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First entry: Wednesday 25 November 2020, 07:57
In the last year, around 4,800,772 women across Greece have found the courage to complain about being victims of violence in their own home. The General Secretariat for Family Policy and Gender Equality collects the data and presents it today in the First Annual Report on Violence against Women.
World Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated every year on November 25, 1960. However, although great strides have been made since then to address the phenomenon psychologically and legally, attitudes remain the same. Stories of despair and grief unfold daily behind closed doors and windows.
“It is a horizontal problem,” the responsible general secretary, Maria Syrygela, told the Athens-Macedonia News Agency, adding: “Sometimes we can think that this problem concerns women from vulnerable social groups. It is not valid. It does not have no class restrictions, no education. “
A woman raises her palm. Bend your thumb and close it with your fist. At risk. It is an international non-verbal code and establishes that there is violence. The silent signal was widely spread during the quarantine, where incidents of domestic violence increased worldwide, according to the United Nations.
In Greece, during the first quarantine, calls to the SOS 15900 hotline increased by 230%. Experts knew that incidents of violence increase when couples spend more time together. “Most of the incidents usually occur at night and on holidays,” Natasa Makridima, a psychologist at the Agrinio Municipality’s Women’s Hostelry Shelter, tells APE-MPE.
In fact, during the quarantine, in all the peripheral units, the hotels were emergency accommodation. This happened so that the women and their children completed the medical examinations necessary to enter one of the twenty shelters, which operate under the auspices of the state.
According to the statute, battered women with their children can stay there for three to six months. If there is a need and more. “At first it was the institution. It is now our home. And I hear it from the children who live here. They say that we go home, that we are home ”, describes N. Makridima.
The occupations are similar to those of a house. Children read and play when they return from school. The women run the shelter, cooking and reading. At the same time, they take care of their mental empowerment with the help of psychologists, child psychologists and social workers.
Attica “holds the scepter” of the abuse of women, relative to the other regions. However, the incidents mentioned are not the only ones. Many women feel ashamed and do not dare to articulate what torments them.
“These women underestimate the fact. They demean it. They say it was a slap, which doesn’t happen often,” says Anna Kandaraki, a clinical psychologist and doctor from the EKPA School of Medicine, to APE-MPE. piece of guilt, which in a way I also provoke it. “His deepest conviction, although it is not said, is that there is violence in all relationships,” added the expert, who has helped treat battered women in Paris.
Both clinical experience and literature show that these women have been repeatedly abused and threatened to the point of fear for their lives until they seek help. The phenomenon is global. At the European level, most complaints are made in Sweden. Not because people are more violent, but because women are more aware of their rights.
Violence against women is not only found in the family environment but also in the workplace, where it manifests itself in the form of sexual harassment, humiliation and restraint. Experts also record new forms of violence against women related to cyberspace. These are divided into cyberbullying, cyberbullying, and non-consensual pornography.
Source: ΑΠΕ
