, who was also injured, saying the man was “wholly responsible,” because the unmarried pair should not have been out on the streets at night. At a recent public event in India, the U.S. playwright and activist Eve Ensler appeared with the Indian activist Aruna Roy to discuss the response to the case.

Eve Ensler: “If the good men who are not doing the raping, if the good fathers who are teaching different things, do not rise up and speak to the other men and train the other men and educate the other men and work with the other men, we will never end violence against women and girls. So it’s been very moving to be traveling across India and meeting such gorgeous, loving, tender men who are with us in this struggle.”

Aruna Roy: “The death penalty or castration is not going to cure society of this violence. We have to look at the roots of this violence: inequality, injustice, inequity and a very bad system of governance, where the systems you’ve put in place to implement the law are exploiting it for their own purpose. So what we really need is to look at the total picture.”