Romania criticised over domestic violence 'failures'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

23 May 2017 Europe

Romania has been criticised over its lack of commitment to tackling domestic violence in a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.

The court fined the country after it failed to hold to account a man who attacked his wife eight times.

Officials went so far as to accuse the victim, Angelica Balșan, of provoking the assaults, the court noted.

Official statistics suggest most Romanians think domestic violence is normal, it said.

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1. That's fucking sad.

I wonder, how can outside nations prove to women inside nations such as this that they deserve equal treatment?

Or do you wait for one of the women on the inside to be invigorated? I guess the question is, how does one plant the seed of equality into a nation?