"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.

At 18-years-old the last thing you want to think about is domestic abuse, because "surely it wouldn't happen to me". It did.

I was 18, I had just been stabbed multiple times by my ex-boyfriend. "Don't worry, we'll be together in heaven soon," he whispered as he tried to suffocate me.

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.

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.

Prime Minister John Key discusses how family violence rates in New Zealand are too high.

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.

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.

Five years ago Emily Longley was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Her father Mark talks about the terrible toll of losing his daughter.

Let us not soften the language we use about a man who hits a woman. It has been called domestic violence or partner violence.

COMMENT: People talking about domestic violence victims often ask "Why doesn't she leave?" That is the wrong question to ask. It places responsibility for the situation on the victim, rather than the perpetrator.

"There is a steady increase of women being abducted, tied up, put in the boot of cars, taken away to the bush or the beach, or their partners having utensils to bury them."

NZ has dropped to 10th in the Global Gender Gap report of more than 140 countries, write Judy McGregor.

A British MP suspended from the Labour Party for sending salacious text messages to a 17-year-old girl is under fire from one ex-wife.

COMMENT: When you're in charge of a country with one of the worst rates of sexual violence, you shouldn't be taking part in rape jokes, writes Kyle MacDonald.

MP Marama Davidson has revealed she was abused by a relative.

Kiwi singer Tina Cross has teamed up with a police choir for a powerful message against domestic violence.

A series of shocking images have been created to campaign against domestic abuse.

From rowdy motorcyles to silence wordless marches, crowds gathered around the country yesterday to call for an end to domestic violence.

Singer says she is ready to take back her life after spending years in a violent relationship.