New Forms of Gender violence

  • In India,the National Commission for Women (NCW) has recorded a more than twofold rise in gender-based violence.
  • 1 in 3 women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, most frequently by an intimate partner.
  • 200 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM).
  • 71% of all human trafficking victims worldwide are women and girls, and 3 out of 4 of these women and girls are sexually exploited.
  • As per NCRB data Majority of cases under crime against women under IPC were registered under cruelty by husband or his relatives (30.9%), followed by assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty, kidnapping & abduction of women and rape.
  • 4% of cybercrime cases registered were for the motive of fraud followed by sexual exploitation.