The Indian judiciary has passed a number of laws to address various types of sexual violence against women in India. Sexual violence against women is a serious criminal offence in India that is being tackled at an alarming rate. In India, violence against women refers to physical or sexual violence against women, usually by men. Common forms of violence against women in India include domestic violence, sexual assault and murder.

 

The United Nations Population Fund [25] claims that more than two-thirds of Indian married women aged 15 to 49 have been beaten, raped or forced to have sex. Alaska Native women continue to experience the most violent sexual assault and report rates of domestic violence 10 times higher than in the rest of the United States.

 

As a result, until recent changes in US law, Indian countries could not prosecute non-Indians, who are reported to perpetrate the vast majority (96%) of sexual violence against Native women. United States legislation creates a discriminatory justice system in indigenous communities, a system that allows criminals to operate with impunity in Indian country, threatens the lives and human rights of local women and girls on a daily basis, and perpetuates a growing cycle of violence in native communities. One of the major gaps in rape laws in India is the inability to criminalize marital rape. Laws that expressly allow marital rape treat women as the property of their husbands and make them vulnerable to sexual and marital abuse.

 

The law defines rape broadly and includes all acts of sexual penetration as well as acts of oral sex (without the obligation to penetrate). The provisions of the Sexual Violence Against Adult Women Act also apply in child abuse cases. There are many laws that punish perpetrators of crimes against women. The Indian Penal Code provides for the punishment of perpetrators of heinous crimes against women.

 

Section 354 CC criminalizes any act of a person who attacks a woman or uses criminal force against a woman with the intent or knowledge that her modesty will offend the woman. While the Criminal Law (Amendment) 2013 provides for a broader definition of rape and harsher penalties, including longer prison terms in most cases of sexual assault and even the death penalty for repeat offenders and in cases resulting in the death of the victim, this has not reduced the number of rapes in India. . Violence and daily reported incidents have baffled India, and now the question arises whether the laws enacted by the legal system are playing a role in protecting women in our society. Considering the sexual crimes committed against women in India, the recent cases of rape have stirred up the conscience of the nation.

 

Recent news of the gang rape of 23 elderly women who were raped by six people in a city like Delhi in 2012 still makes people shudder whenever cases of sexual assault, harassment and harassment are discussed in the masses. Indian children, who make up a staggering 42% of the country's population, have long been the victims of some of the most brutal sex crimes known to mankind. Girls face all forms of sexual violence in India and crimes against girls have reached epidemic proportions.

 

The government and various organizations such as NGOs have initiated social laws that promote gender equality, laws that increase women's access to formal work, and the judiciary has strict criminal provisions regarding violence against women, but the battle is far from won, as it shows. statistics. so far show that globally, 30% of women suffer daily sexual violence from their intimate partner. Women's rights activists in India have long highlighted and supported sexual harassment in the workplace, long before the global #MeToo movement led to policies and laws to protect working women from sexual assault. The government must take urgent action—in partnership with state governments, civil society organizations, women's rights activists, labor unions, the private sector, and national and state women's commissions—to raise awareness and enforce laws and policies on sexual harassment in workplace.

 

In 2013, India enacted the Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redress) Act to protect workers in both the formal and informal sectors. Enforcement of the Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redress) Act of 2013, including overseeing the establishment and effective operation of committees, conducting inspections and investigations, sanctioning non-compliant employers, and ensuring access to remedies for victims, including grievance and compensation mechanisms. In 2013, the Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redress) Act was enacted to protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace, and to prevent and compensate for complaints of sexual harassment or similar incidents. This includes helping Indigenous and Amerindian women's organizations to better understand criminal jurisdiction in the Indian country and to comply with the provisions of the Tribal Law and Order Act and VAWA 2013.

 

The center supports efforts to add provisions in VAWA to restore tribal criminal powers to combat violence against indigenous women by non-indigenous peoples in the Indian state. Equality Now aims to ensure that our advocacy and communications are based on the needs, experiences and opinions of survivors of women and children sexual violence, and to ensure that all of our work is based on accurate information and evidence as we work to help survivors of violence in India. Determine the main obstacles they face in accessing justice. The purpose of crimes against women under special and local laws is to eliminate immoral and criminal practices and exploitation of women in society.

 

The public outrage and activism sparked by gang rape has paved the way for new legal protections for millions of Indian women from sexual harassment in the workplace. Then, the time for the 112th General Assembly ran out, the lives of Indigenous women were threatened on a daily basis, and the tribe became the only government in the United States without the power to protect women from domestic and sexual abuse within the community