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By Jerina Zaloshnja Fildes Hafizi, a mother of two, was killed last week in Tirana by her ex-husband, a crime that exposed the frightening level of violence against women in Albanian society — a society still involved in a transition that has been taxing, chaotic and violent — and which is unable to protect women, mothers and girls from violence. The failure is not the society’s alone. All state institutions failed in their duties to protect her too. The case of Fildes Hafizi, just like dozens of other cases of violence against women that often ends up in murder, has…
