This paper was advanced in a seminar about "Domestic Violence And Ways To Prevent It" at the forensic medicine department in Damascus university, in cooperation of the Forensic Medicine Institution-Hamburg/Germany, and it is a kind of practical study in the forensic medicine center in Homs during the years 2004-2005 . It shows that 98% of the adults and 216 women were exposed to the violence of the husband, and in 99% of these situations, the violation has been repeated over and over again. Besides, 47% of the sample are women under the age of 20. As a result of this study, it reaches to the necessity of extensive studies, and the need to a private center for these researches.

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by: Dr. Bassam Al Mohammad, (summary: Physical Harms Against Women Caused By Domestic Violence)
Translated by: Diala Halloum

SWO (12/2006)