information related to cases of domestic violence, focusing on the imprtance of
imposing preventive and precautionary measures, and refereing family members to
family guidaince sessions and psycho-social counselling and rehabilitation,
especially for abused children,in addition to the creation of family reconciliation
committees operating in accordance with the Law, upon the consent of both parties
and in cases that involve felonies only, prior to referring the matter to the court, and
upon reaching a reconciliation, the committees apply the general rules of
conciliation as per stated in the law.
Table (20): the violence against women in
2014 as compared with those occurred in
2013 2013
Number
of
victims
physi
cal
sexual
years
2. Numbers and statistics issued by
the Family Protection Department
(FPD)/ PSD indicate that the crimes of
violence against women during 2014
were as set forth in the corresponding
table.
With respects to the data gathering of
violence against women and girls: the
2128
1319
785
2013
FPD/PSD deals with cases of domestic
2270
1496
717
2014
violence and sexual assault by starting
using an electronic case-tracking system
that ensure the rapid response from the service providers entities in a participatory
approach that is based on the coordination among them and assigning roles and
responsibilities of the parties involved to ensure providing comprehensive services, it also
serves to establish a database to record violence cases and facilitate tracking and follow up
and ensures the quality of the integrated services. The social service offices at the FPD
headquarters and those exists in its other branches in the different Governorates in 2013
dealt with (4746) cases of family violence, including (2298) for children under 18 years,
(1311 females and 987 males), and (2448) for female adults. It shows that (79% and
48.4%) of cases of female and children, which indicates that the violence is correlated with
and the sex and the age of the individual. The PFD conducts training courses on the
prevention of the gender-based violence.
The obstacles in this filed are as follows:
•
The problem of the administrative detainees. Despite that judges are convinced that
the administrative detention is not the optimum solution that provides protection to
battered women, but they justify it, as being the only viable option for the lack of
other alternatives .
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