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Topic: Domestic Violence
November 4, 2021 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88695532731?pwd=Z3dJM3RxYnB4NFFTYk1KaERTWTQyQT09
Spiceislandqueen is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Domestic Violence
Time: Nov 4, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
ZOOM-Meeting ID: 886 9553 2731
Passcode: 701203
Growing evidence shows the pandemic has made intimate partner violence more common—and more severe. COVID did not create the abuse but exacerbated it. It gave the abuser more tools, more chances to control you, having to stay in and nowhere to go. “Surveys around the world have shown domestic abuse spiking since January of 2020—jumping markedly year over year compared to the same period in 2019. According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine and the United Nations group U.N. Women, when the pandemic began, incidents of domestic violence increased 300% in Hubei, China; 25% in Argentina, 30% in Cyprus, 33% in Singapore and 50% in Brazil. The U.K., where calls to domestic violence hotlines have soared since the pandemic hit”.
In the U.S., the situation is equally troubling, with police departments reporting increases in cities around the country: for example, 18% in San Antonio, 22% in Portland, Ore.; and 10% in New York City, according to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. One study in the journal Radiology reports that at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, radiology scans and superficial wounds consistent with domestic abuse from March 11 to May 3 of this year exceeded the totals for the same period in 2018 and 2019 combined.
As with so many things, communities of color are affected more severely as well, with systemic inequities often meaning lower income and less access to social and private services. “While one in three white women report having experienced domestic violence [during the pandemic], the rates of abuse increased dramatically to about 50% and higher for those marginalized by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, and cognitive physical ability,” says Erika Sussman, executive director of the Center for Survivor Advocacy and Justice (CSAJ), a support and research organization.
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