Violence against women: Algeria counts 15.000 cases in 13 months

Reports of the Algerian security services show that 15.000 women were subject to different types of violence and abuse from January 1st 2011 to January 31, 2012.

Same reports indicate that 50% of those cases took place in a familial environment.

Statistics, available to Echorouk, show that security services noticed, through complaints at police stations that 9.000 women were subject to all types of violence, including 7045 cases related to physical assault, and 2000 cases related to abuse, while 300 women were subject to physical abuse.

Services of the national gendarmerie said that 563 women were subject to all types of violence during ten months of 2011.

At least 80 women were murdered, during the same period, according to the same report, 24 cases reported by the police during 9 months of 2011, as revealed by the dean of the police at the General Directorate of the National Security, in charge of issues of violence against women, Ms Kheira Messaoudane, while 60 women across 11 localities tried to suicide, according to statistics of the 1^st Regional Command of the National Gendarmerie.

Reports of the Algerian security services also indicate that the highest level in the total attacks against women, among married women with 60%, while single and divorced women share the same percentage 40%.