Tag: domesticviolence

Countries could save billions of dollars a year by tackling the “disgusting pandemic” of domestic violence Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said on Friday. She made the remarks following the release of a study that found the scourge costs the tiny African Kingdom of Lesotho 5.5 percent of its annual economic output measured by the gross domestic product (GDP). Scotland listed the many ways in which domestic violence takes an economic toll, from burdening health, police and judicial services, fostering absenteeism at work and school, to permanently damaging children who witnessed it,...