Common Matter

General Facts:-

v  63.7% rural women are taking part in direct income of the family while only 39.1% urban women earns.

v  Almost 71% of women handed out their remunerations voluntarily to the head of their families; 21% handed it unwillingly. In rural areas the 65% cases salary is given directly to male of the family not the women*.

v  Only 1.01% women successfully get married to their choice with family support. Almost 88 % of families identified the future husband of their daughters. 11% girls get married against their wish. 4% women physically and 31% women psychologically get tortured by family member to get married.

v  29% husband commit violence against wives. 3% of total violence results in death of victims.

v  27 % husband wouldn’t allow their wives to visit home or relative.

v  22 % husband select clothing for wives without consulting her.

v  Almost 83% women get neglected directly by head of the family, rest 17% women are higher salary holder. J

v  86% of mistakes that women had been punished for by the heads of the families - regardless the educational achievements of the head of the family - were mistreatment and cursing; 24% of these mistakes were neglecting their households' duties. Husbands beat their wives in 59% of such cases; insulted them in 38% cases and used silence in 2.4% cases.

v  11. 67% of women had been punished in front of their family members; 52% of the punished women were insulted; 56% were deprived of pocket money and 97% were beaten.

v  Sticks were used against women in 23% of cursing cases; in 36% of beat cases; in 20% of sexual harassment cases; in 42% of money matters; in 75% of bodily assault cases.

v  7 % women are sent back to home after 2-5 years of marriage by their husband or head of the family for various.

v  Only 3 % women have freedom to decide about themselves.

v  35% of working women are highly suffering misbehavior from male subordinate.

v  40% cases family members support the violence just because it is thought to be un-written rule of their community.

Some Small Drop of Hope

Ø  Condense the awareness-raising campaigns that address men and women to highlight the importance of respecting women's dignity and prestige as well as treating them politely, and to bring attention to the negative impact of disrespecting and mistreating women on women's personality, family and community.

Ø   Intensify penalties against people who assault women and expanding these penalties to address all sorts of violence against women.

Ø   Expand the inclusion of the curricula at all educational levels, to include information and knowledge that might enhance the values of equity and equality between sexes, and emphasize the importance of Gender participation and coordination for the benefit of family and community; and to amend the traditional roles, attitudes and behaviours of men and women.

Ø  Find places to accommodate abused women who cannot find a secured shelter or income, rehabilitating them and intervening with necessary help through the establishment of an "Abused and Harmed Women's Fund" to enable them to face life's hardship.

Ø   Continue carrying out field research and analytical studies to measure the new variables of all sorts of violence against women, to find out its reasons and their implications on women, family and community.

Ø  continue working with all Official and Public parties to cancel reservations on some items of the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women CEDAW. Pursue the implementation of the National Plan to protect women from violence in cooperation with the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs and the relevant parties.

Ø  Establish Medical Centres with specialists to provide psychological treatments for the abused women.

Ø  Continue coordinating with relevant parties to improve the performance of policewomen, in particular equipping them with the necessary training for treating women in special situations.  

Ø  concentrate on media messages to highlight the impact of violence against women and its negative results on the family and community as well as cooperating.