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Abstract
Women’s safety involves strategies, practices and policies which aim to reduce gender-based violence (or violence against women), including women’s fear of crime. Women’s safety involves safe spaces. Space is not neutral. Space which causes fear restricts movement and thus the community’s use of the space. Women’s safety involves freedom from poverty. The state understands that the empowerment of women cannot be done unless a safer and violence-free environment is to be provided to them. All the issues relating to women's safety would be dealt with by this division in coordination with the relevant departments and ministries of the state government.