How to find a service without being sent somewhere that has closed

We are not going to print a list of organisations. Charities close, numbers get disconnected, and a dead number in a course like this one is worse than no number at all. What follows lasts longer.

Four places exist in almost every country and are not going anywhere.

A hospital emergency department. It has to see you, it is open at three in the morning, and it writes down what it sees with a date on it.

A doctor or a clinic, for the same reason, and it is easier to explain leaving the house for.

A court, which is where a protection order comes from, and a legal aid office or a women's legal aid organisation, which exist in far more countries than people assume. This is also where the questions about khul' and faskh actually get answered, rather than in a course.

The police. Honestly: in some places this helps and in some places it makes things worse or exposes you to something else. You are the one who knows which. It being the obvious answer does not make it the right one everywhere.

If you are a foreign national, your embassy can help with a passport, with getting home, and with local contacts. One catch that catches people out: if you hold that country's nationality as well, most embassies will not intervene with a government that also considers you its own citizen. Know that before you rely on it.

To find a live local service, search in your own language for the words a service would use about itself, together with your city. Words like women's shelter, domestic violence, family protection, or the name of your country's social affairs ministry. Look for something run by a government department or a hospital before something run by a charity, because it is likelier to still be there next year. And do that search on a device nobody else looks at.