Violence Against Women in Kazakhstan: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Interventions, Slides of Public Health

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Violence against

women in Kazakhstan

CONCLUSIONS &

RECOMMENDATIONS

Scope of problem

• Half of the women surveyed are said to have been exposed to violence.
• Every fifth respondent had been beaten.
• Every seventh woman surveyed had been robbed and every thirtieth had been raped.
• One third of women-respondents was a victim of physical violence in 1999.
• More than a half of the instances of physical violence against women were committed in public places (in the street, market or public transport). In response, some victims did nothing, others actively resisted. Only 8% appealed to the police for help.

Risk factors of violence

• Alcohol abuse
• Woman’s education level
• Type of settlement
• Woman’s age
• Allocation of family responsibilities

Possible Interventions

1. A radical change in society’s attitude towards alcohol abuse
2. Promotion of healthy lifestyles
3. Including promotion of responsible attitude to family duties and responsibilities
4. Introduction of a gender component into the secondary education
5. Specialised governmental agencies in co- operation with NGOs in addition to legal activities should work with the population and monitor risk groups

I was married, and my husband, coming back

home from work, wanted me to look after

him. He pretended not to notice that I was

at work as well and that I might be tired as

well.

Inequality in the family is also violence.

I was married twice. My first husband drank a lot

and I divorced him. My second husband did not

drink, but coming home from work he did

nothing but lay down on the sofa doing nothing.

One time we need a nail hammered in. I ask him

to do it and he said in response: “You do it since

you need it”.

If not to take Almaty way of upbringing, but the Shymkent or

Zhambul way, inequality there might be better seen, but in Almaty people are more civilised, better educated, and more democratic. And violence against women here is less noticeable. I have an example of a young man from Almaty who went to Shymkent to choose a girl and to get married, since women there are more complaisant, and that was exactly what he wanted. Of course, why does he need a woman who has her own opinion?

The most common outcome in the

conditions of economic crisis is

degradation of a man, when he

ceases fulfilling any responsibility

for himself, his family and his

children but at the same time

exercises his physical and moral

superiority (caused by traditions).

Unfortunately such cases more and

more often take place.