**Inadequate Protection against Gender-Based Discrimination and Violence **
Women and girls confront discrimination and violence in practically every aspect of life. A strong preference for sons over daughters has led to sharply skewed gender ratios in several states. Sex-selective abortions, female feticide, and inadequate provision of food and health care to girls has led to ratios of less than eight hundred women for every one thousand men in some places. Despite several legal provisions for gender equality, women still struggle to realize equal rights to property, marriage, divorce, and protection under the law. Gender-based violence, including domestic violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and trafficking into forced labor and forced prostitution remain serious and pervasive problems in India. Domestic violence includes dowry-related abuses and “bride-burning.”
**Activists continue to campaign for reform of rape laws to protect women and children from all forms of sexual violence. The pervasive understanding of ‘rape’ is that it occurs only when a stranger uses force on a woman. A marital exemption protects men from being prosecuted for raping their wives. Marital rape is not recognized or penalized unless the wife is under the age of fifteen or if she lives separately from her husband. **
I agree with him. And we must make a society equitant to our neighbor Pakistan where women are not discriminated and have complete equal rights to man.
Ps, I am sure that moderators will not use scissors this way; after all I am admiring the thread.
//Marital rape is not recognized or penalized unless the wife is under the age of fifteen or if she lives separately from her husband. //
The legal age for marriage any India is 18 for girls. Then how can martial rape occur for gilrs aged 15.
Go check your facts and come back with better topics. India is a country which has many faults. If you want to bash India, just PM me I will give you good topic. Not these topics which border on the lunatic fringe !!!
The article is written by Human Rights watch, not by me. While the official age for marriage for women in India maybe 18, we all know that many are married off way, way younger than that.
//Maybe Trashguy needs to venture out of his high-rise apartment.//
And the paki needs to take his head out from the sand...
It is a fact that girls get married at a very young age.But those incidents are few and far in between not like the honour killings in your country.
Your president himself has rubbished the women in your country by saying that women get themselves raped to go abroad.
No they’re not few and far between, they’re standard practice in Undia. In places like Bihar, it’s difficult to imagine any semblance of normal human behaviour. Whatever our President may have done, it’s a fact that most of your MPs and MLAs are rapists and murderers. It’s a fact that your MODI is a mass-murderer, and nevertheless remains in power.
Statistics are elusive, but estimates are that 40 to 50 percent of marriages in India involve a girl under 18 or a boy under 21, the legal ages for marriage. According to Unicef, 82 percent of girls in Rajasthan, where the practice is particularly widespread, are married by 18; 15 percent of girls in rural areas across the country are married before 13; and 52 percent of girls have their first pregnancy between 15 and 19.](http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/01/news/india.php)
//not in numbers, no.. but in intent, malice, bigotedness, he exceeds even Hitler, coz the Indian state and establishment actually think he's innocent!//
Then why did the Pakistani govt actually promote these idiots.
Can you give me a single instance of your generals being sacked (forget about imprisonment !!!)
I don’t carry a brief for the Pakistani govt. I’m not saying it’s perfect or that those responsible for the Bangladesh genocide should have been exonerated.