Domestic violence

Domestic violence

Domestic violence is any abuse of power by a family member over another. Such abuse includes physical, psychological or otherwise. It is considered that there is domestic violence in a home, if there is a repetitive violent attitude, not a single isolated event. 

The victim of domestic violence is any person deemed the aggressor or spouse who has lived with him somehow.  

Context

It is a controversial topic common in the Dominican Republic and in all the extracts social, it doesn’t matter if you are poor or rich, anyone can be a victim of that.

Also It is a problem of large dimensions that affects important sectors of the population especially women, girls, children, elderly men and women. An endemic form of domestic violence is the abuse of women by their partners.

Function

Our campaign is trying to make people aware that this violence is getting worst day by day therefore we all together have to act against any type of violence. And if people see any kind of abuse to report it.

Iniciative

As in recent years there has been an increase in domestic violence and more often we see cases in the newspaper of families affected by this evil, we decided that it would be good to work with this theme. by creating awareness in Dominican families, and the ones who are affected to find help. Another factor that made us choose this topic was the increase of the femicides in the last

Benefits of campaign

We are creating a campaign against the domestic violence, trying to make people aware of domestic violence and what is happening in the homes of our country that is not good.