Domestic violence constitutes a crucial social phenomenon that affects mainly women. Statistics illustrate the scale of the problem: in the EU, one woman in five has at least once in her life been the victim of violence by her male partner. In Greece women constitute 80-90% of the victims of domestic violence. Numbers do not always reveal the true scale of the problem as there are domestic violence incidents which are not reported. The introduction of L. 3500\/2006 and the way domestic violence is addressed by it, are illustrative of the greek legislator?s intention to avert phenomena of conversion of the family into a place of unpunished infringement of human rights. Simultaneously, the internal legislation now keeps pace with what applies to the Member States of the European Union and recognizes that domestic violence is not a private issue but a severe social phenomenon which infringes on the individual liberties mainly of women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Domestic violence constitutes a crucial social phenomenon that affects mainly women. Statistics illustrate the scale of the problem: in the EU, one woman in five has at least once in her life been the victim of violence by her male partner. In Greece women constitute 80-90% of the victims of domestic violence. Numbers do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n