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Jigawa stakeholders decry rising gender violence

Mounting concerns over the unabating rise of gender-based violence in Jigawa State have been confirmed by experts who advocate immediate remedies to nip the situation in the bud.Arewa PUNCH observed ...

Study: 10 Percent of U.S. Youths Cause Sexual Violence

Not so fast, according to a new study published in today's JAMA Pediatrics that overturns many commonly held beliefs about sexual violence. What they found was startling: Nearly 10 percent of survey ...

Aerial circus in Brazil spotlights a path to healing for female victims of gender-based violence

Performers have taken to the skies in an aerial circus show in Niteroi city, Brazil, to highlight violence against women.

Brazil circus spotlights path to healing for female victims of gender-based violence

Performers have taken to the skies in an aerial circus show in Niteroi city, Brazil, to highlight violence against women ...
Consilium

Violence against women and domestic violence: EU equality ministers call for stronger focus on prevention, early detection and intervention

The Council has approved conclusions acknowledging the role played by bystanders and professionals in supporting victims and breaking the cycle of violence.

How we are curbing domestic violence

In New York City, rates of felony domestic violence are stubbornly high even as other major crimes fall. The numbers tell a ...
The Diplomat

Will Reinstating the Death Penalty Protect Kyrgyz Women?

T]he death penalty is not the solution” to Kyrgyzstan’s gender-based violence problem, a group of human rights organizations ...
Opinion
Women's eNewsOpinion

ESG Audits Catch Child Labor, So Why Not Sexual Violence?

Supply chains are human chains. When they’re built on silence and disposability, they collapse. Addressing gender-based violence is not charity. It’s justice. And it’s long overdue. Because no audit, ...
Salon

Political violence has nothing to do with gender identity

The Charlie Kirk assassination has driven a wedge into the United States’ steep political divide as right-wing pundits take aim at the left. But after days of focus on the gender identity of the ...
Reuters

Spain moves to criminalise gender-based abuse against victims' loved ones

MADRID, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Spain’s government on Tuesday proposed a new law on gender-based violence making it a separate crime when an abuser hurts someone close to their victim — like a child, ...
nation

Unbowed in Wajir: The women standing up to sexual violence

The memory is as sharp as the day it happened. Fatuma Abdi was in Class Six, a young girl living with polio, when a moment of casual cruelty changed the course of her life. “I overheard the District ...
nation

The silent epidemic: How sexual violence drives mental health crisis

Sexual violence in conflict and domestic settings is a leading driver of post-traumatic stress disorder. New research reveals that sexual violence is a major driver of post-traumatic stress disorder ...