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Latest items for DV-PRACTICE-1

March 8, 2023, 1:43 p.m.
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).
March 1, 2023, 8:01 p.m.
Countries: Montenegro
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Montenegro has three shelters for victims of domestic violence – the Safe Women’s House (SWH), SOS Shelter Niksic, and the Centre for Child and Family Support, which have been issued a license to accommodate 35 beneficiaries. According to the standards, one place per 10,000 population is recommended, meaning that shelters in Montenegro should offer an additional 28 places. Also, a large number of NGOs received a license to provide psychosocial support...The experience of the Women's Safe House shows that citizens still have distrust in institutions when it comes to anonymous reports of domestic violence and violence against women" (12). "The Minister of the Interior decided to establish the Operational Team...more
Feb. 24, 2023, 12:54 p.m.
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
Feb. 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-PRACTICE-2

“The incidence and severity of violence against women in Bulgaria remain higher than the average of all countries in the European Union (EU). Since 2019 at least two women each month have died from domestic violence, and there has been an increase in violence against women and children since the beginning of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the scale of the problem, an estimated 70 to 80% of cases of violence against women still go unreported” (first paragraph). “WHO is also currently reviewing the estimates of violence against women in Bulgaria. This estimate meets a crucial need to address the lack of a systematic and integrated database of domestic...more
Feb. 18, 2023, 10:46 a.m.
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
Feb. 18, 2023, 10:38 a.m.
Countries: China
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"I called the police, told the officer who picked up what I had heard, and asked them to send someone immediately.'How do you expect us to intervene?' he replied. 'We can’t enter your building because of the COVID-19 restrictions.' He said he would call my neighborhood committee and ask them to check on the situation, then hung up the phone" (Para.3-4). "I messaged a member of the committee myself, asking them to check on the woman, but received no reply. 'The police were just pushing their responsibility onto us,' she wrote back the next morning. 'Of course they can enter the complex.' In the end, no one came" (Para.5). "This...more
Feb. 14, 2023, 6:11 p.m.
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
Feb. 8, 2023, 12:39 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"In July 2022, Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, urged the government of Turkey to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the convention and said that relying solely on domestic legislation was not enough considering the preventive and protective measures in place are not strong in Turkey." (para 9).
Feb. 6, 2023, 12:07 p.m.
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
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Countries: Namibia
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Namibia recognises and promotes its customary laws and practices. The said customary laws and practices are a marker of our national identity. However, the Constitution and various acts of parliament prohibits all forms of customary practices that discriminates or impedes women’s’ rights in the country. The Law Reform and Development Commission continues to review all existing civil and customary laws that directly or indirectly impede women’s rights in the country." (11). "Due to the high costs of litigation in Namibian courts, it remains a challenge for the legal aid scheme currently in place to deviate from a means and merit test. However, the state party acknowledges the Committees’ concern and...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
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).
Feb. 4, 2023, 8:40 a.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"[S]ince 2015, the act on protection against domestic violence has not yet been adopted" (6).
Feb. 2, 2023, 1:11 p.m.
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
Jan. 13, 2023, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The Taliban’s policies and public statements regarding women’s role in public and private life were also perceived as impacting their lives at home; the UN has documented an increase in domestic violence. Participants emphasized that this increase in domestic violence means that there is 'neither security at home or outside.' Several focus group participants highlighted that the deteriorating situation for women has led to an increase in suicides. Women surveyed noted that they have heard that the Taliban do not look favourably on women who report instances of domestic violence, and, coupled with the restrictions on travelling and lack of access to basic resources, this has trapped women in unbearable...more
Jan. 12, 2023, 8:01 p.m.
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).
Jan. 6, 2023, 8:24 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Authorities have tried to address [the issue of domestic violence], introducing an anti-domestic violence law in 2016 that allows victims to obtain protection orders. Since then police stopped or prevented more than six million incidents of domestic violence according to Asia Foundation, in an indication of how widespread the problem has become" (para 27).
Jan. 6, 2023, 6:58 p.m.
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).
Jan. 6, 2023, 5:48 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-PRACTICE-2

"Soheila Abadi, now 25, was hanged in prison after she was convicted of killing her husband over 'family disputes' according to the sentencing courts. Two other women executed on Wednesday were also convicted of murdering their husbands, Human Rights Watch said. Activists claim that most incidents of wives killing their husbands are sparked by domestic violence but the Iranian courts do not take this into account" (para 2-4).
Dec. 29, 2022, 1:35 p.m.
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
Dec. 28, 2022, 9:20 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"Amanda Rishworth, the social services minister, said family, domestic and sexual violence against women and children in Australia was at 'epidemic proportions' " (para 8).
Dec. 26, 2022, 4:41 p.m.
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).
Dec. 19, 2022, 1:02 p.m.
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).
Dec. 19, 2022, 1:02 p.m.
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).
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:39 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-LAW-1

“In a published case, the appellate court reversed a lower court's murder conviction of a man who systematically abused his girlfriend. On the night of the woman's death, the defendant beat the woman for an hour. The court record states that he hit her with his hands and slammed her head against the wall. It describes how both the blood stains on the wall and an examination of injuries demonstrated that the beating was extremely violent. At 3 a.m., the defendant stopped beating the victim and started to leave the apartment. The victim ran to the open window and jumped out of it. She died immediately. The lower court concluded...more
Dec. 8, 2022, 3:06 p.m.
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).
Oct. 7, 2022, 4:17 p.m.
Countries: Portugal
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The law allows third parties to file domestic violence reports. The government encouraged survivors of violence to file complaints with the appropriate authorities and offered the victim protection against the abuser" (11). "In March the government began a new training program for Public Administration workers on domestic violence to improve coordination among officials in different areas, such as health, law enforcement, and justice. The training courses were scheduled to continue through June 2023" (12). "The constitution provides for basic rights of the child, and laws protect children against, among others, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and physical and emotional neglect, and the government generally enforced the law" (16).more
July 1, 2022, 11:43 a.m.
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
June 7, 2022, 10:47 a.m.
Countries: China
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"In order to safeguard the rights and interests of women, efforts have been made to strengthen the development of the rights protection mechanism. Courts at all levels have set up collegial panels for women’s rights, or collegial panels against domestic violence, with nearly 8,000 cadres from women’s confederations acting as people’s jurors. More than 12,000 complaints stations and alert-the-police locations have been established for reporting domestic violence; rescue and assistance stations in nearly 60 cities have set up shelters for domestic violence victims. Counselling and complaints networks have been improved, with unimpeded channels for lodging complaints; the “12338” women’s rights hotline was opened in the country’s 31 provinces (autonomous regions...more
May 27, 2022, 4:14 p.m.
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).
May 27, 2022, 11:45 a.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"While the law provides women the right to obtain a restraining order against abusers, the government did not enforce the law effectively" (25).