Anweshi

ANWESHI WOMEN'S COUNSELING CENTRE , is a voluntary women's organization based in Kozhikode, one of the major cities of Kerala, the southern Indian state.

It was founded in response to the growing situation of gender related violence in Kerala. Police crime records as well as the medical survey report show the growing incidence of domestic violence and all sorts of other forms of violence against women both in the home and in the public sphere. The Kerala model of development which is celebrated throughout the world because of the high literacy rate and the comparatively better health status of the people etc.-- has now been acknowledged to be a failure due to the stagnant status of the economy.

The process of globalization with the new economic policies and the imposition of the mandates from the World Trade Organization has aggravated the situation. With the economic system completely under the control of the international market and the multinational corporations, the unemployment situation is growing alarmingly. Dowry has been one of the major social evil s women in each community had to face, irrespective of their caste, religion or economic status.

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News One - THE COURT OF WOMEN - The round table discussion - Women in all cultures and societies have, in different ways, been marginalized and silenced but never perhaps in a context where the feminine and the female were commodified and then devalued. In the context of India too, women have been discriminated against and subject to varied forms of violence - wife beating, rape and other forms of sexual violence, sati, female infanticide, witch killing and so on. The phenomena of dowry deaths that has become a frighteningly normal and routine form of violence against women in India and other South Asian cultures like in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal is one such form of recasted violence. While dowry and dowry demands may have been criminalized in law, in life it has become an inextricable part of the institution of marriage. And it is becoming so with violence that is inextricably part of the.