1. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES

3. DEFINATION
•VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
As "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to
result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women,
including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of
liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."

4. WHAT ARE THE CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN?
It includes rape, sexual assault, insult to modesty,
kidnapping, abduction, cruelty by intimate partner or
relatives, trafficking, persecution for dowry, dowry
deaths, indecency, and all other crimes listed in Indian
penal code. Rape is one of the most common crimes
against women in India

6. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HAS
BECOME A PROMINENT TOPIC OF
DISCUSSION IN INDIA IN RECENT YEARS

7. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA
•Increased 6.4% during 2012,
•A crime against a woman is committed every three minutes. In 2012,
•There were 244,270 reported incidents of crime against women, while in
2011, there were 228,650 reported incidents. Of the women living in india,
•65% of Indian men believe women should tolerate violence in order to
keep the family together, and women sometimes deserve to be beaten
•24% of Indian men had committed sexual violence at some point during
their lives.

9. TYPES OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN
•Dowry deaths
•Honor killings
•Female infanticide
•Female foeticide
•Rape
•Marital rape
•Gang rape
•Human trafficking
and forced
prostitution
•Domestic violence
•Forced and child
marriage
•Acid throwing
•Abduction

16. THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT
• Violence prevention programs in communities
• Protections for victims who are evicted from their homes because of events related to
domestic violence or stalking
• Funding for victim assistance services like rape crisis centers and hotlines
• Programs to meet the needs of immigrant women and women of different races or
ethnicities
• Programs and services for victims with disabilities
• Legal aid for survivors of violence
• Services for children and teens

19. 2012 DELHI GANG RAPE
• A 23-year-old paramedic student, gang-raped and assaulted by six men in a private bus and
thrown out of the moving vehicle along with her male friend
• "When being raped, she shouldn't fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then
they'd have dropped her off after 'doing her', and only hit the boy. You can't clap with one hand –
it takes two hands.”
• “A decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than
a boy. Boy and girl are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos
and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes. About 20 per cent of girls are
good.”