The Facts on Violence Against Women

The Facts on Violence Against Women

What is Violence Against Women?

The United Nations defines violence against women as “Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”

Violence against women includes, but is not limited to:

• Gender-based violence
• Rape, marital rape and incest
• Murder and assault including dowry-related violence and honour killings
• Forced marriage
• Female genital mutilation
• Human trafficking including cross-border prostitution rings and bride kidnappings
• War crimes including rape as a weapon of war

What are the roots of Violence Against Women?

• Violence against women is rooted in unequal power relationships between men and women in society. In a broader context, structural relationships of inequalities in politics, religion, media and discriminatory cultural norms perpetuate violence against girls and women.
• Violence against women is a global problem and not limited to a specific group of women in society. However, the forms of violence might be shaped differently based on factors such as sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, class, age, nationality. Significantly, Immigrant and Aboriginal women are further marginalized due to ongoing racism, which contributes to violence and is internalized by marginalized people impeding their social and personal power.Poverty, isolation from family and friends, language difficulties, and homelessness also contribute to the victimization of the most vulnerable women in society.
• In a male-dominant society, male privilege becomes the norm and contributes to the belief and behaviour of men that they have the right to control women.

How big is the problem of Violence Against Women throughout the world?

Violence Against Women is the most pressing issue throughout the world:

• Globally the most common form of violence experienced by women is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner. One in three women have been abused or subjected to gender-based violence in their lives.
• In Australia, India, Israel, South Africa and the United States, between 40 and 70 percent of female murder victims were killed by their intimate partners.
• Up to 70 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime — the majority by husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.
• Both intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women are major public health problems and violations of women’s human rights.
• Worldwide, up to 50 percent of sexual assaults are committed against girls under 16.
• As many as 1 in 4 women experience physical and/or sexual violence during pregnancy which increases the likelihood of having a miscarriage, still birth and abortion.
• Every year 5,000 women are murdered by their relatives to protect the “honour” of the family.
• Women and girls are still being forced into marriages against their will, particularly in Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Over 60 million girls worldwide married before the age of 18 primarily in South Asia (31.3 million) and sub-Saharan Africa (14.1 million).
• Women who are beaten by their partners are 48 per cent more likely to be infected with HIV/AIDS.
• 2.5 million people are trafficked annually into situations including prostitution, forced labour, slavery or servitude. Women and girls account for about 80 per cent of the detected victims.

You don’t have to be a math expert to understand these numbers relating to violence against women. Numbers are people. You simply have to be willing to recognize that each statistic represents a woman, child, or family — a life — torn apart by violence and abuse.

Is Violence Against Women Still A Serious Problem in India?

“Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence – yet the reality is that too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned.”

• On average, every six days a woman in India is killed by her intimate partner. In 2009, 67 women were murdered by a current or former spouse or boyfriend.
• 54% of girls between aged 15 and 19 experience “sexual coercion” in a dating relationship.
• Aboriginal women in India are five times more likely than other women of the same age to die as the result of violence.
• Women aged 25 to 34 old are three times more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted by their spouse than those aged 45 and older.
• Emotional and economic abuse reinforces physical and sexual violence. 1 in 5 India women experience some form of emotional or economic abuse in their intimate relationship.
• In almost every province, 9 in 10 victims of spousal-perpetrated criminal harassment are women.
• Only in one year, 427,000 women over the age of 15 reported they had been sexually assaulted in India.Since only one in ten sexual assaults is reported to the police, the actual number is much higher.
• Across India, over 3,000 women along with their dependent 2,900 children are living in an emergency shelter to escape abuse.
• 40,200 incidents of spousal violence, which represents about 12% of all police-reported violent crime in India, were reported to police.
• The majority of victims of spousal violence continue to be females, accounting for 83% of victims.
• As of March 31, 2010, there were 582 known cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women in India. 115 (20%) of 582 cases involve missing women and girls. The Indian Government has been urged to take real action to stop violence against Aboriginal girls and women by United Nations and Amnesty International.
• In India, the annual costs of direct expenditures related to violence against women have been estimated at 684 million Indian dollars for the criminal justice system, 187 million for police and 294 million for the cost of counselling and training, totalling more than 1 billion a year.

What is the impact of Violence Against Women on children?

Violence against women is not a private family issue. It is a community and public health issue affecting not only the abuser and his victim but everyone around them.

• Every year in India, estimated 362,000 children witness or experience family violence.
• 6 in 10 children and youth victims of family violence were assaulted by their parents. The youngest child victims (under the age of 3 years) were most vulnerable to violence by a parent.
• Girls are four times more likely than boys to experience family-related sexual offences. The rate of physical assault was similar for girls and boys.
• Only in 2009, nearly 55,000 children and youth were the victims of a sexual offence or physical assault where 3 in 10 were perpetrated by a family member.
• Even though parents protect their children to witness family violence at home, children are witness of many of the incidents. “Witnessing family violence is as harmful as experiencing it directly”.

How wide is Violence Against Women in B.C.?

As part of a global feminist anti-violence movement, Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is a feminist voice against violence and oppression. Every day we are actively working with girls and women, who experience any forms of violence/abuse through our support and advocacy programs and services.

Every number has a face. The last two months at our Vancouver office :

• 3,974 women accessed the support programs on ongoing basis with over 100 new intakes a month.
• 81% of new intakes were related to partner abuse.
• 142 women were referred to BWSS Counselling program; only 41 of them were self-referred.
• Over a hundred women dealing with abuse and its effects participated in 42drop-in group sessions
• 471 women accessed counselling (including scheduled telephone counselling sessions)
• 52 women had their first counselling session to leave an abusive relationship
• 225 women accessed legal services related to family, child protection and other issues such as employment assistance, criminal, debt, housing, immigration.
• The cases show that women are most likely to experience violence than other groups in the society: 93 % of victims were women, 3 % youth and 4 % elder.
• 1025 women connected with BWSS to get information and support

How you can bring an end to Violence Against Women?

The role of individuals

Each and every individual has the power to eradicate violence against girls and women by supporting and empowering one woman. There is a need for immediate action of individuals in society. It’s time to end this outrage and create a society where our mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces, daughters and partners are valued, safe, and empowered.

• As individuals, being aware of violence against girls and women and exploring how we can use our power to end violence against girls and women can make a lasting difference.
• For decades, the system has been changed by movements and their advocacy work. As individuals, we can be part of a solution by joining and advocating in the anti-violence movement.
• Volunteering and supporting women’s organization allow them to continue their services for women, who experience abuse or violence, and to do more.
• Supporting violence prevention programs especially in high schools increases the ability of youth to recognize violence, transform their knowledge into action against violence, and contributes to changing systems to aid rather than impede an end to violence against girls and women.

The role of society

Violence against women is the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world. Women and girls are victimized in our society in ways that threaten their physical, emotional, psychological and sexual well-being.

• Society has a responsibility to pursue a socio-cultural framework that is rooted in equality and justice for women, which is supported by a legal system that holds perpetrators accountable for their actions.
• From the perspective of our government, our own constitutional philosophy of assumed equality has rejected outright the idea that women are abused simply because they are women. This allows government and judicial systems to openly avoid challenging or addressing underlying social issues and works to conceal their complicity with a socio-cultural system that largely condones and tolerates violence against women. The society has a critical role to stop any political and legal action that contributes to further oppression of women and allow for sanctions against perpetrators that are minimal or simply not enforced.

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The Dinner Party

The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are
seated with their guests—army officers and government attachés and their wives, and a visiting
American naturalist—in their spacious dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters
and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda.*
A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown
the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mou… era and a colonel who says that they haven’t.
“A woman’s unfailing reaction in any crisis,” the colonel says, “is to scream. And while a
man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of nerve control than a woman has. And that last
ounce is what counts.”
The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he
sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her
muscles contracting slightly. With a slight gesture she summons the native boy standing behind
her chair and whispers to him. The boy’s eyes widen: he quickly leaves the room.
Of the guests, none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on
the veranda just outside the open doors.
The American comes to with a start. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing—bait for
a snake. He realizes there must be a cobra in the room. He looks up at the rafters—the likeliest
place—but they are bare. Three corners of the room are empty, and in the fourth the servants are
waiting to serve the next course. There is only one place left—under the table.
His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others, but he knows the commotion would
frighten the cobra into striking. He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so arresting that it sobers
everyone.
*
During the time this story takes place, India was a British colony. The colonial official works for the
British government in India. The government attachés work for another country’s embassy in India.
“I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will count to three
hundred—that’s five minutes—and not one of you is to move a muscle. Those who move will
forfeit fifty rupees. Ready!”
The twenty people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying “. . . two hundred and
eighty. . .” when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of
milk. Screams ring out as he jumps to slam the veranda doors safely shut.
“You were right, Colonel!” the host exclaims. “A man has just shown us an example of
perfect control.”
“Just a minute,” the American says, turning to his hostess. “Mrs. Wynnes, how did you know
that cobra was in the room?”
A faint smile lights up the woman’s face as she replies: “Because it was crawling across my
foot.”
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How does Modern Healthcare touch lives?

Another amazing contest organized by Indiblogger in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals. Here's a link to their modern healthcare page- http://www.apollohospitals.com/cutting-edge.php

Sound information plays an increasingly critical role in the delivery of modern health care and efficiency of health systems. Health informatics - the intersection of information science, medicine and health care - deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition and use of information in health and biomedicine. Necessary tools for proper health information coding and management include clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and computers and other information and communication technologies. The kinds of data processed may include patients' medical records, hospital administration and clinical functions, and human resources information.

The use of health information lies at the root of evidence-based policy and evidence-based management in health care. Increasingly, information and communication technologies are being utilised to improve health systems in developing countries through: the standardisation of health information; computer-aided diagnosis and treatment monitoring; informing population groups on health and treatment.

The existing models of health care provision, often subject to fragmentation and insufficient coherence, appear to be one of the main causes limiting efficiency of interventions and quality of health outcomes. Ageing populations with multiple co-morbidities, increasing expectations of health service quality and safety and the ability to access these services through cross border care require due attention given to coordination mechanisms. Work in this field in the European context is closely linked to the global initiative started by the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters on the global hospital agenda within the wider context of coordinated care. The present events aimed to move a step further on the road to better integration and coordination of health promotion and care, by creating a shared understanding of the current state of health care delivery systems and strengthen their capacity to address change, determine priority areas for research and seeking expert guidance in how best WHO can support Member States in these areas.

Here, modern medicine came to our rescue. It started its research from scratch and catalogued its findings. Slowly we began understanding our own anatomy, what lies within, how it works and all! Joseph Lister started it all with the discovery of the vaccine.Louis Pasteur, father of modern medicine discovered bacteria and told us how we could prevent diseases. Anaesthesia paved the way for painless surgeries. Since then medical sciences has been on a roll! Deeper research of medical sciences was promoted by the discovery of the compound microscope and the electron microscope. Fibre optic technology helped us in micro- surgery. Radiology helped us cure tumours and cancers and today we have organ transplants! Curing cataract is now a single day procedure. Pacemakers have given new lease of life to millions. Artificial insulin is helping sugar patients comfortably continue with their own lifestyles. Blood pressure and asthma aren’t lifestyle-dampers either thanks to modern medicines.  Even a few years back, cancer was totally incurable. But today early detection can completely cure cancer. Today HIV +ve people can lead normal lives and have normal HIV -ve kids. Most important of all,average life expectancy has increased. Mind it, I just gave a narrow coverage of a huuuuge topic , There is much, much more to talk about!

Even after so many advances and discoveries, modern medical research is yet to reach the pinnacle.  There are still many areas unexplored and unknown. But our brilliant scientists with their untiring efforts are working day-n-nite, determined to discover them all! Hats off to them!!

This shows how  modern technology touches lives 

Melbourne's lifestyle

Melbourne's lifestyle

Melbourne’s appeal is the emotion, feeling and memory of experience built around the city’s distinctive physical characteristics:

• an unusual street and laneway network
• the Yarra River
• parks and gardens of renown
• transport infrastructure which includes an extensive tram network
• beautiful heritage buildings and cutting-edge new structures

Melbourne has a feeling of openness and natural light. Building height limits and heritage controls have kept the city at a human scale while highlighting its diversity and creativity.

At the street level, Melbourne’s labyrinth of connecting laneways and arcades provide an ‘other world’ experience of intimate spaces and mystery, home to many of Melbourne’s bar, dining and shopping ‘secrets’.

Melbourne provides a logical canvas for artistic expression and its laneways are home to sometimes controversial street art. Melburnians also love a party, with the year-round calendar of events offering something for everyone.

The city has a strong culture of philanthropy and volunteering, and Melburnians are known for being friendly and inclusive. Look out for the city’s team of tourism volunteers, the City Ambassadors!

Our multicultural population contributes to the city’s unique atmosphere. Melbourne is home to people of 140 different cultures: Indigenous Australians, post war European migrants, and recent arrivals from India, Somalia, Malaysia and beyond.

Sustainability is a focus for the growing city. Melbourne is leading the way in sustainable urban design, reduced water consumption and a commitment to zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
The lifestyle that makes Melbourne a magnet for so many people lies in the combination of these things. It is the sum of its parts – and more.

BEAUTY CARE

Beauty means lot to every one. Health and beauty has become a greatest concern for every one. Both women and men are very much conscious of their health and beauty these days. Not only women but men are also getting beauty conscious these days. There is no serious definition to beauty. for each person beauty means something. beauty care is one of the oldest trends to enhance the physical beauty. these days one can get numerous options to look better and beautiful. Maintaining the skin is an important part of beauty care. women these days are more conscious about their skin. Maintaining a good skin is a major task. Beauty care comes with good knowledge of your skin and beauty products.  Before jumping into any beauty treatments one must check out necessary things like skin quality, face structure, etc. Beauty care not only include maintaining good skin but also taking care of your of your hare and your body structure. In todays busy world one is definitely finding it difficult to take care of their skin and hair. in early days people used natural things like sandalwood,honey, etc to cure their skin and hair problem. but the thing is different when technology has is taking over the beauty industry. The latest beauty care technology to come up is 'Micro Current Technology' which is used for face lifting. This technology helps to stimulate the cells of the skin to function properly. this makes the skin look more young and fresh. Beauty industry is very much developed these days. They are very organized these days. Manicure, pedicure, facials , manicure, etc are the sections which comes in beauty care. One can enhance their beauty by both herbal and cosmetic treatment. Taking good care of the beauty depends on the individual physical attributes. some people have dry skin while some have oily. While buying a beauty care product one must ensure to take the product that best suits their skin and hair. Those with oily skin are prone to acne problem. Check out some of the important tips for all kinds of skin. Ayurved offers various things to treat your skin and hair herbally. Ayurvedic treatments will not only make you look beautiful externally but also internally. Natural products will make you skin look more young and fresh. One must use natural things like tulsi, neem, turmeric, sandalwood, etc. these are said to be a beauty care things used in ancient days. Check out some of the popular beauty care treatments. Aromatherapy Color Therapy Summer Care Monsoon Care Winter Care Anti-Agening Treatments Lip Care Bathing Beauty These days when people hardly find time for themselves it is not possible to indulge in any beauty care treatments which can take a whole day. Looking into this many companies have launched beauty care products which are easy to use and takes not much time. Indian beauty care treatments include mainly products made out of natural things.

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Music By :: Chakri
Produced By :: Paruchuri Kireethi
Directed By :: Boyapati Sreenu

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02 – Kanulara Chuddamu
03 – Janaki
04 – Bangarukonda
05 – Achahai
06 – Simhamanti …

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