Legit.ng on MSN

Center takes action to end gender-based violence in Nigeria

A statement cited by Legit.ng on Tuesday, October 14, the Founding Executive Director of Centre, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, described ...
The Observer

Authors discuss gender-based violence and barriers to asylum for Latin American women

Michele Waslin and Carol Cleaveland discussed gender-based violence in Latin America, and how it relates to immigration and ...

University of Technology Sydney under investigation by National Student Ombudsman over gender-based and sexual violence policies

The National Student Ombudsman is investigating allegations UTS failed to improve its response to sexual harm and gender-based violence despite four reviews since 2022.
Human Rights Watch

Obstetric Violence Is Gender-Based Violence. It’s Time the Law Recognized It.

For centuries, women worldwide have experienced violence in their homes at the hands of intimate partners with no or very little legal recourse. I witnessed this firsthand. In 1990, when I worked at a ...
The Business & Financial Times on MSN

In the armour room of Archilles: An examination of anti-domestic violence system

BOADU The sunset of the Domestic Violence Act 2007 (referred to later as the DVA) was timely and reactive to widespread ...

Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this

The impact of men’s heavy drinking on children has been even less well studied than its effect on women. Yet our research ...
The Citizen on MSN

Activists urge legal reforms to curb rising gender‑based violence

Dar es Salaam. Activists have renewed calls for the government to amend outdated laws, especially aspects of customary law they say underpin much gender‑based violence, as cases continue to rise, ...
Salon

Want to stop political violence? Start by addressing hostile sexism

This story was originally published by The 19th. When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were assassinated in their home in June, the media widely reported it as an attack on ...
The Jamaica Observer

Spain aims to create new gender violence crime category

MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s leftist government on Tuesday approved a bill to make violence that targets women by harming their loved ones a separate criminal offence, the country’s latest move aimed ...

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

Spain’s government on Tuesday proposed a new law on gender-based violence making it a separate crime when an abuser hurts ...
Mission Local

S.F. to fund two affordable-housing sites for survivors of gender-based violence

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up Mayor Daniel Lurie today will award $29.5 million ...

What We Know About Political Violence in America

President Donald Trump and others in his circle have portrayed political violence as a problem exclusively or mostly on the ...