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could a new approach help end it?

Violence against women in many forms is an enduring problem in this country. The number of reported rapes is at an all time high of eleven thousand seven hundred of which only one in twenty leads to a criminal conviction.

But a new report claims that the real figure is much higher – at least forty seven thousand. The study carried out by the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University claims that at least a quarter of the female population has suffered rape or reported rape.

This week Women's National Commission and Amnesty International launch a report that calls upon the government to adopt an integrated, strategic approach to ending all forms of violence against women.

So is a new approach needed? Martha talks to the Home Office minister, Baroness Patricia Scotland and Professor Liz Kelly from London Metropolitan University, one of the authors of the report commissioned by Amnesty International and Women’s Aid.

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