Ontving gisteren een petitie van het Care2 team, waarvan je de haren weer ‘s ten berge rijzen……. In Algerije werden in 2016 maar liefst 8.000 aanklachten ingediend wegens huiselijk geweld (in dat land ‘uiteraard’ tegen vrouwen).
Gezien de praktijk moet het in werkelijkheid om veel meer gevallen gaan, daar de politie in Algerije alles behalve aan de kant van de mishandelde vrouw staat die aangifte wil doen, althans als die vrouw al de kans krijgt om aangifte te doen…….
Lees het ontluisterende verhaal van Salwa (niet de echte naam, vanwege gevaar voor de vrouw).
Lees en teken de petitie, waar u voor de tekst daarvan, onder het laatste van de volgende 2 artikelen kan kikken op ‘petitiebrief lezen‘ en geeft het a.u.b. door aan familie, vrienden en bekenden!
Justice
Against Domestic Violence in Algeria
Please
be warned that the message I’m about to share with you contains
graphic detail about domestic violence.
Salwa
(named changed for privacy) is an Algerian woman who experienced
gruesome violence at the hands of her husband. When Salwa went to the
police for help, she was met with a refusal to investigate instead of
the protection she so rightly deserves. It took Salwa’s continual
push for justice for the police to even punish her husband. Even then
he was only slapped on the wrist with a small fine and a suspended
sentence.
“The
state didn’t do anything for me. I was almost dead and the court
ordered me to go back to him.”
No
woman should have to go through what Salwa has. Her
husband beat her for years, which culminated in a brutal incident
during which her husband stripped
her naked, beat her with a broom, and cut her breasts. And
no woman who has gone through such trauma should be denied justice
and support by the state.
But
Salwa is not alone. Last year there were 8,000
complaints of violence against women reported
in Algeria (and official numbers likely underestimate the true
incidence of abuse). The lack of government services and the response
by Algerian officials to women like Salwa is downright appalling.
The
government can help by providing aid to shelters that provide support
to victims, by ensuring that police and courts investigate and
prosecute abuses, and by providing restraining orders to keep abusers
away from their victims.
If
officials in Algeria won’t listen to victims, we need to make sure we
can get as many signatures as possible to add more pressure for
change. We
must stand up and be a voice for victims like Salwa.
Inleiding
petitie:
Algeria:
Protect Women from Domestic Violence and Prosecute Abusers!
doelwit: President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
It
is the duty of police and the judicial system to ensure the safety of
women who want to leave abusive relationships. Sadly,
the Algerian government does little to protect victims of domestic
violence.
In
2016, 8,000 complaints of violence against women were reported in
Algeria. This number likely underestimates the true incidence of
abuse, given the results of a survey by the State Ministry for the
Family and the Status of Women, which found that nearly
10% of Algerian women experienced frequent physical violence in their
homes.
Ahmed
Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director of Human Rights
Watch, describes
the numerous hurtles an
Algerian woman named Salwa was forced to endure when attempting to
flee from her violent husband.
Salwa’s
husband beat her for many years. She told HRW representatives that
she decided to leave him following a brutal incident in which he
stripped her naked, beat her with a broom, and cut her breasts with
scissors.
Salwa
complained to the police, but they initially refused to interrogate
or arrest her husband and decided to close the case. He was later
punished only by a small fine and suspended sentece. When Salwa
attempted to file for divorce, the request was originally rejected on
the grounds that she “hadn’t adequately proved that her
husband had ‘harmed’ her.” According to Salwa, “The
state didn’t do anything for me. I was almost dead and the court
ordered me to go back to him.”
Please
sign this petition requesting that the Algerian government pass
comprehensive legislation to protect victims of domestic violence –
by granting government aid to shelters where victims can receive the
physical and emotional support they need, by ensuring that police and
courts investigate and prosecute abusers, and by providing
restraining orders to keep abusers away from their victims.
These recommendations have
been provided by Human Rights Watch representatives, and if realized,
would protect the thousands of women suffering from domestic abuse in
Algeria.
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