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 |