Mariana Amiruddin, Commissioner, National Commission on Violence Against Women
Gender injustice is a loss for everyone

Besides its increasing numbers, violence against women is taking on a broader pattern. The National Commission Against Violence Against Women has observed this change through several of their studies. The Commission noted that violence happens in households as well as within the general public.

For example, in 2015, some 321,752 cases of violencemostly physicalagainst women were recorded in people's homes. This differed from the previous year when in addition to the physical, there was also psychological violence. In communities, sexual violence is still predominent: about 61 percent out of 5,002 cases.

April 19, 2016