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Domestic Violence
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ly
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 A global issue dispersed geographically across
s
nd
racial
ec
cu
a
socio-economic, , cultural, ltural, racial and clclass
onomic
distinctions.

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

5%
be
lenc
sub

have been subjected to violence by their intimate
eir
ate
en
have

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te
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to
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of
are
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me
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“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 women, but
me
rpe
men

Pe

both
n,
an
t
on,
and
by,
d
trate
d
bu
wo
stly vi
ct
women are mostly victimised..
imised
“However Minor
Injuries on victims like
who
o
ver
f

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me
had
e
on
Proporti
n
wo
rienc
 Proportion of women who had ever experienced ed
e
pe
burns are ignored or

ysical
intim
or

or
an
ol
both
ph

physical or sexual violence or both by an intimate
vi
se
ce
ate
by
en
xual
recorded as accidents” partn er range d fro m 15 % to 71 %, w ith th e ma jor ity

partner ranged from 15% to 71%, with the majority
00
,2
6
d
%.
2
9% an
be
between 29% and 62%. [WHO,2007]7]
2
tween
[WHO

- Dr. Nayreen Daruwala,
com

mon
or
t
 Most common Crime reported by Indian Women
n
ted
Wome
Mos
by

rep
Indian
Crime

NGO SNEHA. [NCRB, 2019]

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