Violence against women does not mean only physical violence. It is much broader and includes sexual, emotional, psychological and financial abuse. The National Plan targets two main types of violence against women – domestic and family violence, and sexual assault. ...

Written by Maria Zafar On November 25 we entered the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence where people around the world come together to stand up against and call out violence against women and girls. Gender-based violence (GBV) continues to plague communities ...

Violence against women affects everyone. When women are unequal and unsafe, they cannot fully participate in society. Only when everyone is safe in public and private, can women, men, children, families, homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, communities, institutions, economies, ecosystems, and nations truly ...

The Prevention of Cruelty against Women and Children Act 2000 (also referred to as the Prevention of Women and Child Repression Act 2000) was amended in 2003. This Act was formulated to protect women and children from heinous crimes such ...

Violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most prevalent human rights violations, taking place every day, many times over, in every corner of the globe. It has serious short- and long-term physical, economic and psychological consequences on ...

Domestic violence Domestic violence, also called domestic abuse or intimate partner violence, is any pattern of behavior that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. It encompasses all physical, sexual, emotional, economic and psychological ...

Sexual Harassment at Workplace Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 was passed with the objective of providing protection to the women at workplace. Sexual harassment is when one person subjects another person to an ...

Section 4— When the victim girl, Anjali Rani as Court witness says that she is aged 20 years and the medical report dated 18-5-94 submitted on the basis of a report prepared by a Radiologist shows that Anjali Rani was ...

APPELLATE DIVISION (CRIMINAL)   Md. Muzammel Hossain, C. J Surendra Kumar Sinha, J Md. Abdul Wahhab Miah, J Syed Mahmud Hossain, J Siddiqur Rahman Miah, J AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury, J.   Judgment 29th May, 2013. } } } } } ...

Section 12— While discharging the Rule for quashing the order of personal appearance the High Court Division directed the Authorised Officer, KDA to demolish the unauthorised construction in question which the appellant wants to expunge. While the proceeding under section ...