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28 Hum. Rts. Defender 4 (2019)
Can We Begin to End the War against Women

handle is hein.journals/hurighdef28 and id is 88 raw text is: PAGE 04 EDITORIAL: CAN WE BEGIN TO END THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN? Dr Anni Gethin is a health social scientist with an interest in domestic violence law reform. She coordinates the Brigid Project, a peer support charity for survivors of domestic violence, runs a research consulting business, and lectures in public health and criminology at Western Sydney University. To further her interests in law reform, Anni is completing a Juris Doctor at UNSW. Her current research focuses on legal remedies for victims of domestic violence, and perpetrator accountability. It is common to start articles about violence against women with a set of bleak statistics: the numbers of dead and injured women, the lifetime risks to women of sexual abuse, assault, harassment and domestic violence. The statistics never seem to improve, and at certain times they are worse, say over summer, at Christmas time, when a football final is on, or sometimes one month just for no apparent reason, men kill more women than they usually do. 'It's a war zone out there, that's what people don't realise', my friend explained, about what it is like to live with an abusive partner. And war seems a far better descriptor of violence against women than the bland and perpetrator free 'problem' or 'epidemic'. A war describes the experience of individual women constantly vigilant to psychological, physical or sexual attack by partners, former partners, or strangers. 'A war against women' captures the scope of seemingly endless and unstoppable gendered violence, with a vast front line of women's private homes, and the war zone stretching into every institution and space in every society, with perpetrators everywhere, and mainly amongst the men we know. The sheer scale and complexity of violence against women can make it feel too vast and difficult a problem to ever solve: the causes seem both too close and personal, and at the same time too oblique and distant. If the roots of the war against women lie in patriarchy, do we have to wait for the overturn of patriarchy before women can live their lives free, safe and dignified? 'Ain't nobody got time for that!' is the view of women sick and tired of being attacked and abused and feeling afraid. Thisise of Hu a Rights Doef end aims to showrthat their e s a y e, doesi vilece Th xeineistriyn n thatmwoe, and a oe en ae sart alngtie e so the ist pro acstarb women biutnus aorsdiyin parn is namn of Heais eene tpe, sroteynta star t the ireiront of thefecing hells of domestic violence, Then expeiece isei of vioand Oidal and of uthedbigest prolem s that dn bing woman sb hea ptr D eptn Iyer explainc how health proftesioals sare tidn therrot of thliing wiheltim of domestic violence, givenbt experivaence rfyvince agstwoen, and tpiat boen abell noaones a rnge time pidal and ustal 'first problemostr that cadiffcul woman'tse he doctr. Deth yer, iexplabout how health HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER M

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