Berry, who supports the Jenesse Center, an anti-domestic violence shelter in Los Angeles, said working with the U.N.

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In the coming weeks, the office plans to release additional blueprints on financial services, education, health service delivery and anti-domestic violence.

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Arias says she killed him in self-defense after he attacked her, but the grisly slaying caused even some anti-domestic violence advocates to doubt her case.

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And adding the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and National Spinal Cord Injury Association to the list of anti-gun enemies is either clueless or callous -- or both.

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It says that around a quarter of the female population faces domestic violence and that long-held prejudices, combined with new forms of anti-social behaviour such as drug and alcohol abuse, have put young women and girls at particular risk.

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