Amnesty International is urging the Albanian authorities to take further measures to protect women from domestic violence by fully implementing a 2007 law.

In a speech in Kinshasa last week, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches challenged churches to end their denial of violence against women.

Domestic violence and what the church needs to do to respond to this problem topped the agenda for the recent second gathering of Central American Anabaptist Women Theologians.

Student Umedjon Sharifov uses blow-up dolls in his voluntary work for a Tajikistani non-governmental organization around the Central Asian country's third-largest city of Kulob and he shows videos against domestic violence to men and women.