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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - Women and men who suffer domestic or sexual violence should get better help in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The country wants to bundle numerous support offers in an anti-violence pact.
Discussions with aid agencies and associations should be started this week, said NRW Equality Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU) on Tuesday in Düsseldorf.
In 2019, more than 37,380 victims in North Rhine-Westphalia were recorded in the status report of the State Criminal Police Office on partnership violence.
Of these, a good 31,000 victims were women (almost 83 percent) and almost 6,380 men (17 percent).
Although there was a slight decline for the second year in a row, said Scharrenbach.
"But behind every number there is a fate and a family tragedy."
With the pact against violence, a "signal should also be sent to the public".
So-called “power houses”, in which advice and help are bundled at central contact points, are to play a central role in the future.
The state is currently funding 64 women's shelters, 52 specialist counseling centers against sexual violence and more than 60 general women's counseling centers that are run by various providers.
These offers should now be "visibly combined," said the minister.
The guiding principle is that all women acutely affected by violence can get protection and help promptly in women's shelters and threatened men in shelters with their children.
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Situation report on partnership violence 2019