Domestic Violence and Women’s Health in India: Insights from NFHS-4

Gender-based violence (GBV) [a] or violence against women and girls is regarded as a global pandemic that affects one in every three women across their lifetime. An estimated 736 million women become victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), or non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life. [1] The international community has long acknowledged the severity of the problem. In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action called for the elimination of violence against women. [2] A decade later, in 2015, the UN adopted the 2030