The violence towards women is
gradually increasing in Bangladesh which is the main
obstacle for the independence of
women. The violence towards women has many
natures. When a woman becomes
the victim of torture, either physical or mental, inside
her home is called domestic
violence. She becomes the victim of such type of torture by
her husband, mother-in-law,
sister-in-law and other family members. This violence
includes beating up the wife,
torture to get dowry, deprivation of education and property
rights, compelling to do
excessive work, beating up the female child, sexual harassment
and so on.
Sexual harassment, torture and
rape, fatwa, acid throwing, trafficking of woman and
children etc. are all brutal,
cruel and heinous violence.
The Sexual
Harassment: In
recent times, the sexual harassment is one of the big social
problems in Bangladesh. It is
the highest moral degradation and social disasters, which
like other countries is
gradually gripping Bangladesh. Women of our country become
victims of various sexual
harassment. Presently girls and young ladies, even married
women become the victim of
sexual harassment. This sexual harassment of women is
known as eve-teasing which is
becoming unpreventable day by day. Eve-teasing is the
synonym of sexual harassment
which has been used extensively without explaining the
real situation. Eve-teasing
means disturbing to a woman by a man in a public crowded
place. Women can be the victim
of sexual harassment inside the houses, work places, at
streets or any other isolated
places for ill motive or to have any immoral relation.
The Fatwa:
In
rural area, the violence is administered towards a woman through
“Fatwa.” The Influential
peoples of the villages administer judicial proceeding
according to their own will
which is inconsistent to our existing law.
The Acid
Throwing: The
acid throwing is a very dangerous violence to woman. The
incidence of acid throwing has
increased in Bangladesh recently. Acid throwing in most
of the cases happens towards
woman. The love affairs and the refusal of indecent
proposal, dispute concerning
property, quarrel in the family and many such becomes the
causes of acid throwing.
The
Trafficking of Children and Women: Women and children, who have become the
victims of trafficking, also
become the victims of violence. The situation of women and
children trafficking is even
worse in the South Asia. Many women and children of
Bangladesh are being trafficked
every year. And they have to engage themselves in
various inhuman and humiliated
works like prostitution, jockey of the camel, selling of
the organs, etc. under
compulsion.
