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Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- Sofia Simba Tanzanian minister for Conditions of Women and Children has sounded the alarm over increasing domestic violence on women in the country.
Quoting a World Health Organisation report Ms Simba said that in the economic capital Dar Es Salaam 30 per cent of women who suffered domestic violence were found to have been brutally beaten by the husband.
The WHO survey was made in Tanzania interviewing 1,820 persons in Dar Es Salaam and 1,450 in the region of Mbeya. Besides Tanzania, the report also described the situation of domestic violence in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, and Thailand. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 25/4/2006 righe 21 parole 138
