[violence] domestic violence

جاء تقرير الأمم المتحدة الصادر هذا العام عن أشكال العنف المختلفة ضد المرأة حول العالم مثيراً للشجون والألم، وكاشفاً عن حجم الانتهاكات الصارخة التي تتعرض لها النساء حول العالم. ولم يأتي هذا التقرير محض اختلاقات وأوهام مكتبية ونظرية لا تمت للواقع المعيش بصلة، بقدر ما جاء عبر مسح عالمي شامل، وعبر مساهمة خبيرات دوليات في شؤون المرأة حول العالم، إضافة إلى مساهمة المؤسسات الحكومية الرسمية، والمؤسسات غير الحكومية بما فيها تلك المنظمات الدولية ذات الصفة عبر القومية. ويمكن القول أن التقرير قد شمل المحلي والقومي والإقليمي والدولي فيما يتعلق بأشكال العنف التتي تواجهها المرأة حول العالم.

Press Statement: On 06 April, 2010, Yosma Altunbey, a mother of six living in the village of Çığırgan in Kars, Southeast Turkey, was subjected to a brutal physical assault by her husband and his brother. She managed to escape to her parents’ house and filed an official complaint against the perpetrators at the gendarmerie station. According to reports, Gendarme Specialist Sergeant K.T. tried to make her withdraw her complaint, threatened her and eventually assaulted her himself when she refused.

In 2002, a report titled Refugee Women at Risk called attention to several acute challenges facing women seeking asylum in the United States. Published by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), Refugee Women at Risk illustrated how restrictive provisions in a 1996 immigration law, the "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act", undermined the United States‘ commitment to offer protection to those fleeing persecution. Refugee Women at Risk highlighted how barriers that the 1996 law created for all asylum seekers interposed particularly significant and even insurmountable obstacles to women fleeing violence and oppression, principally through policies of expedited removal, detention of asylum seekers, and the one-year filing deadline for asylum claims.