BMJ  2004;328:649 (13 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7440.649-a

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Domestic violence

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Domestic violence, the subject of a paper in this week's BMJ (p 621), cuts across several fields—medicine, law, religion, and politics. There are many references to it on the internet—a search on www.google.com using the term "domestic violence" brings up nearly three million sites—and a number of dedicated sites that offer useful information and links.

One of these comes from the California based Family Violence Prevention Fund (www.endabuse.org), which has sought to end violence against women and children around the world for more than two decades. One of the links it offers is towards a programme that targets impressionable boys and young men and aims to change their attitudes and behaviour towards women and girls.

V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls (www.vday.org). It is funded and directed by playwright Eve Ensler, author of the hit show The Vagina . . . [Full text of this article]

Chibuzo Odigwe

fourth year medical student, University of Calabar, Nigeria, and BMJ Clegg scholar codigwe@bmj.com


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