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No refuge at home: Zaeemah’s story

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Syrian women and adolescent girls shared with us their perception of increased physical and emotional violence in the home since fleeing Syria. Here's Zaeemah's story.

Zaeemah and her husband have been married for 10 years and were once very much in love. 

“I used to sneak out at night to see him or crawl into a cupboard in my parent’s house so I could call and talk to him in private,” she says. “I married him because I was in love with him. Now, imagine with the crisis – it is as if there was never any love.”

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