Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Violence in Peru

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high - nearly double the national average. The shocking case of violence against Arlette Contreras Bautista, was caught on hotel security cameras, led to calls for greater action against domestic violence. In August 2016, tens of thousands of people marched through the Peruvian capital, Lima to protest against the country’s shockingly high rates of violence against women. We hear how some inspiring women are working together to raise awareness about domestic violence and putting pressure on their government to act. In Behind Closed Doors Claire Bolderson reports from three different countries: Kenya, Indonesia and Peru. The issue that unites them all is domestic violence. It’s not that the problem is unique to these countries - the World Health Organisation estimates that one third of women worldwide suffer physical or sexual violence by a partner - but in each of the three countries, we hear about different and often inspiring solutions aimed at combating it. Image: Peruvian women of the Andes, Credit: BBC

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0:00.0	Hello from the BBC World Service, and welcome to the latest edition of the documentary podcast.
0:07.5	Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and reporters across the
0:11.9	world.
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0:18.1	Let us know what you think.
0:21.1	August 2016 and tens of thousands of people marched through the Peruvian capital
0:29.7	Lima to protest against the country's shockingly high rates of violence against women.
0:37.2	I'm Claire Boulderson, and for the BBC World Service, I've made three reports from three
0:41.7	different countries, Kenya, Indonesia and Peru.
0:45.7	The issue that unites them all is domestic violence, and it's not that these three countries
0:50.4	are alone in facing the problem, but in each I've found some innovative and inspiring
0:55.6	ways of combating it.
0:57.8	The World Health Organization estimates that one in three women worldwide suffer physical
1:02.8	or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner.
1:06.7	So in these programs, I speak to three groups of people, mostly women, inspiring individuals,
1:13.2	small women's organisations, and here in Peru, some of those involved in a mass movement
1:19.0	to make a change countrywide.
1:22.6	I've come first to a small park in Lima opposite the Palace of Justice.
1:29.9	It's a huge, gray, imposing building which houses Peru's main law courts.
1:35.9	This is where protesters gathered last year at the end of that noisy demonstration, one
1:40.8	of the biggest ever held in Peru.
1:43.5	And I'm here to meet one of the organisers, Sassadala Cruz.
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