Domestic violence no longer a private issue: NGO

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Domestic violence no longer a private issue: NGO

Chicago: Domestic violence is no longer a private issue as more and more people recognise their rights and feel comfortable to talk about it, a city-based NGO working for domestic abuse victims, has said.

"The denial of domestic abuse and resistance to help is slowly disappearing," Surinder Nand, President 'Apna Ghar', which provides culturally-appropriate, multilingual services to domestic abuse victims with a primary focus on the South Asian and other immigrant communities, said.

"Over the years, people have recognised their basic inherent rights regarding domestic violence -- something which women were afraid to voice or come out in the open about," Nand said during NGO's 20th anniversary celebration.

"We have noticed that our clients, in addition to requests for legal aid, counselling etc, are requesting help with basic needs. We have also noticed that our communities are more aware of domestic violence issues," she said.

'Apna Ghar' deals with domestic abuse survivors while addressing the special needs and challenges of immigrants from the African and South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Asia. It also serves people from Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Iran, and the white community.

Established in December 1989, Apna Ghar was the first transitional shelter serving Asian domestic violence victims in the United States.

The guest of honor at the event was Margaret Abraham, who is a professor of sociology , said "Domestic violence has moved from being a private issue to a public issue due to the emergence of organisations like Sakhi, Manavi and other organisations in US," Abraham said.

"In the 1980s and 1990s domestic violence issues were much more private. These organizations gave the issue visibility. There are more women asking for services. It is not because violence has increased but because more people feel comfortable to access these organizations," Abraham added.

"Due to the organisations' achievements more and more domestic violence cases are being reported," Abraham noted.

PTI

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First Published: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 13:10

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Ray2447 - L.A.
Little children are least able to contend with domestic violence in their families. According to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,760 in 2007), than all the female intimate partner homicides in a year. Mothers are the single largest group of kid killers, according to HHS and they have a rate twice that of fathers. Nowhere near the money is spent to protect kids from kid killing mothers as is spent by the domestic violence industry to protect women. A lot of innocent men are witch-hunted by the corrupt, gender feminist influenced, taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry. Involving the corrupt d.v. industry in an attempt to prevent abusive and neglectful deaths of children is a big mistake. No place better characterizes the corruption of the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry than ``Los Misandry`` at Youtube.

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Ray2447 - L.A.
V.P. Biden recently called violence against women, ``the very worst abuse.`` The very worst abuse is valuing one life less than another for having been born the wrong sex. Under Biden`s Violence Against Women Act the wrong sex is men. Shelter and services are virtually non-existent for male victims of domestic violence so those options out of a bad relationship, that are routinely available to women, are very often not available to men. Men wind up gender profiled and often falsely accused by the taxpayer funded, d.v. industry, because of gender feminist ideology controlling the d.v. industry. Men are often battered by domestic violence, and then battered again by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry as shown in ``Los Misandry`` at Youtube.

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What about all the men who are victims of women`s domestic violence? Women`s domestic violence against men is grossly under reported, while male victims are still routinely being ignored by the taxpayer funded domestic violence industry. Credible research overwhelmingly shows that the ratio of d.v. is at least 50/50 between women & men. http://tinyurl.com/3sakk According to one study by researchers who work at the CDC, in 70% of domestic violence incidents, where the domestic violence is not mutual, it`s women who initiate the domestic violence. http://tinyurl.com/yzm9xhe The taxpayer funded domestic violence industry has largely mischaracterized the true nature of d.v. from the beginning and continues to mislead the public. D.V. law follows a gender feminist agenda/ideology over facts in evidence and does great harm to many innocent men (and also many battering women who need help) as shown in ``Los Misandry`` http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8