Τhe UN-Cyprus invited Mary Pyrgos, President of FIMONOI and Meral Akinci, President of KAYAK to talk about their experiences during their struggle to promote measures for the protection of victims of violence in the family in the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities. On this occasion Mary Pyrgos offered Ms Akinci her book violence in the family and the book with the presentations of the speakers of the international conference on violence in the family that was organized in Cyprus on November 2000