How UN Women is helping police reduce domestic violence weforum.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from weforum.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021
Two female police officers of Dhaka Metropolitan Police patrolling streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The visible presence of female police officers makes women feel safer. Taken on 3 June 2020. Photo: UN Women/Fahad Abdullah Kaizer
In the past 18 months, by trapping women with their abusers, COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns have worsened the already-widespread violence against women while preventing many of them from getting help. But even those who do manage to contact the police come up against another long-standing challenge: a culture and system that treats the survivor as a big part of the problem.
“The biggest challenge we face is that women do not report cases of violence because of victim-blaming attitudes by police officers,” says Police Superintendent Maria Mahmood, Director at the National Police Academy in Pakistan. “When I started working as a police officer, I was shocked to see the deep-rooted bias of a patriarchal police forc
Supported by UN Women, police forces are becoming more responsive to survivors of violence miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.