Men's Violence and WoMen's silence: Occurence, Prevalence and Consequence of Domestic Violence against Women in India Sharma Shuchi*, Shokeen Anjali** * Univ Sch of Hum & Soc Sc, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi ** Univ Sch of Education, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi Online published on 28 July, 2016. Abstract Almost half of the population in India is of women and they have been deprived of their right to life and personal liberty and always been ill-treated. Decades of research, legislation, activism, empowerment programmes and drives have failed to prompt a decline in the cases of violence against women in India. Survey based studies suggest that somewhere from 35 to 75% women in India face some kind of violence at home or outside, be it physical, sexual or verbal from men in their family or otherwise. However, the most prevalent form of violence against women in India is perhaps domestic violence. This subjection to domestic violence is irrespective of their socio-economic background. More so, this violence largely goes unreported in India due to attached social stigma, distrust in legal mechanism, fear of retaliation, so on and so forth. This violence, overt and covert, physical and non-physical has debilitating effect on the feminine identity formation. The paper seeks to foreground the issues of domestic violence against women in India as a case of human rights violation and study the same in the light of Millennium Development Goals setup worldwide. It attempts to describe various ill effects of domestic violence that are directed towards women. Further, an attempt has been made to propose culture specific ways and means to offset gender bias and curb domestic violence against women in India. Top Keywords Violence, gender, human rights, empowerment. Top |