Preventing violence against women through storytelling

Women's Union members discuss incidents of violence with female villagers. - VT

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/Asia News Neetwork): “Violence against women doesn’t exist in our village”. This was the prevailing answer from men and women when the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Lao Women’s Union (LWU) conducted their first community outreach field mission last year in Bokeo province.

However, it is clear from data that violence against women exists in every section of society.