From time immemorial women from all cultures and societies have been discriminated and marginalized in many different ways. Over the years, violence against women has taken new shapes and forms. In India too, violence starts from the very beginning when the girl child is in the foetus of her mother. Different types of violence like beating wife, sexual violence, rape, female foeticide and infanticide, bride burning etc. In relation to this violence Vimochana, Bangalore and AWHRC had organized India Court of Women on dowry and related forms of violence in June 2009. Â Anweshi and some of the staff members had participated in the programme.