Denial of women's rights means denial of human rights of half of humanity. Gender based violence is one of the worst … reported confirms this point. The growing concern of the women's movement has placed violence against women (VAW) on the global … but also addressing violence prevention. The present paper discusses women's rights and the nature of gender based …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …, that the share of unmarried men is increasing in the youth sex ratio, that attitudes to violence against women are evolving …