The United Nations General Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based
violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm
or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary
deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private
life." -Wikipedia.
Violence can be dated to as far
back as the period that preceded the Enlightenment phase of mankind. Prior to
that time, women were usual regarded as subjects to their men. However, with
the dawning of the enlightenment age, women became out spoken, dependent, the
desire for education and professionalism suddenly sprang up, and women began to
take charge of their own affairs. They took up the mantle of leadership, and
have since then, occupied one lead role or the other.
It is however sad, that not every
woman has been liberated and not every male has ceased to violate a woman at
one point or the other, as we still hear of cases of physical, emotional,
psychological, sexual and mental slavery which as a result of non-eradication
of violence against women.
