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    Domestic violence disproportionately impacts women and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. One in four women experience severe intimate partner violence. The pandemic exacerbated the problem as abusive partners spent more time at home with victims. An example is described of a woman in Delhi who was stabbed 47 times by her husband in public, reflecting the severity of violence that often goes unreported. To address domestic violence, efforts are needed to increase awareness of women's rights, support services like helplines, safe housing, legal aid, and counseling as well as promoting gender equality from a young age.

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    Domestic violence disproportionately impacts women and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. One in four women experience severe intimate partner violence. The pandemic exacerbated the problem as abusive partners spent more time at home with victims. An example is described of a woman in Delhi who was stabbed 47 times by her husband in public, reflecting the severity of violence that often goes unreported. To address domestic violence, efforts are needed to increase awareness of women's rights, support services like helplines, safe housing, legal aid, and counseling as well as promoting gender equality from a young age.

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    Domestic violence disproportionately impacts women and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. One in four women experience severe intimate partner violence. The pandemic exacerbated the problem as abusive partners spent more time at home with victims. An example is described of a woman in Delhi who was stabbed 47 times by her husband in public, reflecting the severity of violence that often goes unreported. To address domestic violence, efforts are needed to increase awareness of women's rights, support services like helplines, safe housing, legal aid, and counseling as well as promoting gender equality from a young age.

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    Karnika Gaira XI E Pan India Competition

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    Domestic violence disproportionately impacts women and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. One in four women experience severe intimate partner violence. The pandemic exacerbated the problem as abusive partners spent more time at home with victims. An example is described of a woman in Delhi who was stabbed 47 times by her husband in public, reflecting the severity of violence that often goes unreported. To address domestic violence, efforts are needed to increase awareness of women's rights, support services like helplines, safe housing, legal aid, and counseling as well as promoting gender equality from a young age.

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    Women and their ineffable problems

    Domestic violence is violence committed by someone in the victim's


    domestic surroundings. This includes usually people known to them. Even
    though domestic violence is gender-neutral, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men
    experience severe intimate partner physical violence and about 1 in 10 have
    experienced sexual violence. In total, 35 per cent have experienced physical
    or sexual violence. A synonymous concept to it is gender inequality, which
    asserts that one gender is superior to another. And we sure live in a
    patriarchal world where we don’t need to determine the superiority of men
    just because it has been passed on to us for ages. The gender gap in India has
    widened to 62.5% due to multifarious reasons. Although civil rights
    organisations and activists are trying to spread awareness regarding it, the
    pandemic has brought resistance to these efforts. From reduced job
    opportunities for women labourers to incessant violence, COVID-19 has
    harmed many.
    Emerging data of the Pandemic shows an increase in calls to domestic
    violence helplines in many countries since the outbreak of COVID-19. The
    reason for the same may be the stress of lost jobs, the general feeling of being
    overwhelmed by a fatal virus and abusive men staying longer at home. The
    problem is also worsened by the fact that everyone was forced to stay at
    home, so women could not do much for their help and they had bigger
    problems to face.
    “On 10th April, a woman was stabbed in Budh Vihar in Delhi in broad
    daylight. The Probe has accessed the video footage of the crime, which
    shows that the victim Neelu was stabbed 47 times in a span of 70 seconds by
    her husband Harish in full public view. Though the accused Harish was
    arrested by the Police, the savagery of the crime and the silence of the
    residents of Budh Vihar has raised a lot of eyebrows.” quoted by The Probe
    reflects one of the heinous crimes in a long time. Many more incidents are
    similar to this, some are forgotten while others do not even get a proper FIR.
    Multiple people are not aware of the problem, or they do not know how to
    address it. Sometimes people are so used to eve-teasing and name-calling that
    they just ignore the person and normalise things. But that is not how you
    handle such types of problems. And this was just an example of a low degree
    problem, some problems are severe and have to be addressed in any case. A
    few ways to address the problems could be-
    - Spreading awareness regarding the menacing problem of domestic
    violence and making women know about their rights provided by
    constitutional mechanisms.
    - Increasing the reach of women helpline numbers and widely
    advertising the same to ensure that women get these benefits.
    - Investing in other facilities that could help the women in need, such as
    government safe houses, subsidised or free legal aid and making the
    laws related to domestic violence stricter.
    - Providing them with a proper contract of work ethics, so that they know
    that they are in equal respects with men.
    - Appointing a community counsellor for especially women, so that they
    can open their hearts and explain their dilemmas.
    As the youth of this country, the responsibility that the same old age concepts
    and problems such as patriarchy are discontinued in the modern age lies on
    our shoulders. In our capacity, we could run informal social media
    campaigns, keep an eye out for such patterns in families in our
    neighbourhood and societies. Updating national youth strategies in
    collaboration with youth stakeholders to translate political commitment into
    actionable programmes. We should fight stereotypes, we should promote
    diverse role models and teach children more and more about gender equality.
    Children are the future, so we must never let them say that trains are for boys
    and dolls are for girls. Never let the children know that women were
    considered inferior to men or they were given one-third reservations in
    parliament because “supposedly women can’t fight an election and get a seat
    on their own".

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