DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i09.013

Pages: 1806-1814

Women constitute half of the total populace and can contribute to the socio-economic of a nation as an inseparable unit with the male partner. Here in our Bangladesh, 49 percent of her kin are women yet the most vulnerable in the general public. The recent scenario of violence against women in Bangladesh, reported in media consistently, has been marked by an expanding frequency of acid attacks, rape, trafficking or molesting. Among all the violation related to women, acid throwing is the most malevolent form of brutality against women. After the sanctioning of The Acid Control Act 2002 and The Acid Crime Control Act 2002, the rate of throwing acid has been diminished yet not completely eradicated. The paper attempted to explore the challenges and limitations the society is facing to combat the acid attacks even though there are specific laws enacted on acid throwing in Bangladesh. Qualitative Method like case study and documentary analysis has been maintained for the study. Data have been collected from distinctive sources like books, journals, newspapers, magazines and different organizations like Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital and City Hospital Pvt. Ltd. Descriptive data has also been collected from some familiar foundation like, Human Rights Legal Survive (HRLS) under Social Development (SD) of BRAC Foundation and the Acid Survivors Foundations (ASF), Banani, Dhaka-1213. As the lawful framework has not possessed the capacity to pass out praiseworthy discipline to any corrosive assailant up until now, aggressors have little to fear. 42 convicted were sentenced to death. 139 convicted to life imprisonment and 112 others to different jail terms in 179 cases related to acid violence in the last ten years since 1994. Due to poor advancement in the media and an absence of awareness in the general population, a great many people don't know about the law.