Statistics suggest that marital rape happens in 10-14% of all California marriages. However, the silence surrounding marital rape leaves many victims unaware that they can seek help. In this episode of “Between Friends” Zakia Afrin and Indira Chakravorty discuss Indira’s Article on Marital rape as a tool for domestic violence in the recently published “Khadr Dhare Ghor”/ an edited book of essays on Domestic violence published in Kolkata Book Fair, 2023.
পরিসংখ্যান বলে, কালিফরনিয়ায় শতকরা ১০ থেকে ১৪ টি দাম্পত্য সম্পর্কে যৌন নির্যাতন ঘটে থাকে। তবু এই বিষয়ে রাখ ঢাক থাকায় অনেকে জানেন না, সাহায্য পেতে হলে কি করতে হবে। এই নিয়ে কথোপকথন রইল আমাদের এবারের পর্বে।
Zakia Afrin is the Director of Survivor Advocacy at Maitri.
Indira Chakravorty, Author, co-founder of Daya-Houston and Saheli Houston; and volunteer at Maitri. ---------------------
Useful resources:
Danger Assessment Toolhttps://www.dangerassessment.org/.../DA_NewScoring_2019.pdf
Marital Rape Incident in Bangladesh
https://www.thedailystar.net/.../marital-rape-killed...
498A of the Indian Penal Code
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/538436/
Maitri Discussion on Domestic Violence deaths in the South Asian community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtE6X0aAVM&t=0s
No means No Campaign
https://www.nomeansnoworldwide.org/Healthy
Relationship and Power and Control Wheel; The South Asian Context
Reproductive Coercion
https://www.thehotline.org/resources/reproductive-coercion/
This project was made possible by funding provided by the County of Santa Clara Office of Gender-Based Violence Prevention. [www.sccendviolence.org]