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An Assignment

On

‘’Domestic Violence Against Women’’

SOC 101

Introductory Sociology

Submitted to:

Rasel Hussain
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology
East West University

Submitted by:

Md. Muhtasim Bin Wahid Sian

2017-2-10-084
Department of Business Administration
East West University

This Research Work/Assignment/Homework is submitted for the partial fulfillment

of the course, SOC 101 (Introductory Sociology) to the course instructor,
Department of Sociology, East West University.

Date of Submission: 17-08-2020

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Content:

Serial No Content Page No

1 Introduction 3
2 Discussion 4-5
3 Conclusion 6
4 Reference 7
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Introduction:

Domestic violence is the kind of behaviour, where the aim is to obtain the power and control
over wife/husband, partner, girlfriend/boyfriend or intimate loved one. Violence has many forms
including physical aggression, emotional abuse, intimidation, sexual assault, controlling or
domineering, covert abuse, stalking and economic deprivation, alcohol consumption and mental
disease are often co-morbid with abuse and present added challenges.

Awareness, documentation and perception of violence vary from area to area and country to
country. Beating wives by husband has been common altogether culture perhaps altogether
times. Bangladesh seems to be no exception. Newspapers within the country clearly specify that
the prevalence of violence against women is very high. National data on the overall population
don't exist. As of now, the approximate prevalence of physical violence by husbands against
women in Bangladesh varies between 30% and 50%.
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Discussion:
Bangladesh is a developing country and its estimated prevalence rate of violence against women
is very high which in turn is an obstacle to the compensation of equality, development and peace.

Recognizing violence against women as a violation of human rights may be a significant turning
point within the struggle to finish violence against women globally. An individual's correct point
of view widens the meaning of brutality against ladies and spotlights consideration on
segregation and imbalances that are kept up or endured by the state which increment ladies'
weakness to viciousness. Violence against Women has been recognized as a person's rights
offering since the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, which established that
‘Human Rights of women and of the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible a part
of universal human rights. Violence against Women is that the most blatant gender specific
violation of human rights and may be a sort of discrimination against women. It enforces
women's sub ordination and patriarchal structures throughout all levels of society, resulting in
issues like the undervaluation of women's economic contributions. Violence against Women isn't
only embedded in gender norms, gender norms also are constructed through violence against
women, and therefore the status of girls economically, socially, culturally and politically both
constitute and enable the further denial of human rights in gender specific ways often at the
hands of relations, male and feminine. Along these lines of brutality against ladies both reflects
and decides gendered social structures. that is the reason encircling brutality against ladies as an
individual's privileges infringement requiring prompt activity is critical to challenge the
monetary, social and social underestimation of young girls in Bangladesh.

Domestic violence is undoubtedly a person's rights offering and high deterrent to development.
The Vienna Accord of 1994 and therefore the Beijing Declaration and therefore the Platform for
Action (1995) have acknowledged this. The UN has recommended that State parties should act
to guard women against violence of any kind especially that occurring within the family. The
event of brutality is generally prevalent but has remained undetected within the property right.
Presently, where her husband or his relatives subject a lady to cruelty, it's an offence under
section 498-A, IPC. The civil law doesn't, however, address this phenomenon in its entirety. It is,
therefore, needed to enact a law keeping in sight the rights guaranteed under articles.
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Violence against Women and girls is one among the foremost widespread violations of human
rights. It can include psychological, physical, sexual, and economic abuse, and it crosses
boundaries of aged, race, culture, wealth and geography. It takes place within the home, on the
streets, the workplace, in schools, refugee camps, in farm fields, during conflicts and crisis. it's
many manifestations from the foremost universally prevalent sorts of domestic and sexual
violence, to harmful practices, abuse during pregnancy, so called honour killings and other sorts
of homicide.

Globally, up to 6 out of each 10 women experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
World Health Organization studied 24,000 women in ten countries, they found that the
prevalence of physical or sexual violence by a partner varied from 15% in urban Japan to 71% in
rural Ethiopia, with most areas being within the 30-60% range. From our study, we see that, in
Bangladesh, the scenario of domestic violence/domestic abuse/spousal abuse/intimate partner
violence is extremely alarming. This population study confirms the high levels of violence
suggested by earlier works and confirms that it remains a serious public ill health in Bangladesh.
Since husbands are the best perpetrators of violence against women, effective interventions
would wish to focus on them.
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Conclusion:
The prevailing attitudes that let and encourage male violence must be directly and creatively
addressed. a neighbourhood of those efforts involves careful research to spot messages and
interventions which will change this attitude. In spite of of these initiatives, progress within the
achievement of women's rights has been slow world-wide. State should take a fresh commitment
to the belief of women's equal rights and will take actions at national level in fulfilling their
obligations to women to be systematically observed and used as a base by women for defence.
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Reference:
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2. Hadi A. Household Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh. Dhaka: Research and
Evaluation Division, BRAG; 1997.

3. Bhuyia A, Sharmin T, Hanifi SMA. Nature of Domestic Violence against Women in a

Rural Area of Bangladesh: Implication for Preventive Interventions. J Health Popul Nutr.
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4. Farouk SA. Violence against Women: A Statistical Overview, Challenges and Gaps in
Data Collection and Methodology and Approaches for Overcoming Them. Geneva:
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5. Schuler SRS, Hashemi M, Badal SH. Man's Violence against Women in Bangladesh:
Undermined or Exacerbated by Microcredit Programmes? Geneva: Development in
Practice, UNICEF; 2000.