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From Our Own Correspondent: Risking it all for Iraq’s women

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Risking it all for Iraq’s women

15/12/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Risking it all for Iraq’s women

Inside one of Iraq's secret shelters for women escaping domestic violence

Inside a secret shelter for Iraqi domestic violence survivors; one man’s route up the Congo river to deliver democracy; a Catalan leader in Spanish jail; axe-hurling in Canada.

Shaimaa Khalil goes inside one of Iraq’s secret shelters for domestic violence survivors, and meets the women who risk their lives to protect other women and girls. 

Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. 

How do you organise elections in a country as vast as the Democratic Republic of Congo? Louise Dewast follows one man’s voyage up the Congo river, to bring democracy to the remotest parts of the country. 

Niall O’Gallagher takes a trip to the hills of Catalonia, to meet a separatist leader imprisoned for her involvement in the Spanish region’s disputed independence referendum. 

And John Kampfner goes to Canada, to try out a bit of axe-throwing, a sporting craze that is sweeping the nation.

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