{"id":3236,"date":"2022-06-17T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2023-06-07T13:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:02:24","slug":"violence-against-31810-children-45404-women-in-last-5-years-police-bureau-7758-children-14023-women-sexually-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/violence-against-31810-children-45404-women-in-last-5-years-police-bureau-7758-children-14023-women-sexually-abused\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against 31,810 children, 45,404 women in last 5 years  \u2013 Police bureau 7,758 children, 14,023 women sexually abused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By K. Prasanna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 31,810 cases of violence against children and 45,404 cases of violence against women reported between 2016 and November last year, according to the Bureau for the Prevention of Abuse of Children and Women (BPACW) of the Sri Lanka Police. These figures have been revealed through information obtained through the Right to Information Act from the Bureau which is located at the Sri Lanka Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the <strong>31,840 <\/strong>reported crimes against children, <strong>142<\/strong> were murders, and <strong>56<\/strong> were attempted murders. In addition, <strong>228<\/strong> children were seriously injured, and <strong>7,758<\/strong> children were sexually abused. According to the bureau, <strong>4,471<\/strong> of them were abused by close relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the <strong>45,404 <\/strong>reported crimes against women, <strong>499<\/strong> were murders, and <strong>81<\/strong> were attempted murders. In addition, <strong>1,401<\/strong> women were seriously injured, and <strong>14,023<\/strong> women were sexually abused.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BPACW currently has Divisional Bureaus in the 42 Police Territorial Divisions and, Children and Women (C&amp;W) Units in 481 police stations in the country, according to a study by the Centre for Women\u2019s Research (CENWOR) done for the National Police Commission (NPC).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By K. Prasanna There were 31,810 cases of violence against children and 45,404 cases of violence against women reported between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtisrilanka.lk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}