Domestic Violence

Women and girls experience domestic violence often since is the most common form of violence. According, to World Health Organization (WHO), “one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence committed by their intimate partners, and 7 per cent have been sexually assaulted by someone other than their partner”.

Source:Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls, A Handbook for Journalist, 2019

I experienced physical and controlling abuse when I was 18 years old. It was done by my boyfriend. Unfortunately, this story was repeated to a child a help raise, who also experienced violence as a teenager. Read more about it here.

Intimate partner violence can be classified into:

• Physical violence, includes “slapping, hitting, kicking” and more.
• Sexual violence, “including forced sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual coercion (forced sexual intercourse with others or pornography, etc.)”. 
• Emotional abuse, “this violence includes insults, belittling, constant humiliation, intimidation (e.g. destroying things), cyberbullying, threats of harm or threats to take away children”. 
• Controlling behaviour, “including isolating a person from family and friends, depriving them of identity documents, monitoring their movements and limiting their access to financial resources, employment, education or medical care”.

Source: WHO, Violence against Women, 2017

Source:Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls, A Handbook for Journalist, 2019

As the 16-day campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls concludes this Sunday on December 10th, let’s remember that these types of violence occur globally every day. Women Wheel urges us to persist in standing together, embodying strength, promoting healing, and fostering resilience as we move forward.

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