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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

A PATTERN OF ABUSIVE AND THREATENING BEHAVIORS

VIOLENT OR AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR WITHIN THE HOME,
TYPICALLY INVOLVING THE VIOLENT ABUSE OF A SPOUSE
OR PARTNER

PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, ECONOMIC OR SEXUAL VIOLENCE

INTIMIDATION, ISOLATION AND COERCION

WHAT IS ABUSE?
ABUSE IS NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT DOES NOT HAPPEN
BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS STRESSED-OUT, DRINKING, OR
USING DRUGS. ABUSE IS AN INTENTIONAL ACT THAT ONE
PERSON USES IN A RELATIONSHIP TO CONTROL THE
OTHER. ABUSERS HAVE LEARNED TO ABUSE SO THAT THEY
CAN GET WHAT THEY WANT.

WHO ARE THE VICTIMS?

OFTEN WOMEN
ARE POOR AND HAVE LIMITED SUPPORT
FEELS POWERLESS TO STOP VIOLENCE
ECONOMICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY DEPENDENT ON THE
ABUSER

PUT UP WITH ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR

HAVE UNREALISTIC BELIEF THAT HE OR SHE CAN CHANGE
THE ABUSER

WHO ARE THE ABUSERS?

OFTEN MEN
SOMETIMES WOMEN
OFTEN HAVE LOW ESTEEM
DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS
MAY BLAME THE VICTIM FOR CAUSING THE VIOLENCE

PHYSICAL

EMOTIONAL

VERBAL

ECONOMIC

SIGNS OF AN ABUSIVE
RELATIONSHIP
Your Inner Thoughts and Feelings

Your Partners Belittling Behavior

Do you:
Does your partner:
feel afraid of your partner much of the
humiliate or yell at you?
time?
avoid certain topics out of fear of angering criticize you and put you down?
your partner?
feel that you cant do anything right for
your partner?

treat you so badly that youre embarrassed

for your friends or family to see?

believe that you deserve to be hurt or

mistreated?
wonder if youre the one who is crazy?

ignore or put down your opinions or

accomplishments?
blame you for their own abusive behavior?

feel emotionally numb or helpless?

see you as property or a sex object, rather

than as a person?

SIGNS OF AN ABUSIVE
RELATIONSHIP
Your Partners Violent Behavior or Threats

Your Partners Controlling Behavior

Does your partner:

have a bad and unpredictable temper?

Does your partner:

act excessively jealous and possessive?

hurt you, or threaten to hurt or kill you?

control where you go or what you do?

threaten to take your children away or

harm them?

keep you from seeing your friends or

family?

threaten to commit suicide if you leave?

limit your access to money, the phone, or

the car?

force you to have sex?

limit your access to money, the phone, or

the car?

destroy your belongings?

constantly check up on you?

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

DENIAL

EXAMPLES OF ABUSE INCLUDE:

NAME-CALLING OR PUTDOWNS
KEEPING A PARTNER FROM CONTACTING THEIR FAMILY OR FRIENDS
WITHHOLDING MONEY
STOPPING A PARTNER FROM GETTING OR KEEPING A JOB
ACTUAL OR THREATENED PHYSICAL HARM
SEXUAL ASSAULT
STALKING
INTIMIDATION

TACTICS TO MANIPULATE

A MAN ABUSES HIS PARTNER. AFTER HE HITS HER, HE EXPERIENCES

SELF-DIRECTED GUILT. HE SAYS, "I'M SORRY FOR HURTING YOU." WHAT
HE DOES NOT SAY IS, "BECAUSE I MIGHT GET CAUGHT." HE THEN
RATIONALIZES HIS BEHAVIOR BY SAYING THAT HIS PARTNER IS
HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH SOMEONE. HE TELLS HER "IF YOU WEREN'T
SUCH A WORTHLESS WHORE I WOULDN'T HAVE TO HIT YOU." HE THEN
ACTS CONTRITE, REASSURING HER THAT HE WILL NOT HURT HER
AGAIN. HE THEN FANTASIZES AND REFLECTS ON PAST ABUSE AND HOW
HE WILL HURT HER AGAIN. HE PLANS ON TELLING HER TO GO TO THE
STORE TO GET SOME GROCERIES. WHAT HE WITHHOLDS FROM HER IS
THAT SHE HAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO THE SHOPPING.
WHEN SHE IS HELD UP IN TRAFFIC AND IS A FEW MINUTES LATE, HE
FEELS COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED IN ASSAULTING HER BECAUSE "YOU'RE
HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH THE STORE CLERK." HE HAS JUST SET HER UP.
SOURCE: MID-VALLEY WOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICE

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1.

CALL THE POLICE AND REPORT THE INCIDENT. WRITE DOWN

THE POLICE REPORT/INCIDENT NUMBER AND KEEP WITH YOUR
RECORDS.

2. IF NECESSARY, SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. HAVE INJURIES

DOCUMENTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED.

3. GO

TO A SAFE PLACE SUCH AS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

SHELTER.

4. SEEK THE SUPPORT OF CARING PEOPLE. TELL SOMEONE YOU

TRUST ABOUT THE ABUSE. TALK TO THEM IN A PRIVATE, SAFE
PLACE.

5. HAVE A SAFETY PLAN. IF YOUR PARTNER IS ABUSIVE, HAVE A

PLAN TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN IN CASE YOU
NEED TO LEAVE QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE ABUSIVE, BE HONEST WITH
YOURSELF, THINK OF THE CONSEQUENCES, AND GET HELP.

6. FILE FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER THAT WILL TELL YOUR ABUSER

TO STAY AWAY.

ACTIVISM

ACTIVISM

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ACTIVISM

ACTIVISM

STATISTICS ON VIOLENCE AGAINST

FILIPINO WOMEN

2008 NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY

(NDHS) BY THE NSO

"WOMEN SAFETY MODULE"

CAPTURE THE EXTENT AND TYPES OF VAW
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE
ECONOMIC VIOLENCE

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

1 OUT OF 5 WOMEN AGED 15-49 HAS EXPERIENCED

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE SINCE AGE 15.

14.4% OF MARRIED WOMEN EXPERIENCED PHYSICAL

ABUSE FROM THEIR HUSBANDS

37% OF SEPARATED OR WIDOWED WOMEN HAVE

EXPERIENCED PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE DURING

PREGNANCY

1 IN 25 WOMEN AGE 15-49 WHO NEVER HAD SEX EVER

EXPERIENCED FORCED FIRST SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

4% OF WOMEN WHO HAVE EVER BEEN PREGNANT

INCREASES SLIGHTLY WITH NUMBER OF
CHILDREN

LIVING

DECREASES SLIGHTLY WITH AGE, EDUCATION LEVEL, AND

DECLINES STEADILY WITH WEALTH QUINTILE

SPOUSAL VIOLENCE
EMOTIONAL AND OTHER FORM OF NON-PERSONAL VIOLENCE (MOST COMMON)
23% OF EVER MARRIED WOMEN

1 IN 7 EXPERIENCED PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

8% SEXUAL VIOLENCE
1 IN 3 WOMEN REPORTED HAVING PHYSICAL INJURIES (CUTS,, BRUISES, OR
ACHES)

MORE THAN 10% SUFFERED EYE INJURIES, SPRAINS, DISLOCATIONS, AND BURNS
AND ABOUT THE SAME PROPORTION REPORTED THAT THEY ATTEMPTED TO
COMMIT SUICIDE.

IN 5 WOMEN REPORTED HAVING PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

(DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND ANGER).

 IN 2013 THE NUMBER OF VAW CASES REPORTED TO THE PHILIPPINE

NATIONAL POLICE (PNP) INCREASES BY 49.4 PERCENT FROM 2012

REPORT. THE INCREASE CAUSED THE TREND TO GO UPWARD AGAIN
AFTER IT DECREASES IN 2011.

THE 2013 REPORT IS SO FAR THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF REPORTED

VAW CASES SINCE 1997.

REPORTED CASES UNDER RA 9262 CONTINUE TO INCREASE FROM

218 IN 2004 TO 16,517 CASES IN 2013.

 PHYSICAL INJURY IS THE SECOND MOST PREVALENT CASE ACROSS

THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD, ACCOUNTING FOR 19.7 PERCENT OF ALL
REPORTED VAW CASES NATIONWIDE.

REPORTED INCIDENCE OF PHYSICAL INJURY HAS BEEN DECREASING IN

THE LATTER YEARS. ITS PEAK WAS IN 2001 AT 5,668 REPORTED
CASES.

THE DECREASE CAN BE PARTLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE ENACTMENT INTO

LAW OF RA 9262 OR ANTI-VAWC ACT OF 2004 WHICH PENALIZES

ABUSIVE HUSBANDS AND LIVE-IN PARTNERS.

 REPORTED

RAPE CASES WHICH RANKED THIRD

ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT 8.6 PERCENT OF TOTAL
REPORTED VAW CASES FROM 2004 TO 2013.

ACTS

OF LASCIVIOUSNESS RANKED FOURTH AT AN

AVERAGE OF 591 REPORTED CASES ACCOUNTING FOR 5.5
PERCENT OF ALL REPORTED VAW CASES FROM 2004 TO
2013.

 AMONG THE DIFFERENT REGIONS, REGION 6 (WESTERN VISAYAS)

POSTED THE HIGHEST REPORTED VAW CASES FROM JANUARY TO

DECEMBER 2013 WITH 4,833 REPORTED CASES, ACCOUNTING FOR
20.3 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL REPORTED VAW CASES NATIONWIDE.

REGION 11 (DAVAO) COMES NEXT AT 4,411 (18.5%) REPORTED VAW

CASES FOLLOWED BY REGION 7 (CENTRAL VISAYAS) WITH 3,460
REPORTED VAW CASES OR 14.5 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL REPORTED
VAW CASES NATIONWIDE.

THE

AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MUSLIM MINDANAO (ARMM)

POSTED THE LOWEST REPORTED VAW CASES WITH 86 CASES IN
2013.

ORGANIZATIONS

GABRIELA
GENERAL

ASSEMBLY BINDING WOMEN FOR REFORMS, INTEGRITY,

EQUALITY, LEADERSHIP, AND ACTION

METRO MANILA,CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION, ANDMINDANAO;

SUB-REGIONAL
CHAPTERS
INNEGROS,PANAYANDSAMAR,
PROVINCIAL CHAPTERS INBICOLANDCEBU.

AND

AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS TO PREVENT THE TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND

GIRLS FROM THE PHILIPPINES. ITS STRATEGIES CONSIST OF SEMINARS

AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION TO NGOS AND GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL

 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT

BATHALUMAN CRISIS CENTER FOUNDATION, INC. (BCCF)
DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE'S FOUNDATION (DPF)
WOMEN CRISIS CENTER (WCC)
PHILIPPINES GENERAL HOSPITAL
HARNESSING SELF-RELIANT INITIATIVES AND KNOWLEDGE (HASIK)
& WOMEN'S LEGAL BUREAU

LIHOK PILIPINA FOUNDATION