Violation against Woman

Violation against Woman

The phrase violence against women is a term refer to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. The United nation General Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Worldwide governments and organizations actively work to combat violence against women through a variety of programs.

Some historians believe that the history of violence against women is tied to the history of women being viewed as property and a gender role assigned to be subservient to men and also other women. And that may be the reason why women are violated more in undeveloped and under developed countries.

 The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in 1993 and declaration  states that "violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men.”