THIS VIDEO DOES HAVE SOME GRAPHIC PICTURES… BUT ITS REALITY! I WAS ABUSED BY AN EX FOR ALMOST 2 YRS I CAN SO RELATE TO THIS VIDEO. PLZ IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS ABUSED.. GET HELP! SONG USED WAS.. STUPID BOY BY KEITH URBAN!!!! LETS STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TODAY!
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Domestic abuse is on the increase in New Zealand and so is the level of violence involved.
That is worrying enough for those who help the victims, but most alarming, they say, is a rise in the use of strangulation.
It is a violent act where just seconds can mean the difference between life and a horrific death.
One woman or child is killed every 12-and-a-half days in New Zealand as the result of domestic violence.
Jill Proudfoot from victim’s refuge Shine (Safer Homes in NZ Everyday) says strangulation is basically power display.
“It’s saying I could kill you if I want to. Whenever you attack a person’s throat you’re saying I could kill you,” says Proudfoot.
Two recent high profile murder cases in New Zealand involved strangulation.
Nai Yin Xue literally squeezed the life out of his wife and just days before Clayton Weatherston killed and mutilated Sophie Elliot, her mother, Lesley Elliott, says he had held his arm around her throat.
Annette Gillespie from Women’s Refuge says sometimes women do not understand the significance of strangulation and that it is in fact an attempt to kill.
Proudfoot says the fact that Weatherston put his arm across Elliott’s throat was a real warning sign.
The strangulation statistics make for disturbing reading.
There are no visible injuries 90% of the time, so it is hard for a victim to prove what has happened.
In 90% of cases there has been a history of domestic violence and in 99% of the cases, those who resort to using strangulation, are men.
Despite the dangers, many stay with their abuser, even though it might lead to more terrifying consequences.
“I had one woman say to me at least while I’m living with him I know where he is,” says Proudfoot.
ONE News spoke to a woman who finally found the courage to leave her abusive partner.
She says he threw her into a doorway, pushed her on to the ground and when she had the chance to run, he chased her through the house.
She says it filled her days with terror. Worst of all she says, all this happened right in front of their children.
“He ended up pushing me on top of my then four-year-old daughter,” says the victim.
After two decades of intense psychological abuse, her husband had started getting physical.
“I knew I had to get out for me and then I would fight for my children even if I had to walk out the door without them,” says the woman.
She says she used to be one of those women who did not have the courage to leave.
“Even if a woman thinks she’s in an abusive situation, even if she’s doubting herself, (she needs) to talk to somebody. I left it way too late,” she says.
She hopes her story will help others escape the violence, too.
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Be apart of the solution, not apart of the problem. This epidemic is bigger then just Chris Brown and Rihanna. Your support should be towards the problem, not to place blame. It’s time to end Domestic Violence and we could be the generation to do it.
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The New Agenda’s Violence Against Women Forum, April 18, 2009 at the Benjamin Hotel, New York. Panelists include: Karen Cheeks-Lomax Executive Director, My Sister’s Place Westchester; Rosemonde Pierre-Louis Manhattan Deputy Borough President; Leslie Crocker Snyder Retired Justice, New York Supreme Court; and Irene Weiser Executive Director, StopFamilyViolence.org.
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Joran Van der Sloot, the alleged killer of Natalee Holloway, the co-ed who disappeared in Aruba in 2005, was captured tonight in Chile. He’s under suspicion for the stabbing death of 21 year old Peruvian Stephany Flores. On June 2, Flores’s body was found in Lima, Peru in a hotel room registered to Van Der Sloot
Van der Sloot was arrested twice for Holloway’s killing. He was released twice due to lack of evidence. Part of the “lack of evidence” included Van der Sloot talking on video about Holloway’s death and how her body was taken out to sea. This video “did not incriminate” Van der Sloot because he claimed he was just trying to “impress a drug dealer.”
Violence against women is epidemic, but perpetrators like Van der Sloot, too often don’t get punished and become repeat offenders. There is little public awareness of the ubiquity of the crimes, and insufficient funding for education, prevention, prosecution, or protection for women.
When the media covers stories about victims like Natalee Holloway, it’s usually in the most sensationalistic, ineffective way. If the women are attractive, white, and middle class, as she was, networks endlessly recycle former cheerleading or prom photos. But rarely do Larry King, Greta van Susteren, or Bill O’Reilly and co. accompany these horrific stories with facts about how widespread violence against women is, featuring direct service workers, experts in the field, who can educate the public with real statistics and solutions.
Today, in the Bay Area, Roselyne Swig, founder of Partners Ending Domestic Abuse took a step towards helping to stop the violence in a more effective way. Swig convened a summit in San Francisco with leaders from Bay Area organizations committed to ending violence against women. Swig’s hope is that these Bay Area organizations will collaborate, providing a leadership position, bringing public awareness to this widespread issue, taking action to end it.
JaMel Perkins, Board President of Partners, opened the summit by sharing terrifying statistics including some of these:
31% of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend.
Around the world, 1 in 3 women are beaten, coerced into sex or physically abused.
Women of all races and ethnicity’s are equally vulnerable to violence by a domestic partner.
Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.
77% of those deaths occur in the first trimester.
Abused women are 60% more likely to require hospitalization while pregnant.
90% of our homeless population are victims of abuse.
The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and Homicide committed by domestic partners exceed $5.8 Billion each year. Nearly $4.1 billion of this is spent on direct medical and mental health care services.
1 in 5 female high school students reports being physically or sexually abused by a dating partner.
The summit was attended by representatives from Bay Area organizations including SF Child Abuse Center, Blue Shield Against Violence (the leading private DV funder in the state), La Casa de la Madres, the police department and DA’s office who convened to network and collaborate.
“Domestic violence is something we should all be concerned about,” said Swig. “We need to create a collaborative voice.”
Marcia Smolens of HMS Associates, a local lobbying group, urged advocates to use social media to bring awareness to the issue of domestic violence to create change.
Judy Patrick, President and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of California, said that the goal of her foundation is to ensure that women and families are safe, healthy, and economically secure.
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Content Advisory: content is difficult and adult in nature. At Women for Women International panel discussion about the epidemic of rape in eastern Congo, Honorata Kizende speaks out about her experience, survival and getting more women and men to speak out about the war against women in order to eradicate rape in Congo. www.womenforwomen.org
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I m married in 2007, my husband stays in Qatar, But from last july we both are not together i mean to say my in-laws has created a very big problem in between me & my husband. I also tried to commit suicide but when i was hospitalised that time my husband was here in India when he comes to know that i have commited suicide at my parents place (my in-laws has drop me out of the house so i stayed with my parents) he left india on the same day. I m really fed up of all this things so finally i filed a case in Domestic violence. The case is still going on but they had given money to my lawyer & now she is also from their side & handling my case but she don’t know that i come to know that she has taken money from my in-laws. And now whatever i m telling to do she tells me the reason for it that it is not possible for every step like it told he to send a summons to my husband through embassy she refuse for that she is telling that it is not possible second thing i told her that she can actually force my in-laws to give the perfect address of my husband or to call them through court but again she refuse aisa court mein kuch nahi hota. She is not even trying to bring my husband in India. Is there any other solution for this to bring him back to india he has not received a summons also. And third thing is that at every hearing everybody is not coming only 1 or 2 persons comes & attend the court but she & the opposite lawyer mark the respondent present in front of the judge. Can i take my case from borivali court to family court and what is the procedure. Pls help me its almost 1yr passing on and not a single percent of my case is resolved how long i have to wait to get resolve of my case and i dont want to loose my husband also what to do kindly guide me?
You filed a domestic violence case against your husband and you want him back ? Why ?
If he hurt you, why take him back ?
Go on with your life.
See the link below for real lawyers.
Peace.,
Why are women even watching this and enjoying this? Why is there no greater outcry to stop that nonsense?
No rude and infantile responses, please. Thanks!
Ummm???? What??? I have never noticed a more violence toward women then men. It just could be that you just notice the Women and not the men. Look at Saw. Saw movies are almost only men getting ripped a part. Is that sexist. Come on. Stop saying stuff that’s not there.