My husband will not let me leave the house, a victim of domestic violence, says a representative for the National Domestic Violence Hotline on the phone. “He has flu-like symptoms and keep the blame does not want me here, to infect others or to bring something like COVID-19 home. But I feel like it’s just an attempt to isolate me.” Threatened your aggressor must throw in the street when she starts coughing. It fears that if she leaves the house, is the husband closed out. experience for people, domestic violence, mandatory lockdowns to slow the spread COVID-19 (caused by the new coronavirus) disease have captured with their captors in their homes, isolated from people and resources that might help them. In the United States, where 5,218 people were infected with the coronavirus, reports National Domestic Violence Hotline, which a growing number of callers said they use their captors COVID 19 as a means to further isolate them from their friends and family. “The authors threaten their victims to lay on the road, so that they are sick,” Katie Ray-Jones, CEO of the National Domestic Violence Hotline tells TIME. “We have heard from several sources of financing or medical care.” Click Stay up to date with our daily newsletter crown. were infected from Europe to Asia, millions of people under lockdown as the coronavirus more than 183,000 people laid off. But Anita Bhatia says the deputy director of TIME UN Women that “very technology that we can have an impact on people protect viruses use perversely victims of domestic violence. L ‘” He added that “while we strongly support the need to follow these social distancing measures and isolation, we realize that there is an opportunity for drug users to unleash more violence provides. “one in three women in the world experience physical or sexual violence during of their lives, according to the World health organization, making it “the most common, but among the least reported human rights violations.” While men experience domestic violence, women account for the majority of victims, with LGBTQ persons also increased rates of domestic violence against. But in times of crisis such as natural disasters, wars and epidemics, the risk of gender-based violence escalation. In China, the number of cases of domestic violence to the local police tripled in February from the previous year, according to Axios. Activists say this is a consequence of the forced locking. “We know that domestic violence is rooted in power and control,” said Ray Jones. “Right now, we all feel the lack of control over our lives and a person could do so instead of their victims.” She says, they do not increase, while the number of cases of abuse during the crisis of the crown, people already in a situation of abuse were probably extreme violence exposed place and not be able to escape to go to work or to see friends. The current crisis makes it more difficult for victims to seek help. As healthcare facilities around the world racing to the crown for health systems respond, they are becoming increasingly congested, making it harder for the victims access to medical care or therapist to get. “In the best of cases, women find it difficult to be heard,” says Bhatia. For many women, the fear, the crown of the contract prevents them from medical care by experienced physical abuse. “If I were a female caller spoke in California, which is myself in quarantine to protect COVID-19 due to asthma,” an advocate with the National Domestic Violence Hotline wrote in the organization’s logbook. “Your partner today strangled evening. As I spoke with her, seemed to have some really serious injury. He’s afraid to go to the emergency room, afraid to catch.” Many victims also feel COVID-19 who can not look more at home hideaway by their parents, out of fear that they could expose to the virus their old parents. For some travel restrictions limited their ability to stay in touch with your loved ones. shelters for women can also during this time or close the doors when it considered the risk of infection to be crowded too high. The crown crisis, which should push the global economy into a recession that could ultimately make it harder for victims to leave abusive relationships. Ray-Jones says a violent partner often leave the harder it will include secretly saving money if the victims begin to lose their jobs. Many social services for victims of domestic violence are also budget cuts to suffer a recession. “We are our philanthropic efforts really expect to be affected,” says Ray-Jones. “It ‘to raise them to be of medium hardness.” Domestic violence advocates say that the sacrifices have not been in quarantine, it should seek help now. Meanwhile, the domestic violence organizations such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline are to support the development of new strategies to block victims. Ray-Jones says digital contact with the victims in this period will be very important, but it’s hard to be, for the victims and perpetrators, while home call. The hotline does offer services via online chat or SMS, making it easier for victims aid, while watching at home. Bhatia of UN Women has also called for governments packages for sick pay and unpaid care work to create me to allow women domestic violence, to keep yourself in financial independence from their abusers. He added that for this public health response, to be sensitive to gender, women will have to decide. And the women at the table, but actual lockdowns and present unprecedented challenges to quarantine that supporters of ever faced domestic violence. When Ray-Jones said: “We are in uncharted territory in terms of what the survivors have experienced.” If you or someone you know experienced, domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799 via text message or phone call -7233. Please send any suggestions, cables and [email protected] stories. Picture copyright by Getty Images
As cities around the world are in the block, the victims of domestic violence is looking for a way out
