Types of Violence against Women

1. Types of Violence against Women • Female Foeticide • Gender based discrimination. • Physical abuse • Rape and sexual abuse • Acid Attacks • Human Trafficking • Domestic Violence • Marital dispute • Binding and Divorce • Issues related to widows • AIDS and other infectious diseases victims • Women related property and heritage issues • Reproductive and sexual health rights of young girls • Dalits and Tribals • Prisoners

2. Appealing Facts • A recent study has concluded that violence against women is the fastest-growing crime in India. • According to latest report prepared by India's National Crime Records Bureau(NCEB), a crime has been recorded against women in every three minutes in India. • In every 60 minutes, two women are raped in this country. • In every six hours, a young married women is found beaten to death, burnt or driven to suicide.

3. Why Female Foeticide ?

4. Why Gender discrimination against girls? A popular Telugu saying from Andra Pradesh is, "Bringing up a daughter is like watering a plant in anothers' courtyard". Due to this understanding she is considered as a liability and outside commodity.

5. Girls are abused - Physically, emotionally or sexually • Physical abuse is the inflicting of the physical injury upon the girl child. which includes burning, hitting, punching and beating a girl child. • Emotional abuse also known as verbal abuse, mental and psychological maltreatment • Sexual abuse is inappropriate sexual behavior with a girl child.

6. Dowry System a Menace to our Society • Dowry is defined as the 'money, goods or estate that a women brings to her husband at marriage'. It is also known as the ‘property, which a women brings to her husband at marriage‘. • Bride-burning is a form of domestic violence, a category of dowry death, bride-burning occurs when a young woman is murdered by her husband or his family for her family's refusal to pay additional dowry. • Dowry is seen as a crime in India but still many people still give the groom's family some of it so that their daughters are not harassed after the marriage. • Best Education is the best dowry.

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8. Domestic Violence - an epidemic to be eradicated • Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. • Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure or wound someone. • Calls you names, insults you or continually criticizes you. • Does not trust you and acts jealous or possessive. • Damaged property when angry (thrown objects, punched walls, kicked doors, etc.). • Pushed, slapped, bitten, kicked or choked you. • Views women as objects and believes in rigid gender roles. • Accuses you of cheating or is often jealous of your outside relationships.

9. CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Domestic Violence is a burning and uncommon issue these days. This cruel task has increased to an alarming level. Volley of questions arises regarding the causes and effects of Domestic Violence.: CAUSES: Domestic Violence occurs due to communication gap among family members. Lack of trust or treachery. EFFECTS: Due to Domestic Violence, children community suffers utmost. The love and nurture that they expect from their family members used to get shattered. Domestic Violence turns a sweet and soothing relationship into a miserable one. REMEDIES: Today, the need of the hour is that the law against domestic violence has to be imposed strictly. There should be a one single law in the Indian constitution, dealing firmly with different forms of domestic violence. The non-governmental organization (NGOs) again plays a key role in controlling the domestic violence and putting a curb on its causes. There are many such NGOs stationed in different parts of the country who are working on women’s issues occurring from domestic violence. They provide services like counseling, educating and above all inculcating the flaring self-confidence in them to fight back all odds in their life. NGO helps in spreading the awareness among people from different walks of life regarding the legal rights women can use against the abuses faced by them.

10. Domestic Violence - Legal Solution Domestic Violence Act for Women’s empowerment in India • Domestic Violence Act 2005 is the first significant attempt in India to recognize domestic abuse as a punishable offence, to extend its provisions to those in live-in relationships, and to provide for emergency relief for the victims, in addition to legal recourse. Who are the primary beneficiaries of this Act? • Women and children. Section 2(a) of the Act will help any woman who is or has been in a domestic relationship with the ‘respondent’ in the case. It empowers women to file a case against a person with whom she is having a ‘domestic relationship’ in a ’shared household’, and who has subjected her to ‘domestic violence’. How does the new law define domestic abuse? • Section 3 of the law says any act/conduct/omission/commission that harms or injures or has the potential to harm or injure will be considered ‘domestic violence’. • Under this, the law considers physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, psychological, and economic abuse or threats of the same. • Even a single act of commission or omission may constitute domestic violence — in other words, women do not have to suffer a prolonged period of abuse before taking recourse to the law.

11. Domestic Violence - Legal Solution • How does the law ensure that a wife who takes legal recourse in the event is not intimidated or harassed? • a husband cannot take away her jewellery or money, or throw her out of the house while they are having a dispute. • What are the main rights of a woman as recognized by this law? • The law is so liberal and forward-looking that it recognizes a woman’s right to reside in the shared household with her husband or a partner even when a dispute is on .Thus, it legislates against husbands who throw their wives out of the house when there is a dispute. Such an action by a husband will now be deemed illegal, not merely unethical. Even if she is a victim of domestic violence, she retains right to live in ’shared homes’ that is, a home she shares with the abusive partner. • Section 17 of the law, which gives all married women or female partners in a domestic relationship the right to reside in a home that is known in legal terms as the shared household, applies whether or not she has any right, title or beneficial interest in the same. • The law provides that if an abused woman requires, she has to be provided alternate accommodation and in such situations, the accommodation and her maintenance has to be paid for by her husband or partner. • The law, significantly, recognizes the need of the abused woman for emergency relief, which will have to be provided by the husband.

12. A woman cannot be stopped from making a complaint/application alleging domestic violence. She has the right to the services and assistance of the Protection Officer and Service Providers, stipulated under the provisions of the law. • A woman who is the victim of domestic violence will have the right to the services of the police, shelter homes and medical establishments. She also has the right to simultaneously file her own complaint under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. • Sections 18-23 provide a large number of options for legal redressal. She can claim through the courts Protection Orders, Residence Orders, Monetary Relief, Custody Order for her children, Compensation Order and Interim/ Ex parte Orders. • If a husband violates any of the above rights of the aggrieved woman, it will be deemed a punishable offence. Charges under Section 498A can be framed by the magistrate, in addition to the charges under this Act. Further, the offences are cognizable and non-bail able. Punishment for violation of the rights enumerated above could extend to one year’s imprisonment and/or a maximum fine of Rs 20,000.

13. Time to speak out! • “As someone who suffered abuse throughout a 15-year marriage and beyond, I would like to share……At his hands, I was subjected to insults, put-downs, shouting, threats and sarcasm….I developed high B.P., thyroid problems and peptic ulcer. I knew something in me was dying…. I want to warn all women who face emotional abuse, please don’t go through it silently. Confrontation is a must to solve this problem. Don’t hesitate and hide your emotions under the traditional household mask…..”[30/03/2008 The Hindu] • You have borne violence for years, nothing has changed, but you have changed. How long you are going to bear the abuse from your husband. • Retrieve the confidence in yourself, to move from the initial phase of confusion and shock to naming the violence. • If the man is the abuser, why are you as a daughter/wife/mother is feeling disgraced by the society? • Women normally do not speak about violence done on them, as they believe that it is okay for men to show violence. • Domestic violence breeds on the silence and acceptance of victims. Your abuser is all out to take advantage of your silence • Women subjected to the domestic abuse tend not to look after themselves and soon undergo the physical and mental trauma.

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