Protective laws against domestic violence
- Country : India
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Keywords : Violence, Woman, Penal Code, Offence, Protection, Discrimination, Remedy, Phenomenon, Victims, Accord
Abstract
The Vienna accord of 1994 and the Beijing declaration and platform for action (1995) have acknowledged that domestic violence is undoubtedly a human rights issue. The United Nations committee on convention on elimination of all forms of discrimination against woman in its general recommendations has recommended that state parties should act to protect woman against violence of any kind, especially that occurring within the family. The phenomenon of domestic violence in India is widely prevalent but has remained invisible in the public domain. The civil law does not address this phenomenon in its entirety. Presently, where a woman is subjected to cruelty by her husband or his relatives, it is an offence under section 498A of the Indian penal code. In order to provide a remedy in the civil law for the protection of woman from being victims of domestic violence and to prevent the occurrence of domestic violence in the society the protection of woman from domestic violence bill was introduced in the parliament.
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