Domestic Violence

Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Smriti Irani on Monday exhorted all protection officers to ensure that victims of domestic violence have access to all their legal rights.

Kerala women panel chief MC Josephine, who was widely criticised over her remarks to a domestic violence survivor, today apologised for the comments as she stepped down from her post.

In an exchange on a call-in show that has caused shock and anger, a caller sharing her account of domestic violence was curtly told off by the chief of Kerala's Women's Commission, who lost patience at her response

As per police, Vikas killed his wife Priyanka as she had objected to his extramarital relationship with one of his sisters-in-law.

The Bombay High Court on reprimanded an advocate, appearing for a woman who had filed a complaint of domestic violence against her daughter, for arguing that the daughter had many boyfriends.

The number of complaints of domestic violence received by the National Commission for Women rose sharply in 2020, the year of the lockdown when most people were confined to their homes due to COVID-19. The trend continues this year as well.

A man who has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, about 200 km from Delhi, has admitted to police he stitched his wife's genitals with aluminum wires because he suspected she was cheating on him.

President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the country's official gazette said on Saturday, despite calls from campaigners who see the pact as key to combating rising domestic violence.

Ms Jolie has reportedly filed documents in court that also indicate that the couple's children have agreed to provide testimony on Brad Pitt's alleged violence

Upholding a 35-year-old man's conviction for assaulting his wife, the Bombay High Court has said the wife's refusal to make tea for husband could not be accepted as provocation for him to assault her, and observed that wife is "not a chattel or an object".

A two-month-old boy died after allegedly being beaten with a stick by his drunk father in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Thursday.

Domestic violence against women remained a prime cause of concern for the Ministry of Woman and Child Development in 2020 with over 5,000 such complaints received in the year.

Several major American sports have a policy setting out a procedure to be followed in such situations, and Novak Djokovic believes tennis should go down the same route.

Along a five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of road in Sulaimaniyah, an Iraqi Kurdish artist on Monday unveiled a stitched collage of clothes from women survivors of domestic violence.

Terming the 2005 law on protection of women from domestic violence as a "milestone", the Supreme Court Thursday said such offences against them is "rampant" in this country and face "violence in some form or the other on almost every day".

Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Smriti Irani on Monday exhorted all protection officers to ensure that victims of domestic violence have access to all their legal rights.

Kerala women panel chief MC Josephine, who was widely criticised over her remarks to a domestic violence survivor, today apologised for the comments as she stepped down from her post.

In an exchange on a call-in show that has caused shock and anger, a caller sharing her account of domestic violence was curtly told off by the chief of Kerala's Women's Commission, who lost patience at her response

As per police, Vikas killed his wife Priyanka as she had objected to his extramarital relationship with one of his sisters-in-law.

The Bombay High Court on reprimanded an advocate, appearing for a woman who had filed a complaint of domestic violence against her daughter, for arguing that the daughter had many boyfriends.

The number of complaints of domestic violence received by the National Commission for Women rose sharply in 2020, the year of the lockdown when most people were confined to their homes due to COVID-19. The trend continues this year as well.

A man who has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, about 200 km from Delhi, has admitted to police he stitched his wife's genitals with aluminum wires because he suspected she was cheating on him.

President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the country's official gazette said on Saturday, despite calls from campaigners who see the pact as key to combating rising domestic violence.

Ms Jolie has reportedly filed documents in court that also indicate that the couple's children have agreed to provide testimony on Brad Pitt's alleged violence

Upholding a 35-year-old man's conviction for assaulting his wife, the Bombay High Court has said the wife's refusal to make tea for husband could not be accepted as provocation for him to assault her, and observed that wife is "not a chattel or an object".

A two-month-old boy died after allegedly being beaten with a stick by his drunk father in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Thursday.

Domestic violence against women remained a prime cause of concern for the Ministry of Woman and Child Development in 2020 with over 5,000 such complaints received in the year.

Several major American sports have a policy setting out a procedure to be followed in such situations, and Novak Djokovic believes tennis should go down the same route.

Along a five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of road in Sulaimaniyah, an Iraqi Kurdish artist on Monday unveiled a stitched collage of clothes from women survivors of domestic violence.

Terming the 2005 law on protection of women from domestic violence as a "milestone", the Supreme Court Thursday said such offences against them is "rampant" in this country and face "violence in some form or the other on almost every day".