January 21st, Vital Voices was featured in the Gulf Daily News for our work to combat domestic violence in Bahrain and the rest of the Middle East.

With support from public and private sectors alike, we will continue working with local shelters and organizations in Bahrain and Jordan that support abuse victims, to co-ordinate their activities and create a national framework for combating domestic violence.

Today’s story was published just before a meeting at the Bahrain Women’s Union in A’ali on Saturday, January 24th. NGOs, the public and private sectors are invited to attend and those interested in supporting these efforts can contact 17795785.

To read the full article from Gulf Daily News and learn more about the meeting, click here.

Learn more about domestic violence in the Middle East

LISTEN to a Vital Voices Radio Interview on Domestic Violence in the Middle East

• Interview Summary: Alyse Nelson Bloom, President of Vital Voices, and Shireen Zaman, Senior Program Officer, discuss the Vital Voices- MEPI project in Jordan with our local partner, Samar Haj Hassan of Mahara Consultancies in Development. Vital Voices has been working with Samar and her team in Jordan for almost two years on a project to promote public-private partners to address family violence.

READ MORE about Vital Voices’ work to combat violence in the Middle East