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After surviving a sexual assault in Tahrir Square while covering the Arab Spring in Egypt, Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian journalist, wrote an essay entitled "Why Do They Hate Us" for Foreign Policy magazine. (More information)
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) describes in its report, Let Me Not Die Before My Time: Domestic Violence in West Africa, the perverse problem of domestic violence in the Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. (More information)
Is your country in the process of drafting or amending a domestic violence law?
The Advocates for Human Rights provides commentary to laws and amendments on domestic violence upon request. See examples of our Commentary on National Laws here.
Additionally, The Advocates for human rights works on domestic violence legal reform, including trainings for legal professionals and extensive research and reports that monitor domestic violence laws and implementation in partner countries. Learn more about this work.
To request commentary or to inquire further, please contact Cheryl Thomas at cthomas@advrights.org.
Current staff members of The Advocates for Human Rights involved with the development of STOPVAW include: Mary Ellingen, Beatriz Menanteau, Mary O'Brien, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, Helen Rubenstein, and Cheryl Thomas. Current interns and volunteers include Lauren Woodbury, Laura Stecker, Eleanor Lewis and Eleanor Frisch .
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