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'I'm saying right now I'm better than this'
"I will leave him" - these are the words of a woman who has been living in fear. But this week, she decided she had had enough.
"I will leave him" - these are the words of a woman who has been living in fear. But this week, she decided she had had enough.
"It has been 10 years of sharing my life with an abusive partner. Today I'm conscious of this, that I am a victim of family violence."
Jeremy Eparaima punched, kicked, bashed, choked and bullied his way through a marriage and two relationships - now he's speaking out in a bid to reach other men.
COMMENT: Family violence is not just a male problem. If we as a nation are really serious about reducing family violence, we need to talk about family violence in all its forms and all its causes, writes Bob McCoskrie
WATCH: Five years ago Emily Longley was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Her father Mark talks about the terrible toll of losing his daughter.
Family violence is an epidemic in New Zealand. So what is the solution?
Helen Meads was shot dead just days after leaving a violent relationship. Since then, her father David White has crusaded against family violence in a bid to save others' lives.
Helen Meads was shot dead just days after leaving a violent relationship. Since then, her father has crusaded against family violence in a bid to save others' lives.
Under reforms battered women who kill their abusers would be able to claim self-defence even if the threat of violence was not imminent.
Family violence never sleeps or takes a break and those on the front line know that better than anyone.
A ground-level insight into what's happening behind closed doors of far too many New Zealand homes.
Former abuser is now committed to helping other men change their behaviour.
"Sick and tired" of seeing stories about men abusing women and children, Harry Haira decided to do his bit to help solve the issue.
COMMENT: Why do men who kill their wives or partners receive such short jail sentences?
Jeremy Eparaima punched, kicked, bashed, choked and bullied his way through a marriage and two relationships - now he's speaking out in a bid to reach other men.
He knows first hand about perpetrators because he was one - but for the past 10 years Aaron Steedman has been committed to helping other men change their behaviour.
COMMENT: There's a sad fact about violence in this country: how safe you are is determined the second you are conceived.
In most cases the victim of intimate partner violence is a woman, but we must not forget that men are also abused in their homes.
Sometimes your home can feel like a prison. Mine did. It was a beautiful prison, but I was desperate to leave it.
It happens in the poorest of homes and the richest. Among the victims are our most educated people, and our most vulnerable.
It took her 10 years to leave him. Ten years of being hit, kicked, choked, strangled. But the night he almost killed her, that was the night she left.
The sister of a victim speaks out about helping her flee a violent relationship and the heartbreak when she returned.
Polly Gillespie reveals what it was like growing up next door to a violent man and what she wishes her family had done differently to deal with it.
New Zealand has the worst rate of family and intimate-partner violence in the world. A shocking 80% of incidents go unreported.
Superintendent Tusha Penny has worked on the front line for many years so she has seen it all —the wives beaten beyond recognition, the girlfriends strangled almost to death and the countless women lying dead in their own homes.
Prime Minister John Key discusses how family violence rates in New Zealand are too high.
On average, police attend a family violence incident every five and a half minutes - that's 279 calls for help each day. Why is it so bad? No one knows for sure.
New Zealand has the worst rate of family violence in the developed world.