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Domestic Violence Awareness: In Jordan and Around the World

Posted by NLM in Focus / October 1, 2008

Domestic violence poster from JordanOctober is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. A striking poster, produced in Jordan by the Western Asia Regional Office of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, shows the face of a young woman and the phrase, A Life Free of Violence: It Is our Right, in English and in Arabic. The image is in NLM’s Prints and Photographs collection.

 

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