ESTELÍ & NORTHERN NICARAGUA CENTER
Phone: (011-505) 713-2108
E-mail: esteliacciónya@yahoo.com
Address:
Acción Ya
del Hotel Moderno
20 varas el Norte
Estelí, Nicaragua
MANAGUA & SOUTHERN NICARAGUA CENTER
Phone: (011-505) 268-0746
E-mail: centroaccionya@yahoo.com
Address:
Acción Ya
del Hospital Militar
1 c. al Norte y 175 varas al Oeste
No. 320
Managua, Nicaragua
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More Information & Statistics
- ACCIÓN YA - ESTE SITIO EN ESPAÑOL
- - Human Rights Watch Report
- - National Council on Child Abuse & Family Violence: Nicaragua Study
- - United Nations Statistics
- - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Violence Against Women in Nicaragua Study
- - An American Volunteer´s Experience with the Take Action! Center
DID YOU KNOW?
According to the Interamerican Development Bank, 52% of women in Managua (and 60% according to non-governmental organizations) suffer from domestic violence at the hands of their partner.
Domestic violence costs the state $26.5 million dollars annually (1.6% of the GDP) in lost work time alone.
30% of the women that suffered from abuse in 1997 were hospitalized, and of those 15% needed complex or invasive surgery.
In the neighborhood Cuba Libre in Managua, 95% of aggressive action taken against women occurs in a domestic setting; 53% of these beatings occur when the man is drunk, and 47% of them are motivated by ¨male jealousy.¨
State Prevention and Attention to Victims of Domestic Violence (CEPAVI)
http://cepavi.jalisco.gob.mx/esta_internacional.php
Domestic violence costs the state $26.5 million dollars annually (1.6% of the GDP) in lost work time alone.
30% of the women that suffered from abuse in 1997 were hospitalized, and of those 15% needed complex or invasive surgery.
In the neighborhood Cuba Libre in Managua, 95% of aggressive action taken against women occurs in a domestic setting; 53% of these beatings occur when the man is drunk, and 47% of them are motivated by ¨male jealousy.¨
State Prevention and Attention to Victims of Domestic Violence (CEPAVI)
http://cepavi.jalisco.gob.mx/esta_internacional.php