Denmark's Ambassador: Words "violence" and "domestic" should not be used in same sentence

The words "violence" and "domestic" should not be used in the same sentence, Denmark's Ambassador Soren Jensen Monday told a press conference that took place at the Police Academy in Bucharest whose topic was violence against women. 

"Home must be our sanctuary, here we find peace and refuge. We know we find violence in society, but we shouldn't expect to find it at home," the diplomat affirmed. 

He underscored that Denmark is proud to strive, both in the country and internationally, with regard to combating violence against women. 

Mette Marie Yde, from Danner organisation, who takes care of victims of domestic violence talked about this phenomenon and about its implications. 
"I am not a survivor of violence, I haven't lived in a home with violence but when I am in a room, anywhere in the world, between 10 to 15 percent of the people present have been through violent episodes or witnessed such episodes," she affirmed. 

Mette Marie Yde said home is the place where women, statistically, are in the greatest danger of being killed. Globally, she added, one in three women will be the victim of physical violence and in Europe, the percentage of women subject to domestic violence varies between 13 and 46 percent. 

She brought to mind that according to figures in 2003, as many as 800,000 Romanian women were exposed to domestic violence and according to an Europol survey in 2010, 39 percent of Romanians appreciated that domestic violence in Romania is "very frequent" and 45 percent said it is "quite frequent". 

In his turn, Secretary of State with the National Agency for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (ANES), Gratiela Draghici, talked about the efforts to change the legislation regarding violence against women. 

"So far, women victims of rape who went to the ER at night received the first aid there without medical doctors being able to gather evidence at the same time. That is why women had to go to the Forensic Medicine Institute (IML) without money or help. Thus, over 70 percent of them gave up on the complaint," she pointed out.