Can gender-based housing rights help domestic violence victims?
While the 2022 Gender Gap report stated that it would take India 132 years to reach some level of gender parity, we can not wait for that long.
domestic violence
Examining the Nature of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
In order to remove this deficiency in civil law and keeping in mind the rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India, the Parliament enacted the Domestic Violence Act to provide for a remedy.
Of lockdown, domestic abuse, patriarchy, and women
This should be the time when the already marginalised sections are given priority in the management of COVID. Unfortunately, they have been neglected by the society as well as state to the extent that something as important as sanitary napkins were kept out of the list of essential services when the lockdown began.
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