Countries: Montenegro
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The practice of non-governmental organizations that provide assistance and support to victims of violence shows that when protective measures are ordered, the competent institutions do not supervise their application and fail to inform the prosecutor’s office in case of their violation. They also continue to record cases where victims of violence are prosecuted due to counter-reports coming from the side of perpetrators" (12).

Countries: Nepal
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The Judgment Execution Directorate established within the Supreme Court (SC) has been monitoring the implementation of court judgments which is instrumental in realizing women’s rights and gender equality in Nepal. The OPMCM has also set up Judgment Execution Coordination Committee to facilitate the implementation of court judgments." (6). "The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (MoLJPA) has been providing free legal aid services to conflict-affected women and girls, amongst others, at different VDCs of 43 districts. This includes interaction programs, advocacy and sensitization on women’s rights, and information on gender-based violence including domestic violence and children’s rights. This program has served almost 13,000 people of different districts so far."...more

Countries: Canada
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"A community in rural Canada has made a series of transformative recommendations at a coroner’s inquest that – if adopted – could position the country’s most populous province as a leader in preventing femicides, particularly those carried out by an intimate partner" (Para.1). "All three women had previously been in an intimate relationship with Borutski. He had been in and out of jail for assaulting Kuzyk and Warmerdam and was on probation at the time of the murders and subject to a weapons ban" (Para.8). "Borutski had been flagged as 'high risk' two years before the triple homicide, the inquest heard, and exhibited 30 out of 41 risk factors identified...more

Countries: Turkmenistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"A deeply distressing video shows how a crazed husband violently beats his wife after finding her in a beauty salon amid a morality crackdown by the ex-Soviet state's new dictator" (para 1). "[P]olice have detained dozens of women in the street for wearing false nails and eyelashes, or other beauty accessories...It is in this climate that the man in the shocking video is seen punching and kicking his wife in front of female onlookers, who are unable to prevent his attack. The aggressive husband storms into the salon shouting at his terrified wife: 'How long have we been looking for you? You can't go ***ing around....' At first he pushes...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] remains concerned about the high incidence of gender-based violence against women in the State party, including the spike in domestic violence during the lockdown In the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic...It also notes with concern...the weak enforcement and monitoring of the implementation of the Act on Protection and Defence against Domestic Violence...[and] [t]he impunity for perpetrators, the limited enforcement of protection orders, the lack of victim support and the barriers to women's and girls' access to justice in cases of gender-based violence, including revictimization during criminal proceedings" (5). "The Committee notes with concern...[t]he high prevalence of...more

Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Police quickly arrested Giandavide De Pau, 51, a reported drug user previously accused of assaulting prostitutes who has worked as a driver for Michele “Crazy” Senese, a Neapolitan mafia boss considered a major player in Rome’s drug business." (para 6).

Countries: Austria
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee welcomes the adoption by the State party of the Protection against Violence Law and the creation of the Inter-Ministerial Working Group on the Protection of Women against Violence. The Committee notes the following with concern, however:...b) The underreporting of domestic violence against women and the low prosecution and conviction rates, resulting in impunity for perpetrators...Recalling the relevant provisions of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 35 (2017) on gender-based violence against women... the Committee recommends that the State party:..(e) Collect statistical data on domestic and sexual violence disaggregated by sex, age, disability, nationality and relationship between the victim and the perpetrator" (6).These incident rates indicate that...more

Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Later came the approval of Law 779: the Integral Law against Violence against Women (2014), a policy first proposed in the 1980s and finally ratified, despite strong counter-opposition by the religious sector, with the return of the FSLN government. It gives Nicaraguan women a legal framework for the protection and defense of their lives which is implemented with the assistance of 85 all-women police stations, comisarias, whose main focus is on protecting women and children from abuse" (para 18).

Countries: China
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Especially raw is the memory of 'tieliannu,' or the 'iron-chained woman'; she was filmed by an influencer earlier this year, provoking widespread condemnation. A man in Xuzhou, a poor area in Jiangsu Province, had kept her chained by the neck in a shed. (She allegedly gave birth to eight of his children)" (para 2).

Countries: China
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Women being assaulted in public by their partners 'is disturbingly common online', says Kerry Allen, the BBC's Chinese media monitoring analyst. 'I see footage almost every day of either covertly filmed domestic violence or attacks that have been picked up via surveillance footage'" (para 7-8). "A 2013 UN study involving 1,000 men in a county in central China found that more than half admitted to physical or sexual violence against their partner - a similar number also said they would use violence to defend their honour.The UN report attributed gender-based violence to deeply-rooted gender norms in China - a country where domestic violence was only made a criminal offence in...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Another lady, Faith Ikpe, told a story of how her parents sold her to a man old enough to be her father while she was still a pupil. The man was against her getting an education, so he would use every excuse to flog and discourage her from schooling" (para 8). "The girls are mostly subjected to years of slavery and sexual exploitation, while being passed from one owner to another. They do not live to achieve their full potential because they are left uneducated, exposed to domestic violence and poor healthcare" (para 13).

Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-1

“NGOs criticized authorities for not tracking domestic violence cases and not keeping statistics, which NGOs claimed were needed for authorities to assess the risk of abuse turning deadly” (22).

Countries: China
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Tang Ping, 31, a mother-of-two in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, says in 2014 when her first child was six months old, her husband – an academic – began routinely beating her...Five years ago, after another round of violence, she finally summoned the courage to report her husband to the police. 'I was told my injuries were not serious, therefore they could not intervene,' she says, as she prepares to legally dissolve the marriage... China’s anti-domestic violence law has been in existence since 2016" (para 1-3). "[A]fter repeated complaints and with evidence of her injuries, the police finally accepted Tang [Ping's] case" (para 18).

Countries: East Timor
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"In relation to prosecution, a significant improvement in criminal case clearance by the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) was observed between 2013 and 2016 with a 27 per cent reduction of pending cases despite an increase of newly registered cases. This is due inter alia to the establishment of standards for individual performance assessment and the recruitment of new employees. As GBV cases comprise a great share of the criminal cases, these general improvements corroborate the State commitments toward an improved access to justice, including for women victims of violence. Nevertheless, formal access to justice for women experiencing DV remains a challenge, especially in rural areas" (16). "While suspended...more

Countries: Turkey
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"[T]he following activities were conducted... [e]stablishment of special bureaus at the Chief Public Prosecutors’ Offices in the cities with population above a certain number, with the purpose of efficiently investigating the offences emerging from domestic violence. Continuation of the pre-service and in-service trainings on domestic violence and violence against women, for the judges, public prosecutors, law enforcement officers and experts" (5).