• Dr. Md. Mashiur Rahman

Being in a patriarchal society, powerlessness and vulnerability is associated with women’s lives where they are dominated and subjugated by the men. In Bangladesh, women face various forms of violence, ranging from wife abuse to rape, dowry killings, acid throwing, sexual harassment, and sexual slavery through trafficking in women (Zaman, 1999), among which domestic violence is widely prevalent both in urban and rural areas as an everyday matter of women’s lives. Deeply rooted subordinate positions of women allow men to dominate and control not only their families and resources (Schuler et al., 1998 stated in Hossain, 2007) but also lives of women. Consequently, societal norms and traditional values associated with gender roles and supremacy within households and society tend to trigger, dictate and provoke domestic violence against women in Bangladesh (Koenig et al., 2003). “to reduce the costs of domestic violence and in fact to eliminate it from our society, both the civil society and the government have to play their due roles. The civil society organisations have to identify and put forward the best possible agenda to eliminate the mastans from the bed rooms. And it is possible with the commitment and cooperation from the government and civil society that can make people aware of the adverse effects of domestic violence upon the family and society”. Statistics from various sources show that figures on wife abuse are notorious for under-representing the problem.5 Nevertheless, researcher found in fieldwork that when women do report the abuse, the statistics may be lost because the official fails to record the incident or records it in a way is meaningless for research purposes. Although criminal statistics could be a major source of comprehensive data on violence against women in home, they frequently fail to indicate the sex of the victim and of the assailant and rarely record the relationship between the two. In these circumstances, it is impossible to distinguish wife assault from any other assault and thus for official statistical purposes, wife abuse becomes invisible. Nevertheless, despite the fact that the problem of quantification of this offence can never be accurate, it must be acknowledged that violence is part of the dynamics of many family situations. The research that does exist, which stems mainly from the developed Commonwealth, indicates that women are murdered, sexually assaulted, threatened and humiliated within their own homes by men to whom they have committed themselves and that ‘this is not uncommon or unusual behaviour’. Finally Both Uk and Bangladesh Violence are same and follow more and more recommendations protection women and children from violence.

Violence, Domestic Violence Against women, Intimate Partner, Legal Framework

"A Study on Domestic Violence and Law: Comparison for the Protections in Bangladesh and UK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.i212-i223, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403827.pdf

"A Study on Domestic Violence and Law: Comparison for the Protections in Bangladesh and UK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppi212-i223, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403827.pdf