Tag - Violence
In the so called developed world, the position of women in public sphere remains static and insipid with any issue relating to them considered innocuous. Time and again women are looked upon as mandated individuals ordained only with duties pertaining...
Lately, Equal Opportunities Minister, Barbara Pollastrini has called for an imperative action to tackle violence against women.
A study by national statistics institute Istat has postulated some disturbing levels of abuse.
Facts & figures: ...
Women are not in a position to pay for court protection so most of them are living with continuous trepidation of being physically assaulted by their spouses.
Helen Hughes, head of the Scottish Family Law Association asserted that nearly a third and...
Violence against women, a pandemic as maiming and fatal as any deadly microbe, is not unique to Mexico. It's global.
The unsolved murders in Ciudad Juárez and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, of mostly young and indigenous working-class women, are...
A recent government study asserts that women were making inroads professionally in this mainly Muslim North African country of 33 million however, Algeria has come under fire from rights groups who say poor treatment of women persists.
Primarily, the...
While women in Africa are very much oppressed, a housemaid’s condition is even more wretched one.
Wanja is an orphan and lives with her distant aunt. However, she does all the household chores much like a house cleaner than a relative.
Daily...
The centre of Public Health Ministry has come up with the information that round about 37 women folk becomes prey of violence each day.
They compiled the information from 82 hospitals from first of January to 17th of November according to which...
The U.N Committee in Hong Kong came very heavily upon the government who was very lenient with the ongoing domestic and sexual violence.
The Social Welfare Department postulated that round about 10 such cases are reported each day. Though there...
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