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Article: Violence against aboriginal women in Australia: possibilities for redress within the international human rights framework.(Conceptualizing Violence: Present and Future Developments in International Law)
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- Albany Law Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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It was a cold winter night in 1989 in a Central Australian
Aboriginal community. Although late, muted sounds of
fighting could still be heard coming from the camps.
Suddenly the screams of a woman rent the air as she ran
towards the nurses' quarters and hammered desperately on
the locked gate. Blood poured down her face and her left arm
hung limp and broken. In close pursuit was a man brandishing