MAITRI is a humanitarian and developmental NGO established in 2005. Its mission is to establish basic health, promote education and restore human rights to empower India’s vulnerable populations. Maitri defends human rights and strengthens communities through individual and community empowerment with advocacy, education, community-based program development, and networking. Maitri is committed to improving the quality of life and dignity of 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

1. Maitri
J -92 Anant Ram Diary,RK Puram Sector 13
New Delhi 110066, India
www.maitriindia.org email:winnie.singh@gmail.com
Helpline: +919810132908

4. Verbal and Emotional Violence
• nsults
I
• ame calling
N
• ccusations on your character or
A
conduct etc.
• nsult for not having a male child,
I
• nsult for not bringing dowry etc.
I
• elling and Screaming
Y
• reventing you or the child in your
P
custody from attending school, college
or any other educational institutions

5. Contd:

6. Economic Violence
• ot providing you money for maintaining you or your
N
children,
• Not providing food, clothes, medicines etc. for you and your
children,
• topping you from carrying on your employment or,
S
• isturbing you in carrying on your employment,
D
• ot allowing you to take up an employment or,
N
• aking away your income , salary, wages etc.,
T
• ot allowing you to use your salary, wages etc.,
N
• orcing you out of the house you live in,
F
• topping you from accessing or using any part of the house,
S
• ot allowing use of clothes, articles or things of general
N
household use,
• ot paying rent if staying a rented accommodation etc.
N

11. • aise your voice.
R
• 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.

12. 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.