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Domestic Violence
e
Dome
Vio
e
l
ly
A
pe
ical
geograph

 A global issue dispersed geographically across
ss
dis
s
obal
i
ros
ue
ac
gl
rsed
racial
nd
class
socio-economic, cultural, ltural, racial and class
a
distinctions.

a
ball
th
5%
in
omen

 Globally more than 25% of women in a relationship
ationship
Glo
an
o
more
f
2
y
rel
w

lenc
sub

en
to
be
vio
intim
eir
d
have
have been subjected to violence by their intimate

th
e
ate

te
jec
by
partners

mu
rde
of
s

r
c
are
%
omm

itted
38
n
all
me
wo
of
“Is endemic and it is  38% of all murders of women are committed by by
intimate partners
everywhere”

 Perpetrated by, and on, both men and wowomen, but

an
men
on,
both
d
d
by,
trate
Pe
rpe
and
women are mostly victimised..
n
me
mostly vi
wo
are
imised
ct
“However Minor
Injuries on victims like
e
on
had

pe
me
rienc
 Proportion of women who had ever experienced ed
e
ver
x
Proporti
n
o
who
f
wo
burns are ignored or
physical or sexual violence or both by an intimate
ph ysical or se xual vi ol en ce or both by an intim ate
recorded as accidents” partner ranged from 15% to 71%, with the majority

e
%,
th
partn
w
d
ith
ity
jor
71
range
m 15
to
fro
ma
er
%
between 29% and 62%. [WHO,2007]7]
be tween 2 9% an d 6 2 %. [WHO ,2 00

- Dr. Nayreen Daruwala,

 Most common Crime reported by IndiaIndian Women
Crime
by
ted
com

rep
mon

Mos
t
or
NGO SNEHA. [NCRB, 2019]

wo
dia
me
I
ca
physi
suffer sexual an
d
1
n
in
3
in
n
 1 in 3 women in India suffer sexual and physical l
vio lenc e at hom e. Th is exis ting vi ol en ce
violence at home. This existing violence was was
lock
worsened by the Covid-19 lockdowndown
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