The Most Reported Abuse Cases Year 2005 in Malaysia.

According to the recent research done by WAO, the total number of women utilising WAO’s services in Petaling Jaya amounts to 1446. Among these women, 112 women sought shelter, 115 women had face-to-face counselling services and lastly 1215 women had telephone counselling services from WAO (Abdul Ghani, 2005).

To examine the data in detail, among the 116 women who sought shelter from WAO, 58 (50%) of them were because of domestic violence. And out of the 58 women, 53 women experienced psychological abuses – highlighting the intensity of silent abuse. As for face-to-face counselling services, 60 (52.2%) out of 115 women had experienced domestic violence as well. Domestic violence is reported as being the most prevalent cases and more significantly, almost all women experienced psychological abuses.