Rationale and Scope
Young girls who barely experienced life have to endure traumatizing experiences. Imagine being so small and vulnerable with no protection and having to experience one of the worst situations that can ever encounter you.
Post rape or sexual assault is a whole different nightmare than experiencing the violation being done to you. Fear, guilt, shame, trust issues are just a few things that consume the victim after the incident. Society deforms them after their tragic attack. This only makes the young girl fall into an even bigger pit of self-loathing.
Rape is the worst assault young girls can face because it is a life time torment of long-lasting mental and physical problems. I am choosing this top icto bring out how rape has such an influential hold on young female lives. I also want to show the various ways young girls are forced into doing something they don’t want which leads to rape and sexual assault. Through this essay, I want to spread global awareness on how young girls can prevent themselves from such harassments.
Global Perspective
The evolving gender discrimination faced everyday by women, is a fight that is yet to be won. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that:
• Globally about 1 in 3 (35%) women worldwide have experienced either physical or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner
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The reason for marriage is basically to avoid the shame that has come with the incident and because the victim is no longer a virgin, this makes her not worthy anymore in the eyes of the society of being eligible for marriage. Just because the young girl was violated, this law allows her to be somewhat ‘saved’ from our horrid society by living with her rapist for the rest of her life and to be continuously raped. It also turns to be a loophole for the rapist to escape from any sort of judicial