'Launch social movement against domestic violence'
Speakers at a workshop yesterday said the media could play a vital role in raising public awareness about domestic violence against women.
They also called on journalists to play a pro-active role in launching a social movement against domestic violence.
The Journalists Forum for Preventing Violence Against Women, Chittagong unit, organised the workshop on 'Our duty to prevent domestic violence' in the port city in association with Nari Nirjatan Protirodh Jote, Oxfam and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA).
The speakers said about 90 percent of women face physical and mental torture and sexual harassment in their families and such acts often lead to tragic consequences for women.
Women in most middle-class families usually try to hide the torture and harassment they face in their in-laws' house, the speakers said and called for more media coverage on such incidents in order to curb domestic violence.
Representative of Nari Nirjaton Protirodh Jote Zinnat Ara Hoque, journalists Shanta Maria and Rezaul Haque, Journalists' Forum coordinator Alamgir Sabuj and YPSA Programme Manager Shahidul Islam spoke at the workshop presided over by Forum Convener and bureau chief of Bhorer Kagoj Omar Kaiser.
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