Tag: Dowry system in India
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Fighting the Dowry System | Fixing India
This week Fixing India is dismantling the nonsensical economics of dowry system.
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A Dowry-Free Community in a Country of Dowry Deaths
The Baiga community, like many Adivasi communities, does not follow the patriarchal dowry system, setting an example in a country where women are killed for dowry every day.
Woman thrashed and abandoned for not paying dowry
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act was passed in 2005 to ensure the safety of women against domestic violence. However, a decade later, women like Mamta, from Uttar Pradesh, remain without justice. Hailing from Baritola village of Ambedkar Nagar in UP, Mamta has been a victim of domestic...