South Asian women vulnerable to violence since birth: WB

Right from birth to old age, South Asian women are vulnerable to violence as per the latest report published by the World Bank titled ‘Violence against Women and Girls, Lesson from South Asia.’
The report has divided female life-cycle into seven stages — infancy, childhood (1-5yr), unmarried and adolescent girls, married girls and women, unmarried women, divorced and widowed women and elderly women – and identified 12 kinds of violence against them. As per the study, unmarried and adolescent girls are vulnerable to the maximum eight kinds of violence. Even elderly women, the report says, are vulnerable to five types of violence of which two are sexual in nature.

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