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I. INTRODUCTION

Until exceedingly recently, violence against women was not consideration of as a particular subject for international human rights law. There were three interrelated reasons for this exclusion: traditional general [i]or[/i] abstract notions of state responsibility beneath international and domestic law that omit the private sphere of the family and home; misconceptions and ignorance about the prevalence of of the like kind violence; and inattention and unwillingness to fill out legal notions of equality and anti-discrimination to the area of equality between the sexes(1)

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