women, and to identifying the nature and forms of violence against women prevailing in the society. The study was delimited … presented in graphical form. The study concluded that violence against women exists in different forms including pushing and … study also concludes that illiterate women had ever experienced one or the other form of physical violence. The occurrence …

Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia …. This is evidenced by the high level of self-reporting by men and women of sexual violence and domestic violence in recent … UN surveys; the extremely low conviction rates for these forms of violence; the slow, partial or non-adoption of anti …