Challenging Violence Against Women In India: A Comparative Look At The Work Of International National, And Local-Level Actors
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2016-05
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University of Delaware
Abstract
This paper will examine the efforts of international, national, and local-level
actors as they attempt to challenge violence against women in India. When feminist
activists strategically present violence against women as a human rights issue, they are
able to influence international organizations and the Indian government in provoking
change. Furthermore, they are able to mobilize the country’s local grassroots NGOs in
combatting instances of rape, domestic violence, and other forms of female
oppression. This is a culmination of my research on all three levels: international
organizations as they bring abuses such as rape and domestic violence to public
attention and global discourse, India’s government and state-level actors as they use
their sovereign powers to protect women by way of legislation and law enforcement,
and lastly, local NGOs in urban, rural, and tribal settings, as they individually work
with victims of violence. All of these organizations—when tied together under the
same overarching framework of human rights—follow a chain reaction and influence
one another in the greater crusade for social change.
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women, india, actors, violence