Welcome to the 63rd edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest!
Domestic violence is beginning to take center stage in a lot of countries. On May 28, 2013, Italy’s lower Chamber of Deputies ratified the Council of Europe’s convention on preventing and combating violence against women, sending the bill to the Senate where passage is expected. Meanwhile, Russia’s State Duma lawmakers are drafting a law on measures to combat domestic violence, State Duma Healthcare Committee member Saliya Murzabayeva announced on the same date.
Rape is being defended as a vital part of society. Widespread outrage has spread in Israel after Judge Nessim Yeshaya of Tel Aviv District Court told a courtroom “Some girls enjoy rape.” Rape jokes are a main staple in stand-up comedy, even female comedian Sarah Silverman has said “But the truth is it’s like the safest area to talk about in comedy.”
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Violence Against Women – General News
- WORLD-International appeal to improve conditions of Dalit women
- WORLD-Violence against women most pervasive expression of discrimination
- EL SALVADOR-Violence against women rises in El Salvador
- INDIA-Indian Women Continue To Be Violated With Rape And Violence, Says UN
- MEXICO-Embroidery collective gives voice to Mexico’s victims of gender-based killings
- SENEGAL-Maternal Health Is A Social Issue, Too
- SOUTH AFRICA-New beneficiaries join Avon’s stop gender-based violence campaign
- SPAIN-Men who abuse women in Spain will be watched to prevent repeat offenses
- UNITED STATES-Trauma Doctor Calls Violence Against Women an “Epidemic”
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Domestic Violence
- AUSTRALIA-Shameful silence at domestic violence
- INDIA – Government plans support centres for domestic violence victims
- ITALY-Italy backs treaty against domestic violence
- MACAU-Citizens petition against listing domestic violence as semi-public crime
- RUSSIA-Russia Drafts Domestic Violence Prevention Law
- SCOTLAND-Record View: Scottish Government’s tough words on domestic violence fail to match depressing reality
- SOUTH AFRICA – Domestic violence plagues lives of South African cops
- UNITED KINGDOM – Police to reveal details of partners’ past to tackle domestic violence
- UNITED STATES-US Attorneys To Gather For Conference On Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault
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Rape and Sexual Assault
- WORLD-From ‘anti-rape’ bras to skirts that act as instant camouflage: The clothing women are using to protect against sexual assault
- WORLD-Group therapy helps rape victims in poor countries
- BRAZIL-Brazil Rape: Protest Movement Against Sexual Assault Growing Rapidly
- INDIA-Kishwar Desai on rape in India: ‘A discussion that needs to be had’
- ISRAEL-‘Some Girls Enjoy Rape’ , Israeli Judge Nissim Yeshaya Tells Court
- SWEDEN – Six teens convicted of Stockholm gang rape
- UNITED STATES-We must threaten women with rape to save comedy, says the internet
- UNITED STATES-Military Rape Survivor: Decades Of Failure To Improve Sexual Assault Policies Has ‘Re-Victimized’ Me
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Human/Sex Trafficking
- CANADA-Campaign creating awareness of human trafficking
- JAPAN-Japan mayor mounts lengthy sex slave comment defence
- MALAWI-Malawi: Child Labour and Child Marriage Perpetuate Gender Inequality
- MOZAMBIQUE – Local man aiming to tackle human trafficking
- RWANDA – Border officers trained to fight human trafficking
- TANZANIA – Human trafficking getting worrisome
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – UAE builds on funds to battle human trafficking
- UNITED KINGGDOM-Too many human traffickers escape justice in UK, says solicitor general
- UNITED STATES-Airlines, U.S. Agencies Partner to Combat Human Trafficking
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Female Genital Mutilation
- WORLD-If I can reach young people through my music, no more girls will suffer FGM
- AUSTRALIA-NAB employees offered leave for domestic abuse
- EGYPT-Egyptian girl dies undergoing circumcision
- IRAQI KURDISTAN – The new suffragettes: The Kurdish woman fighting against female genital mutilation
- LIBERIA-Liberia: Living in Fear – After Liberia’s First FGC Conviction, Victim Still Harassed, Haunted
- TANZANIA-Tanzania: TARIME – Anti – FGM Campaign Bears Fruit
- UNITED KINGDM-London FGM victims ‘receive best medical attention’
- UNITED KINGDOM-Young African men raised in London ‘now oppose FGM’
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Honour Killing and Forced Marriages
- WORLD-The Invisible Girl
- AUSTRALIA – Punjab couple who feared honour killing wins right to stay in Australia
- CANADA – Victim of honour killing asked RMCP for help, court hears
- EUROPE-A preemptive study into forced marriage
- INDIA-Child Marriage Now Hits India’s IT Hub
- INDIA-Steady climb in dowry death-‘Educating girls a must’
- LEBANON-‘Honour killing’: Brother rapes and later stabs pregnant sister to death
- PAKISTAN-Honour killing?: Husband guns down wife for filing divorce papers
- UNITED KINGDOM-Forced marriage: Police offer social workers guidance
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VAW Activism
- CANADA-Owen Sounder cycling to end violence against women
- INDIA-Indian lawyer overcomes domestic abuse to defend women’s rights
- INDIA-Jessica Chastain bats for India’s child brides
- ISRAEL-Arab Israeli Women Fight Domestic Violence
- PAKISTAN – Domestic violence: Play spotlights masculinity and domestic violence
- SOUTH SUDAN-Israeli Activist Promotes Women’s Rights in South Sudan
- UNITED KINGDOM-My chance to halt violence against women
- UNITED KINGDOM-The woman on a mission to expose sexual abuse
- UNITED STATES-10 Latina Celebrities Who Stand Up for Women’s Rights
- UNITED STATES (NEW YORK CITY)-Domestic Violence Shelter Adopts Pet-Friendly Policy