Welcome to the 80th edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest!
A delay in adopting a domestic violence law in Lebanon has drawn thousands of men and women to march in Beirut, the national capital of Lebanon, on the second weekend of March 2014. A draft law was submitted to Parliament in 2010. However, a subcommittee has only began studying it in May 2011 and finalized amendments in August 2012. The amendments refer to domestic violence as against the family, rather than women specifically. The removal of the clause criminalizing marital rape has also caused some backlash.
The European Union’s (EU) Agency for Fundamental Rights has released a report earlier this month that suggests about one in 10 women have been victims of sexual violence in the EU. The survey comprised of 42,000 women across the member states and was conducted from March to September in 2012.
Iraq’s Council of Ministers has introduced a draft of the Jaafari Personal Status Law . The pending legislation would restrict women’s rights in matters of inheritance and parental and other rights after divorce, make it easier for men to take multiple wives, and allow girls to be married from age nine, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Violence Against Women – General News
- WORLD: Women’s Day: End violence against women journalists
- EUROPE: Nordic countries worst in EU for violence against women – survey
- CANADA: University of Ottawa appoints task force to tackle sexism, violence against women
- INDONESIA: Violence against women on the rise
- MEXICO: Violence against women is a ‘pandemic’ in Mexico
- PAKISTAN: Violence against women: 5,815 cases reported in 2013
- SOMALIA: Somalia vows to end violence against women on Int’l Women’s Day
- SOUTH AFRICA: ANCWL – Violence against women a challenge
- UNITED KINGDOM: Rosamund Urwin: The mounting toll of violence against women
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Domestic Violence
- BAHAMAS: Why domestic violence isn’t funny Mr. Miller
- CANADA: Courts need options for domestic violence, says P.E.I. judge
- CHINA: Domestic violence, divorce rates on the rise in Guangzhou
- JAMAICA: Farming Initiative launched in Manchester to reduce domestic violence
- LEBANON: Protest against domestic violence draws thousands
- NEW ZEALAND: Sikh man found guilty of domestic violence, rape in New Zealand
- NIGERIA: Lawyers Decry Growing Trend Of Domestic Violence Against Women
- UNITED KINGDOM: Nigella Lawson uses high public profile to back domestic violence charity after split from Charles Saatchi
- UNITED STATES: Violence against women hurts us all
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Rape & Sexual Assault
- WORLD: Women’s widespread inequality and rape as a weapon of war
- EUROPE: 9 million rape victims in European Union, say reports
- AUSTRALIA: Second person charged over NSW gang rape
- CAMBODIA: Masculinity and the Crisis in Cambodian Child Rape
- INDIA: Court confirms death sentence in India gang rape
- MEXICO: Facing Risk Of Rape, Migrant Women Prepare With Birth Control
- SOUTH AFRICA: 3600 rapes a day – three every minute every day in South Africa
- UNITED KINGDOM: A new way of investigating rape could transform attitudes to sex crime
- UNITED STATES: Obama Eyes Funding to Combat Violence Against Women
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Sex/Human Trafficking
- EUROPE: European Parliament’s attempt to reduce prostitution fails women
- EUROPE: Scandinavia leads the way in Europe’s prostitution crack down
- BURKINA FASO: Fife villagers help rescue 25 girls from human traffickers in Burkina Faso
- GERMANY: Sex and the cities
- GHANA: Anas’ undercover story: Trafficked and abused – how girls were sold from one trafficker to the other
- LEBANON: Syrian refugee girls exploited by prostitution networks
- TAJIKISTAN: Rise in Human Trafficking in Tajikistan
- UNITED KINGDOM: Secret victims of slavery: Dorset-based charity Purple Teardrop’s battle against human sex-trafficking
- UNITED STATES: Study sheds light on dark sex trafficking industry
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Female Genital Mutilation
- WORLD: FGM Is an Act of Terrorism — Not an Act of Islam
- WORLD: New three-point plan launched by campaigners in bid to tackle ‘barbaric’ FGM
- WORLD: What men can do to stop female genital mutilation
- BURKINA FASO: FGM Repair Hospital Stirs Controversy in Burkina Faso
- EGYPT: Egypt doctor faces trial over fatal female genital mutilation
- SOMALIA: Puntland bans Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- UGANDA: 200 girls in Amudat flee genital mutilation
- UNITED KINGDOM: Opposition to FGM must not lead to prejudice
- UNITED STATES: Why Aren’t More People Talking About Female Genital Mutilation in the U.S.?
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Forced Marriage & Honour Killing
- WORLD: Csw58 – Double Jeopardy of Child Marriage
- AUSTRALIA: Advocates call for forced marriage education in schools
- IRAQ: Don’t Legalize Marriage For 9-year-olds, Say HRW
- ISRAEL: Israel’s Secret Honor Killings
- MALAWI: End Widespread Child Marriage
- PAKISTAN: Pakistan clerics declare ban on child marriage un-Islamic
- TANZANIA: Meet the Tanzanian Woman Who Said No to a Forced Marriage
- TURKEY: More than 500,000 child brides married in Turkey in the last decade
- UNITED KINGDOM: UK urges world to tackle child marriage in same way as FGM
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Activism
- WORLD: Women – Experts Call for Engaging Men and Boys As Allies in Fight for Gender Equality
- WORLD: Women’s Day across the World
- ASIA: Asian filmmakers take on gender violence
- CANADA: Men Must Give Up Some Privilege For Violence Against Women to End
- GAMBIA: Gambia Celebrate International Women’s Day UN Apple – Women’s Equality in Human Right, Economy Empowerment
- INDIA: Students perform street plays on women abuse
- UGANDA: Ugandans Get Women Organisation Awards
- UNITED KINGDOM: Muslim movie aims to protect women
- UNITED STATES: A Purim Call to Support the International Violence Against Women Act