Tag: domestic violence against women
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Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act: A Critical Exegesis
By Aratrika Choudhuri, WBNUJS, Kolkata. As a part of a two-article series on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, this article seeks to outline the key shortcomings in the provisions and implementation of the Act. The next article will focus on recommendations that seek to ameliorate these limitations and to aid victims of such…
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Domestic Violence against Women: The Indian Scenario
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — WHAT THE TERM ACTUALLY MEANS “Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviours used by one person in a relationship to control the other. partners may be married or not married ;heterosexual, gay or lesbian; living together or separated or dating.” [i]