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The rights of men and women are the same but because of certain situational factors it is imperative to discuss the women's human rights separately. There are several reasons behind this: first, women are representing almost half of the world's population; secondly, women are discriminated throughout the world in different spheres and at different stages; thirdly, women are supposed to carry out some special functions, therefore they needed human rights separately. Gender injustice taking the shape of crimes against women has escalated all over the world and India is not exception to this. Despite the fact that the Indian mythology placed women on a very high pedestal, deterioration in this glorious status suffered a socio- cultural setback resulting in loss of their freedom and decline in their personality. Despite the social reform movement in the 19th century arousing considerable awakening, constitutional and legal provisions aimed at preventing discrimination, positive judicial trends, welfare schemes and activism of voluntary sector, women continue to suffer - from increasing tide of violence both in and outside homes. Question of gender justice is not a communal question or a question teaching any particular religion it is a social question having humanist contents. Political democracy is never complete without social democracy and the human society which keeps fifty percent of its population under social servility can never hope to prosper. However, in the sphere of women's human rights in India, there exists a wide gap between theory and practice. Indian Constitution has granted equal rights to women like men and several laws have been enacted by successive governments to realize the goal of gender equality, but the ground reality is different in actual terms. In real life treatment to women is based on biases and discriminations. Their condition is deplorable in the country. Very often they have to face discrimination, injustice and dishonour. Discrimination against the girl child starts the moment she enters into the mother's womb.

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