Women’s grants

Women’s grants is the aid or allowances to the women’s development, Most of the Asian countries and some African nations do not give importance to the women, so this aid is playing an important roll in women’s life. I would like to express something about women’s aid organization; Women’s Aid is an organization which has been working on the issue of violence against women for over 25 years. We are a feminist, political and campaigning organization committed to the elimination of violence and abuse of women through effecting political, cultural and social change. We provide direct support services to women experiencing male violence and abuse. This work underpins and informs all other goals and actions of the organization.

Women’s Aid works from the principles of empowerment, collective action, self-help, mutual aid, inclusion and equality. We recognize the links between all forms of oppression, abuse of and violence against women and the interconnection between forms of discrimination which women experience due to poverty, disability, immigration status, ethnicity, sexual orientation and educational disadvantage. We continuously strive to reflect this in our responses to women and in our own organizational workings. Women’s Aid recognizes all forms of violence that women can be subjected to, but works primarily with ‘domestic violence’. Domestic violence is defined by the Report of the Task Force on Violence Against Women as ‘the use of physical or emotional force or threat of physical force including sexual violence, in close adult relationships. ****One of the reason for giving grants to thje women’s is the Violence against women within intimate relationships, or domestic violence as it is more commonly known, is one of the most pervasive and widely experienced crimes against women. Responding to the increasing amount of testimonies from women, academics and activists began to document existing evidence, which recorded prevalence, forms and relationship of perpetrator to the victim. In the 1970’s Dobash and Dobash studied police reports and national crime surveys in the US, Canada and the UK. What these surveys indicatedwas that between 90% to 97%18 of perpetrators of violence within relationships are men.19,20 Specific research to ascertain the prevalence of violence against women was carried out. A survey of some of this research in many countries indicates that between 20% to 50 % of women experience violence and abuse at the hands of a male partner.21 An Irish national prevalence study carried out in 1995 for Women’s Aid, found that that 18% of women reported that they had experienced violence and abuse at the hands of a male partner. When an area-based survey was carried out in the same study, that figure doubled to 36%

Women’s play an important roll in day to day life ,so we must provide proper position to the women’s in the world .Diversity and equality are challenging but the richness of different women’s experiences enhances an organization’s responses to women experiencing violence. In particular, embracing the spectrum of women’s sexuality – lesbian, bisexuality and heterosexuality – enables us to fully engage with feminism without fear. Failure to do so basically undermines the feminist struggle for women’s sexual liberation and divides women one from the other.