Violence Against Women

SUBMITTED TO:- SUBMITTED BY:-MRS. SONIA SWATI BHAGAT M.COM 1ST SEM 3037

What Is Violence??

Any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical,sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occuring in public or private life

(UNITED NATION’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEFINITION,1993)

Types Of Violence

-Emotional abuse

-Dating violence

-Eve teasing

-Female foeticide

-Dowry

-Acid attacks

-Rape

Emotional abuse

You may feel like if you're not being hurt physically, you are not being abused. But attempts to scare, isolate, or control you also are abuse. They can affect your physical and emotional well-being. And they often are a sign that physical abuse will follow.

You may be experiencing emotional abuse if someone:-

Monitors what you're doing all the time Unfairly accuses you of being unfaithful all the time Prevents or discourages you from seeing friends or

family Tries to stop you from going to work or school Gets angry in a way that is frightening to you Controls how you spend your money

Dating Violence

-Dating violence is when one person purposely hurts or scares someone they are dating.

-Dating violence includes: -

Physical abuse like hitting, shoving, kicking, biting, or throwing things

Emotional abuse like yelling, name-calling, bullying, embarrassing, keeping you away from your friends, saying you deserve the abuse, or giving gifts to "make up" for the abuse.

Eve Teasing

Eve teasing refers to the public sexual harassment or street harassment to a girl by a boy, when it turns into a serious issue.

REASONS BEHIND EVE TASING Gender discrimination problem Destruction of our social values like respecting

others, helping others. And last but not the least, our sense or thoughts

towards women.

Consequences

Suicide Lost of the mind Early marriage Restrictions

Female Foeticide

What is it???Aborting a female foetus after sex -determination test.

Reasons:--preference for a male child

-financial obligation

-illiteracy

-women viewed as a liability

Real INDIA

According to Indian govt.,10 million girls have been killed,either before or after birth by their parents.

Medical experts in India says that an estimated of 80,000 women die due to illegal abortions.

Satyamev jayate highlighted its 1st episode on female foeticide which talked about 3 cases.

How did all this begin???

-Tests were commercially available.

-Test abuse started for sex determination and diagnosis of femal foetus.

-Amniocentesis test by AIIMS for genetic diagnosis was a break through in India in 1980’s.

Ways to stop female foeticide...

PC PN DT act was passed in 1994 prohibiting tests that reveal the gender of the foetus prenatally and abortions on the basis of foetal sex are illegal.

FOGSI 2008-Logo of save the girl child

Dowry means the money,goods or the estates that a woman brings to her husband in marriage.

It is a continuing demand.it is a series of gifts before and after marriage till the in-laws and the husband are appeased.

DOWRY DOWRY

RAPE

Offence which inlvolve unlawful sexual gratification.

Sexual penetration without individual’s consent,obtained by physical harm or when a victim is incapable of giving consent.

ACID ATTACKS

It ia an assault defined as the act of throwing acid onto the body of another with the intention to disfigure, torture or kill.

CONCLUSION

IT’S THE TIME TO FORM SUCH SOCIETY THAT REASSURE WOMEN THAT VIOLENCE IS UNACCEPTABLE ANS NO WOMAN DESERVES TO BE BEATEN,SEXUALLY ABUSED OR MADE TO SUFFER EMOTIONALLY….

THANK YOU…