Mpowered with Lara Dimitrijevic

Dr Lara Dimitrijevic is a Founding Partner at Sciberras Associates, Dr. Dimitrijevic specialises primarily in family law and has worked extensively on immigration cases. Lara also leads the Women’s Rights Foundation which is a voluntary organisation committed to informing, educating and empowering women concerning their legal rights. If anyone in Malta really does care about women and the destiny of women, it is this extraordinary guest Lara.In this moving and enlightening episode of Mpowered, Lara shares her journey of a hunger strike and sit down protest as school, a teenage pregnancy, volunteering with refugees, a by-chance sign up to study law and the other influences that brought her to where she is now.She shares the nature of the cases of abuse that she represents, that are so prevalent in Malta, such as domestic abuse, forced pregnancy, marital rape and slavery. Lara informs on what we can ALL be doing to change the heartbreaking fate of such women and children.Listen to this podcast and be informed, be challenge, be moved, be Mpowered.