• E.Selvaraj
• Dr.D.Ramakrishnan

Abstract: Human rights as a global phenomenon. Human beings are rational beings. By benefit of being humans, they possess certain essential and undeniable rights which are universally known as human rights but the protection of human rights is questionable to our human society especially Women rights. Our constitution, as well as the UN Declaration, guarantees certain essential rights for all human beings without any distinction of their gender, age, race, nationality, community, color, and etc. Violence and discrimination against women are called as gender-based violence means together or completely acts or omission committed against women. Violence against women is an appearance of historically unequal power relations between men and women. In the state of Tamilnadu, the common violence against women is rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, reproductive coercion, female infanticide, foeticide, child abuse, parental sex selection, obstructive violence, mob violence, cyber-crimes as well as harmful customary practices such as honor killing, dowry violence, female genital mutilation, marriage by abduction, forced marriages violence by police and authoritative people, trafficking in women, forced prostitution and etc. Most often violence against women has been enclosed as a health issue, and also as violence of human and particularly women rights. In this backdrop, this present paper attempt to made an elucidates the problems and issue of human rights violation and discrimination against women in Tamilnadu as well as its needs to effective preventive mechanisms to safeguards of women. Hence, this paper would be adopted the descriptive research method and collected secondary sources from the books, journals, magazines, appropriate statistics and online sources.

Constitution, Declaration, Harassment, Human Rights, Violence.

"VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN TAMILNADU: AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.969-972, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906D47.pdf

"VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN TAMILNADU: AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp969-972, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906D47.pdf