Welcome to the 72nd edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest!
The International Federation of Women Lawyers Chairperson Mrs. Rita Ilevbare reported a decline in violence against women in the Ekiti State of Nigeria on the November 11th. However in Hungary and Spain , domestic violence remains a chronic rampant problem.
In India, businesses are tackling the issue of workplace sexual harassment through workshops . Moroccan lawmakers have drafted a bill with jail terms for sexual harassers on November 7th.
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Violence Against Women – General News
- EGYPT-Egyptian women losing rights at a fast pace: Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO
- FIJI-42 join gender fight
- GAMBIA-Journalists Capacitised On Gender-Based Violence
- INDIA-India attempts to confront workplace sexual harassment
- ITALY-Rome opposes violence against women
- MOROCCO-Morocco MPs drafts bill against sexual harassment
- NIGERIA-Violence against women on the decline in Ekiti – FIDA
- PAKISTAN-Khayal Festival: ‘Gender bias higher among higher classes’
- SOUTH AFRICA-Transform to end violence – commission
Domestic Violence
- AUSTRALIA-Citizens taking back the night
- CANADA-Repeat violent offenders need harsher sentences, Ross says
- HUNGARY-Chronic Domestic Violence
- INDIA-Deconstructing acid attacks
- KUWAIT-Abused Women Must Come Out Of Their Closets
- NEW ZEALAND-‘Collective effort needed’ to reduce domestic violence
- SPAIN-Domestic violence remains rife in Spain
- UNITED KINGDOM-Campaign tackles domestic violence linked to Wales sporting events
- UNITED STATES-Domestic Violence Is Even Worse Than You Thought, And Isn’t Being Asked About Enough
Rape and Sexual Assault
- AFRICA-In Africa, Criminalizing Marital Rape Remains Controversial
- DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO-Sexual and Gender-based Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Opportunities for Progress as M23 Disarms?
- EGYPT-Police reforms to combat sexual violence not enough
- INDIA-‘Sex crime reporting up 30 percent since Dec 16’
- NEW ZEALAND-New Zealand police probe ordered over ‘teen rape club’
- SIERRA LEONE-Fighting gender-based violence in Sierra Leone
- SOMALIA-Federal Government of Somalia welcomes HRW report (Press Statement)
- UNITED KINGDOM-More universities ban Blurred Lines over fears it promotes rape
- UNITED STATES-Workplace rape and violence against female US military soldiers somber theme of avant-garde theater production
Human/Sex Trafficking
- BRAZIL-Brazil emerges as major destination for child sex slaves
- CZECH REPUBLIC-NGO: New Civil Code legalises child trafficking
- INDIA-Christian business gives sex-trafficking victims in Mumbai a new start
- NIGERIA-NANFEATURES: Tackling Cross Border Huma Trafficking Through Partnership
- PHILIPPINES-Up to two million children at risk for trafficking or abuse in aftermath of devastating Super Typhoon Haiyan
- SPAIN-Spanish police arrest 25 in ‘Nigeria sex-trafficking ring’
- UNITED STATES-Tougher laws against human trafficking
Female Genital Mutilation
- AFRICA-African Tradition of Female Circumcision
- AFRICA-Young Maasai Activist Challenges Circumcision Tradition
- EGYPT-Egypt ‘Worst Arab Country’ For Women’s Rights
- ERITREA-Southern Region – Seminar Conducted Focusing On Impact of Harmful Customary Practices On Women
- GAMBIA-Gamcotrap Empowers Niamina Youth and Children to Say “No” to FGM and Early Marriage
- IRAQ-Female Genital Mutilation: Scarring Women’s Rights
- NIGERIA-Female Genital Mutilation is a Cruel Ritual Cut
- UNITED KINGDOM-Nimko Ali: We need to start seeing FGM as child abuse
- UNITED STATES-Book Review: The Strength in her Pain to Forgive
Forced Marriage and Honour Killing
- WORLD-UN’s Ongoing Fight Against Child Marriages, Cases Spread In Yemen, Pakistan And Afghanistan
- ASIA-Culture of impunity surrounds South Asia’s child marriages –report
- AUSTRALIA-Survival stories of life as a child bride
- CANADA-What Canada Can Do About Adolescent Pregnancy and Forced Marriages
- INDIA-Dad, friend rape and kill teen for eloping with boy
- IRAN-Pedophilia legalization slips by while world focuses on nuclear talks
- UNITED KINGDOM-14-Year-Old U.K. Girl Has Baby From Forced Marriage — And Marriage Still Valid
- UNITED STATES-Justice Story: ‘Die, my daughter, die!’ An old-world ‘honour killing’ in modern St. Louis
- YEMEN-Hope at last for Yemen’s child brides as the country’s leaders finally act to stop forced marriages of girls as young as NINE
Activism
- AFRICA-Lawyers Push for More Opportunities for Women in Africa
- AUSTRALIA-Perth will have its first White Tie Gala Dinner to combat domestic violence
- CANADA-Violence against women must end
- EGYPT-Egypt women ride bikes to defy sexual harassment
- INDIA-‘I’ve had over 50 death threats…but I won’t stop saving child brides’
- MALAWI-Kenya: One On One With Emma Kaliya
- PHILIPPINES-Various activities set in Butuan for this year’s 18-Day Campaign to End VAW
- UNITED KINGDOM-Campaign bids to end violence against women
- UNITED STATES-7 Pieces Of Wisdom From Malala Yousafzai, Lady Gaga And The Rest Of Glamour’s 2013 Women Of The Year