University Of British Columbia: Dhaka University

Vancouver Sun Dept: It's rare that domestic abuse rates such high-profile attention even though it is a frighteningly common crime. In most countries, it remains underreported by victims. Statistics Canada's report on family violence released earlier this year noted that in 2009 less than a quarter of spousal violence victims went to police, according to Vancouver Sun. Manzur, an assistant professor of international relations at Dhaka University, had been in Vancouver studying at the University of British Columbia for nine months before returning home and the gruesome blinding and maiming of Fulbright scholar Rumana Manzur by her Bangladeshi husband was exceptional not only because of its brutality, but because of the international media coverage it has provoked. Domestic violence is also rarely reported in the media except after a woman has been murdered. In Bangladesh, Hassan Sayed's allegations that his 33-year-old wife was having an affair -which she has denied -have been more prominently reported than his torture of her. As reported in the news.
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