Atrocities on Women

  Today, India is home to some of the major red-light districts, including Sonagachi in Kolkata, G.B. Road in New Delhi, and Kamathipura in Mumbai. Prostitution is providing sex in exchange for money. While human rights violations are common throughout India, they are particularly prevalent in the lives of people involved in prostitution and sex work. Discrimination against sex workers in India is as much an issue as the discrimination faced by other marginalized groups along lines of class, caste, race or religion. Sex work is not treated as work, but as a dirty and immoral lifestyle threatening to taint the “innocent” public. The result of this stigma is the denial of basic rights for both sex workers and their families: women cannot access good healthcare and are often subject to abuse, violence and exploitation by police and government officials, while their children face harassment in schools and the workplace.  A large factor in the ill treatment of sex workers is the na...

  “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.” Almost every home in India must be suffering from some kind of domestic violence where women either as a daughter, daughter-in-law, or as a wife are abused physically, mentally, verbally or economically.  Domestic violence is physical, sexual or psychological abuse directed towards one’s spouse, partner or other family member within the household. It occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate or harm the other. A woman who has been foundation stone of family and society in general who gives birth to life, nurtures life, shapes it, and strengthen it, who is transmitter of tradition and an instrument through which culture is preserved and transmitted from generation to generation, the g...

"Marital rape is not a husband's privilege, but rather a violent act and an injustice that must be criminalized." Matrimony is a sacred bond that ties two people, and two families, together. But if this matrimony is without consent or the people involved in the marriage are not content, then it can turn sour. In India Marriage is given a paramount importance in every individual's life. India is the only country which is known for its variety of culture, tradition, custom, belief and most of all sanskara . Marriage is considered as a holy union or an eternal bond which cannot be easily broken up. Indian society believe that relationship arising out of legal wedlock is a purest form of relationship which is socially, morally and legally accepted by the majority of population but see the irony such a purest relation is also getting polluted when a married women becomes the victim of rape under marriage which is also known as Marital rape where her own husband forcefully ...