acid crime in bangladesh
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Introduction:
As we have entered the new millennium, the rights and status of women in society have gained paramount worldwide concern among policy makers and civil society alike. Meanwhile the integration of women to the mainstream development process has pushed women's issues from the private sphere of life to the public. However the question remains whether the process has helped to reduce repression against women or opened up new avenues for exploitation. While domestic violence against women has always been a general feature of the social structure of both rich and poor nations, women's increased participation in outside activities has endangered her external security as well. Incidents of rape, gang rape, acid throwing, sexual harassment and violence at the work place, eve teasing and the like, have not only increased recently, but have also turned much more ominous. We already know that gender-based violence is deeply associated with the existing patriarchal social structure, which is also manifested and reproduced in the legal system of the nation-states.
Nevertheless, the recent upsurge in gender-based violence poses the question as to whether the increase is only a demonstration of the existing patriarchal societal structure or whether other factors too are at play. It may be presumed that the increase in the incidents of gender-based violence might be linked to other factors such as the rapid deterioration of law and order situation or problems of governance and the like. This research is mainly highlighted the acid violence from a group.
When I first began researching this story, I had heard about barbaric acts of violence against women in the third world, and I had the idea that hundreds of young women in Bangladesh were being attacked with sulfuric acid simply because they dared to say no to men...