WGA/10/7
Sponsored by Briana Doty, Nicole Wright of Franklin High School
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Tajikistan.
This legislation was filed in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
| 1 | Definitions: |
| 2 | Domestic Violence Shelter: A building for victims to escape the danger of domestic violence |
| 3 | Domestic Violence: Violent or aggressive behavior in a household causing emotional, physical, |
| 4 | sexual, or physiological stress or harm. |
| 5 | Isfara: A city in Tajikistan |
| 6 | Family Violence Law: Tajikistan’s first-ever law regarding domestic violence passed in 2013 |
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| 8 | Noting with grave concern that an estimated one-third of women in Tajikistan have been victims of |
| 9 | domestic violence and a reported 24.6% of women experience physical or sexual intimate partner |
| 10 | violence. |
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| 12 | Emphasizing that under the criminal procedure code in Tajikistan, perpetrators of domestic |
| 13 | violence more often than not fall out of the reach of the public prosecutor, and that the Family |
| 14 | Violence Law in Tajikistan doesn’t criminalize domestic violence, nor recognize domestic violence |
| 15 | as a crime. It is only seen as an administrative liability. |
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| 17 | Drawing attention to the unnerving statistics regarding domestic violence in Tajikistan. The reports |
| 18 | filed by married women aged 15-49 record that 20% of married women have experienced |
| 19 | domestic violence by their husbands while 40% of women principally experienced domestic |
| 20 | violence. |
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| 22 | Alarmed by the statistic that 62.4% of women accept physical abuse from their husbands if they |
| 23 | left the home without request, 68% of women accept abuse if they were to quarrel with their |
| 24 | husbands, and 47.9% of women accept abuse if they refuse to have sex with their husbands. |
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| 26 | Deeply concerned that victims of domestic violence may have to endure a lifetime of harm if not |
| 27 | given access to a sanctuary, such as a domestic violence shelter. |
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| 29 | The delegation of Tajikistan does herby: |
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| 31 | Urges the United Nations to financially support Tajikistan by providing a starting amount of |
| 32 | 1,490,000 USD to provide domestic violence shelters for the people of Tajikistan to allow victims |
| 33 | to find refuge from harm and safely report domestic violence while being sheltered. These shelters |
| 34 | will be spread out in a 10-mile radius with 40 mosques in the city of Isfara, with the previously |
| 35 | requested funding used to begin the creation of these shelters in Isfara. Data will be connected |
| 36 | from this city a year after the shelters are finished, and this data will be used to plan accordingly |
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| 38 | Recognizing that these shelters will hold 50 people each and include food, water, cots, basic |
| 39 | medical attention, a phone to connect necessary facilities, toiletries, and clothing to support and |
| 40 | provide for victims. |
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| 42 | Reminds the members of the United Nations of the inescapable harm a great number of people in |
| 43 | Tajikistan suffer. |
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