The Legal Solution for Domestic Violence
- Dudharejiya Krutika Pravin
- June 28, 2020
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The vision that all people - women, children and men - are entitled to at least a minimum respect for their human dignity and rights, emerged out of the slaughter and genocide of the Second World War and, since that time, the United Nations has worked to define and refine the rights of all human beings. Domestic violence has been an issue of concern to the United Nations for some time, for example in the deliberations and decisions of United Nations congresses on the prevention of crimes and the treatment of offenders. The focus of this paper is on violence against women in their homes. Women and men, girls and boys may all be victims of domestic violence. The present paper has limited its scope to the violence perpetrated by husbands and male partners against their wives and female partners in their own homes. It is hoped that many of the strategies presented here can be used later against other types of domestic violence. Every country’s strategy to confront domestic violence will be different. The paper sets forth a range of options and strategies that are being used to tackle domestic violence in different parts of the world. Information is presented on an action by the police, by prosecutors, by health service workers, by social service workers, by women’s groups and by government agencies to respond to the problem of domestic violence. Its purpose is to share this knowledge so that it can be used to put an end to the violence that women experience in their own homes. Every country’s strategy to confront domestic violence will be different. The present paper sets forth a range of options and strategies that are being used to tackle domestic violence in different parts of the world. Information is presented on an action by the police, by prosecutors, by health service workers, by social service workers, by women’s groups and by government agencies to respond to the problem of domestic violence. Its purpose is to share this knowledge so that it can be used to put an end to the violence that women experience in their own homes. The most important lesson that people who have been working on the problem of domestic violence have learned is that domestic violence can only be controlled if the various agencies and individuals who work on the problem cooperate to find solutions.
