The mother of a female student who was gang raped and killed on a Delhi bus more than five years ago supported a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll of experts on Wednesday that ranked India as the world¡¯s most dangerous country for women.

India topped the survey of 548 experts in women¡¯s issues due to the perceived high risk of sexual violence and slave labor faced by women, while war-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development on Wednesday dismissed the survey as ¡°an effort to malign the nation.¡±