Fighting Violence Against Women

The last few years have seen a remarkable shift in people's perception of violence against women (VAW) in society. Nepali women have been empowered and they are no longer vicitmised by domestic or other forms of violence. In a pivot from the trend where the women are subject to domestic violence, there are chorus of complaints that males have been vicitmised by the females. However, new data from UN Women and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that despite the improvement in gender parity globally, the actual incidence of violence against women remains alarmingly high.