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Nov. 19, 2024, 11:48 a.m.
Countries: Belgium
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"It [femicide study] also discovered that in the overwhelming majority of cases the murderer was the victim's current or former lover, and that domestic violence is often a precursor to the eventual killing. 'A large majority of femicides are 'intimate' femicides,' Dirkx [Advocacy group Stop Feminicide coordinator] explained. 'Nine out of ten are femicides committed by a partner or ex-partner'" (para 4-5).
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

" Domestic violence against women has escalated since the Islamic Republic was overthrown, according to many local and international reports, and women’s ability to access the court system has been completely wrecked" (para 6).
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:55 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

"Around 65% of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to UNICEF, with the most common form being abuse by husbands or partners" (para 4).
Nov. 12, 2024, 6:12 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: DV-DATA-1

“Youngmi’s mom left the home when Youngmi was young to escape her husband’s physical abuse, leaving her and her sister behind with him and their paternal grandmother. When she was 5, her 8-year-old sister started losing her hair from stress” (para 1) “A 2016 survey by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family found the incidence of intimate-partner violence at 41.5 percent, significantly higher than the global average of 30 percent” (para 7). “‘Practicing bihon means you’re eliminating the risks that come from heterosexual marriage or dating,’ Yeowon, a 26-year-old office worker, told me on a café terrace in the seaside southern city of Busan. We talked over coffee and...more
Nov. 5, 2024, 1:06 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: ATDW-LAW-5, DV-DATA-1

"According to the most recently available Supreme People’s Court data, in 2016 and 2017, more than 73% of plaintiffs in divorce cases were women. Among more than 1.4m divorce cases registered, emotional discord was listed as the primary reason for 77.5%. Domestic violence accounted for 14.9%" (para 9).
Nov. 1, 2024, 9:38 a.m.
Countries: South Africa
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"The country’s rate of domestic violence is five times the global average" (para 8).
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:08 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

" Domestic violence against women has escalated since the Islamic Republic was overthrown, according to many local and international reports, and women’s ability to access the court system has been completely wrecked" (para 6).
Oct. 16, 2024, 11:31 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"As Indian women have become more empowered financially, professionally and socially, the assaults have not abated. In fact, a study published in 2021 shows that women who earn equal to or more than their partners in India experience more domestic violence" (para 25). "NCRB's [India’s National Crime Records Bureau] data confirm that this belief translates into reality: Domestic violence is the predominant crime against women in India. It accounts for 35% of all violent crimes against women on average each year" (para 31).
Oct. 16, 2024, 11:29 a.m.
Countries: Lebanon
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2, DV-DATA-1

"According to internal security forces, nine women were killed in domestic violence crimes between January and October last year, and 18 in 2021. The real number is thought to be far higher, with domestic abuse on the rise. “We know that not all the cases are reported,” says Mohamad Mansour, deputy director of Abaad, a gender equality NGO" (para 8).
Oct. 9, 2024, 7:59 p.m.
Countries: Belize
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Between the period 2017 to 2021...11,461 cases of Domestic Violence were reported" (5). "Nationwide, the [family violence] unit receives an average of 100 complaints [of domestic violence] monthly with constant increases...In 2021, there were 773 cases of domestic violence" (13-14). "[I]n June of 2021, MHDFIPA Belize commemorated for the first time, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in collaboration with the NCA and HelpAge Belize. This became necessary as agencies realized this was a growing problem and only 1:24 incidences are likely to be reported to authorities. In 2020, during the pandemic, four per cent of domestic violence cases were committed against older persons. Media and awareness materials now emphasize that...more
Sept. 5, 2024, 1 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

“The results from the 2021 National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey from ANROWS have just been released, showing 41 per cent of respondents mistakenly believe domestic violence is equally committed by men and women, an increase from 23 per cent in 2009…Dr Brown is a co-author for The State of Knowledge Report on Violence Perpetration released earlier this year, produced in response to the limited information available on the perpetration of domestic, family and sexual violence. It shows the ‘most significant and consistent finding in scholarship on violence perpetration’ is that most violence is perpetrated by men…statistics from victim-survivors via the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show...more
May 2, 2024, 1:14 p.m.
Countries: United Arab Emirates
Variables: DV-DATA-1

Table 4 on this study breaks down prevalence for different forms of DV (sexual, physical, psychological) according to the results of a questionnaire administered to married women in region (1) Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and region (2), the rest of the emirates during May, June and July in 2017. The number of respondents was 1,000 married women aged 18 years and above. Respondents were asked to share any violence experienced during their marriage. 46.5% of women faced psychological violence, 32.6% physical violence, and 13.9% sexual violence (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 1:09 p.m.
Countries: Syria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"We recruited 507 Syrian refugee women for the project Advancing Solutions in Policy, Implementation, Research and Engagement for Refugees (ASPIRE) study using time and venue-based random sampling from health clinics in Jordan in 2018... In this paper we focused on women who were married prior to the Syrian civil war (N=313)" (para 2). " Nearly two-fifths of women (38.7%) reported experiencing IPV in the past 12 months" (para 3).
May 2, 2024, 12:53 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This community-based cross sectional household survey was conducted in Kassala, eastern Sudan from 1st March to 1st June 2014. It aimed to investigate the prevalence of current (occurred in one year preceding the survey) domestic violence and sociodemographic factors associated with domestic violence against women in eastern Sudan. Of the 1009 women, 33.5% (338) reported current experience of physical violence. The prevalence of sexual coercion, psychological violence, and verbal insult over the past year was 17%, 30.1%, and 47.6% respectively (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 12:44 p.m.
Countries: North Korea
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This study administered a cross sectional survey to 383 recently displaced North Korean refugees through respondent driven sampling in South Korea in 2014-2015. Respondents were asked about exposure to any types of IPV, including physical, emotional, sexual violence by their partners over the last 1 year. The study found that 66.7% of men and 52.6% of women experienced IPV in the past year (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 12:12 p.m.
Countries: Israel
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"In a research by Grynbaum et al. [39], screening of women who visited a primary care setting in Israel showed that lifetime prevalence of family violence is 30.8%, while 10% suffered from violence during the previous year" (8). This cited study is from 2001 so the results may now be outdated (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 12:04 p.m.
Countries: Israel
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"A new study by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev shows that around forty percent of Israeli women aged 16-48 have suffered physical, psychological or verbal violence from their partners" (para 1).
May 2, 2024, 11:59 a.m.
Countries: Guinea-Bissau
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This 2015 report quoted a 2011 study by Sylvia Roque which found that "Among women surveyed, 44% of women said they had been victims of physical violence, and 43% of sexual violence (21% rape and 22% unwanted touching)" (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 11:52 a.m.
Countries: Guinea-Bissau
Variables: DV-DATA-1

Table 3 of this 2020 World Bank training document states that 85% of violence against women occurs within the family environment. It also cites a 2010 study that found 44% of women claiming to be victims of physical violence, 43% victims of sexual violence, and 80% victims of psychological violence (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 11:44 a.m.
Countries: Eritrea
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This study was conducted on sample of 427 Eritrean refugee women living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Among respondents, partner physical violence was 15.2% while non-partner physical violence was 43.8%. The overall prevalence of sexual violence was 55.7% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 11:34 a.m.
Countries: Barbados
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"In the first two quarters of 2020, which included the COVID-19 lockdown period, Barbados saw an increase of about 83 per cent in reported incidents of domestic violence" (para 1).
May 2, 2024, 11:28 a.m.
Countries: Bahamas
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This study analyses the treatment of Bahamian women in heterosexual relationships by their intimate partners focusing on instances of sexual and psychological abuse. An internet survey obtained information from 464 married and 1,264 unmarried women currently in intimate relationships with men. According to Table 1, 13.8% of married women and 6.3% of unmarried women were subject to non-consensual sex; 12.7% married and 8.3% unmarried were sexually abused; 8.3% married and 6.4% unmarried were raped; and 15.3% married and 10.9% unmarried were physically hurt (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 11:18 a.m.
Countries: Bahamas
Variables: DV-DATA-1

Table 5 shows that 14.8% of ever married women surveyed were raped by a long-term partner (208). This Internet-based survey used a snowball sampling method to survey adults (aged 18 and over) normally residing in The Bahamas (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
May 2, 2024, 11:01 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to statistics from Algerian security services, 1,404 women were victims of domestic violence by their husbands in 2022" (para 3).
May 2, 2024, 10:54 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This a cross-sectional descriptive study of a sample of women who were examined at the forensic exploration unit of Annaba Hospital over a period of 3 months (first quarter of 2018). In all, 200 women were recruited among those who had been abused by the intimate partner. Out of the 200 women surveyed over a period of 3 months, 1 in 10 or 9.36% of women consulted were victims of domestic violence (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
April 28, 2024, 11:07 p.m.
Countries: Swaziland
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Almost half of Swazi women (48.2%) will experience some form of sexual violence over their lifetime. Intimate partners, such as husbands and boyfriends, are most likely to be the perpetrators of sexual violence against women, making a woman’s home often a very dangerous place" (1).
April 28, 2024, 10:57 p.m.
Countries: Somalia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

A survey conducted between December 2014-November 2015 employed a population-based household survey approach across 14 selected urban areas which, based on 2014 population estimates, represented 48% of the total population. A total of 2376 women participated in the survey which found that among women, 35.6% reported adult lifetime experiences of physical or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV). Given the representative nature of population demographics in the selected urban areas, this lifetime prevalence is likely representative of Somali women in general (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
April 28, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Oman
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This cross-sectional study in 2019 included 978 literate women aged 18–60 years old attending primary health care centres in Muscat region. A self-administered questionnaire was used to record the characteristics of the women and determine the prevalence of emotional and physical domestic violence. The mean age of the participants was 30.6 years, and most of them (84%) were married. The overall prevalence of domestic violence was 28.8% (282/978). Although this lifetime experience was specific to one region, given what we know about the prevalence of marriage in Omani culture, we can assume this percentage is fairly representative for Omani women in general (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
April 28, 2024, 10:40 p.m.
Countries: Niger
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This 2022 study collected data from a representative sample of 1010 married adolescent girls (aged 13–19 years) and their husbands in 48 rural villages of the Dosso region of Niger. 8% of women in this sample reported IPV. The study states that Niger has the highest rate of early marriage in the world, with the average age at first marriage for women being 15.7 years old and the majority of girls (75%) married by the age of 18. This means that although this lifetime experience sample size is limited to one region, given what we know about the prevalence of child marriage in Niger, we can assume this percentage is...more
April 28, 2024, 10:34 p.m.
Countries: Mauritius
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to the Sixteen Days of Activism 2015 Report, by Gender Links, about a quarter of women in Mauritius (24%) have experienced some form of gender violence in their lifetime including partner and non-partner violence" (para 1).