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29 April 2013
SAUDI ARABIA / ADVERTISING : Anti-Domestic Violence Campaign Begins.
Saudi Arabia's first anti-domestic violence campaign has begun...featuring the bruised eye of a woman wearing a burka.
Domestic violence is said to be widespread in some Muslim nations.
It's one small sign of progress in that very traditional, ultra conservative nation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316555/Saudi-Arabias-domestic-violence-campaign-Advert-features-woman-black-eye-showing-beneath-burka.html