Violence against Women: Human Rights Perspective

The concept of human rights and duties is perhaps as old as the civilization. Whether entitled under specific provisions or names, mankind has always enjoyed certain basic freedom and rights. The extent and the proportion of these rights enjoyed by the people have never been universally uniform. It varied from time to time, place to place, person to person depending upon the prevailing politico-religious and cultural settings and situations of the time. The idea of rights and duties has grown along with the growth of civilization. In present times it has under-gone metamorphism, encompassing all kinds of rights, ensuring the welfare and of human beings transgressing all kind of boundaries: physical territorial, religious, political, culture, gender, colour or race. Today the idea of Human Rights has gained such a momentum the every nation- state guarantees certain basic rights to its citizen to ensure their individual and collective well being. Despite such guarantees, there is exploitation, discrimination and violation of basic Human Rights. The reality is that it is the woman who is discriminated, exploited and denied such freedom and privileges which are available to their countries.1 Human Rights education is one of the imperatives that women must adopt.