Lucknow: Stirred by a series of sexual crimes in the state and elsewhere, an NGO has decided to build a Nirbhaya Memorial to the women who were victims of such crimes and to stir society's conscience against such acts.

Nutan Thakur, an office-bearer of NGO People's Forum, said the forum has an 8,000 sq ft piece of land in Khadgapur in the Gomtinagar extension for the memorial, named after the Dec 16, 2012, Delhi gang-rape victim. The memorial would not only be for highlighting many such cases of sexual assault, crimes and brutality perpetrated against women but also to "shame" the assailants and society at large that "such heinous crimes continue under their watch".