No to domestic violence
Violence is defined as the use of physical force in any form or coercive power, through threat or physical coercion, against a person, group of people or community, causing injury, death, disability or deprivation.
Regarding the concept of family or domestic violence as defined by some, it is any violence occurring in the family environment, due to one of the members of the family, having authority, exercising guardianship over the victim or having a relationship with them.
Domestic violence takes many forms: physical, verbal, sexual violence, mistreatment, failure to fulfill duties towards ascendants and descendants as well as any behavior which affects one of the rights and negatively influences family relationships and their cohesion.
Regarding Algerian society, it has been affected by profound changes due to several factors, including the events experienced by the family during the black decade and their social repercussions.
and economic on the social fabric, events which were grafted on the transition from the extended family to the small family without the tools and mechanisms necessary to support these changes having been prepared.
This situation has weakened family relationships, allowing the appearance of a number of serious social scourges and behaviors foreign to our identity and our ancestral traditions.
Domestic violence has therefore become one of the social problems that has benefited from the attention of those involved in the social, health and women's and children's rights fields.
Thus, the issue of a postage stamp in 2016 around the issue of
“The fight against domestic violence” is an additional means to contribute to the achievement of a certain number of objectives, including in particular:
• Raise awareness in society about the importance of preventing domestic violence;
• Eliminate domestic violence in all its forms among family members;
• Raise awareness among families to guarantee a family environment free of violence, made of stability and cohesion;
• Raise families' awareness of the need to encourage dialogue and forgiveness as a means of resolving conflicts and family problems.