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Date of Award
Spring 2020
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Historical & Political Studies; College of Arts & Sciences
International Studies
First Advisor
Hilary Parsons Dick
Abstract
Gender-based violence is not confined by national borders, nor does it discriminate between the wealthy and poor. There is no one attribute of a country that causes it, and there is no one solution to eradicating it. In the case of Mumbai, India a number of historic and traditional factors have aided the continuation of violence against women. International NGOs such as the Human Rights Watch, United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Human Rights Council have all sent assemblages of volunteers and violence mediators to Mumbai studying the symptoms of abuse and publishing their findings to the world. They have remained for decades, without understanding the rooted gender-based violence to the city, and have unwittingly elevated levels of violence by placing women and girls at the front line of India’s gender dichotomy.
Recommended Citation
Kilcourse, Tessa, "Gender-Based Violence in Mumbai, India: International NGO Failures and Legacy Barricades" (2020). Capstone Showcase. 2.
https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/showcase/2020/is/2
Gender-Based Violence in Mumbai, India: International NGO Failures and Legacy Barricades
Gender-based violence is not confined by national borders, nor does it discriminate between the wealthy and poor. There is no one attribute of a country that causes it, and there is no one solution to eradicating it. In the case of Mumbai, India a number of historic and traditional factors have aided the continuation of violence against women. International NGOs such as the Human Rights Watch, United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Human Rights Council have all sent assemblages of volunteers and violence mediators to Mumbai studying the symptoms of abuse and publishing their findings to the world. They have remained for decades, without understanding the rooted gender-based violence to the city, and have unwittingly elevated levels of violence by placing women and girls at the front line of India’s gender dichotomy.