dowry violence

Dowry violence has often resulted in suicides and bride burning.

Dowry violence is a problem in Bangladesh.

Dowry violence is most common in South Asia, especially in India.

Banerji also claims that high-income professional women are also victims of dowry violence and murder in India.

Dowry violence is common in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Dowry violence is another variation, denoting violence out of a husband's family's dissatisfaction with dowry provided by a wife.

The practice of dowry is closely related to social prestige; and dowry violence is especially prevalent in the Terai belt.

Other Harmful Traditional Practices: Because of the low average age of marriage, some children were victims of dowry violence.

We are seeing less "dowry violence", the victimisation of brides deemed by their mothers-in-law to have brought insufficient cash and goods, rife in India, now rare in Britain.

India has, in recent decades, made efforts to curtail dowry violence: the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA) was enacted in 2005, following years of advocacy and activism by the women's organizations.