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A record number named Kvinnofridslinjen in 2020. File photo.
Calls to the Women for Peace Line have increased during 2020. Never before has the company received so many calls, reports Swedish Radio Ekot.
From January to November 2020, the Women for Peace Line had answered more calls than in all of 2019, according to figures that Ekot has read. On average, 129 calls were received per day.
– It may be a sign of heightened awareness that help is available, Åsa Witkowski, operations manager at Kvinnofridslinjen, tells Ekot.
The Women’s Protection Line is open 24 hours a day for women who have been subjected to threats, violence or sexual abuse. Family members of women can also get help through the hotline.
Relief activities are conducted by the National Center for Women’s Peace at Uppsala University and the University Hospital on behalf of the government.
– It is sad that a country that is generally described as the most egalitarian in the world still has so much violence against women that there is a great need for support. At the same time, it is good that we have come so far in our work for gender equality, so that there is help available after all, says Åsa Witkowski.
During Christmas and New Years, there is often an increase in calls to the line. The vast majority of calls were made in 2019, the day before New Year’s Eve. During that day 204 calls were answered.
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