Nowhere To Go: Czechia’s Housing Crisis Keeps Women in Abusive Relationships

In the Czech Republic there is a shortage of up to 3,000 places in shelters for victims of domestic violence. One alternative is renting on the open market, but this is expensive and single mothers can face discrimination in such situations.

WESTERN BUREAU: They are two Kingston women with different lives and different histories of alleged abuse, but when Karen P.* and Janice Q.* speak about the policeman they say finally listened, the name is the same. Corporal Adrian Cornwall. After years of frustration, fear and what they describe as disappointing encou