VIOLENT AGAINST WOMEN

          Violent to a women is a serious case for our society now days. It happens around the world. Among women aged between 15 and 44, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined.  The worst part is mostly some of the violent happen to the young girls.  In the United States, 83 per cent of girls aged 12 to 16 experienced some form of sexual harassment in public schools.
         Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Violence against women is compounded by discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnicity, sexual identity, social status, class, and age. Such multiple forms of discrimination further restrict women's choices, increase their vulnerability to violence and make it even harder for women to obtain justice
         Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women. We live in societies where rape victims are doubted and blamed, where street harassment is still treated as a compliment, where women's bodies are sleazily ogled or cruelly judged, and where gender norms for both men and women remain uncomfortably restricting. Recent research from Bangladesh found that 98% of men said that to be a man you need to be "tough", while 81% of those who had admitted rape said they were motivated by sexual entitlement.
        The rape and death of a Delhi woman in December reverberated globally in a way such atrocities really never had before. Just two months later, a high-level commission had reviewed India's rape legislation along with 80,000 public testimonies, and the president had signed a new law.
        We will never live in a violence-free world, though that is a worthy goal. Efforts to achieve it, at the very least, put us further along the path of progress. We have increased opportunities to shine the spotlight on violence, examining its twisted roots in a new light and consider the ways in which each one of us is implicated. That is certainly something to pay attention to.