The Center for Human Rights (CDOM), in cooperation with the public association “Promo-Lex”, launched an information campaign aimed at preventing domestic violence. The campaign was rolled out in Cojusna village, where a group of over 50 residents had a meeting with experts, jurists and psychologists from Chisinau, Natalia Visanu, head of the instructive programs and PR service of the CDOM, said in the program “Place for dialogue” on Radio Moldova station, IPN reports.
According to Visanu, messages not to tolerate physical and verbal abuse and violence against children will be disseminated in the Moldovan villages within the campaign entitled “Without violence in the family, without violence in society” during a month and a half.
Natalia Visanu noted that a number of jurists and psychologists decided to travel to districts to stage meetings, especially with villagers, after they were informed about multiple cases of domestic violence, especially against women and children. “We had to sound the alarm. The phenomenon of domestic violence persisting in our country can no longer be tolerated. Domestic violence is not the problem of a particular family, but of the whole society,” she said.
The representative of the CDOM also said that emphasis will be placed on villages as almost 70% of the cases of domestic violence are recorded there. “The participants in the campaign will teach the people how to defend themselves from aggressors, regardless of the circumstances,” stated Natalia Visanu
According to a UNICEF study, each second Moldovan child aged between 2 and 14 has been subject to physical abuse, while two in three children are subject to psychological abuse. A study made by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2011 shows that 63% of the women in Moldova have been abused physically, psychologically or sexually in their life. Each seventh woman from villages was subject to violence at least once.
