One of the problems survivors of domestic violence face is finding the right resources to help them break free, especially in smaller countries worldwide. Social Media has made it much easier to find domestic violence hotlines and other resources, but many survivors still have no way of tapping into those resources. They might not have access to or know how to navigate social media. As a result, they find themselves stuck with no help.
As we try to help survivors of abuse, one of our roles is to help them connect to their area’s local resources. In order to do that, we have to know where to refer them. Research your local domestic violence centers in your area before referring a survivor.
Here’s a list of worldwide domestic violence resources that you can use as a guide to help survivors. While not all-inclusive, this list is extensive and is a helpful resource guide. The author, Michelle Cardillo, did an excellent job of including countries from all over the world. You also can check out my abuse information page for more information about domestic violence and resources in the United States.
United States of America
National Family Violence Hotlines
- Break the Silence Survivor Helpline
phone: 1 (855) 287-1777
message on Facebook - DoD Safe Helpline (for military members & their families)
phone: 1 (877) 995-5247 - National Dating Abuse Helpline
phone: 1 (866) 331-9474
message on Facebook - The National Domestic Violence Hotline
phone: 1 (800) 799-7233
phone: 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)
message on Facebook - VictimConnect
phone: 1 (855) 484-2846
Domestic Violence Resources Across the U.K.
- Freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline
- Galop (for the LGBTQ community)
message on Facebook - Live Fear Free Helpline (Wales)
- Calan (Wales)
- Men’s Advice Line
message on Facebook - Respect Phoneline
message on Facebook - Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Force Marriage Helpline (Scotland)
- Scottish Women’s Aid (Scotland)
- Women’s Aid Federation (Northern Ireland)
message on Facebook - National Helpline UK
Domestic Violence Hotlines in European Countries
- Albania
Women and Girls Advice Line (Linja e Keshillimit per Gra dhe Vajza)
message on Facebook - Andorra
Servei d’Atenció a les Víctimes de Violència Domèstica i Familiar - Austria
Women’s Helpline Against Violence (Wiener Interventionsstelle gegen Gewalt in der Familie)
message on Facebook - Belarus
National Hotline for Survivors of Domestic Violence - Belgium
Crisis Situation Helpline
Ecoutes Violences Conjugales (French)
Violence Hotline (Flemish) - Bosnia and Herzegovina
SOS Line for Women and Children
(Republika Srpska)
(Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
message on Facebook - Bulgaria
Women’s Helpline - Croatia
Autonomous Women’s House in Zagreb - Cyprus
Center for Emergency Assistance Helpline - Czech Republic
DONA Line - Denmark
LOKK Hotline - Estonia
Tugitelefon - Finland
Women’s Line (Naisten Linja)
message on Facebook - France
Violences Femmes Info
Viols Femmes Information - Germany
National Women’s Helpline - Greece
E.K.K.A. (National Center for Social Solidarity)
phone: 197
message on Facebook
General Secretariat for Gender Equality
message on Facebook - Hungary
NaNE Helpline for Battered Women and Children - Iceland
Kvennaathvarfið Shelter Helpline - Ireland
National Freephone Helpline message on Facebook
- Italy
Antiviolenza Donne
message on Facebook - Kosovo
Direct Line for Victims of Violence (Albanian) (Bosnian)
message on Facebook
SOS Linja - Latvia
Crisis Helpline - Liechtenstein
Women’s Helpline Frauenhaus - Lithuania
Women’s Line (Lygus)
message on Facebook - Luxembourg
Fraentelefon - Macedonia
National SOS Line – Phone of Trust
message on Facebook
SOS National Mobile Line - Malta
Appogg Agency Supportline - Moldova
Trust Line
phone: 080 111 111
phone: Veilig Thuis - Norway
Crisis Situation Helpline - Poland
National Emergency Service for Survivors of Family Violence
National Emergency Service for Survivors of Family Violence – Blue Line
message on Facebook - Portugal
Serviço de Informação às Vitimas de Violéncia Doméstica - Romania
ADRA (Bucharest)
Baia Mare: Centru Artemis
CMSC (Iasi)
Sensi Blue Foundation (Bucharest)
Sibiu: A.L.E.G.
Targu Mures: IEESR
Timisoara: APFR - Russia
ANNA (National Center for the Prevention of Violence) - Serbia
Helpline for Victims of Domestic Violence
Network of Women’s Hotline in Vojvodina - Slovakia
National Line for Women Surviving Violence
phone: message on Facebook - Slovenia
SOS Helpline for Women and Children
phone: message on Facebook - Spain
Helpline for Information on Gender Violence
phone: message on Facebook - Sweden
Kvinnofridslinjen
phone: 020 52 1010 - Switzerland
Dargebotene Hand
phone: 183 - Ukraine
Domestic Violence Counteraction and Child Rights Protection Hotline
phone: 0800 500 336
message on Facebook
Additional Global Domestic Violence Hotlines & Resources
- Afghanistan
Afghan Women’s Resource Center
phone: +93 799 203 056
phone: +93 700 280 179
message on Facebook - Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
phone: 268 463 5555 - Argentina
phone: 11 3133 1000
message on Facebook - Armenia
Women’s Support Center
phone: 099 887 808
message on Facebook - Australia
1800 RESPECT
phone: 1 800 737 732
message on Facebook - Azerbaijan
phone: 99 412 408 5696 - Bahamas
phone: 1 800 737 732
message on Facebook - Bahrain
Information Centre for Women and Children
phone: 17262237
message on Facebook - Bangladesh
phone: 109 - Belize
Cornerstone Foundation
phone: 222 4343 - Benin
Courants de Femmes
phone: 806 254 0376 - Bhutan
Information Centre for Women and Children
phone: (975) 2 332159/334751 - Bolivia
Casa del Mujer
phone: 591 4 663 8517
message on Facebook - Botswana
Humana People to People
phone: (267) 3900516/7659
message on Facebook - Botswana
Humana People to People
phone: (267) 3900516/7659
message on Facebook - Brazil
SOS Ação Mulher e Família
phone: 180 - Brunei
phone: 673 340524 - Burkina Faso
phone: 226 31 30 52 - Burundi
phone: +257 22 23 53 78
message on Facebook - Cabo Verde
phone: 941 780 2232
message on Facebook - Cambodia
Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center
phone: 1288 - Cameroon
phone: 267 220 52 94 - Canada
Alberta Council of Women
phone: 1 800 363 9010
message on Facebook - Central African Republic
phone: 610600 - Chad
phone: 0235 66 77 50 35
message on Facebook - Chile
Red Chilena Contra la Violencia Hacia las Mujeres
phone: 800 104 008
message on Facebook - Colombia
phone: 01 8000 52 2020 - Comoros
phone: 0269 773 46 63 - Democratic Republic of the Congo
phone: (267) 220 52 94 - Republic of the Congo
phone: 05 548 59 95 - Costa Rica
Cefemina
phone: 506 2224 3986
message on Facebook - Djibouti
Union Nationale des Femmes de Djibouti
phone: 35 04 21/35 19 81 - Dominica
phone: (767) 266-3023/3344/3083 - Dominican Republic
phone: *212
message on Facebook - Ecuador
phone: 098 63 62 526
message on Facebook - El Savador
Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz
phone: 503 2556 0032
message on Facebook - Eritrea
National Union of Eritrean Women
phone: 291 1 185636
message on Facebook - Eswatini
Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse
phone: 95
message on Facebook - Ethiopia
phone: (11) 124 2998/123 0777
message on Facebook - Fiji
Fiji Women’s Crisis Center
phone: 3313 300
message on Facebook - Georgia
Anti-Violence Network of Georgia
phone: 309 903
message on Facebook - Grenada
phone: 473 440 3788
message on Facebook - Guatemala
Fundación Sobrevivientes
phone: 2285 0100/0139
message on Facebook - Guinea
phone: 60 28-11-89 - Guyana
Fundación Sobrevivientes
phone: (592) 227-3454 - Haiti
Anti-Violence Network of Georgia
phone: (509) 2 45 5174/4221
message on Facebook - Honduras
phone: 114 - India
Zariya
phone: 1091 / 1291
message on Facebook - Indonesia
Komnas Perempuan
phone: (0274) 553333 - Georgia
Anti-Violence Network of Georgia
phone: 309 903
message on Facebook - Iran
Organization for Defending Victims of Violence
phone: 21 88 96 30 91
message on Facebook - Iraq
phone: 110
message on Facebook - Israel
phone: 1202
message on Facebook - Jamaica
Woman Inc. Crisis Centre
phone: 929 9038
message on Facebook - Japan
Women’s Resource Center
phone: 092 513 7333 - Jordan
The Jordanian National Commission for Women
phone: 6 568 7037
message on Facebook - Kenya
Coalition on Violence Against Women
phone: 733 594 794
message on Facebook - Kiribati
phone: 26187 - Kyrgyzstan
phone: 281 455 - Laos
phone: 1362 - Lebanon
Lebanese Council for Combating Violence Against Women
phone: 6 624 060
message on Facebook - Liberia
phone: 919 527 0517
message on Facebook - Marshall Islands
Women United Together Marshall Islands
phone: +692 625 5290
message on Facebook - Mauritius
SOS Femmes
phone: 139 - Mexico
phone: 1 800 911 2511
message on Facebook - Morocco
phone: (212) 2 82 64 00/01
message on Facebook - Myanmar
Myanmar Women’s Affairs Federation
message on Facebook - Namibia
phone: 081 127 1002/3 - Nepal
The Women’s Foundation Nepal
phone: +977 1 515 5080
message on Facebook - New Zealand
Shine
phone: 0508 744 633
message on Facebook - Nicaragua
phone: 118
message on Facebook - Niger
phone: 227 74 12 55 - Nigeria
WACOL
phone: (234) 09091333000 - Papua New Guinea
phone: 71508000 - Paraguay
phone: 137 - Saint Kitts and Nevis
phone: 869 469 1887
message on Facebook - Saint Lucia
St. Lucia Crisis Centre Corporation
phone: 202 - Samoa
Samoa Victims Support
phone: 68522640
message on Facebook - San Marino
phone: 800 738 738 - Saudi Arabia
phone: 1919 - Senegal
Comite de Lutte Contre Les Violences Faites Aux Femmes
phone: 221 33 941 44 11 - Seychelles
phone: 248 224 455 - Sierra Leone
phone: 240 215
message on Facebook - Singapore
Aware
phone: 18007775555 - Solomon Islands
phone: 677 26999 - Somalia
Save Somali Women And Children – SSWC
phone: +252 6184 72202
message on Facebook - South Africa
Frida Hartley Shelter
phone: 0800 150 150
message on Facebook - South Korea
Korea Women’s Hotline
phone: 1366
message on Facebook - Sri Lanka
phone: 94 11 4 715585 - Sudan
phone: 9696
message on Facebook - Suriname
Stop Violence Against Women Foundation
phone: +597 470 0380 - Taiwan
phone: 113 - Tajikistan
Project on Prevention of Domestic Violence
phone: (91) 1892 221 527/198 - Tanzania
Kiwohede
phone: 0800 780 100
message on Facebook - Thailand
phone: 02 276 2950 - Timor-Leste
phone: 390 321 534 - Tonga
Women & Children Crisis Center Tonga
phone: +676 222 40
message on Facebook - Trinidad and Tobago
phone: 800 7283 - Tunisia
phone: (216) 7189 0011 - Uruguay
Red Uruguaya Contra la Violencia Doméstica y Sexual
phone: 0800 4141
message on Facebook - Vanuatu
phone: +678 25764
message on Facebook - Venezuela
Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas
phone: 0800-MUJERES (6853737)
message on Facebook - Vietnam
phone: (971) 34 36/31 43 - Yemen
phone: 1 415 814 - Zambia
phone: 1 25 52 04
message on Facebook
Source:
Contact Information compiled by Michelle Cardillo