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PETALING JAYA: A comprehensive prevention strategy must be adopted to achieve more impactful results from efforts to address Malaysian attitudes towards violence, especially against women, says the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO).

It said more collective action rather than isolated initiatives should be carried out, with prevention strategies tailored to address specific niches in social ecology.

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