Acid attacks are barbaric acts of violence in which powerful acid is thrown at (nearly invariably) a young woman’s face or body as a form of ‘vengeance’ by young man/men. On the deserted lanes of a huge metropolis, you are not safe as a woman. In your neighborhood’s busy market, you feel sifted through. In…
1. Sexual harrasment is a violation of human. According to Nimbus poll, 47percent of ladies feel the highest issue at work is molestation and fifty one p.c of male colleagues have moon-faced molestation in a technique or another. 2. It’s a legal demand:Have associate degree anti-sexual Harassment policy with a transparent definition of molestation and…
As per the Indian constitution it is a grievous offence to traffic human beings. The IPC has separate provisions to punish the culprit for trafficking. Buying and selling of minor girls is strictly prohibited especially for the purpose of prostitution, provisions such as sec.366 (A) mentions about penalty for abducting female child for sexual exploitation.…
INTRODUCTION The current scenario and historical background of feminism, which includes social and political movements, has to do with gender inequalities and women’s equality. The fundamental importance of feminism would be a goal to justify gender equality and the protection of women from domestic violence. Abuse, rape, harassment and other crimes committed in the name…
The concept of Reservation policies is not a new phenomenon. It’s been raised from time to time by several specific groups, i.e. reservation for SC/ST/OBC by the respective groups; those groups think that by getting reservation, they would be able to get the representation for their class, but what is to be understood is that reservation…
Defining Feminism is a major challenge that world faces. The main reasons for this include, the dilemma between the interchangeable use of the terms of sex and gender. Sex is biological, gender is a social construct. The fact that these terms are misrepresented leads to the rise of various issues, creates set gender roles that…
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood Mahatma Gandhi Introduction In India, dowry has its roots in medieval times when a gift in cash or kind was given to a bride by her family to maintain her independence after marriage. During the colonial…
Gender Discrimination– two words that scarcely typify hundreds of years of discrimination women have faced. Women in India have not always seen the brighter aspects of life, from being confined to the 4 walls of their house to being discouraged from raising their voice and facing a plethora of forms of discrimination in various domains…
Last year, around this time the world saw many women putting up black and white pictures of themselves to spread awareness about the increasing femicide in Turkey. Crime against women is not an alien concept, it’s one of most common forms of crime. The rise in domestic violence cases (in India especially) and femicide cases…
men have been a subject of violence since a long and without even realizing every single one of us have heard, witnessed and ignored those painful stories. One in three women worldwide suffers physical or sexual abuse from an intimate partner. Prior to the epidemic of 243 million women and girls, 15-49 years old faced…
