President, Advice Desk for Abused Women.

3. Battered Women apos s Support Centre (CAMM)

A reception centre for abused women operated in Athens, providing services to both women and their children.

Ensure the protection of women and girls from sexual abuse in conflict areas.

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There were a total of 75 shelters in the system as a whole, 60 of which were for battered women and 12 for single women.

Experience indicates that these children and women are much more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

Deeply concerned at the continuing reports of grave abuses and acts of violence committed against women, and that some groups of women are especially vulnerable to acts of discrimination, violence and abuse based on gender, including women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee women, women migrant workers, women living in rural communities, women living in poverty, women with disabilities, elderly women, women in situations of armed conflict and girl children,

Noting that many violations directly affect women, in particular women belonging to minorities, who have suffered ill treatment, especially at the hands of the military, as stated by the Special Rapporteur,

Migrant women were often vulnerable to violence, abuse and many inequities.

Deported women and girls are reportedly often subject to further sexual abuse by soldiers in Myanmar.

At the regional level, accommodation shelters exclusively for abused women and their children are provided since 2000 up to the present day by the Centre for Research and Support of Victims of Abuse and Social Exclusion (Prefecture of Ioannina) and Women's Shelter (Prefecture of Serres).

From the annual records of provided support services that have been offered by ΚΕTHΙ to abused women (among other vulnerable groups of women), it is shown that a large number of abused women had consultation on employment since their vast majority were unemployed.

Trafficking in women, and the violence, discrimination and abuse faced by migrant women, constituted a growing threat to fundamental human values.

14. Women apos s Pastoral Centre against Abuse (CEPAM)

Victims of natural disasters are extremely vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, particularly women and children.

At least one out of every three women worldwide had been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.

In addition, women apos s organizations, with few exceptions, do not appear to be concerned with the provision of certain social services, such as shelters, for abused women.

As for the situation of battered women, Syria still lacks homes to provide them with shelter.

The Second Special Prosecutor apos s Office for Family and Children apos s Affairs dealt with 101 women victims of domestic violence, comprising 28 cases of physical abuse, 18 cases of mental cruelty, 49 cases of physical abuse and mental cruelty and 5 cases of sexual abuse.

All those who abuse women and girls in this situation of particular vulnerability must be brought to justice and severely punished.

According to a 1996 study by the Ministry of Women s Affairs, one in every six women interviewed reported physical abuse by her husband. Discrimination against women is particularly obvious in cases of domestic violence.

The existence of support services for women who are the victims of aggression or abuses. Crisis Centers for Women in Distress have been set up Islamabad, Vehari and Sahiwal.

There is no doubt that there is a close relationship between the sexual and economic exploitation of women problems such as poverty, the cultural devaluation of women and sexual abuse are factors which make them more vulnerable.

Some officials suggested that there should be a unit of the Medical Legal Institute, with specialized training in dealing with violence against women, attached to women s police stations.

Women, girls and children suffer from discrimination and from all kinds of abuse, and are the main victims of the war because of the omnipresent sexual violence to which they are subjected by large numbers of men from various armed groups.

In order to provide shelter for abused women and children and to create a suitable and conducive environment for traumatized victims, the Namibian Police established the Women and Child Protection Units (WCPU's).

Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children among refugees and other persons of concern, including exposure to discrimination and sexual and physical abuse,

(q) Recognizing that women and girls with disabilities are often at greater risk, both within and outside the home, of violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation,

Provision of support and supplementary services, aiming at the empowerment, encouragement and confidence building of abused women.

The girl child was also exposed to all kinds of abuse and exploitation.

Although violence affects women from all social strata and employment situations, those who have no independent income are at greater risk of mistreatment.

In the early 1980s, it began to deal with the rights of women in justice administration, female victimization and gender based discriminatory acts of violence, abuse and exploitation perpetrated against females, in the context of the differential treatment and handling of females, as offenders and victims, and their quot fair treatment quot by criminal justice systems, at all levels and stages of operations.

In some countries, up to seven in ten women will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated. Often, the victims of such abuses are treated as criminals dishonored, brutalized, ostracized, imprisoned, and even executed while perpetrators remain free.

Although both boys and girls are abused, the majority of the victims are girls.

Rape, other violence against women and children such as domestic violence and child abuse cut across class, race, gender and age, it is the women that suffer the most.

More than 90 percent of these women worked in the informal sector, mainly as domestic workers, and were vulnerable to abuse.

It was important to study the country's domestic landscape in order to ascertain why certain sections of the female population were vulnerable to abuses.

This situation has facilitated the abuse of women, and some members of MONUC who have been accused of sexual abuse have contributed to it.

Physical abuse, coercion and sexual violence are a distressing reality for millions of women and girls across the world, including within homes and schools.

Employed women

92. The recent Domestic Violence Act gives municipalities the responsibility for the establishment of temporary shelters for mistreated women.

Another case concerned a young woman with a 3 year old child who wanted to escape from an abusive relationship.

Dr. Heleieth Safiotti Coordinator, National Investigation on Violence against Women

Of the married or cohabiting women surveyed, 52 per cent had been abused by their husbands, more than half insulted, and more than a third beaten.