Human Rights and Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence is often not recognize as a human rights abuse, because sometimes the government can’t do anything about this type of violence because it takes place in private: in home, in a relationship, or between married people. But unfortunately domestic violence is increasing because of this gap. There are more and younger women, fearing for her life because of a spouse or a companion who committed acts of violence against women or family in general, are free to do all this without any restrictions. The laws are missing or not applied by the institutions and the people in charge. So this issue becomes a big snow ball with anybody to stop it.
Victims of abuse require mental health care, and the effects in our society is enormous, children suffering behavior problems resulting from domestic violence, will grow up requiring special care, and with academic difficulties because, with the lost of optimistic and risk taking qualities necessary to become successful, and also will raise children who will in turn continue the cycle.
We need to start in the country institutions to help stop this problem; also the key is to denounce every single act of violence, and to protect our children and women from acts of violence. We all as human beings were born free and equal in dignity and rights so we need to fight for what belong to us.
