Male violence has increased during pandemic

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The members of the Purple Solidarity platform have made a statement for the press in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Adana.

In its statement titled "Our lives, rights and freedoms are under attack. We are not safe," the platform has raised concerns over increasing male violence amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

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As reported by JinNews women's news website, Pelin Çiçek from the Purple Solidarity platform has addressed the reporters and underlined that the pandemic has made life more difficult for women.

Referring to the "Take Action" campaign launched by the platform in July, Çiçek has also shared information about a recent survey, which was joined by 1,462 thousand women aged 14-79 in 76 cities.

'99 percent say feminicides have not declined'

The survey results are briefly as follows:

* 84 percent of respondents are aged between 14 and 40. 16 percent of them are over the age of 40.

* 32 percent of respondents have indicated that they do not have income. Over half of them have income less than the minimum wage. Only 23 percent of the participants earn more than 3 thousand lira a month.

* While 29 percent of the women who participated in the survey are working full time, 63 percent of them are unemployed.

* 68 percent of the women do not have any social security. While only 16 percent of the women are part of a women's platform, 29 percent have either filed a complaint about violence during pandemic or got support from women's organizations about it.

* In addition to the increasing number of women who have been put on unpaid leave during the pandemic, the problems of women in work life have been further aggravated by the lack of hygiene measures, working with large groups of people, long working hours, precarious work, increasing night shifts, cut of food and transportation allowances, continuing mandatory meetings, chores, wage cuts during the pandemic.

* 987 of 1,462 women who participated in the survey have indicated that they have been subjected to violence during the pandemic.

* 68.9 percent of the participants have said that they know the İstanbul Convention and the Law no. 6284 on the Protection of Family and Prevention of Violence Against Women. 72.4 percent know what they can do and what their rights are if they are subjected to violence.

* 99 percent of women do not think that feminicides have decreased during the pandemic. While 95 percent of women have found it important to have an emergency violence line to reach when subjected to violence, they have also said that the services of municipalities are not sufficient. (EMK/SD)