Quebec women's groups start campaign awareness on violence against women

Different women’s rights groups in Quebec have started a 12-day campaign on conjugal violence.

According to CBC News, the campaign is in response to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on every November 25th since 1999.

Louise Riendeau, a spokeswoman for the Quebec Association of Women’s Shelters said that there were 19 000 complaints to police related to conjugal violence in twenty-eleven. She also elaborated that conjugal violence remains one of the most pressing issues faced by women in Quebec.

Abuse in a relationship normally begins with words and escalates from there according to Riendeau.

Montreal police have put in place their own plan. It is a 5-year strategy to help eliminate conjugal violence introduced on November 21st at a time when a few of their own are in front of the ethics court for not taking a woman’s plea for help seriously in 2010.

She was stabbed to death by her ex-husband in October of that year.