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Women of 2010: Victims of violence still... (part 2)

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"It's a domestic" - once this was police speak for an incident where usually a husband was physically abusing a a wife. Now police views on domestic violence have changed. But has society too moved on? In some parts of the world violence against women is considered the norm.

Discussion hosted by Mark Owen with guests:
 
Sheila MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER, Author and translator of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second sex
Philippe HENSMANS, Director of Amnesty International Belgium (via satellite from Brussels)
Susie McDONALD, Director, VDAY Tender (via satellite from London)
Etelle HIGONNET, Former Human Rights Watch Researcher (By phone from London)
 
Programme prepared by Bilal Tarabey and Perrine Desplats
 


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