Help with violence against women
Violence against women is omnipresent - every third woman is affected. At wiesbaden-gewaltfrei.de, those affected and those around them can find help and support.
Help with violence against women
Girls and women should feel safe at home - but the opposite is often the case. In Germany, someone calls the police about domestic violence every five minutes. Every third woman experiences physical or sexualized violence in the course of her life.
Violence against women takes many forms:
- Domestic violence
- Sexual harassment
- stalking
- Female genital mutilation (FGM)
- Forced marriage
- Forced abortion and forced sterilization
What we do
The municipal women's department is committed to prevention and sustainable solutions. We support help services for affected women and girls and are working to further expand and fund shelters. Our aim is not only to combat violence, but to prevent it.
Since 2018, the Istanbul Convention has provided clear guidelines on how to systematically combat violence against women.
Help is available here
On the website www.wiesbaden-gewaltfrei.de, victims can quickly find support and an overview of the local help system. Violence concerns us all - which is why the site also provides relatives and professionals with important information on how to recognize and prevent violence.
