UN: Men's Violence Against Women also a pandemic

In many countries, women said that blockages because of pandemic had increased the level of violence, leaving them exposed to greater danger.

The United Nations said that since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, all kinds of violence against women and girls, especially domestic violence, had intensified.

The love of men towards women is also an pandemic. It also needs our global and coordinated response”, the executive director of the United Nations agency <x2 said. > U n N Women”, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka in a statement.

Last year, 243 million women and girls have experienced sexual or physical violence from their partner.

This year, reports stress there has been increased violence, the UN official.

In the Turkish city of Istanbul, several hundred people gathered to protest domestic violence against women.

A woman who participated in the protest but refused to be identified told Reuters agency: “Law does not protect women properly. We're here to hear our voice. There are murders of women that happen almost every day in this country, but people who are committing crime are free “.

In Italy, protesters gathered outside parliament carrying banners with the inscription “Grata are not toys”. Italy had one of the most severe isolation measures in the world between March and May, due to the pandemic. Karantina has created conditions for increasing women's killings by family members in the same house, according to a study by the Italian Institute of Economic and Social Research. “We have witnessed an increase in domestic violence during isolation measures”, said protester Serena Freddi, the TCh reports.

This shows that the house is still a country of conflict and violence for women”, she added.

Spain held a minute of silence for murdered women and Portugal, the OMA observer organisation, said that so far, this year, 30 women were killed -- half of them victims of domestic violence.

The country's Interior Minister, Eduardo Cbrita, said there was a 6% drop in the number of complaints about violence in the first 10 months of 2020 from the previous year. This, according to him, shows that women have been more difficult in isolation to seek help.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that “states show that every 45 minutes a woman in our country is attacked by its current partner or former partner”.

These are cruel facts. Every single case tells a terrible story. We should never turn our heads around when girls or women are threatened violently or attacked”, she said.