INTRODUCTION
A girl or women is a gift from god.
Everyone should respect women. Without women no one is able to come to the
earth. A woman can teach others by teaching her child, she can teach a child to
not to do any wrong thing with others, to respect others etc. Empowering women
means empowering future kids. Women are strong enough to do anything. People of
India worship Durga. A girl is considered as Lakshmi. Now women are reached at
the level as equal to men. Women are globally involves in various sectors to
contribute their works to various sectors. Due to the reservation policy for
women they can be able to work in various public as well as private sectors to
contribute their work in industrial, social, academic fields etc. Because of
the equal right of women to work in various field such as political, legal they
have notice various issues arises in various filed of works, such as sexual
harassment, blackmailing, advantages of weaknesses of a woman taken by a person
etc. Some women work with some official’s right person with the help of some
NGO to protect women in various workplaces as well as work ways. By focusing
those issues by nation, different Law and Act established.
The violence against women is
increasing at high level day by day. If one person considers his/her mother as
mother then others sister is also our sister and others mother is our mother.
Women are facing many problems in today’s world in spite of having various
advantages. No one can change the mind of any person; if one person has the bad
intention to harm you he/she will do every possible means for harm you.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
There are various violence against
women are being noticed. Some of them are as follows:-
- Sexual harassment: - Sexual harassment means if
a person harassed someone by physically and force that person to do such
things that is illegal and the person don’t want to receive such behaviour
from another, it is known as sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is also
known as mistreated, ill-treat, misuse and exploit behaviour. There are
various incidents happened in the society, we are aware only of those
incidents which we heard and see in the news but there are also various
incidents happens that we don’t know about these because most of the
people don’t want to share such incidents as they thought that this may
make a negative impact to their life.
- Molestation: - Molestation is also a kind of
violence against women or a child. It is a kind of sexual harassment.
Sometimes it so happens that if a 5 year girl child face molestation, she
suffers a lot but do not know what to do or to whom she will go to tell
about this and for this reason she face this problem many times for not
saying to anybody.
- Cruelty against women: - Women are also facing
the problem of cruelty.
- Gender based violence: - Women are facing the
violence related to gender. Women have suffered the problem of gender
based violence. Sometime women are treating as weak as compare to
men.
- Child marriage: - Many girl childs are facing
the problem of child marriage. Marriage at the early stage of a girl is
not good for her mental status and also for her physical appearance. Many
girls enter marriage at the early stage because of having some traditions
and sometime because of poor condition of family and many more.
- Female genital utilisation: - Female genital
mutilation is violence against women. Because of this, a woman has
suffered the pain a lot and no one can feel the pain and sometimes this
may result into her death.
- Psychological abuse: - Women face the problem
of psychological abuse.
- Physical abuse: - Women are abused physically.
- Domestic violence: - Women are facing the
problem of domestic violence. It is a kind of violence happens in
household or within the boundary of a house. Sometimes, domestic violence
may result into death of women.
- Dowry death: - Dowry death is happened because
of demanding dowry and sometimes for dowry women get suicide and sometimes
murdered by her husband or his family and this is a type of violence
against women.
- Rape: - Rape is considered as the most harmful
violence against women. Women died because of this violence. Who raped a
women they have murdered her or thrown away sometimes burn her because
they trying to remove evidence but no one should be run away by doing such
violent act. One day they will punish. Daily much news comes to know that
child got raped, mother got raped etc.
- Marital rape: - Marital rape is an act which is
happened after marriage. If a married women do not want to make any
physical relation with her husband but her husband forcefully make
physical relation with her it is considered as marital rape with women. It
is her choice if she doesn’t want to make any physical relation but this
does not mean that husband forcefully make physical with her.
- Prostitution: - Prostitution is violence
against women because many girls are used in this process and sometimes
they joined because of force applied by someone; sell by someone to use
her in prostitution, and sometime because of earning money and so on. If
they are not involved in this process without consent then it is not
good.
- Pornography: - Pornography is also considered
as violence against women.
- Forced pregnancy: -Forced pregnancy means
coercion or forcefully make a woman pregnant without any desire or thought
and this type of pregnancy may comes under the category of violence
against women.
- Partner homicide: - Women are the victims of
this type of violence.
- Blackmailing: - Blackmailing means sending such
content which is illegal and threatening to someone. Multimedia message is a
type of such type of violent.
- Cyber stalking: - Cyber stalking is another
form of violence against women.
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LAWS FOR WOMEN
There are various laws available
for women. The judiciary plays an active and efficient role by deciding various
case laws to provide justice to women. The constitution of India contained
provision not only for men but also for women. An equal right has been provided
under constitution of India for all. Women has the working right, women has the
right to participation. They has the right to freedom, they has the right to
proper medical care and proper condition of work. They have various other
rights under the constitution of India.
The international law has various
instruments that deal with women. Some of them are Committee on the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination, Committee on the Elimination against Women, Beijing
Declaration, Protocol to the prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in
persons, especially women and children, supplementing the UN convention against
transnational organized crime, International convention on the protection of
the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families, Vienna
Declaration etc.
There are various other laws
available for women. They are Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, Dowry
Prohibition Act, Equal Remuneration Act, Prevention of immoral Trafficking Act,
Sati(Widow burning ), Child Marriage Restrain Act, etc.
CONCLUSION
Violence against women is
increasing day by day. There is the need of creating awareness for eliminating
the violence against women. Educating a woman means educating a child.
Government can make more policy for women and the role of NGOs is very much
efficient in this regard.
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