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MAITRI is a humanitarian and developmental NGO established in 2005. Its mission is toestablish basic health, promote education and restore human rights to empower India’svulnerable populations. Maitri defends human rights and strengthens communities throughindividual and community empowerment with advocacy, education, community-based programdevelopment, and networking. Maitri is committed to improving the quality of life and dignityof the vulnerable populations it works with, which include:● Destitute and marginalised widows● Migrant workers and their families● Underprivileged children● Members of uniformed services and their families
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Maitri J -92 Anant Ram Diary,RK Puram Sector 13
New Delhi 110066, India www.maitriindia.org email:[email protected]
Helpline: +919810132908
• Insults • Name calling • Accusations on your character or conduct etc. • Insult for not having a male child, • Insult for not bringing dowry etc. • Yelling and Screaming • Preventing you or the child in your custody from attending school, college or any other educational institutions
Verbal and Emotional Violence
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• Not providing you money for maintaining you or your children, • Not providing food, clothes, medicines etc. for you and your children, • Stopping you from carrying on your employment or, • Disturbing you in carrying on your employment, • Not allowing you to take up an employment or, • Taking away your income , salary, wages etc., • Not allowing you to use your salary, wages etc., • Forcing you out of the house you live in, • Stopping you from accessing or using any part of the house, • Not allowing use of clothes, articles or things of general household use, • Not paying rent if staying a rented accommodation etc.
Economic Violence
• Raise your voice. • Talk to your friends and relatives about it. • Take the help of a NGO or police. • File an FIR (First Information Report) in the nearest police station. • Take the help of ‘The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act’, 2005 (PWDV Act, 2005) and contact the Protection Officer of your area and register D.I.R (Domestic Incident Report). • You can also directly go to the Magistrate.
Under the PWDV Act, 2005, you can get the following reliefs/orders: 1. Protection (from any act of domestic violence) order 2. Residence orders - right to reside 3. Monetary reliefs 4. Custody orders 5. Compensation orders 6. Interim and ex-parte orders
NOTE: Any order made under this Act is enforceable throughout India.
