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AS many as 213,000 women in Ireland are victims of domestic violence and are living in fear.
Women's Aid, the support organisation, is warning that for one in seven women this abuse is severe.
It is appealing to individuals and organisations to get involved in its 16 Days campaign to highlight the issue. Women's Aid director Margaret Martin said one in five Irish women suffers domestic violence and victims cross all classes and religious backgrounds.
She said: "Without exception, a woman's greatest risk of violence is from someone she knows. Domestic violence is a violation of a woman's right to safety, freedom and all too often her right to life itself.
"When we think about human rights abuses, we tend to think of the prisoner of conscience in a far-off land, the actions of an oppressive regime or genocide.
"But human rights abuses also apply to the violence women experience from those nearest to them."
The grim statistics reveal the violence has exacted a terrible price: Women's Aid received 12,000 calls last year.
Independent
More story at-http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/one-in-five-women--living-in-fear-1497019.html
ŠIndependent.ie
