Labour Ministry says 8 percent of Slovak women face domestic violence

According to estimates, the spokeswoman for the Labour, Social Affairs and Family Ministry, Lucia Nicholsonová, reported that 8 percent of women and girls over 15 have faced some form of domestic violence in Slovakia, the TASR newswire wrote.

"It's some 150,000 women and girls, which represents a rather disturbing figure. In particular, this concerns women with lower education or socially-disadvantaged backgrounds. And I have to say that the statistics spike in Roma settlements in eastern Slovakia again where violence is a common occurrence in the lives of Roma women," Nicholsonová said, as quoted by TASR.

According to Nicholsonová, there are only some 800 females that muster the courage to file a criminal complaint against a perpetrator – with whom they usually share a household. Nicholsonová said that the Labour Ministry managed to allocate €4.7 million to a programme designed to curb domestic violence against women. The project will be jointly funded from the state budget (20 percent) and the European Social Fund (80 percent).

Source: TASR

Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports
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