Status of Women

Acid Attacks

Over 1000 women are victims of acid attacks per year

Victims are scarred physically, mentally and emotionally.

The easy availability of acid for under $1 for a liter makes it convenient for anyone to purchase acid to misuse it.

Crimes of the victims include: being beautiful and being stared at, rejecting marriage proposals, refusing to obey the "man", and infidelity.

Honour Killings

Acts committed to defend supposed honour/reputation of family and community

Sex Trafficking

Tactics used to draw victims into this dark business: Fake job offers, drugs, and training in psychological manipulation of victims through representing oneself as a "father" or brother" figure

Poverty is the #1 reason that leads to this along with unemployment, gender inequality (amongst women), and bad home lives

Dowry Deaths

One woman dies every hour In India in a dowry-related case

Dowries are a way to pay the man and his family for taking the girls in

A distorted sex ratio of 933 girls/1000 boys in India as a result of poorer parents wanting to avoid lifelong responsibility of saving up for their daughter's marriage