By Kainat Sarfaraz:
“As I sat hunched over a stove in the kitchen, he came in from behind, splayed my back with kerosene oil, threw in a lighted match and ran away.” (Source)
This isn’t a one-off story and happens much more frequently in more different forms than you imagine. Over 70% of the women around the globe have faced some kind of violence in their lifetime.
Violence against women is a pandemic and what’s outrageous is that not only do we choose to stay silent, we also accept it. Violence on women exists throughout their lives across social groups and economic strata. It is what many call womb to tomb.
According to a United Nations report, one of the most common forms of gender-based violence is domestic violence. The silence over these issues only makes matters worse. A recent survey on attitudes found around 60 percent men spoken to have used violence against their partners. These alarming statistics call for a desperate need for change in mindset and acceptance of gender-violence in our day-to-day lives. We need to create a counter culture and social movement for zero-tolerance to violence against women.
Babar
This article is full of exaggeration and lies, and statistics created out of thin air.
Cees Tompot
This judgement of yours is based on what, Babar?
Babar
Since the author has not come forward, we’ll wait for you to back up her tall claims.
Fem
You are so full of hate
Rajesh Kumar
You’re really quoting the cases filed under 498a and dowry protection act? Sometime ago, it showed that majority of those cases were false.
And 70% of people agree that sexual violence is justified? Were you surveying in prisons?
David
this is a story, not an article. all cooked up exaggerated. making a mountain out of a hill. no details or authenticity of the numbers and figures.
Manowar Hussain
The worst and most heinous and rampant crime against women is using them like anything right in the name of women development and emancipation.Even worse and pitiable is the fact that ,in general, the more a woman is used in this manner the more is her fallacy of being honoured.
The solution to this and many other plights of women is Islam where women get their right place .If men and women are to be made equal only havoc should be expected; if they accept to be complementary to one another this world can turn into paradise.
Divyansh
Conservative fascist -_-