DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH: HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE (original) (raw)

Violence against Women is a major threat to the rural Bangladesh. Despite remarkable achievements in the field of women's development and bearing a magnanimous history of women's movement, incidences of violence against women are still burning issues. It is qualitative research. It is not easy to guess whether violence against women has decreased or increased over the past decades because of lack of reliable baseline survey but in absolute term, the number of incidences is on the increase. The majority of women are domestically violated by their husbands, in-laws and other family members. This Paper makes an attenpt to make a sense about the types, reasons, and domestic violence against women in rural Bangladesh, collecting data and analysis from different sources. For these reasons, we have selected 118 respondents to identify the socioeconomic and demographic status and causes of domestic violence.