Nicaragua
By: director, Ruth Meehan ; executive producer, Peadar King  ; KMF Productions for RTE
Contributors: KMF Productions; Radio Telefis Eireann; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: What in the world?; Fighting the tide
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng; spa
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Family violence; Prevention; Abused women; Women's shelters; Centro de Socho Atal; Asociacion de Hombres Contra Violencia
Other titles: Turning away from violence
Description: Documents recent efforts to combat domestic violence in Nicaragua, where it is estimated that 29% of women have suffered rape or other physical abuse by men.  In 1993, the first special commissary, staffed by women police and women psychologists, was established to specifically handle crimes against women.  Now there are 24 across the country.  Interviews Ruben Reyes Jiron, founder of Asociacion de Hombres Contra Violencia, a men's group that works with street gangs to reduce violence against women.  Also interviews women who have been helped by Centro de Socho Atal, a Nicaraguan women's shelter.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Script writer, Rodney Rice ;

Narrator, Rodney Rice.

DVD-R.

In English and Spanish  with English subtitles.