The Punch on MSN

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 anti-trans policies are disrupting efforts to prevent genital mutilation

The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.

Anti-trans policies aren’t preventing genital mutilation — they’re disrupting efforts to stop it

The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering ...

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 Lancet

Disease relapse, all-cause mortality, and adverse events associated with long-acting injectable antipsychotics versus oral antipsychotics in older people with schizophrenia in ...

aLaboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China bCentre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and ...
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, ...
UNHCR

Renewed violence in CAR causes more people to flee into DRCongo

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 6 December 2013 UNHCR is alarmed by ...