<p>In this episode, Helena Kondak is joined by Professor Shazia Choudhry (University of Oxford) to discuss her two-year comparative European research project on how justice systems and family law deal with domestic abuse cases. </p><br><p>Drawing on extensive work with women’s rights organisations and key stakeholders across England &amp; Wales, France, Spain, Italy, and Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, the research exposes how survivors often face <em>secondary traumatisation</em> within legally sanctioned processes.</p><br><p>We unpack how narrow legal understandings of violence, procedural barriers, and the growing reliance on concepts like “parental alienation” systematically discredit mothers and silence survivors, even where abuse is well-documented.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Placing family law in conversation with human rights obligations under the ECHR and the Istanbul Convention, this episode asks what states are required to do to truly protect women and children, and why current systems can fail to do so.</p><br><p>*</p><p>Get in touch with us :&nbsp;</p><p>For any responses, comments, or suggestions, please get in touch via [email protected], or on Instagram @the_feminist_files_&nbsp;</p><br><p>*</p><p>Credits</p><p>Hosted by Helena Kondak</p><p>Joined by Professor Shazia Choudhry</p><p>Edited by Rowan Berkley</p><p>Cover design by Madeleine Baber</p><p>Music by Jacob Carey</p><br><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>