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In April, the United Nations sounded the alarm on a growing shadow pandemic of violence against women in girls â particularly domestic violence. According to the U.N., increased cases of domestic violence and emergency shelter demand were already being reported in countries including the United States due to health insecurity, financial insecurity and newly confined living conditions. Â
Call volumes and shelter numbers at the Domestic Violence Intervention Center (DVIC) in Opelika, however, paint a deceivingly different picture for 2020 as a whole. As of November, year-to-date call volumes were lower than 2019, DVIC director Zenene Humphrey-Davis said.
DVIC, a Lake Martin Area United Way agency, serves Chambers, Lee, Macon, Randolph and Tallapoosa Counties. Humphrey-Davis did not dispute claims that domestic violence has been on the rise in 2020, but said DVIC s data does not reflect that.