Brussels, 05/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - Speaking in Lisbon at an international conference organised by the Portuguese EU Presidency on the theme "Violence against Women: Zero Tolerance", the European Commissioner for Social Affairs, Anna Diamantopoulou, stressed that this phenomenon is very widespread in all countries, in all social classes and that it was often the result of ignorance on the part of the victims, mainly about their right to defend themselves, not to accept this kind of...