Real level of violence against women higher than officially reported
14:16, 5 March 2015
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - In fact, the real level of violence against women is higher than officially reported, member of the commission for women affairs and family policy under the President of Kazakhstan, chairperson of the Committee of Legal Statistics and Special Records of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan Saule Aitpayeva informed.
"All internal affairs bodies of the country have special departments working on protection of women from violence against them. 31430 women applied to those departments in 2014. There no analogues of these departments in other CIS countries," S. Aitpayeva said.
According to her, the policemen came to a decision on protection of more than 63 thousand women.
"In fact, the number of acts of violence against women is higher than officially reported," S. Aitpayeva added.