Violence in Partnerships: Human Rights Institute Calls for Better Support for Victims

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Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte [Newsroom]Berlin (ots) - With the study "Life situation, security and stress in everyday life" (LeSuBiA) published today, current data on the dark field of gender-based violence in Germany are available. The reporting office ... Continue reading here...Original content of: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, transmitted by news aktuell

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The numbers are disturbing! The dark figure is very high. Violence must be punished. Women are often hit harder. Physical injuries are often stronger. However, psychological or physical violence in the partnership has affected women and men similarly in the last five years. This is now revealed by a so-called dark field study by the BKA. Family Minister Karin Prien presented them with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt. The figures are disturb…

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A large part of the experience of violence in Germany is not reported. The reporting rates are consistently low, regardless of the form of violence perpetrated; in most forms of violence they are less than ten percent. Within (ex) partnerships, the reporting rates of mental and physical violence are even less than five percent. This is a central result of the Dunkelfeld study "Life situation, safety and stress in everyday life (LeSuBiA), which t…