Women's Aid
Margaret Martin, Director of Women's Aid
Women’s Aid today (Wednesday, 23rd June 2010) announced details of calls to its Domestic Violence National Freephone Helpline and its Support Services in 2009. Callers to the Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline disclosed over 14,613 incidents of physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse in 2009. Women’s Aid has noted an increase in disclosures of women being abused, controlled and stalked through technology. Many callers disclosed that their current or former boyfriends, husbands and partners were using many forms of technology – old and new – to control, coerce, and intimidate them. This included a variety of telephone, surveillance, and computer technologies. Women disclosed that their home and mobile phone calls were monitored, as well as all of their texts. Some spoke of how their phone conversations were being recorded. Others found cameras secretly installed to monitor their every movement at home. Pictured Margaret Martin, Director of Women’s Aid.
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Margaret Martin, Director of Women's Aid
Women’s Aid today (Wednesday, 23rd June 2010) announced details of calls to its Domestic Violence National Freephone Helpline and its Support Services in 2009. Callers to the Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline disclosed over 14,613 incidents of physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse in 2009. Women’s Aid has noted an increase in disclosures of women being abused, controlled and stalked through technology. Many callers disclosed that their current or former boyfriends, husbands and partners were using many forms of technology – old and new – to control, coerce, and intimidate them. This included a variety of telephone, surveillance, and computer technologies. Women disclosed that their home and mobile phone calls were monitored, as well as all of their texts. Some spoke of how their phone conversations were being recorded. Others found cameras secretly installed to monitor their every movement at home. Pictured Margaret Martin, Director of Women’s Aid.
PIC PAUL SHARP/SHARPPIX