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Latest items for DV-DATA-1

Dec. 13, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRCM-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

"But India still has a low labor force participation rate among women compared to other countries, a figure that had been on a long downward slide until the past few years. Women make up less than a third of India’s urban labor force, and men vastly outnumber women in both government and private-sector jobs" (para 20).
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:54 p.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"In March 2022, the UN said that 37.5 per cent of married (or previously married) women in Gaza between the ages of 18 and 64 had experienced violence in the previous 12 months. And according to 2019 data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic, 41 per cent of women in Gaza had been subjected to domestic violence" (para 11-12).
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Countries: Malaysia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night" (para 1). "Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them...more
Dec. 10, 2024, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Austria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to the latest data on femicide rates in Austria, published by the Institute of Conflict Research, some 319 women were killed in the country between 2010 and 2020 - mostly by male partners or ex-partners" (para 17).
Dec. 10, 2024, 3:53 p.m.
Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to a UN Women survey in 2018, 17 per cent of 'ever-partnered women aged 18-75' in the country said they have experienced physical or sexual partner violence, while 21 per cent have experience psychological abuse" (para 10). "HRW also said that police in the country, according to the Interior Ministry, get more than 100,000 domestic violence complaints a year. The report added: 'In the first 10 months of 2022, 93 women in Kazakhstan were killed in domestic violence-related homicides and 794 criminal cases were opened into moderate and severe bodily harm charges'" (para 19-20).
Dec. 10, 2024, 3:49 p.m.
Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"The trial of a former government minister charged with beating his wife to death has gripped public attention in Kazakhstan, and some see it as a litmus test of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's promise to build a fairer, more equitable society. Shocking footage played in the courtroom this week showed Kuandyk Bishimbayev, a former economy minister, repeatedly kicking and punching a slender young woman wearing only a coat and boots, and dragging her around by her hair. The woman, 31-year-old Saltanat Nukenova, was found dead last November in a restaurant owned by a relative of her husband, where the couple had spent almost a whole day and the previous night. She...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:43 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Data from the Italian interior ministry shows that 106 women have so far been killed in Italy this year, 55 of them allegedly by a partner or ex-partner" (para 12).
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:28 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"One woman in Australia dies at the hands of a former or current partner every 10 days, and police deal with an average of 5000 domestic violence incidents each week. It's estimated one in five women have taken time off due to violence from a previous partner, and one in 11 due to a current one" (para 20-21).
Dec. 6, 2024, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Seven women were killed by their partners or ex-partners across Turkey on Tuesday, according to the television station Habertürk. 'In total, seven women were savagely killed in İzmir, Bursa, Sakarya, Erzurum, Denizli and Istanbul,' Habertürk reported, listing the country’s major cities. 'The suspects were either their current spouses, or spouses from whom they were separated,' said the broadcaster, which listed the names of the victims with their photographs on its website. The women, aged between 32 and 49, were shot or stabbed to death. At least three of the assailants took their own lives, two were arrested and one who was wounded while being detained later died. The fate of...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 6:21 p.m.
Countries: Trinidad/Tobago
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-DATA-1

"Lopez says she herself fell victim to violence when her policeman boyfriend beat her so badly she ended up in hospital weeks after her daughter’s death. In December 2016, Dale Seecharan, a shop employee, was charged with Shannon’s murder, but no trial date has been set. The policeman who allegedly beat Lopez has not been charged" (para 67-68).
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:58 p.m.
Countries: Uganda
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"At 15 she would be expected to move out of her parents’ hut into a communal one for girls. 'We, the Karamojong people, like our culture – whether good or bad,' Alany says. “It is in these huts that girls are raided and forced to have sex in the night. If the boys fail, they wait for the girl on her way to school or the market. Even though the community does not protect the girls from rape, the boys of the household beat the girls when they find out that they ‘allowed’ [themselves] to be raped'" (para 5-7).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:55 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Nine in 10 women in Afghanistan are subjected to some form of domestic violence, according to the UN" (para 22).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:43 a.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"All types of violence against minors increased, including child maltreatment (up 13.8%), child and youth pornography (7%) and sexual exploitation (16.4%). 'It would be hard to present a worse scenario in relation to violence against children and adolescents than that which emerged in 2022,' the report reads" (para 4). "Brazil’s domestic violence hotline received an average of 102 calls an hour in 2022, amid an increase in domestic attacks and threats, while femicides grew 6.1%" (para 8).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:28 a.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Asylkan waited 14 years for a son. Before that, when her husband was drunk he beat her severely, blaming her and demanding she have a boy. In the sixth month of one of her pregnancies he beat her so badly she almost lost her child. Luckily, the baby was born healthy – a girl. After six daughters, her seventh child was a son. Everyone was happy; the husband arranged grandiose celebrations for all his relatives and friends" (para 8).
Dec. 4, 2024, 4:20 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

"Bolivia has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America. In 2021, the country had one of the highest incidences of femicide in South America. In a 2016 study, 75% of women living in urban areas and 71% in rural areas reported having suffered some type of violence at the hands of their partner" (par. 15).
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).