Crisis centers for survivors of gender based violence
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2012
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Uganda Women’s Network
Abstract
Gender-based violence is a major problem faced by women world over with 70 % of violence faced by women are within homes
and yet getting out of such abusive or violent relationship is a very difficult decision for majority to make. In Uganda, more than two thirds of ever married women (68%) have experienced one kind of gender based violence 1 (Uganda Bureau of Statistics,
2006). The problem is worse for the rural women (61%) than urban women (54%). 78% of women in Uganda are subjected to domestic violence (Uganda Law reform Commission 2007). While GBV is indeed reaching epidemic levels in Uganda, society and the women themselves still believe that their husbands beating is an acceptable corrective behavior or show of love on the side of the Husband. In Uganda, violence against women and men is pervasive, critical and deeply entrenched in the family, community, society thus advancing in intensity and scale. Violence goes beyond physical beating, it is about conditions and situations that systematically deny and devalue someone, their lives, health, rights, choices and power. It affects every Woman
or Man’s life even if he or she is not a victim, it is usually evident in every decision one makes or does not make within homes, social setting workplace or otherwise.