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Challenges Of Kashmiri Women Essay

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Jammu and Kashmir is called the crown of India and is known for its beauty as the Kashmir valley is called paradise on Earth. The valley is situated between the Karakoram and Pir Panjal Range of Himalayas, but due to the past two decides the valley is under turmoil which results lot of people have lost their lives mainly the women and children. The women of Kashmir valley faces a lot of challenges related to domestic violence, Dowry harassment, sex ratio, rape, health problems and psychological disorders. They became the targets of both Militants as well as security forces. The objective of the present paper is to study the main challenges of Kashmiri women. The present study is based on the secondary data obtained from the various reports Published in print and electronic media.
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• To study the hurdles behind the women empowerment in Kashmir.

Research Methodology:- The present Research paper “Challenges of Kashmiri women” is based on the analytical approach, for this study, data has been collected from secondary sources like Monographs Books, Journals, Research Papers, Govt reports, and further internet source and websites are consulted for the study. Challenges of Kashmiri women:- A study revealed that the women of Srinagar are in vulnerable situation (B.Adil and K. Shabana 2013). Another study reported that women of Kashmir have been fighting against all crimes committed by the state and some dubious non state actors (Dabla 2009).
• Challenges of women due to the ongoing Political turmoil in Kashmir.
• Domestic- violence challenges.
• Educational challenges.
• Economical challenges.
• Health challenges.
• Challenges of Half- widows.
• Challenges in front of women- empowerment in Jammu and Kashmir. Challenges of Kashmiri women due to ongoing turmoil:

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