The home is often equated with a sanctuary, a place where individuals seek love, safety, security and shelter. For some women, the home is a place that imperils lives and breeds some of the most drastic forms of violence.
Moral education rendered at home, school, by tutors, elders and parents can be an effective means to reduce violence against women in the society. A home considered as a safe haven for women sometimes turns into a hell when they are subjected to inhuman atrocities.
As the children are the foundation of a society and torchbearers of a nation, President of Nari Sangbadik Kendro Nasimun Ara Haq Minu says that a teacher or an influencer must take care of the moral training and basic qualities for them. It will eventually effect the fate of the country as a whole, if such education can be provided as understudies in school and universities.
It is also important to educate the children about the phenomenal activists and legends who have exemplified strength, shown character to fight against all odds and championed the right causes to bring revolutionary changes, she added.
Domestic violence is a burden on numerous sectors of the social system and quietly, yet dramatically, affects the development of a nation… batterers cost nations’ fortunes in terms of law enforcement, health care, lost labour and general progress.
Social scientists say that an effective response to violence must be multi-sectoral; addressing the immediate practical needs of women experiencing abuse; providing long-term follow up assistance; and focusing on changing those norms and attitudes that undermine women’s full human rights. Available research studies say that illiteracy coupled with low level of education, poor socio-economic status, women with no income and urban domicile have been cited as risk factors for domestic violence. Unmarried, separated or divorced status or being in a live-in relationship have been known to be associated with violence against women. Minister for Women and Children affairs, Meher Afroz Chumki urged all people to raise a countrywide social movement to end violence against women. “As the government created huge scopes for the women and got success, public expectation increased,” she said.
In Bangladesh, violence against women (VAW) was a serious problem, which has now considerably fallen low after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government launched several schemes to contribute to the long term sustainable socio-economic development through poverty alleviation in rural areas.
