International Violences Against Women
Domestic Violences
Conjugal or domestic brutalities are the most universal form of violence toward women. There are one of the main causes for their injuries and death.
Everywhere in the world violences start within the family.
It is the case for 70 % of rapes in France. In United States , a woman is battered every 12 seconds.
In 1979, a study has shown that half women murdered in Great Britain have been by their husband or companion.
Most countries however shut their eyes to this reality under the pretext it concerns the private sphere.
Thus only 44 countries have passed a legislation on the conjugal violences and 17 have made of the rape by the spouse an infraction to the law.
Judicial safeguards of violent acts against women are therefore in an unequal situations from one country to another. Only Canada, Denmark, Scotland, and Poland recognize conjugal rape as a crime.
If in Sweden the banning for a husband of batterring his wife is from 1858, in Brazil, women ill- treated by their husband don't have any law protection.
Sexual harassment and rape
Violence in the workplace is also a widespread abuse .
There are few statistics about sexual harassment but there are great similarities between the countries. The violent act and the sexual blackmail are the more often cmmitted by someone above in the hierarchy on an economically fragile employee.
Rape is an issue ; in United States a woman is raped every 1 1/2 minutes.
In a society in which women don't represent power, ill treatments of women are common.
There is also the rape which is not identified as such by women because of the "conjugal duty", or within forced marriages.
RAPE IS A BORDERLESS CRIME most of the time unpunished or legal.
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Institutionalized violences
Institutionalized violence has no borders. Some states are doing public violences. In Afghanistan, a woman who goes out without being covered from the head to the feet can be handled roughly, battered on the public place by the police officers. Those same women who gather underground to study are risking the death penalty. Moreover there are still some countries where the woman has no property right within a marriage and can be rejected overnight by the husband or his family sometimes she can even be killed (!) without legal the risk of legal proceedings. In some some middle east countries still exist the "crime of honor" in which a male can kill a woman from his family (rightly and wrongly) suspected of adultery or just dating a man !
During some conflicts; in Bosnia, Algaria, Rwanda ...women endure rapes and slaughters! With children they are 85% of the woldwide refugees.
Mutilations
But there are also specific violences according to regions and beliefs. It is the case of the sexual mutilations by the practice of the excision and the infibulation that touch nearly 130 millions women in about thirty black african countries and Egypt.
Criteria dictatorship
It's also the case of the psychological violences. The (psychological/ social) need to look pretty continue to make destroying damages over the integrity of women's bodies. Women have always inflicted themselves physical sufferings by tradition (which is a Patriarchy way to keep them docile) but also to please men ; small feet, long necks, corset, all-over removal of hair...
Today the media are only dictating new beauty criteria for so-called "liberated and modern" women: In western countries anorexia cases among young women don't stop increasing.
Violences endured by women can be physical, psychological, sexual and social. Those visible or disguised violences are deliberately made common by considerations going from the impunity to the law!