Violence Against Women

Women all over are being abused by there husbands or partners. To date, 30 countries have enacted laws against domestic violence or who have acted out violence as crime. An estimate amount between 10 and 50 percent of women report being physically assaulted by there male partner.

"Violence against women devastates people's lives, fragments communities, and prevents countries from developing," said Noeleen Heyzer, executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) at the 2001 Symposium on Gender Violence, Health and Rights in the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2001/DomesticViolenceAnOngoingThreattoWomeninLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean.aspx

Enforcement of the laws isn't strongly supported by the law-enforcement within there countries.Women do not receive the amount of attention needed if they have been badly battered. It is required for a report to take place of her injuries to show as proof later on. It is a huge process and many women get stuck in the process.  It is sad to hear how women are just turned away by the only "support" they really have. But some countries have been making progress in providing there women organizations or programs where they will receive help and any support needed to help bring them back to there feet an at times take them away from their husbands.
It has even grown to reach femicidio-killing of women- which is the elimination of women.

www.internationalinnerwheel.org/.../LAC_NGO_CSW_Outcome_Docu...‎

http://www.cidh.org/women/Access07/tocaccess.htm

http://www.contralosfemicidios.hn/images/generales//publicaciones/2012/09septiembre/InformeFinaldeFemicidios.pdf

http://reddemujerescontralaviolencia.org.ni/

http://www.ncdsv.org/ncd_linkswominternational.html