Question

What do you understand by Domestic Violence? List 2 rights that the new law helped achieve for women who are survivors of violence.

Answer 1

Domestic violence is a behavior used by one person in a relationship to control the other. The partners may be married, they may not be married. The violence could be against children or spouse.

The laws for the survivors of violence, especially for women are:

1 The Indian Penal Code Amendment in 1983
2 The 2005 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act

Answer 2

The law permitting protection to be extended to sisters, widows, or mothers, as well as the law granting women the right to secure shelter, are two rights that the new law has helped to attain for women who have been victims of violence.

What is the definition of domestic violence?

• Domestic violence, often known as domestic abuse, refers to violence or other forms of abuse that occur within the home, such as in a marriage or other cohabitation.
• Abuse is defined as physical, sexual, emotional, financial, or psychological acts or threats against another individual.

What new legislation has been enacted to protect women from domestic violence?

• The Domestic Violence Legislation Amendment Bill 2001, under the Domestic Violence (Family Protection) Act 1989, and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, are two new laws that help safeguard women from domestic violence.

• The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act of 2005 has a number of notable aspects:

1. This includes both physical and mental abuse.
2. It is designed primarily to protect the wife or female live-in partners.
3. Sisters, widows, and mothers are also covered by the law.
4. This law also covers harassment in the form of dowry demands.
5. It gives women the right to a safe place to live.
6. The court can also issue protective orders, which prohibit the abuser from harassing the woman at work.
7. The act proposes the appointment of protection officers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
8. A protection order violation is a non-bailable offence.

• The Domestic Violence Legislation Amendment Bill 2001 aims to safeguard those who have been abused in marriage partnerships, intimate personal relationships, family relationships, and informal care relationships.

Therefore, the law permitting protection to be extended to sisters, widows, or mothers, as well as the law granting women the right to secure shelter, are two rights that the new law has helped to attain for women who have been victims of violence.

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