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At least 41 percent of surveyed Latinos believe that the main reason that Latino immigrant victims don’t seek help is because of deportation fears.

The report followed 110 women from around the country through the Afghan judicial system and mediation process. The U.N. review aimed to gauge the effectiveness of 2009’s Elimination of Violence Against Women Act, a law that for the first time provided legal protections for women facing abuse at the hands of a family member.

“A parliamentary committee on domestic violence set out a list of recommendations to tackle the phenomenon, ranging from more effective legal measures against offenders to raising the legal marriage age from 17 to 18.

BEIJING — Police officers on Monday evening released five female activists who were detained early last month in China after trying to start a campaign against sexual harassment on public transportation, two lawyers representing the women said. One of the lawyers, Liang Xiaojun, said police officers in western Beijing, where the five women were held for weeks, had to release the detainees after prosecutors decided not to immediately press criminal charges. The police had asked the prosecutors last week to charge all five women with organizing a crowd to disturb public order.

Local and national experts on domestic violence and the elderly said that while research focuses on younger victims, assaults are likely just as prevalent among the elderly. In 2012, about 5 percent of domestic violence victims in New Jersey — or 2,900 of all reported cases — were 60 or older, according to the New Jersey State Police Uniform Report on Domestic Violence.

Adelma Cifuentes’ story of abuse, escape, and get the justice continues to open the eyes of many to the flight of violence against women and gender-based violence in Guatemala, where nearly 10 out of every 100,000 women are killed, it’s hardly unusual.