The Things to Be Done by the Society to Prevent Violence against Women


The society should come forward to prevent violence to women. To prevent violence
towards women, the society must take the following steps:
1. Enhancing women empowerment programmes through adopting activities to
educate women, to give allowance to the widows and to function credit
programme for the women;
2. Enacting laws and its proper implementing in accordance with the nature and
type of oppression and violence;
3. Providing education for both son and daughter of the family to lead a life with
moral values;
4. Creating mass awareness about women’s rights and its associated laws;
5. Expanding activities of the organizations associated with women rights;
6. Giving exemplary punishment to the criminals of creating violence against
women;
7. The proper implementation of the laws on violence against women, for example,
The Prevention of Acid Crime Act, The Regulation of Acid Throwing Act, The
Dowry Prevention Act, The Family Court Ordinance, The Early Marriage
Prevention Ordinance, The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinances.
8. The violence towards women can also be prevented by giving social pleasure.
The pressure creating institutions of the society are village court, union council,
etc. Violence towards women can be prevented by united effort of creating
pressure to the criminal and his family, for example, giving compensation to the
victims, keeping the criminal isolated from the society, etc. Besides, pressure can
also be given to find out the criminals.
9. Creating mass awareness by publishing the impact of
violence on women to prevent violence on woman.
Again publicity can also be made by announcing the
provision of relevant laws in simple and lucid
language.
There are few other issues that should be given equal importance to prevent violence to
women. For example, prevention of degradation of social values, stopping off badculture,
building respectful relationship between man and woman, providing education
for a sound and sensible family, exercising religious values and ideals, proper evaluation
of the status and role of women etc.