Mostly, I think that women should all be familiar with the dynamics of abuse in order to recognize signs and help abused women get the help and support that they need in order to function and thrive in their lives.
But settlements need not constitute the world's worst human rights abuse in order to be worth boycotting.
There is no question that the victims of sexual abuse still struggle to be heard, or that there are still those willing to cover up accusations of abuse in order to protect an institution.
There are too many men who believe they have the right to own and control the women in their lives, and that they are justified in using physical violence and emotional abuse in order to do it.
The attorney general, Lady Scotland, said: "Freedom of speech has to be exercised with restraint, and where it is abused in order to encourage murder and incite racial hatred it has to be combated".
The Commons home affairs select committee says it is alarming that some police officers using cautions and warnings to deal with offences involving violence, sexual offending and domestic abuse in order to save time.
His lawyers say that he was detained in Djibouti where he was illegally interrogated and threatened with physical and sexual abuse in order to force him to co-operate.
Then, because they have the eyes of the world on them and everyone secretly wants them to fail, the superpower resorts to worse and worse civil rights abuses in order to stamp victory on a conquered people".
Earlier this year, a reader sent me a yellowing cutting of a 1981 Guardian article, in which the writer argued passionately that sex education must include information about healthy relationships and issues such as abuse in order to help prevent violence against women.
From conversations I have had with former senior CIA officials, it is clear that Powell himself does not fully understand all the ways he was misled, manipulated and abused in order to get him to make the case for the invasion of Iraq.
