The statistical data resulted within this research show that, over the past 12 months alone:
- 827.000 women in Romania have frequently suffered from acts of domestic violence in different forms: 739.000 women have been insulted, threatened or humiliated, more then 325.000 women have been physically abused and a similar number have suffered abuses that lead to forced obliteration of all their social relations; over 193.000 women were denied their own financial means or have been deprived of those by members of their families, and not less than 70.000 women have suffered different forms of abuses including sexual ones;
- 377.000 children in Romania have witnessed frequent insults and cursing between their parents of between other members of their households;
- more than 340.000 children in Romania have witnessed physical violence acts between their parents
The research was conducted by IMAS over the months of July and August 2003, using a nationally representative population sample of 1.806 individuals, women and men aged 18yrs and over. The project was financially supported by the Open Society Institute (OSI), through the Legal Resources Center (LRC) Bucharest.

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The Gender Barometer was launched by the Open Society Foundation - Romania (OSF-R) in August 2000, under the program "Empowerment and Development", with the expert contribution of the Women's Program.  
The setting of public policies related to gender issues cannot disregard a thorough knowledge of how the public opinion is positioned in respect to such policy endeavors, or the priorities it sets in this direction.
Center Partnership for Equality draws on these data as an essential tool for fundament its strategies and actions aiming at achieving its programmatic objectives.

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