• Bashir Ahmad Sheikh
• Dr. Sona Shukla

HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMEN OF INDIA-A STUDY 1. Bashir Ahmad Sheikh .Ph D Research Scholar (Political Science), Barkatullah University, Bhopal (M.P.) Research Center:- Govt. Hamidia Arts and Commerce college Bhopal (M.P.), India. 2. Dr. Sona Shukla D. Litt Professor of political Scienc, Govt. Hamidia Arts and Commerce college, Bhopal (M.P.) ABSTRACT Women, a grandmother, a mother, a wife, a girl, overall woman is a key of a family. World can never be complete without a woman. Law is the set of rules enforced to govern the behavior of people. From the beginning of this world women is treated as a weaker section of the society and they are the victims of the crimes like rape, eve teasing, female infanticide, dowry, domestic violence, child marriage and acid throwing. They were only allowed to live beneath the shoes of their husbands and fathers. Laws are being made to secure the lives of the women from the violence of their families and societies, and to provide them with their rights of which they are the owners. This paper covers the aspect of women from past history to the present world. It shows how the law of our country has contributed its best to change the lives of women, to make them live with dignity and respect not as a slave. United Nation in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared ‘Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’ as one among the eight ‘Millennium Development Goal’ to be achieved by the year 2015. However these goals are far from being realized in a country like India.

Keywords: Legal status, Women rights, Domestic violence, Child marriage, Dowry, Empowerment, Illiteracy, Unemployment

"HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMEN OF INDIA-A STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.553-561, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904Q87.pdf

"HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMEN OF INDIA-A STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp553-561, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904Q87.pdf