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Pakistan, Lahore, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge). R., 21 years old and forced to marry a 14 year-old young man, had been abu...

Pakistan, Lahore, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge). In the refuges, the women receive government food rations. They all take t...

Pakistan, Bahawalpur, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge) The women taking refuge in the Dar Ul Aman cannot go outside. Here, 36...

Pakistan, Lahore, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge). L., 18 years old, was forced to marry a, 80 year-old man. She asked him fo...

Pakistan, Bahawalpur, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge). H., 18 years old, has started a process of recovering and regaining co...

Pakistan, Multan, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge). The Dar Ul Aman, or refuges, are built in the same way as Pakistani state...

Pakistan, Multan, January 2010 Dar Ul Aman (government-run women's refuge). The Dar Ul Aman - which literally means "peace houses" - welcome women aff...

Pakistan, Lahore, January 2010 R., 21 years old, has taken refuge here to escape her violent in-laws, who were against her request for a divorce. Toda...

France, Saint-Denis, December 2009 84% of respondents in a 2009 survey of 126 women in Saint-Denis and Paris claimed to have been subject to verbal, p...

France, Sarcelles, December 2009 France, Sarcelles, decembre 2009 Lam Duc Hien / Agence VU

France, Sarcelles, December 2009 The women's poor socio-economic siutation and uncertain immigration status not only renders them more vulnerable to v...

France, Sarcelles, December 2009 France, Sarcelles, decembre 2009 Lam Duc Hien / Agence VU

France, Sarcelles, December 2009 84% of women interviewed were undocumented migrants?this limits their access to healthcare and to social and legal su...

Moldova, Balti, November 2009 The teams which carry out consultations in the rural areas found the parents of three children who had been abandoned af...

Moldova, November 2009 Oxanna went to the Emirates to escape from the environment of organised crime that she had grown up in. She ended up in a prost...

Moldova, November 2009 A poor couple whose 25 year-old daughter enticed by the promise of job, found herself in a prostitution ring in Moscow. Having...

Moldova, November 2009 O. lives in the country with her husband and three year-old child. Without any income, she received several offers to work abro...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma, July 2009 N. is 18 years old. Her mother is dead and she was thrown out of her home by her stepmother. On the stre...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, July 2009 Noemi, 17 months, her mother, 19 years old. During the day, the girls on the streets come alone or w...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, July 2009 The girls on the streets are often very young and they sell their bodies to men?many of whom are dru...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma, July 2009 Judith was raped by six men in 2006 and has been rejected by her family and husband. To overcome this tr...

Democratic Republic of Congo, July 2009 In a partner organisation's rehabilitation centre, MdM trains psycho-social counsellors to accompany women aff...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, July 2009 Nadine 15 months, her mother, 17 years old. As well as providing healthcare, MdM - with the help of...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma, July 2009 John, one of the psycho-social counsellors trained by MdM, welcomes, listens to, and advises women affec...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, July 2009 More than half of the population of Kinshasa lives below the poverty line. Many young girls live on...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma, July 2009 Both mother and daughter were raped. Ayana, 16 years old, then gave birth to twins. Her mother, Ngani, h...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma, July 2009 M., 61 years old, was widowed five years ago. She is supported by a local organisation, one of MdM's par...

Guatemala, Chimaltenango, June 2009 Like most of the workers in the maquilas, S. is young (23 years old) and had to leave her family in the country in...

Guatemala, Chimaltenango, June 2009 Rosa works in a maquila and MdM has trained her as a leader to defend workers' rights. Since she works all week lo...

Guatemala, Chimaltenango, June 2009 85% of employees in theses factories - maquilas - (which are sub-contracted to manufacture goods for export) are w...

Guatemala, Chimaltenango, June 2009 Since 2005, Medecins du Monde has been providing healthcare for the maquila workers and has trained some workers t...

Nicaragua, Puerto Cabezas, January 2009 Two years ago a women's protection unit was created in Puerto Cabezas police station. More than 10 cases of vi...

Nicaragua, January 2009 Lisbeth, a police investigator, interrogates the neighbour of a 16 year-old who has been kidnapped and raped. The aim is to fi...

Nicaragua, January 2009 Following a call from a woman, the CAIMCA centre (Centre for victims of domestic violence), one of MdM's partners - which prov...

Nicaragua, January 2009 M. is a member of the indigenous miskito community. She fled her home in the country to escape the beatings of her violent hus...

Nicaragua, January 2009 A., 22 years old, had been able to find solace in the CAIMCA centre (Centre for victims of domestic violence) - one of MdM's p...

Nicaragua, Puerto Cabezas, January 2009 B., a teacher and mother of six, fled her home after she was beaten by her husband. She sought refuge in the C...

Nicaragua, January 2009 In Puerto Cabezas region, many landowners live in poverty. In such a context, alcohol consumption and domestic violence are co...

Nicaragua, January 2009 Alerted by neighbours to the attempted rape of a 12 year-old child, the police officers intervene and lock up the suspect prio...

Nicaragua, January 2009 Near Puerto Cabezas, MdM is raising awareness among the rural population of the problems caused by violence. This is achieved...

Haiti, Port-au-Prince, November 2008 In several areas of the city, MdM and its partner organisations train leaders in issues relating to violence. Onc...

Haiti, Port-au-Prince, November 2008 Lunis is a teacher and lives in the Cite Soleil area of the city. When she was raped by four men on her way home...

Haiti, Port-au-Prince, November 2008 Since she was raped, Lunis has been receiving support from the MdM psychologist and is gradually starting to enjo...

Haiti, November 2008 A mother fled to her sister's place in the country to escape her husband who had abused her five year-old daughter. With support...