MEDIA: The Untold Stories of Violence Against Women

Posted: 26 November 2009 | MMA in the Media | Categories: Gender, Media Freedom and Performance

ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) - “You don’t need to go far, it is all around us,“ said Robert Dijksterhuis, head of the gender division in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to a room mostly full of women. “Up to one in three women around the world has been abused in some way - most often by someone she knows,“ he added, quoting UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) numbers.

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