CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction. 2. Crime against women. 3. Marital Violence. 4. Protective laws for women: An appraisal. 5. Optional protocol to the convention on the elimination of discrimination against women (2002). 6. Declaration on the elimination of violence against women (1993). 7. Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (1981). 8. The National commission for women Act (1990). 9. The commission of SATI (Prevention) Act (1987). 10. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act (1986). 11. Protocol against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against transnational crime (2004). 12. Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of violence against women (1995). 13. Declaration on the protection of women and children in emergency and armed conflict (1974). 14. The Women’s and Children’s Institutions (Licensing) Act (1956). 15. Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women (1949).
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Women, in true sense is the progenitor of human race. But she is not treated on par with men. No doubt, many women have made their presence on different for a, yet discrimination and crime against women are increasing day by day. Many statutes are enacted to curb these evil practices yet the condition of women has not improved as yet.
