In fact, according to a 2009 Turkish government report, 42 percent of women surveyed said they had been the victims of either physical or sexual abuse by their husband or partner. The report concluded that one in four married Turkish women had been injured by partner violence. Meanwhile, one in ten Turkish women were injured by such violence while pregnant.

Some Turkish activists fear the real statistics for violence against women may actually be much higher.

“In all domestic surveys there are ’shadow figures.’ That is because women are not willing to tell about the violence, it’s a very sensitive issue,” says Pinar Ilkkaracan, a co-founder of the Istanbul-based group Women for Women’s Human Rights.

“We think it’s much higher than 42 percent.”

Domestic violence against women is not confined to economically-depressed, rural regions of eastern Turkey. According to the Turkish government survey, the statistics for physical and sexual assault were roughly the same in the countryside as in the most developed, fast-growing cities in the western part of the country.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/30/turkey.domestic.abuse/index.html?hpt=C2#fbid=HIqpfPOWyHQ

Ægteskabskultur og etnisk herkomst har stor indflydelse på spædbørns overlevelsesdygtighed og sundhed.

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Resultaterne kommer ikke bag på professor Karen Brøndum-Nielsen, der er direktør ved Kennedy Centret – Det nationale forsknings- og rådgivningscenter for genetik, synshandicap og mental retardering.

- Vi ved fra lignende undersøgelser i udlandet, at der er en højere forekomst af misdannelser, handicap og dødfødsler blandt indgifte. Og en undersøgelse af mentalt retarderede børn i Københavns Amt viser ligeledes, at der er en overvægt af indvandrerbørn i denne gruppe, så det er helt klart, at der er en sammenhæng, siger Karen Brøndum-Nielsen.

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I Pakistan anslås det, at godt 70 procent af alle ægteskaber er indgifte, i Tyrkiet ligger det på mellem 25 og 30 procent. Til sammenligning er kun 40 procent af de pakistanske ægtepar i Danmark beslægtede. For tyrkiske par er tallet nede på 15 procent.

“Når fætter og kusine får børn sammen, er der dobbelt så stor risiko for at få et handicappet barn – det koster kommunekasserne dyrt.

Handicappede indvandrerbørn koster danske kommuner millioner.

I Københavns Amt alene er antallet af handicappede børn i alt steget med mere 100 procent på 10 år.

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Allerede i 2000 blev det gjort op, at mens 13 pct. af alle børn var indvandrere i Københavns Kommune, så udgjorde de 24 pct. af de svært handicappede børn.

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Merete Lefelt har kontakt til 330 familier med handicappede børn i Københavns Kommune.

Hun skyder på, at en tredjedel af deres klienter har fremmedkulturel baggrund.”

http://www.bt.dk/nyheder/indvandreres-indavl-koster-millioner

“A senior official in Afghanistan’s Ministry for Women’s Affairs told a recent UN workshop that about half of Afghanistan’s 476 women prisoners were detained for “moral crimes”.

That includes everything from running away from home, refusing to marry, marrying without their family’s wishes, and “attempted adultery”.

“In many cases women run away because they can’t bear the domestic violence and then they are picked up and taken into custody for a long time,” explains Nader Nadery, a commissioner at Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8771605.stm

“Tyrkiske kvinder holdes nede med vold

Flere end 10.200 kvinder i Istanbul har i årets første fire måneder oplevet at blive udsat for vold i hjemmet, viser en undersøgelse. …

Siden årsskiftet har sammenlagt 10.282 kvinder i Istanbul anmeldt en far, ægtemand, bror, kæreste eller sågar søn til politiet for grov vold. Det viser en officiel undersøgelse foretaget af menneskerettighedsafdelingen ved Istanbuls provinsstyre. …

Vildan Yirmibesoglu henviser til tidligere, mere omfangsrige undersøgelser, der har fastslået, at tre af fire kvinder i hele Tyrkiet i gennemsnit mindst en gang om måneden udsættes for fysisk eller psykisk vold.

»Det er typiske træk ved mandsdominerede samfund. Det er en mentalitet, der ikke tilkender kvinden taleret eller retten til at forvalte sit eget liv, klæde sig som hun vil, eller have kontakt til hvem hun har lyst til. De grove tilfælde forekommer typisk i meget konservative miljøer, hvor familiens mænd tager beslutninger på kvindens vegne,« siger Yirmibesoglu.”

Pola Rojan, Jyllands-Postens korrespondent

JP

2010-06-30 03:01:00

“I Gaza er flertallet af de 440.000 skolebørn dumpet til oprykningsprøven, og 39.000 børn går slet ikke i skole. Lysten til at lære er kvalt i krig, vold og fattigdom.

Radiomanuskript
I Gaza er skolernes sommerferie netop begyndt. Men flertallet af de 440.000 skolebørn er dumpet til oprykningsprøven, og 39.000 børn går slet ikke i skole. Lysten til at lære er kvalt i krig, vold og fattigdom.”

Link: http://www.dr.dk/P1/orientering/indslag/2010/06/29/173516.htm

While a nationwide study has yet to be undertaken, regional data from Cologneand Frankfurt shows that young women of Turkish background try to kill themselves twice as often as their German counterparts, daily Die Welt reported on Friday. …

While a nationwide study has yet to be undertaken, regional data from Cologneand Frankfurt shows that young women of Turkish background try to kill themselves twice as often as their German counterparts, daily Die Welt reported on Friday.

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100521-27341.html

We are less likely to ‘feel the pain’ of people from other races, a study suggests

People empathise less with the pain of others if they are from a different race, research suggests.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7771834/We-are-less-likely-to-feel-the-pain-of-people-from-other-races-a-study-suggests.html

“A study that shows boys growing up in religious Muslim families are more likely to be violent seems set to reignite the debate over religion and integration, a media report said on Sunday. The study, which involved intensive questioning of 45,000 teenagers from 61 towns and regions across the country, was conducted by Christian Pfeiffer of the criminal research institute of Lower Saxony. …

Pfeiffer’s work took into account the level of education and standard of living in the families of the children – aged between 14 and 16 – who were questioned. He also asked them how religious they considered themselves, and how integrated they felt in Germany.

Pfeiffer said that even when other social factors were taken into account, there remained a significant correlation between religiosity and readiness to use violence. There were some positive correlations too he said, noting that young religious Muslims were much less likely than their non-Muslim counterparts to drink alcohol – or to steal from shops.

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The results showed that Muslim boys from immigrant families were more than twice as likely to agree with macho statements than boys from Christian immigrant families. The rate was highest among those considered as very religious, Pfeiffer said. They were also more likely to be using violent computer games and have criminal friends.

Added to that, the more religious Muslim boys felt the least integrated intoGerman society, with only 14.5 percent of the very religious Turkish boys (the largest group of Muslims in the study) saying they felt German, although 88.5 percent had been born here.”

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100606-27673.html

Det er ingen hemmelighed, aten meget stor del af de unge har muslimsk baggrund. Er det derfor, at Århus Kommune ikke har gidet oplyse, HVOR stor en del af de dyre unge, der har indvandrerbaggrund?

“Fra 2007 til 2008 steg antallet af de dyreste anbringelsessager fra 38 til 57 i Århus Kommune. Det er en stigning på 50 pct. i sager, der hver koster over én mio. kr. På grund af vanskeligheder med at finde egnede pladser bruges i disse sager ofte såkaldte enkeltmandsprojekter. Det vil sige, at den unge bliver isoleret med et hold af pædagoger. Her kræves, hvad der svarer til 4,3 pædagoger pr. døgn. Regningen for den dyreste anbringelse i 2008 løb op i 3,2 mio. kr.”

Kilde: JP: http://jp.dk/indland/aar/article1830739.ece