NEWS
- 25 March | The Honest UPSC Talk Nobody Tells You Click Here to see Abhijit Asokan AIR 234 talk →
- 10 March | SFG Folks! This dude got Rank 7 in CSE 2025 with SFG! →
- 10 March | SFG Folks! She failed prelims 3 times. Then cleared the exam in one go! Watch Now! →
- According to the global estimates published by the World Health Organization (WHO), India has the intimate partner violence (37.7%) in the WHO South-East Asia region.
- As per the WHO data, about 1 in 3 (35%) women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. The violence varies from 23.2% in high-income countries to 37% in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region.
- Further, worldwide as many as 38% of murders of women are committed by a male intimate partner.
- The WHO has also explained how gender-based violence is perpetrated. It notes that that men are more likely to perpetrate violence if they have low education, a history of child maltreatment, exposure to domestic violence against their mothers, harmful use of alcohol, unequal gender norms and sense of entitlement over women.
- On the other hand, women are more vulnerable to intimate partner violence if they have low education, exposure to mothers being abused by a partner, abuse during childhood, and attitudes accepting violence, male privilege and women’s subordinate status.
- Further the WHO has noted that intimate partner violence cause serious short-and long-term problems for women. Violence can lead to depression, post-traumatic stress, anxiety disorders and suicide attempts.
- Further, women who are physically and sexually abused are 1.5 times more likely to have sexually transmitted diseases compared to those who had not experience partner violence.
- Violence also adversely affect their children besides leading to high social and economic costs for women, their families and societies
- WHO together with UN Women and other partners has developed a framework for prevention of violence against women called Respect which can be used by governments to counter the menace of partner violence against women
