Allowances For Victimized Women From Rural Areas
August 12, 2009
United States government statistics revealed the most grueling picture: one in every four women becoming target of domestic violence and approximately 1.3 million women have been physically assaulted by her intimate partner. But women in rural areas facing sexual assault, domestic or other kinds of violence are more vulnerable than their counterparts in cities.
Rural women have to face many hurdles while receiving assistance; even service providers have to face barriers in the form of geographic location, social and cultural pressures, economic structures and absence of available resources. To overcome these hurdles and make the waves for the service providers to address the grievances of the victim rural women, Federal government established the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program popularly known as Rural Program in 1994. Read more