of this research is to bring out the perspective the society has about marital rape against women and to trace out the lacunae in the law that turn a deaf ear to the cry of a victim of marital rape. The steps, by which such kind of dire situation of women can be changed, shall also be discussed. Scope of the paper: The scope of the paper is wide. It includes definitions and commentaries by different jurists worldwide. It also covers main psychological effects of gender violence on women. But at
For as far back as 1975 research has shown that there is the daunting issue of violence against women, even though feminist organisations have been campaigning on this issue decades before. It took the lobbying of these separatist feminist groups and organisations to garner nation and global mainstream for these issues to become a human right’s issue. An issue that continues to plague countries around the world and, particularly Canada. Violence against women is a human rights and societal issue
‘Women Empowerment’ denotes a situation when women become free of the all the kinds of dependency and deprivations whether social or economic. It is related to overall development of women right from having an economically independent and self reliant status to an active participant in socio-political developments. ‘Women empowerment’ involves various facets of development in the form of social, educational, occupational, political, religious freedom. The idea of Women’s Empowerment has gained
Background Information on Marital Rape in Singapore Under Singapore law, women are now protected from rape by their own husbands (otherwise known as marital rape). However, the very limited scope of the marital rape exemption should be acknowledged and hence addressed in the paper. Previously, there was a blanket ban against women crying rape by their husbands. This is known as the marital rape exception or marital rape exemption. The law has been changed such that a man who forces his wife to
A Study on domestic violence 1. Introduction A mother's way of punishing her misbehaving child was caught on camera at a salon when she hit her daughter with a slipper and even pulled her by the hair. In the video, the mother and her young daughter were spotted quarreling. Then, the mother slapped her and started to hit her many times with a slipper. The mother seemed to have stopped at one point as she scolds her child. But the spanking and beating started again as the child talks back at her.
of economic development that my research addresses is the relationship between ethnic conflicts, the abundance of minerals, and the mass rape within the country. The DRC is widely known as a country with the most rampant crimes against women (Kinniburgh, 2014). According to Kinniburgh (2014), the DRC is the ‘worst place on earth to be a woman’ due to the prevalence of military groups raping women within the country. This paper furthers previous scholarly research to understand if there is a causative
pictures and layout in news paper, magazine, films, graphics or timing on radio and television. • The degree of conflicts generated in the report and influences at all on their consumers. The relevance of this theory to this study therefore, is that firstly, the social media through continuous use of interaction, connectivity, chatting, commenting and posting of media messages on the issue of female Genital Mutilation, the society world the need
Women constitute half of the world’s population. Despite of equality in number with the men, women do not enjoy the equal status with respect of men in each and every sphere of society. women are considered as a weaker sex. Research shows that female foetus is always healthier than the male foetus. But process of socialization makes her weaker. Thus female who takes birth with a strength at par with male ends up with a tag ‘weaker sex’. In Ancient times especially during
the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”– Susan B. Anthony 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, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men India is the seventh largest country
to create, nurture and transform.” (WE NEED TO CHOOSE A BETTER QUOTE) – Diane Mariechild 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, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men India is the seventh largest country