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Violence against women related to modesty encompasses assaults intended to outrage a woman's modesty and insults to the modesty of women. In the period from 2011 to 2012, there was a 5.5% rise in reported assaults with the intent to outrage her modesty, with Madhya Pradesh contributing 6,655 cases, making up 14.7% of the national incidents. [42]
Domestic violence in India includes any form of violence suffered by a person from a biological relative but typically is the violence suffered by a woman by male members of her family or relatives. [1][2] Although men also suffer domestic violence, the law under IPC 498A specifically protects only women. Specifically only a woman can file a ...
e. Gender inequality in India refers to health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India. [1] Various international gender inequality indices rank India differently on each of these factors, as well as on a composite basis, and these indices are controversial. [2][3] Gender inequalities, and their social ...
Rape. Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. [1][2] According to the 2021 annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 31,677 rape cases were registered across the country, or an average of 86 cases daily, a rise from 2020 with 28,046 cases, while in 2019, 32,033 cases were registered. [3]
t. e. This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked according to crime against women and rate of crime against women. The list is compiled from the 2016 and 2018 Crime in India Report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India. [1][2][3] As of 2016, Delhi is the least safe State/UT with the highest ...
Homicide statistics by gender. According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims were men in 2013. [1] In 2021, males accounted for most homicide victims in all jurisdictions except in Austria, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland, where females were ...
United Kingdom. The British Crime Survey for 2006–2007 reported that 0.5% of people (0.6% of women and 0.3% of men) reported being victims of domestic violence during that year and 44.3% of domestic violence was reported to the police. According to the survey, 312,000 women and 93,000 men were victims of domestic violence.
Dowry deaths are deaths of married women who are murdered or driven to suicide over disputes about dowry. Dowry deaths are found predominantly in India, [1] Pakistan, [2] Bangladesh, and Iran. For context, dowry are the material exchange that the brides give the groom's side in the course of a wedding. [3][4][5]