A Thai woman vendor on the streets of Bangkok According to the latest summary of a survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime among 189 countries worldwide, Thailand was among dozens of nations highlighted for a high number of rape cases. This is very disturbing news to the country. In the past, numerous Thai scholars and women's organizations have identified violence against women as a severe problem in this country. Also in the past many reports from the United Nations Development Program informed unequivocally that there has been growing concern about the problem of violence against women including physical, sexual, and mental abuse by their husbands in Thailand . Domestic violence is a significant social problem in Thailand and in Asia in general. In particular, a great deal of attention has been paid to the high rates of physical abuse which men perpetrate against their female partners and the causes of such violence. Women may have become the he