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WRP advocates on behalf of low-wage immigrant women workers, works to eliminate
welfare disparities, and seeks to end workplace discrimination.
Violence Against Women
WRP is committed to advancing battered women’s civil rights, assisting women in their efforts to keep them-
selves and their children safe, and challenging the housing and employment discrimination experienced by so
many battered women, especially low income and women of color.
Criminal Justice
WRP addresses the harms to women and girls caught up in the criminal and juvenile justice systems, including
their conditions of coninement, and the impact of sentencing and incarceration policies on women and their
children.
Education
WRP is dedicated to ensuring that public schools do not become sex-segregated and that girls and boys receive
equal educational opportunities.
Legislations in India for the Protection of Women
The major women speciic legislations in India are the following:The Immoral Trafic (Prevention) Act, 1956-
The Immoral Trafic act aimed at preventing immoral activities using women. It provides punishment for
women traficking, carrying on the business of prostitution, keeping a brothel etc.
Role of Media in the protection of women’s rights
Media plays a very important role in creating awareness among the women community about their inherent
rights, which they were deprived of for many centuries. Media plays the role of a savior in whom the power to
protect and enhance the rights of the women is arrogated. Media through its visual broadcasting should project
the abject and miserable lives and living conditions of women in rural India. More documentaries and screen
plays projecting women’s rights should be aired through visual media. Media plays an important role in co-
ordinating the activities of social workers who play an important role in striving to establish women’s rights.
Print media through various journals meant exclusively for women entails a place in this men dominated world.
Media has certain forums speciically for the promotion and advancement of the interest of women folk.
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WRP advocates on behalf of low-wage immigrant women workers, works to eliminate
welfare disparities, and seeks to end workplace discrimination.
Violence Against Women
WRP is committed to advancing battered women’s civil rights, assisting women in their efforts to keep them-
selves and their children safe, and challenging the housing and employment discrimination experienced by so
many battered women, especially low income and women of color.
Criminal Justice
WRP addresses the harms to women and girls caught up in the criminal and juvenile justice systems, including
their conditions of coninement, and the impact of sentencing and incarceration policies on women and their
children.
Education
WRP is dedicated to ensuring that public schools do not become sex-segregated and that girls and boys receive
equal educational opportunities.
Legislations in India for the Protection of Women
The major women speciic legislations in India are the following:The Immoral Trafic (Prevention) Act, 1956-
The Immoral Trafic act aimed at preventing immoral activities using women. It provides punishment for
women traficking, carrying on the business of prostitution, keeping a brothel etc.
Role of Media in the protection of women’s rights
Media plays a very important role in creating awareness among the women community about their inherent
rights, which they were deprived of for many centuries. Media plays the role of a savior in whom the power to
protect and enhance the rights of the women is arrogated. Media through its visual broadcasting should project
the abject and miserable lives and living conditions of women in rural India. More documentaries and screen
plays projecting women’s rights should be aired through visual media. Media plays an important role in co-
ordinating the activities of social workers who play an important role in striving to establish women’s rights.
Print media through various journals meant exclusively for women entails a place in this men dominated world.
Media has certain forums speciically for the promotion and advancement of the interest of women folk.
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