NEW DELHI: An overwhelming 70% of calls received by the complaints cell of National Commission of Women (NCW) in 2020, a year dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic, related to women seeking to secure their right to live with dignity, protection from domestic violence and harassment of married women. As many as 16,786 out of the 23,722 complaints received by the NCW over 12 months fell in the three categories. NCW categorises complaints across 24 categories and of the total complaints received in 2020, the highest number of complaints came from women seeking help to secure their right to live with dignity (7,708), followed by domestic violence (5,294) and 3,784 complaints relating to harassment of married women including complaints related to harassment for dowry. Besides these categories, there were 331 complaints related to dowry deaths.