Domestic abuse, also called "domestic violence" or "intimate partner violence", can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Abuse is defined as coercive, threatening, or harmful physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological behavior toward another person. This includes any actions that terrify, intimidate, manipulate, inflict harm, humiliate, or place blame on another person. Anyone can experience domestic violence, regardless of their ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. It may happen in a variety of situations, including ones between married, cohabiting, or dating couples. People from various socioeconomic origins and educational levels are impacted by domestic abuse.
In a toxic relationship, a partner's home is the most dangerous place in the world for them. Their house is supposed to be a safe place where they can relax and feel protected from the dangers of the outside world. Still, even with this meaning of one's shelter, we humans still may turn this place into an unsafe home. Abusive partners can beat and violate their partners, however they want inside their homes without anyone having to meddle with their business. That is because of the unwritten rule in everyone's neighborhood that "each house has their own business and they shall not meddle with them." Intimate partner violence affects millions of women each year according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. During the coronavirus outbreak, being sheltered with their abusive partners for a long period of time became prevalent. Due to this, the prevalence of domestic violence in each country have increased.
Intimate partners are main perpetrators of physical or sexual violence against one in three women worldwide. Human rights is violated when any sort of action that inflict any sort of pain, may it be psychological, physical, or sexual, is done to their partners.
Prior to the pandemic, 243 million women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 had recently been subjected to physical or sexual abuse at the hands of an intimate partner. Violence against women, particularly domestic violence, has increased since the pandemic.
Emerging data and reports from those on the front lines indicate that all forms of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, have increased since the COVID-19 outbreak. Even if we are now living in a new era, where actions against violence are now being executed. Many still experience violence from their abusive partners. The following are the occurrences violence, harassment. and other types of violence that happened before, during, and after the pandemic.
Globally, 1 in 3 women had experienced physical or sexual violence, primarily by an intimate partner, even before the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Recent data reveals an increase in calls to domestic violence hotlines across many nations since the COVID-19 outbreak.
On the streets, in public places, and online, women continue to experience sexual harassment and other types of violence.
Survivors have little access to support services and little knowledge of the support systems that are out there.
Some nations have diverted funds and personnel from the fight against violence against women to provide immediate COVID-19 relief.
Reference:
United Nations. (2021). The Shadow Pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19. UN Women. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/in-focus-gender-equality-in-covid-19-response/violence-against-women-during-covid-19
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