Complaint Center of the General Department for Social Protection

Country	Saudi Arabia
Year	2009
Type of Measure	Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence	Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Brief Description

The Complaint Center of the General Department for Social protection was funded by Ministry of Social Affairs in order to receive reports of domestic violence confidentially. The center can be reached, free-of-charge, through dialing a four digit number (1919). Complaints can also be filed through the General Department for Social protection website.

Source of Information

Response of the Government of Saudi Arabia to the questionnaire on violence against women, April 2009; CEDAW/C/SAU/2 p. 20