Need Help?

Have you experienced abuse and need help?

If you have experienced abuse, feel threatened, unsafe or need assistance, please see the list of country help lines below. If there is no help line for the country that you are in, please see the list of agencies.

You can also submit a confidential individual complaint form to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.  Just download the form and email it to urgent-action@ohchr.org. See the web page for additional information on the complaints process

For a list of organizations that provide services by country, see:

The Hot Peach Pages: https://www.hotpeachpages.net/index.html

Tthe Pixel Project: https://www.thepixelproject.net/resources/domestic-violence-incest-resource-page/

Note: UN Women is not responsible for the information provided by external sources.  If there is a problem with any of the numbers provided below, kindly contact us.

Helplines

Albania – 116 117 and (04) 22 33 408 Honduras - 114 Philippines - (63) (2) 926 7744
Algeria - 021 92 60 76 Hong Kong - 18281 Poland - 8011 200 02
Andorra – 860 345
Hungary - (36) 80 20 55 20
Portugal  - 800 202 148
Angola - 244 2 322295 Iceland – (00 354) 5611205 Puerto Rico - 787 724 1596
Antigua & Barbuda - (268) 463 5555 India - 1091 / 1291 Qatar - 4679444
Argentina - 0800 666 8537 Indonesia - (0274) 553333 Romania – (40) 264 598155
Armenia - 0800 80 850 Iran - 07862 733511/0808 2000 247 Russian Federation – 8 800 7000 600
Australia - 1800 737 732 Iraq - 110 Rwanda – 3512/ 3945
Austria - 0 800 222 555 Ireland - 1 800 341 900 Saint Kitts & Nevis – (869) 469 1887
Azerbaijan - 493 7039/ 498 0092
Israel - 1 81 800 292 333 Saint Lucia – 202
Bahamas - (242) 328 0922 Italy - 15 22 Saint Vincent & Grenadines -
(784) 456 2161
Bahrain - 17262237 Jamaica – 929 9038 Samoa – (685) 22640
Bangladesh - 109
Japan - 092 513 7333 San Marino – 800 738 738
Barbados - (246) 435 8222 Jordan - 00962 6 5687037 Saudi Arabia - 1919
Belarus - 8 801 100 8 801 Kenya - 2726300 9 Scotland - 0800 027 1234
Belgium - 0 800 30030/1712
Korea, Republic of (South) – 1366 Senegal – (221) 33 941 44 11
Belize - 222 4343 Kyrgyzstan - 281 455 Serbia – 0 800 100 600
Benin – 8062540376
Laos - 856 21 214 30 1/2 Seychelles – 248 224 455
Bhutan - (975) 2 332159/334751 Latvia - 37 16 72 22 92 2
Sierra Leone – 240 215 
Bolivia - (591 4) 663 8517 Lebanon -  00961 3 829 809 Singapore - 1 800 774 5935
Bosnia & Herzegovina - 1264/1265
Lesotho - 266 9 32 58 23 Slovakia – 112
Botswana - (267) 3900516/7659 Liberia - 443 739 1413 Slovenia - 080 11 55
Brazil - 180 Liechtenstein - 42 380 02 03 Solomon Islands – (677) 26999
Brunei Darussalam - 673 340524 Lithuania - 88 0066 366
Somalia – (252) 90768248
Bulgaria - 02/981 76 86
Luxembourg – 352 407 335
South Africa – 0800 150 150
Burkina Faso - 226 31 30 52 Macedonia - 070 141 700/075 141 700 Spain – 016
Cameroon - 267 220 52 94 Malawi - (265) 835 745 / 751 657 Sri Lanka – (94 11) 4 718585
Cambodia -  1288 Malaysia -  (60) 03 7960 3030 /
7956 3488
Sudan – 9696
Canada - 1 800 363 9010 Maldives - 3329329 Suriname – 47 0380/8268
Cape Verde - 132
Chile -  800 104 008 Mali - 223 23 13 09 Swaziland - 95
China – 110 Malta - 179
Sweden – 020 50 50 50
Colombia - 01 8000 52 2020 Marshall Islands - (692) 625 4296 Switzerland – 044 291 46 46
Cook Islands - (682) 21133 Mauritius - 119 or 233 3054 Syria – 00963 11 3120447
Costa Rica - 911 Mayotte - 0269 61 29 49 Taiwan – 113
Croatia - 116 006
Mexico - 01 800 911 25 11 Tajikistan – 6 05 10
Cuba - 106 Micronesia - (691) 300 8396 / 330 5263 Tanzania – 255 51 2861111
Cyprus - 1440 Moldova - 0 800 88 008
Thailand – 02 276 2950
Czech Republic - 2 51 51 13 13 Monaco - 377 92 05 95 05 Tibet - (91) 1892 221 527/198
Democratic Republic of the Congo -
(267) 220 52 94
Mongolia - 976 50990505 Timor-Leste – 670 (390) 321534
Denmark - 45 70 20 30 82
Montenegro - (382) 40213086 / 68024086 Tonga – 22 240
Dominican Republic - 809 200 1202 Morocco - (212) 2 82 64 00/01 Trinidad & Tobago – 800 7283
Ecuador - (244) 7347/6945/7649 Mozambique - 800 112 112 Tunisia - (216) 71890011/22953782
Egypt - 202 257 87089/76792 Namibia – (081) 127 1002/3 Turkey – 155/156/183
El Salvador - 126 or 7608-680 Nauru - (674) (444) 3883/3881 Turkmenistan – (993)12445469/3915
England - 0808 2000 247 Nepal - 543 111/527 334 Turks and Caicos – (649) 946 2801
Eritrea - 291 1 185636 Netherlands - 0 900 126 26 26
Tuvalu – (688) 20411
Estonia - 1492 New Caledonia - 687 27 13 60 Uganda – 256 (0) 753 781 122
Ethiopia - (11) 124 2998/123 0777 New Zealand - 0900 842846 Ukraine – 0 800 500 335 or 386 (mobile)
Fiji - 679 3313 300 Nicaragua - 118 United Arab Emirates – 2 4475333
Finland - 080 005 005/0800 02400 Niger – (227) 74 12 55 United Kingdom - 0808 2000 247
France - 39 19
Nigeria - (234) 0704 761 828/845 United States – 1 800 799 7233
Georgia - 112
Northern Ireland - 0800 917 1414 Uruguay – 0800 4141
Germany - 0 8000 116 016
Norway - 800 40 008 Vanuatu – 24000
Ghana - 233 244 846 701 Pakistan - 051 925763 32 Venezuela – 0 800 6853737
Gibraltar - 20042581 Palau - (680) 767 2452 Viet Nam - (971) 34 36/31 43
Greece -  SOS 15900 Palestine - (970) 2 295 614 6/7/8 Wales – 0808 80 10 800
Grenada - (473) 440 3788 Panamá - 147 Yemen – 967 1 415814
Guatemala - 2285 0100/0139 Papua New Guinea - 3260011 Zambia – (260) 1 25 52 04
Guyana - (592) 227 3454/225 4731 Paraguay - 021 452 062 Zimbabwe – (0)772 1000 49/502/601
Haiti - (509) 2 45 5174/4221 Perú - 100