"Fundamental inequality" at the heart of domestic violence

Published: Thursday, December 01, 2011

The continuing lack of equality between men and women is the root cause of incidents of domestic and gender related violence, a conference on fighting domestic violence has been told.

Council of Europe (CoE) Deputy Secretary-General Maud de Boer-Buquiccio said: "The starting point is that violence is a human-rights violation, a concept that has very important connotations."

She was speaking at a one-day conference 'Effective Ways to Prevent and Combat Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence' held in Bratislava, Slovakia.

"This is not just a women's issue, it is a human issue, a global issue. We need to develop a further approach," Ms de Boer-Buquiccio said.

She said people tend to think of human rights as the responsibility of the state, but domestic violence as something between private citizens.

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