Women Women once venerated as the mother and the perpetuating angel of mankind has come to be looked upon as ’the unblessed creature of God’ in India‚ thanks to the club-and-drag cave-man attitude of the traditionally male-dominated society. If we turn on the dailies in the morning‚ we shudder to read hair-raising instances of male chauvinism travelling in ’sexism‚ racism‚ violence and poverty’ to women representing the ’masculine mystique belief in the inevita¬bility of violence against women
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INTRODUCTION : “Violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women‚ which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women...” The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women‚ General Assembly Resolution‚ December 1993 Since the 1990s‚ there has been increasing concern about violence against women in general‚ and domestic violence in particular
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What are the potential risks and benefits of migration for European states and societies? Migration has been in existence since humans appeared in the world. However our forbearers had different purposes for moving from one location to another than the contemporary humans. Their reasons for leaving a territory were changing climate or infertile soil1. The motivational factors for modern migration differ from that. They are in tight correspondence with globalization. Through this phenomenon there
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - IN INDIA Introduction This research paper introduces the discussion of legal responses to violence against women. It provides the context for the more detailed examination of those legal issues to which the courts can respond. Its objective is to show the many ways in which violence is relevant to legal disputes‚ even where it is not the direct issue and even though it is often ignored. First‚ it discusses examples of different legal remedies that have been‚ or might
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Forms of Violence Against Women in Pakistan Domestic Violence and Rape After giving birth to five girls and being continuously tortured by her husband for not conceiving a boy‚ Faizan Mai‚ a distraught thirty-five year old Pakistani woman‚ killed herself and her two youngest daughters in 2002 by jumping in front of a moving train when her husband declared he would marry another woman that could give him a son. Studies on violence against women estimate that a woman in Pakistan is raped every two
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Sexual Assault against Women I choose this topic because sexual assault is one of the most offensive crimes committed in our society. Not only is it a threat to the community‚ but it has a physically and psychologically effect on the victim in many ways. For the last couple of decades‚ sexual assault‚ rape‚ and child molestation has become the focal point of public concerns today. According to a 1993 National Crime Victimization Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice‚ about 500
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Running Head: DOMESTIC violence and women It should not hurt to be a Woman: The impact of domestic violence on health. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Nursing 350 “Just tell the nurse you slipped and fell. It starts to sting as it starts to swell. She looks at you she wants the truth‚ it’s right outside in the waiting-room with those hands looking just as sweet as he can…” (Nickleback‚ 2002). It should not hurt to be a
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eradicate violence against women and girls. It is not meant to be prescriptive‚ but to map the multiple pathways to tackling violence against women and girls and provide a starting point for programmes to develop their own theories of change. PRINCIPLES The seven key principles underlying the Theory of Change are that: 1. Context is critical: successful interventions are those that are tailored and based on rigorous analysis of the particular factors affecting violence against women and girls in
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Domestic Violence on Women and girls in Society Tabinda Asghar Dow Institute of Nursing Abstract Violence alongside women and girls is a sign of previously uneven authority relations among men and women‚ which have led to command over and unfairness against women by men and to the avoidance of the full progression of women. These types of terrible actions against women and girls continues to be a global epidemic that kills‚ tortures‚ and wound- physically‚ psychologically‚ sexually and economically
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investigated the psychosocial impact of domestic violence on Pakistani women. A 15-item scale was devised to measure the frequency of the occurrence of different types of domestic violence in an average month. The sample consisted of ten adult married women from high socio-economic group‚ presently‚ under treatment as out-patients after being exposed to spousal violence during the past 5 years. All the subjects reported being exposed to verbal threats of violence‚ abusive language‚ throwing things around
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