Violence against LGBT people

platform for Activism” and the necessity of mobilizing women to understand the impact of domestic violence as part of local Asian communities. More so, the extension of gender education into the forum of violence against women identifies the underlying activist principles of UN Women to provide a means of education for children, adolescents, and adult women on the cause and effect of male-based violence in Asian…

Women: An Oppressive Epidemic Though violence subjected towards women and young girls is only increasing and becoming more accepted and condoned, it is time for this injustice to cease and only the people of this nation have a choice to deny the prevalence of this intolerable behavior. Intentional assault against any one person may have many lasting effects; physical, sexual, psychological and economic. Based on statistics at the state and local level, violence against women is going up and…

is also prevalent in our society, which is gender violence. This includes sexual assault, domestic violence, relationship abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse to children, etc. Domestic violence consists of acts that include physical, sexual, and psychological attacks one person does to the other in an adult intimate relationship. According to FindLaw, “In 1994, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that about 92 percent of domestic violence cases involve female victims.” This says a lot…

There’s 318.9 Million people in America alone. Forty-nine percent is male, and Fifty one percent is female; but yet, we still get treated like crap? First it was women suffrages, which happened in August of 1920s. To now, we’re still getting look down, we looked at each other as competition, while the male population is looking down at us, just basically kicking the dirt in our eyes, words and pain. Especially domestic violence. One in four women will experience domestic violence in…

This appears as a wonderful statistic however it fails to match with research, campus surveys, or experiences reported by college students. In 2013, the Congress authorized the act Violence Against Women Act to address domestic and dating violence, as well as stalking. This act collected reports of sexual violence from schools only to find these schools failed to rise to the purpose of the act (Becker). For many survivors, school is their greatest resource for safety…

innately known that women in the sex industry, along with other exploited populations, often suffer from poor nutrition, experience dangerous working conditions, and are at an increased risk for exposure to infectious diseases (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2015). As a result of repeated and intrusive trauma involved in sexual exploitation through physical and sexual abuse, victims of sex trafficking report psychological damage, ranging from restrictions on their movement and fear of…

Domestic Violence Offenders who participate in any form of this treatment show reduced levels of aggression as compared to the comparison group who received no treatment. Within…

abuse, negligence, and murder, simply because they are girls. Similarly, to genocide where a specific group is deliberately exterminated, gendercide is a sex-selective killing where men or women are victims disproportionately (Carpenter). The war against women in India goes back centuries with the deeply rooted, sexist cultural dynamics as well as the ineffective and unfair government policies that have led to the increase rates of gendercide. Girls become victims of female infanticide due to…

promotes and spreads the misogynistic ideal. Television shows exploit women as sexual objects. Music videos, video games, and television shows symbolize women as sexual objects causing no inspiration to stop violence against women and the spread of anti-awareness toward women’s rights. Many people believe that the media helps develop awareness and inspiration toward women’s rights. The media provides censorship in order to offer the security of women. The government subjects websites and…

riddled with violence and abuse (Flake 2005; Mitchell 2013). The experiences of women in Peru show no exception to this. Estimates indicate that women in Peru experience incredibly high rates of domestic abuse, within the highest across the globe (Boesten 2006; Flake 2005). Regardless of laws established by the country, Peruvian women struggle to successfully deconstruct domestic violence within their communities. In contrast, the United States – a developed country where domestic violence…