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World Service,15 Dec 2018,23 mins

Risking it all for Iraq’s women

From Our Own Correspondent

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Shaimaa Khalil goes inside one of Iraq’s secret shelters for domestic violence survivors, and meets the women who risk their lives to protect other women and girls. Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. How do you organise elections in a country as vast as the Democratic Republic of Congo? Louise Dewast follows one man’s voyage up the Congo river, to bring democracy to the remotest parts of the country. Niall O’Gallagher takes a trip to the hills of Catalonia, to meet a separatist leader imprisoned for her involvement in the Spanish region’s disputed independence referendum. And John Kampfner goes to Canada, to try out a bit of axe-throwing, a sporting craze that is sweeping the nation.

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