India, Nov. 27 -- With Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley filing a case against her Austrian husband Hogg, it has once again become evident that domestic violence can occur across class and nationality, and that the rot runs deeper than imagined. She claimed she has suffered severe emotional, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse by her husband, because of which she was forced to flee her home in Austria and return to India.
This menace has been whetted by the latest United Nations data which is a reminder of how deeply violence against women remains embedded across societies. As per the UN data, in 2024 alone, 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members - one every ten minutes. Globally, 137 women lose their lives...