Women’s Aid received 40,048 disclosures of domestic abuse in 2023, highest ever recorded in charity’s 50-year history
The charity described as 'alarming' the 74 per cent increase in physical violence and 87 per cent increase in economic abuse since 2022. Photograph: iStockreceived its highest ever number of domestic abuse disclosures in its 50-year history last year while reporting an “alarming increase” in physical violence and economic abuse in the 12-month period.
It comes as nine women lost their lives in violent circumstances in 2023 bringing the total to 266 since 1996, according to Women’s Aid’s Femicide Watch. Women reported assaults with weapons, constant surveillance and monitoring, relentless put-downs and humiliations, the taking and sharing of intimate images online, complete control over all family finances, sexual assault, rape and being threatened with their or their children’s lives.
“One in four women in Ireland is subjected to domestic abuse and there are also so many children, families and whole communities also impacted,” she said, adding that multiple forms of abuse were often combined, constituting coercive control.
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