Mum 'petrified' about release of 'unpredictable' ex who told her she'd 'end up in the morgue'
Bekah Smith was subjected to years of abuse by her former partner who even strangled her when she was pregnant ...
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Mum 'petrified' about release of 'unpredictable' ex who told her she'd 'end up in the morgue'
In 2023, the Femicide Census identified the borough as being the UK constituency with the highest rate of killed women for the previous 12 month period. Bekah was deeply moved by the case of Kiena ...
AL DA News1d
Violence against Venezuelans in Ecuador: a femicide turned into xenophobia
In Ecuador, "60.6 percent of women have experienced some type of violence," according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Census, and Venezuela is one of the 15 countries with ...
Tempo5d
Indonesia's PPPA Ministry Will Create Regulations to Handle Femicide Cases
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Arifatul Choiri Fauzi plans to create regulations to handle femicide cases in legislation. Femicide is the ...
Toronto Star5d
Women and girls are dying at the hands of their partners at alarming rates. We know the causes, so why can’t we stop it?
Late last year, residents in a Dufferin Grove neighbourhood awoke in the night to a woman’s piercing screams. A basement apartment was on fire and neighbours tried desperately to rescue those ...
KESQ News6d
After his daughter was stabbed 113 times, he fought to change Argentina’s law on femicide. Now Milei wants to change it back
On January 24, Argentina’s Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona warned on X that the government of President Javier Milei would seek to eliminate femicide from the penal code on the ...
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Beyond male and female: Why recognition of intersex is crucial to Kenya
In 2019, intersex people were included in the census. “From the 2019 census, the Children Act, which was under consideration at that point, included intersex children as a category of sex. So, the ...
The Star4d
HARRIETTE CHIGGAI: A chance to break cycle of violence
Globally, the situation is just as alarming: in 2023, 51,100 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members, a rise from 48,800 in 2022. But why is this happening? These are ...
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Recently fired NLRB chair sues Trump administration for alleged unlawful removal
Former chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Gwynne Wilcox filed a lawsuit Wednesday, accusing President Donald Trump of breaking the law when he fired her last week. Wilcox claims the ...