Violence against Women is a Violation of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms of women. Violence against women is an obstacle towards gender equality. Women are entitled to equal enjoyment and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms that include among others:

• Right to equality
• Right to education
• Right to live with dignity
• Right to liberty
• Right to politics
• Right to property
• Right to equal opportunity for employment
• Right to free choice of profession
• Right to livelihood
• Right to work in equitable condition
• Right to get equal wages for equal work
• Right to protection from gender discrimination
• Right to social protection in the eventuality of retirement, old age and sickness
• Right to protection from inhuman treatment
• Right to protection of health
• Right to privacy in terms of personal life, family, residence, correspondence etc. and
• Right to protection from society, state and family system.

 Indian women exploitation is not the present phenomenon. Rather she is being exploited from the early times. The women in Indian society never stood for a fair status. The following crimes were done against the women in the past times.