VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Presentation Transcript * 1. A research study on VAW... VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN... * If‚ all the violence that have done on women‚ if we put in a2. ABSTRACT bundle and rolled into one‚ then…… Earth would not hold it‚ The sky could not According to UN‚ theenfold it‚ It could not be lighted and warmed by the sun…! most widely excepted definition of violence against women………………... any act of gender-based violence that results in‚ or is likely to result in‚ Physical
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Assessment Component 2: Issues Analysis Stage Two Women’s Studies The issue of sex selective abortions is reflective of women’s inferior status throughout contemporary Indian society. Feminism and women’s rights have resulted in abortion rights throughout many countries‚ which are thought to benefit womanhood for a range of reasons. However‚ in developing countries such as India‚ abortion rights are reinforcing the patriarchy that has oppressed
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A Response to Susan Moller Okin’s Article: “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” My response to Susan Moller Okin’s article titled “Is multiculturalism good for women?” can be summed up in the following essay‚ in which I firmly argue in favor of Okin’s stance on the point that a blind reliance and shallow adherence to multiculturalism can lead to horrible abuses against whom it intends to protect‚ and that‚ in fact‚ multiculturalism‚ in that sense‚ is bad for women and the advancement of women’s
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the adult’s mind too ... the mind that judges and desires and decides ... But all these suggestions are ... suggestions from the state!" - The Director‚ Aldous Huxley’s "Brave New World" It is a communistic ideal that states that a society where everything is controlled by the government or some other political corporation is a safe society. What if
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harsher society. This could either show that these foreign travellers were all fanciful in their writings on ancient India or that these ‘sacred’ texts played a very minimal role in governing the Hindu way of life. Apart from the absurdity of the suggestion that a traveller would lie in praise of a foreign land‚ the later scenario appears more probable because of another very interesting facet of ancient Hindu society- minimal State interference in the daily life of a citizen. Therefore there was
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chapterization 10 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 11 Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation 11 Forms of Domestic Violence 13 Monetary Restrictions 15 Social Abuse 15 CAUSES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 17 Patriarchal society 17 Financial dependence 18 Dowry 19 domestic violence occuring in the Private sphere 21 Psychological causes 21 SOLUTIONS TO END THE MENACE 22 Social solutions 22 Legal provisions 24 CONCLUSION 28 BIBLIOGRAPHY 29 Articles 29 Books 29 Websites 30 Table of
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Why are human rights so difficult for Women to realise? The “Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789) are‚ for women‚ arbitrary‚ innate‚ a document that speaks volumes in the silent exclusion of women. Women‚ in this document‚ are not accounted and therefore it must be assumed that women are not (at the time of printing) recognised as citizens and are without rights‚ at least the rights bestowed upon their brothers‚ fathers‚ sons and uncles. This blatant hierarchal placement of rights removes
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1. Rao‚ V. (1993). The rising price of husbands: A hedonic analysis of dowry increases in rural India. Journal of Political Economy‚ 666-677. Motivation and objective : Attempts to investigate the reasons behind the increase in dowry . Methods : It adapts Rosen’s implicit market model to the Indian marriage market and tests predictions from the model with data from six villages in South Central India and from the Indian census Theories : Using utility function‚ U is assumed to be maximized‚ given
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Chief Justice of India‚ Justice JS Verma headed the commission and reviewed the laws on sexual crimes which exist already. The report was prepared by the panel in its 30-day deadline. The former CJI described that there were more than 80000 suggestions from the length and breadth of India as well as abroad after 5 January 2013 was declared as the deadline for receiving comments from common man in order to refurbish the present legislation that deals with the sex offenders. The Justice Verma
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to death or being forced to commit suicide at someplace in India‚ almost every four hours for not being able to provide the demand of dowries. (Stone) The word dowry in the ordinary sense means properties or resources that are given to the bridegroom and his family at the time of marriage from the bride’s family for accepting her to their home permanently. Dowry is‚ therefore‚ a compensatory payment to the family which agrees to shelter her hypothetically for the rest of her life. (Ahmad). “The
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