In analysing sources of violence in Haiti, it is clear to us that political violence and criminal violence fuel each other.

Socio political violence, including that caused by the armed conflict, seriously affects women's human rights and exacerbates gender based violence.

This violence also contributes to the spread of HIV AIDS and the increase in unwanted pregnancies.

Injustice is a fertile ground for breeding violence.

Women's lack of access to legal information, aid or protection is said to contribute to violence against women.

It has stated on many occasions that traditional attitudes by which women are regarded as subordinate to men contribute to violence against them.

Poverty, extreme inequality and public corruption have fuelled authoritarian rule and violence for decades.

I was beaten by my husband for five years.

Such endemic violence cannot continue.

The Family Violence Prevention Legal Services units deliver legal assistance, case work and court support to victims of family violence.

This not only discourages victims of sexual and gender based violence and others from registering their complaints with the local police but adds to the climate of impunity characterizing this issue.

Self help or other custodial therapeutic programmes for perpetrators should help them overcome their violent behaviour, and convey the message that violence was unacceptable, and that it was the responsibility of the abuser to find alternatives to violence.

Support will also be provided to the independent expert leading the Secretary General's in depth study on violence against children.

Free legal and medical aid and temporary shelter is provided to women victims of violence, including domestic violence, at these centers.

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

Some argue that the surge in anti Semitic violence in Europe is motivated primarily by the plight of the Palestinians. But, according to a 2012 poll, more Europeans believe that violence against Jews is fueled by long standing anti Semitic attitudes, rather than anti Israel sentiment.

More than 27,000 calls have come in to the crisis centre hotlines. Most of the calls have involved physical violence (23 ) or psychological violence (22 ).

Domestic violence, long considered a private family matter, was no longer seen in that light, and women, with the help of civil society organizations, were seeking to make it a subject of open discussion and to have all instances reported and punished.

Free legal and medical aid and temporary shelter is provided to women victims of violence, including domestic violence, at all these centers.

The Special Police Stations for Assistance to Women (DEAMs) plays a very important role in combating domestic and sexual violence.

It notes that traditional attitudes of women s inferiority to men and stereotypical roles perpetuate widespread practices involving violence or coercion, such as family violence and abuse, forced marriage, dowry death, acid attacks and female circumcision.

(i) To end impunity for violence against women, by prosecuting and punishing all perpetrators, by ensuring that women have equal protection of the law and equal access to justice and by holding up to public scrutiny and eliminating those attitudes that foster, justify or tolerate violence

In addition, 703 officers have finished basic training and are deployed to field training and performance evaluation.

Remember, violence begets violence.

A national plan had been drawn up against domestic violence, which had serious consequences for the development of children and perpetuated cycles of violence.

In my country, drug trafficking is the main source of the financing of violence.

7. Reaffirms that any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law

In The Phenomenon of Spousal Violence (2002) report, the State Comptroller opined that spousal violence requires a systematic and effective solution.

A Human Rights Watch report on violence against women in South Africa has an extensive section dealing with this type of violence.

(iii) The medium and long term consequences of violence against women

One NGO working with victims of domestic violence, Project Against Domestic Violence, receives an average of five new cases of domestic violence per month in its Phnom Penh office.

From generation to generation, violence begets violence, as the abused grow up to become abusers.

These include bringing to justice perpetrators of sexual violence, and providing specific assistance for women victims of violence, including income generating activities, medical care and social assistance.10

It implements the SOCRATES Programme for victims of violence and exploitation.

T. van Dijk, Domestic violence nature, scope and assistance, Intomart, 1997.

She claims that the State party passively neglected its positive obligations under the Convention and supported the continuation of a situation of domestic violence against her.

It has become clear that those perpetrating these attacks are assaulting both national and international aid workers with increasing cruelty and violence.

This generates violence and counter violence.

A law on domestic violence has been drafted. It defines the concept of domestic violence , to include physical, psychological and sexual violence.

Free legal and medical aid and temporary shelter is provided to women victims of violence, including domestic violence, at these centers.

Failure to bring to justice those responsible for sexual violence results in impunity for such crimes and encourages potential perpetrators.

The widespread culture of impunity promotes the persistence of a generalized climate of intolerance and violence, which is also fuelled by the propaganda of hatred.

If there is violence in the family, a woman can turn to a special police division for protecting women against violence that has been operating since 1999, as well as to existing crisis centres.

Management of policies and programmes to help to eliminate violence against women.

Violence against women and domestic violence