Zambia: When Victims of Abuse and Violence Stay

ATTEMPTING to leave an abuser is dangerous, a survivor of abuse shared how she felt trapped in an abusive relationship which she finally managed to leave.

Violence and abuse involve control and power that one person exercises over another.

The perpetrators of violence and abuse use physical and sexual violence, threats, emotional abuse, insults and economic deprivation to dominate their victims.

Trisha, (not real name) said she can talk about it with some friends, even though some people think she…