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India: Gender Bias in the Domestic Violence Law

Categories: South Asia, India, Citizen Media, Law, Women & Gender

The Greatbong points to the gender bias [1] in the new Law dealing with domestic violence. The law appears to assume that all victims are female and all perpetrators are male. “That is, I presume (and I am no legal expert) that the gender of the victim and the perpetrator of domestic violence has been hard-coded into the law. The title of the law also makes it pretty clear—it concerns itself only with the protection of women (a fact that is repeated a few times in the document in different contexts..”