“Yuzhnyi Kazakhstan”, # 148 (17.904), 03/12/2004
E. Konstantinova

   “If a woman is aware of her rights the man will acknowledge them”, the Business Women’s Association, and the Legal Center for Women’s Initiatives “Sana Sezim”, campaigners for the “16 days without violence”, concluded at the press conference “Ontustik”.
   “Society is not yet aware that violence against women has become a serious problem,” said Hadicha Abysheva, the president of NGO “Sana Sezim”, “Women suffer domestic violence every day, and they consider this behavior in the household as the norm because they do not know their rights.”
   The action is scheduled to hold trainings entitled “Awareness of women's rights” and the “Prevention of violence among adolescents” in colleges, universities, and children's homes in the city and region.