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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 min. 15 sec.) ; 169715368 bytes |
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Does gender equality free women from family violence? Campaigner Rosie Batty and reporter Sally Sara journey to gender equality heartland, Sweden, to find out. What they discover will surprise.Progressive Sweden has long been a world leader in equality between the sexes. But while Swedish women enjoy more rights and opportunities than most, there is a dark and shameful side to this story. Despite all the progress, Sweden has among the highest levels of family violence in Europe. Nearly half of all women in Sweden will face physical or sexual violence by men, usually their current or former partner."It's difficult to realise that in the beauty of these places there is also the real ugliness of the worst of human behaviour" - Rosie Batty, family violence campaigner and 2015 Australian of the Year.To try to understand this paradox - why violence pervades this bastion of gender equality - Foreign Correspondent invited Rosie Batty to Sweden. It was her first big overseas trip since her son Luke was murdered by his father at cricket practice barely two years ago."In some ways it seems a long time ago; other times it just seems like yesterday" -Rosie BattyFor Rosie, this trip is no holiday. From the capital Stockholm to the remote far north where temperatures sink to minus 29, she is trying to understand what lies behind family violence in Sweden.Foreign Correspondent films Rosie meeting fellow activists - men as well as women - politicians and victims. And for the first time since Luke's murder, she comes face to face with a perpetrator."I don't feel in the least bit intimidated. After the journey I've had with Luke's father I don't think I could ever be intimidated in the same way again" - Rosie Batty to Sally Sara on their way to meet an offender named Emanuel.Remarkably, Rosie finds some rapport with Emanuel, as she and Sally Sara get a step closer to understanding why gender equality is just one part of the solution to family violence.#Foreign CorrespondentPRODUCTION DETAILS:ABC TV |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2016-03-15 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Equality.
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Family violence.
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Wife abuse -- Social aspects.
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Sweden.
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Streaming video
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Sara, Sally, reporter
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Batty, Rosie, contributor
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