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Home Office 'oblivious' to horrific increase in violence against women and girls
16 May 2025 05:41 GMT
… remains scant evidence or learning from … rape, stalking, harassment, upskirting, revenge porn, forced marriage, so–called “honour–killings … violence against women and girls and incidents of rape … for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, Jess …
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UN experts condemn widespread violence against women and girls in Sudan
15 May 2025 02:16 GMT
… widespread and persistent violence against women and girls in … violations included rape, trafficking, abductions, and killings. Many … parties. Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence were … , and shelters for sexual exploitation. The violent attacks …
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TikTok influencer’s killing on camera highlights the femicide crisis in Latin America
16 May 2025 16:54 GMT
… action to stop the killing.
On the surface, … punishment and eradication of violence against women, signed in the Brazilian … institutional complicity in perpetrating violence against women in Honduras. The … feel they can “rape, disappear or kill a woman without …
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Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening gender-based violence against women
07 May 2025 16:54 GMT
In early 2025, the March 23 Movement (M23) armed group seized control of Goma and then Bukavu, two major cities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
M23’s advance and control in eastern DRC, in defiance of ceasefire agreements, has …
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Sex-based violence against women and girls in Myanmar
06 May 2025 08:04 GMT
… killed, some burned alive or executed in custody, … amounts to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. These acts violate … to sexual violence, including rape, before their deaths. … and worsening sex-based violence against women and girls. Women and …
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In Manipur, Kuki-Zo women are protesting customary ‘settlement’ of rape, domestic violence cases
13 May 2025 07:58 GMT
… two days after her killing said that the case … should not react only when violence against women is done by men … women, dead or alive. They embolden others to rape and murder, … agreements completely ignore or neglect the welfare or support for the …
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Violence against women and girls 'endemic' in London with boys in thrall to figures like Andrew Tate whose influence is like 'terrorism', report warns
29 Apr 2025 01:09 GMT
… they have received explicit pictures or videos they did not … a 13-year-old boy killing a classmate after being radicalised … into the extent to which violence against women and girls (VAWG) is … who has been charged with rape and trafficking offences in Romania …
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Litigating The Maputo Protocol in relation to Conflict-related Sexual Violence Before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights – Two Steps ahead and One Step Back
07 May 2025 07:59 GMT
… ), such as rapes, including gang rapes, killings, destruction of … disappointing) analysis of conflict-related sexual violence as … that acts of violence against women by private actors can … or acquiescence.”
In light of the wide-spread use of conflict-related …
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Finland reports EU's highest rate of non-partner violence against women
06 Apr 2025 10:57 GMT
… rate of non-partner violence against women in the European Union … cases).
Sexual Violence (Rape Rates)
Countries with consistently … for victims.
Femicide, or the killing of women due … on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. …
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Journalist Jineth Bedoya abandons 25 year-long legal fight in Colombia against her presumed kidnappers and rapists, claiming State negligence
01 May 2025 22:12 GMT
… her May 25, 2000 kidnapping, gang rape and torture.
“Today I … Bedoya did not start or end with the tragic … suspected their complicity in her kidnapping.
The journalist was hospitalized … to start talking about sexual violence against women and girls. That is …