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By

Simon Raju

BSc NSG 4th year

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GENERAL OBJECTIVES At the end of the seminar , the students would be able to apply

the knowledge of woman abuse and laws to protect the rights of the woman and strategies of woman empowerment in community as well as clinical set up.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVESAt the end of the seminar , students will be able to : 1. Describe the term woman abuse 2. Enlist the aspects of woman abuse 3. List down the historical practices of woman abuse 4. Determine the need for woman empowerment 5. Enumerate different laws protecting the woman rights 6. Enlist achievements of indian women in different sectors

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Women considered as

Weaker section of the society.

Deprived of education , job , freedom etc.

Lead to increase in female feoticide due to wanting of male child

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During vedic period , woman had good status.

Invasion of mughal empire , christianity led to curtailing of woman status , freedom and rights.

Child marriages believed to be started from 6th

century.

Sati , child marriage and ban on widow remarriage further detiorated women position.

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Razia Sultana became the only woman monarch to have ever ruled Delhi

Chand Bibi defended Ahmednagar against the mighty Mughal forces of Akbar in 1590s.

Shivaji's mother, Jijabai was deputed as queen regent, because of her ability as a warrior and an administrator.

Jehangir's wife Nur Jehan effectively wielded imperial power and was recognized as the real force behind the Mughal throne.

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Sati - widow was immolated alive on her husband's funeral

Jauhar - practice of the voluntary immolation of all the wives and daughters of defeated warriors

Purdah - of requiring women to cover their bodies so as to cover their skin and conceal their form

Devadasis - women are "married" to a deity or temple

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Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Jyotirao Phule etc

Peary Charan Sarkar, a former student of Hindu College, Calcutta and a member of "Young Bengal" set up the first free school for girls in India in 1847 in Barasat, a suburb of Calcutta (later the school was named Kalikrishna Girls' High School).

Raja Rammohan Roy's efforts led to the abolition of the Sati practice under Governor-General William Cavendish-Bentinck in 1829.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's crusade for the improvement in condition of widows led to the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856.

Many women reformers such as Pandita Ramabai also helped the cause of women upliftment.

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In 1917, the first women's delegation

met the Secretary of State to demand

women's political rights, supported by

the Indian National Congress.

The All India Women's Education Conference was held in Pune in 1927.

In 1929, the Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed, stipulating fourteen as the minimum age of marriage for a girl

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Bhikaji Cama, Dr. Annie Besant, PritilataWaddedar, Vijayalakshmi Pandit,RajkumariAmrit Kaur, Aruna Asaf Ali, SuchetaKriplani and Kasturba Gandhi

The Rani of Jhansi Regiment ofSubhashChandra Bose's Indian National Army consisted entirely of women including Captain Lakshmi Sahgal

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In 2006, the case of a Muslim

rape victim called Imrana was

highlighted in the media.

Imrana was raped by her

father-in-law.

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Hindustan Times of July 1, 2012, (quoting NCRB statistics) Kerala’s rate of crime against women (number of crimes per one lakh population) is 27, followed by Delhi with 24.6

Kolkata newspaper The Telegraph (July 3, 2012), again quoting NCRB statistics, informs us that as per the NCRB report for the year 2011, the state accounted for 12.7% of crimes against women in India; it also accounted for 10% of all the rapes in the country, second only to Madhya Pradesh (14%).

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Between 2006 and 2010, the incidence of rape across India rose by 15%, while in West Bengal it rose by 34%. West Bengal, sadly, also tops the chart in cases of spousal violence, ranks 5th in the country in dowry related deaths, and is among the top ten where molestation is concerned.

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In India, a woman is raped every 22 minutes, and a bride burnt for dowry every 58 minutes. The police last year registered 42,968 cases of molestation of women -- a figure that's about 80 percent higher than the number of rapes. The number of crimes recorded against women, including sexual harassment, cruelty by the husband or his relatives, kidnapping or abduction, and human trafficking, exceeds 2,61,000.

The latest available statistics compiled by the home ministry's National Crime Records Bureau show that between 1953 and 2011, the incidence of rape rose by 873 per cent, or three times faster than all cognisable crimes put together, and three-and-a-half times faster than murder.

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According to figures compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in 2010, there were 213,585 reported cases of the following crime against women: kidnapping and abduction, molestation, sexual harassment, cruelty by husbands and relatives, and trafficking . In 2010 statistics, the NCRB indicates that 22,172 women reported rape, and that there were 8,391 reported dowry deaths

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The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 was brought into force by the Indian government from October 26, 2006

In 1987, The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act

In 1961, the Government of India passed the Dowry Prohibition Act

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. In 1994 the Indian government passed a law forbidding women or their families from asking about the sex of the baby

The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 came into force on 26 October 2006

The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act was passed in 1956

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In 2011 a "Right to Pee" (as called by the media) campaign began in Mumbai

The Constitution of India guarantees to all Indian women equality (Article 14), no discrimination by the State (Article 15(1)), equality of opportunity (Article 16), equal pay for equal work (Article 39(d)). In addition, it allows special provisions to be made by the State in favour of women and children (Article 15(3)), renounces practices derogatory to the dignity of women (Article 51(A) (e)), and also allows for provisions to be made by the State for securing just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief. (Article 42)

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The Government of India declared 2001 as the Year of Women's Empowerment (Swashakti). The National Policy For The Empowerment Of Women came was passed in 2001.

In 2010 March 9, one day after International Women's day, Rajyasabha passed Women's Reservation Bill, ensuring 33% reservation to women in Parliament and state legislative bodies.

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1917: Annie Besant became the first female president of the Indian National Congress

1925: Sarojini Naidu became the first Indian born female president of the Indian National Congress

1953: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly

1959: Anna Chandy becomes the first Indian woman judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court)

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2000: Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal (bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney)

2004: Punita Arora became the first woman in the Indian Army to don the highest rank of Lieutenant General.

2007: Pratibha Patil becomes the first woman President of India

2009: Meira Kumar became the first woman Speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house in Indian Parliament

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Holistic Care

Empathetic Care

Routine Screening

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LONDON, June 13 ,2012 (TrustLaw) - Policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare make Canada the best place to be a woman among the world's biggest economies, a global poll of experts showed on Wednesday.

Infanticide, child marriage and slavery make India the worst, the same poll concluded.

Germany, Britain, Australia and France rounded out the top five countries out of the Group of 20 in a perceptions poll of 370 gender specialists conducted by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The United States came in sixth but polarized opinion due to concerns about reproductive rights and affordable healthcare.

At the other end of the scale, Saudi Arabia - where women are well educated but are banned from driving and only won the right to vote in 2011 - polled second-worst after India, followed by Indonesia, South Africa and Mexico.

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