SDG 5.2 indicators measuring severe domestic violence

L’indicateur officiel de violence domestique grave montre un nombre de victimes tellement bas qu’il ne peut pas inciter les responsables politiques à faire quelque chose, ni surtout engager raisonnablement des moyens adéquats.
De plus, la proportion de femmes lésées est minimisée.

SDG 16.1 indicators measuring severe violence

The official indicator takes into account all violent offences considered severe. It shows the total of domestic violence and violence ‘outside the walls’ or ‘non-domestic’. The ‘K2’ versions of this indicator, if they extract the figures specific to domestic violence, consider a greater number of types of offence to be severe.

The number of people subjected to severe offences is 2 to 3 times higher “away from home” than “at home”. The proportion of women injured ‘away from home’, while lower than ‘at home’, is still two-thirds for the K2.1 version of the indicator.

SDG indicator 5.6 measuring psychological violence

The number of victims of domestic violence is unfortunately on an upward trend.
The proportion of women who are victims of domestic violence, at around 75-80%, has fallen slightly but steadily over the period analysed.
The proportion of women victims of ‘non-domestic’ violence, between 43% and 38%, is also falling slightly.

Currently, it is not possible to pinpoint the cause of these falls. Among the hypotheses that could be retained, the main ones are:
– at the level of data entry into the SPC, insofar as more serious offences are recorded, do offences of psychological violence ‘deserve’ to be mentioned?
– in the case of perpetrators of systematic violence, does a complaint or counter-complaint make it possible to shift some of the burden onto the primary victim? This could explain the greater drop in domestic violence.

Victimisation and control (“emprise”) indicators

For these two indicators, a fall would be equivalent to an improvement in the situation of victims. This is not really the case. In fact, it’s REALLY NOT the case.