INTIMATE PARTNER

VOILENCE (IPV)
WHAT IS IPV ?
Intimate partner violence is one of the most common forms of violence against
women and includes physical, sexual, emotional abuses and controlling behaviours
by an intimate partner.

 
 Forms of IPV ?
Physical Abuses:
slapping,kicking,hitting or beating.
 Controlling behaviours including isolating a person from family and friends; monitoring their
movements; and restricting access to financial resources, employment, education or medical care.
Emotional abuses humiliation, intimidation, constant insults ,threats to harm the partner’s beloved ones and children.
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Sexual abuses:
including forced sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual coercion.

Status of IPV in NEPAL .

IN NEPAL: from 2010 to mid-September 2018, a
total of 251 cases-117 homicides, 108 suicides and 26
acid attacks-have been recorded .
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stic-violence

Domestic violence is the highest reported category of violence

against women as it makes upto 65% (1140). The data shows
women suffered violence from their husband (76% of
perpetrators) and family members (24% of perpetrators).
 Why don’t women leave
violent partners?
• Women had little knowledge about domestic violence and abuse
and thought that their partner’s behaviour was all their fault, so
they felt they should try harder to make it work.
•Women, particularly from minority ethnic groups, were under
cultural and family pressure to stay with their husband.
children did not want to break up the family and take their children away from their father.

wanted to avoid their children having to experience a ‘broken family’.

ften had no money of their own and nowhere to go to, with no

e of support services that might be available.

artners made threats to kill or harm them or the children if they left.
BOX 2. EXAMPLES OF
NORMS AND BELIEFS
THAT SUPPORT
VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN
• A man has a right to assert power
over a woman and is considered
socially superior.

• A man has a right to physically discipline a

woman for ‘incorrect behaviour’.
Physical violence is an acceptable way
to resolve conflict in a relationship •

There are times when a woman

deserves to be beaten •

HE is my husband so he has the full

right to treat me the way he wants.

Consequences of IPV:
1.Death, illness, injury and
disability — domestic and
family violence is the leading
cause of death, illness and
disability for women aged
under 45.
2. ongoing anxiety and depression.
HOW CAN WE put an end to IPV ?

Starting teaching the boys from an early age about respecting the girls and
treating them well.

Educating the girl from an early age to raise to their voices against any sort
of abuses or misbehaviours

Starting the effort of change from our own neighbourhood.

strengthen women’s civil rights related to divorce, property, child support

and custody.