Vienna +10: Speak Out
E-Consultation Survey Results

Violence Against Women: What forms of violence are you dealing with?

• Sexual violence
• female genital mutilation, marriage of girls before 18 years
• battered women
• abuse they face at the hands of employers, domestics as well as women working in low income
• jobs and working directly under the employer.
• VAW between wife and husband f sexual harassment
• experienced sexual violence - they are exposed to HIV risk
• femicide of women;
• violence and sexual abuse against them and their children, in most cases they were either divorced or in process of divorcing
• Domestic violence
• women and girls from sexual and other forms of violence in conflict situations
• trafficking
• links between health, sexual and reproductive rights and violence overarching theme in our work
• violence against women as a public health issue. rape victims including rape victims
• direct and structural violence against women and girls
• Violence against women (and children and sometimes men) in the most extreme and vicious forms - including torture, mental control, blackmail, coercion, ritualized abuse, and behavioral conditioning
• homicide
• violence in the context of sexual and reproductive rights
• the way women are portrayed in the media
• women victims of political violence
• Since women live longer, they are much more at risk of being abused.
• systemic economic violence, violence of militarism and state violence, as well as personal physical violence against women-- as inter-related
• culture of violence
• coercion is a form of violence in the prison daily
• survivors of family violence, including domestic violence
• violence against women as a health problem
• effects of violence on the health of women, their families and communities
• non state actor VAW as well as state sponsored VAW - honor killing, FGM
• abuses faced in receiving country by women who are trafficked
• awareness raising, research & documentation, policy advocacy
• domestic violence within the communities
• violence against Sex workers in particular
• female foeticide is the norm
• dowry deaths
• raped, mutilated and killed
• intercaste marriage
• forced motherhood (denial of voluntary family planning including sterilization and abortion)
• trafficking
• A trading system that exacerbates the situation of the poor (mostly women) is inherently violent
• linking the issue of extreme poverty and lack of economic and social rights to the issue of increase of violence against women