Safety from home violence is likely one of the most vital duties of a socially-oriented state. Such a phenomenon not solely violates human rights but in addition impedes the event of the household and destroys social values, writes Artur Lastayev, Commissioner for Human Rights within the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Sadly, violence in its numerous varieties continues to happen regardless of the measures taken in all nations.
The relevance and widespread of the issue are evidenced by the complaints obtained by the Ombudsman for Human Rights in Kazakhstan.
In November 2023, the Workplace of the Ombudsman held a world scientific-practical convention on combating home violence to debate the causes of this phenomenon and to search out methods of stopping it.
Because of the occasion, a package deal of legislative amendments was drafted and despatched to Parliament. Specifically, it was proposed to criminalise the infliction of minor hurt to well being and battering and to create a database of complaints about home violence in all authorised our bodies.
Some amendments had been included within the legislation on ladies’s rights and kids’s security signed by the Head of State on 15 April this 12 months.
I additionally ready and introduced to the general public the particular report “About Combating Household and Home Violence”¹.
This report is a further device to analyse, establish and assess the extent and nature of home violence offences, the effectiveness of measures and sufferer safety mechanisms.²
The report gives statistics on offences, of which 5,958 had been dedicated within the home violence sphere between 2018 and 2023. On the identical time, homicides on this floor account for 23 per cent of the whole variety of homicides within the nation.
And regardless of the overall downward pattern of such offences during the last 5 years, their quantity within the home sphere stays roughly on the identical stage.
In our opinion, it’s a circumstance that signifies inadequate effectiveness of labor on their prevention within the household and home sphere.
After the criminalisation of home violence, the variety of murders decreased 2-3 occasions in 3 years, within the 2015-2017 interval.
On the identical time, the criminalisation of 2015 was significantly criticised by society, because the prosecution of home violence was carried out privately. It signifies that the sufferer independently collects proof of guilt of the debauchee, recordsdata a criticism, makes a non-public prosecution in courtroom, and so forth.
Really, after this criticism, as I perceive, it was determined to «return» home violence to the Code on Administrative Offences.
However even underneath these circumstances, statistics clearly present a severe discount within the mortality charge in household and home conflicts.
The above-mentioned legislation adopted on 15 April this 12 months gives elevated felony legal responsibility and criminalisation of administrative offences within the household and home sphere.
One other fascinating level is that not one of the statistics pays consideration to the variety of male victims of home violence.
Based on data from the Administrative Police Committee of the Ministry of Inside Affairs, about 40-45 per cent of males are victims of violence.³ It is usually inconceivable to determine the explanation why males turned victims – whether or not this was the results of violence on the a part of ladies or, quite the opposite, a consequence of self-defence on the a part of the latter.
In any case, additional enchancment of the mechanism for combating home violence requires strengthening inter-agency cooperation and even contemplating the creation of a separate State physique for household points.
Provided that the particular report made plenty of suggestions to authorities businesses to deal with the issues, we predict their conclusions within the close to future.
I consider it will be significant for us to proceed our work to eradicate all types of discrimination, to guard the inviolability of honour and private dignity, to guard motherhood and fatherhood, to coach and inculcate respect for household values, and to determine satisfactory accountability for violations of those rights and freedoms.
The brand new components contributing to home violence require fixed monitoring, joint efforts, coordination and efficient methods. A complete method ought to intention to create a society freed from violence, the place everybody can really feel protected.
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