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Ecuador: Victims of Domestic Violence Ignored by Media and Society

Written bySilvia Viñas
Posted 16 September 2011 14 years ago

Lunas Azules [es] argues that victims of domestic violence are often ignored by the media and by society because of their “little political weight” and because their aggressor is not usually labeled as a criminal.

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