Israel- Facts on Domestic Abuse and Resources

70% of Women who are attacked in Israel know the person who attacked them.

All lines are operated 24 hours a day.	Numbers
Sun.-Th,13-18, help available in Russian
A toll-free hot-line	1-800-353-300
For women in distress	09-9505720
For children/youth in distress	09-9518927
Helpline E-mail: helpline@no2violence.co.il

Number of Women Murdered Because of DomesticViolence:

Year	Murder Victims	VETERAN ISRAELIS		NEW ISRAELIS
		Jewish	Arab	Russian	Ethiopian
2007	20	6	8	4	2
2008	15	8	2	4	1
2009	15	3	7	4	1
2010	22	1	10	7	4
Total	72	18	27	19	8
%	100	25.00	37.50	26.40	11.10

Hotlines for battered women Numbers  WIZO 03-5461133           Na'amat 03-5461133           National emergency hotline for battered women  (8:00 to 20:00) 1-800-220-000 Major victims of sexual abuse Association of Assistance 02-5003051           Help Center - Tel Aviv 03-5176176           Help Center - Jerusalem 02-6255558           Center for Victims of rape and sexual assault - Haifa 04-8530531           Beersheba Assistance Center 08-6421313           Assistance Center Low Number of emergency: 08-9318470                 08-8318425           Basket " Estate - Women's Support Center - Beer Sheva 08-6274907           Help Center - Eilat 07-6331977 Help Center - Nazareth 06-6566813 Help Center - Kiryat Shmona 06-6943996 Orthodox Women's Support Center 02-6555744           helpline/ support for victims of sexual harassment on campus 03-6407868           Total # of Resources 15

Sources:http://ccrw.1202.org.il/English/template/default.asp?siteId=8

http://www.no2violence.co.il/Contact_eng.htm

http://www.no2violence.co.il/Addresses.htm

http://www.iwn.org.il/?CategoryID=188&ArticleID=134

http://www.1202.org.il/English/template/default.asp?siteId=1&maincat=18

http://www.hotpeachpages.net/mideast/israel.html#Hot

Portugal- Emergency Numbers for Victims

Victims of Domestic Violence – 800 202 148
Emergency hotline - 112
Abused Children – 213 433 333
SOS Friendly Voice
(Depression, Suicide) – 800 202 669
SOS Pregnant – 808 201 139
SOS Child– 217 931 617
APAV (Portuguese Association for Victims Help) – 707 200 077 http://www.apav.pt

Portugal's Facts and Laws

• In 2010, 43 women lost their lives at the hands of abusive partners.
• At least 9 out of the 43 women murdered in 2010 had already pressed charges against their assailants.
• 29 of the victims in 2010 still in the abusive relationship, generally a boyfriend, partner, husband or lover.  
• Only 8 women had ended their relationships with their would-be murderers.
• The average age of the victims were between 26 and 45 years old,
• 90. 6% women and 9% men

With the new article 152, whoever, in a repetitive manner or not, imposes physical or mental abuses including:

- bodily punishments

-deprivations of liberty and sexual offences to the spouse or ex-spouse

 -to a person of another or of the same sex with whom the agent maintains or has maintained a relationship equal to a relationship of spouses, even if without cohabitation

-to progenitor of common descendant in first degree

-or to a person particularly undefended, due to age, deficiency, disease, pregnancy or economic dependency, who cohabitates with him.

Punishment: imprisonment from 1 to 5 years.

-If act is against or in front of  a minor

-In common home or the victim’s residence

Punishment: imprisonment from 2 to 5 years

-If, from the acts above, result in death

Punishment: imprisonment from 3 to 10 years

- The cases where it results grievous bodily injury

 Punishment: imprisonment from 2 to 8 years

		Freq.	%
Strict Sense
Physical Abuse		3916	30
Mental Abuse		4804	36.8
Threats/Coercion		2672	20.4
Defamation/Slurs		1443	11
Sexual Crimes		237	1.8
	Sub-total	13072	100
Wider Sense
Attempted Murder		27	3.4
Murder		1	0.1
Unlawful Entry		134	16.9
Violation of Correspondence		71	8.9
Violation of Privacy		81	10.2
Child Abduction		25	3.1
Violation of Alimony		61	7.7
Criminal Damage		84	10.6
Theft/Robbery		83	10.5
Rape		87	11
Other related Crimes		140	17.6
	Sub-Total	794	100
	Total	13866	100