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I would also like to second Irma Saucedo's request for more cross-regional exchanges. This week I attended a regional meeting of the Mekong Basin countries Cambodia, Lao, Thailand and Vietnam on domestic violence legislation. The discussion turned to how to lobby effectively for domestic violence legislation with male parliamentarians who often argue against it on the grounds that it will break up families. A consultant from GTZ mentioned that Austria has extensive data showing that early intervention in families experiencing domestic violence, and particularly the compulsory removal of the perpetrator from the family home for a short period actually reduces the proportion of family breakdowns. A resource person from Malaysia also reported that women's groups there had also used data showing that interventions based on domestic violence legislation helped to preserve rather than break up families. Such exchanges of experience are invaluable in helping countries that are just starting to develop specific interventions. I think that North-South exchanges would be especially valuable, and particularly exchanges with non-English speaking countries. We tend to have better access through the Web and the general literature to the experience of English-speaking countries, but that of many European countries such as Austria is obscured due to the language barrier. It would be great if English-speakers in those countries could make a special effort to present their experiences for the rest of us to share and learn from. Warmest regards, Lorraine Corner Regional Programme Director UNIFEM East & Southeast Asia Regional Office Bangkok, Thailand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
