Cases of Violence against women in rise in Nepal

Statistics show that the case of Violence Against Women and girls have increase to around 3000 case this year in 2013.  According to a joint report published by Centre for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities in collaboration with University College London states that domestic abuse has increased phenomenally followed by rape, trafficking, polygamy, attempted rape, and child marriage among other forms of violence against women.

Highlighting the details of Nepal Police it has been reported that NP recorded 1,774 cases of VAW in 2009-10 to 3,340 in 2011-12 Of the total gender-based violence cases from 2009 to 2012, domestic abuse topped the chart (55 per cent to 67 per cent), followed by rape (17 per cent to 21 per cent).

A total of 2,250 cases of domestic violence were reported to police in 2011-12 against 1,355 cases in 2010-2011 and 983 cases in 2009-2010.

Likewise, 555 rape cases, 118 trafficking cases, 249 polygamy cases, 156 attempted rape cases, and 12 child marriage cases were reported in 2011-12.

Similarly, 481, 183, 197, 151 and three cases of rape, trafficking, polygamy, attempted rape, and child marriage were reported in 2010-2011 against 376, 161, 146,101, and seven cases, respectively, in 2009-2010.

Most of these women face physical, sexual, emotional and structural, fear of social isolation and societal discrimination that restrict them to talk about the violence they have been facing.