No Discrimination – Building an Enhanced Nation
The essay - "No Discrimination – Building an Enhanced Nation" Who are we? Are we individuals or human beings, or are we the organisers of centre-margin-conflict by discriminating between the so-called ‘men’ and ‘women’? In our parochially patriarchal society, we sometimes become oblivious to our actual identity. Consequently, sexual and gender-based violence is faced every now and then, which actually refers to any kind of act that is performed against a person’s will being founded on gender-norms and unequal power-relationships. Any person can become a victim to sexual and gender-based violence – women, men, girls and boys of any age and of any environment. Now it is time to differentiate ‘sex’ and ‘gender’. ‘Sex’ refers to biological characteristics of being ‘male’ or ‘female’, while ‘gender’ denotes social characteristics att