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    JOHANNESBURG

    Increasing violence against women has prompted the Legal Defence and Assistance Project in Nigeria to propose a bill that deems such abuse a violation of women’s human rights, ‘The Guardian’ newspaper reported on Wednesday.

    The organisation’s national coordinator, Chinonye Obiagwu, said in Lagos at the drafting conference for the Domestic Violence Bill that it was needed because abused women were often too ashamed to seek legal redress.

    “A woman who has been abused is more likely to consult a medical practitioner than go to a legal practioner or police for assistance,” the Lagos newspaper reported her as saying.

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