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Violence against women in India refers to physical or sexual violence committed against a woman, typically by a man. Common forms of violence against women in India include acts such as domestic abuse, sexual assault, and murder. There are several forms of violence against women, murder (dowry deaths, honor killings), female infanticide, sexual ...
Violence against women. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 [ a] is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to protect women from domestic violence. The law came into force on 26 October 2006. For the first time in Indian law, the Act defines "domestic violence", with the definition being broad and including not only ...
Gender inequality in India refers to health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India. [ 1] Various international gender inequality indices rank India differently on each of these factors, as well as on a composite basis, and these indices are controversial. [ 2][ 3] Gender inequalities, and their social ...
Domestic violence in India includes any form of violence suffered by a person from a biological relative but typically is the violence suffered by a woman by male members of her family or relatives. [ 1][ 2] Although Men also suffer Domestic violence, the law under IPC 498A specifically protects only women. Specifically only a woman can file a ...
National Women Commission of India. The National Commission for Women ( NCW) is a statutory body of the Government of India, generally concerned with advising the government on all policy matters affecting women. It was established on 31 January 1992 under the provisions of the Indian Constitution, [ 1] as defined in the 1990 National ...
Feminism in India is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and opportunities for women in India. It is the pursuit of women's rights within the society of India. Like their feminist counterparts all over the world, feminists in India seek gender equality: the right to work ...
The world's average annual death rate from intentional violence, in recent years, has been 7.9 per 100,000 people. [ 167] For 2012, [ 11] there were 93 deaths in India from many incidences of communal violence (or 0.007 fatalities per 100,000 people). Of these, 48 were Muslims, 44 Hindus and one police official.
The Mathura rape case was an incident of custodial rape in India on 26 March 1972, wherein Mathura, a young tribal girl, was allegedly raped by two policemen on the compound of Desaiganj Police Station in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. After the Supreme Court acquitted the accused, there was public outcry and protests, which eventually led ...