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Essay on Women and Violence
Violence against women and girls is a most important health and human rights apprehension. Women can go through physical or mental abuse all through their lifecycle, in babyhood, upbringing and/or teenage years, or during adulthood or older age. At the same time as violence has strict health consequences for the affected, it is a communal dilemma that warrants an instantaneous synchronized reaction from numerous sectors. Violence against women can be defined as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is expected to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, as well as threats of such acts, compulsion or subjective deficiency of freedom, whether occurring in public or in private life.
This includes, inter alia, physical, sexual and psychological violence taking place in the family and in the common community, as well as battering, sexual abuse of children, dowry-related violence, rape, female genital injury and additional traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violent behavior and aggression related to increase, sexual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women, forced prostitution, and violence perpetrated or condoned by the state (Allison, Sheila, 2004, pg 34). Women and children are often in great danger in the place where they should be safest: within their families. For many, ‘home’ is where they face a regime of terror and violence at the hands of somebody close to them somebody they should be able to trust.
Those offended go through bodily and psychologically and are not capable to make their own decisions, voice their own opinions or protect themselves and their children for fear of additional repercussions. Their human rights are shorn of and their lives are stolen from them by the ubiquitous risk of violence.Violent behavior against women arises from a arrangement of person’s biological and emotional uniqueness as well as communal, monetary and biased factors......
