Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Intimate partner violence is a major problem worldwide and it is one of the most social issues in Armenia.
The aim of this research is to explore the impact of intimate partner violence on empowerment of Armenian women of reproductive age group. A total women were selected from households at both urban and rural places of Armenia for interview using multistage cluster sampling technique.
Data analysis was performed using SPSS version The logistic regression analysis reveals that age of the respondents, number of children in the households, wealth index, and empowerment status are significantly associated with intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence has significant impact on the empowerment of women in Armenia. This study revealed that women with no empowerment are more likely to experience intimate partner violence compared to those women who are empowered in Armenian society.
Violence against women is considered as most inexorable human rights violation in the world [ 1 ]. It is common source of physical, psychological, and emotional morbidity [ 2 ]. Violence against women can happen within marriage, long-term relationships, or short-term relationships and be committed ex-partners when the relationship ends [ 5 ]. Around the world, women suffer from intimate partner violence, marital rape, rape by other men known to them and by strangers, incest, foeticide, sexual harassment, trafficking for prostitution and forced labour, dowry related violence, honour killings, other forms of femicide, acid attacks, and female genital mutilation, and these are all considered as gender-based violence as men are committing them against women [ 6 ].
Violence against women is one of the rampant human right violations [ 7 ]. Violence against women is the most common but least punished crime in the world and it has been estimated that globally women aged 15 to 44 are more likely to be maimed or die as a result of male violence than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined [ 8 ]. Violence against women is violation of basic human rights that must be eliminated through political will and by legal and civil action in all sectors of society [ 9 ].
