Welcome to the 119th edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-news digest.
This month, we celebrate Women’s Equality Day on 28 August. Get to know the woman who started the movement. The prevalence of violence against women and girls is a major marker indicating the level of gender equality in a culture and country. So check out some of the major cases and work that’s taking place worldwide to tackle this issue as part of the struggle for gender equality:
In Russia religious figureheads sparked backlash for reinforcing support for female circumcision. In the United States, the campaign CEO of a Presidential candidate is accused of domestic violence. Activists in the Asia Pacific are seeking to address the epidemic of violence against women by getting more accurate data. In Peru an astounding 50,000 people turned up to protest violence against women.
Men are also important allies in the journey to eliminate violence and promote equality. Check out how a new charter in India is seeking to appeal to boys and men to counter violence against women, how boys are key to changing attitudes to violence against women in Barbados, and how a father tries to amend the mistake of forcing his daughter to marry by changing and challenging traditional views on the roles of women.
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It’s time to stop violence against women. Together.
Best regards,
The Pixel Project Team
General Violence Against Women
- WORLD: Leslie Jones’s continued harassment is emblematic of both racism and violence against women
- WORLD: Will Twitter stock be helped by possible anti-harassment tool?
- ASIA PACIFIC: Agencies seek better data on violence against women.
- ASIA PACIFIC: Pacific activists call for urgent action over next two years to address violence against women and girls
- INDIA: New charter calls on men and boys to counter violence against women
- KENYA: Judiciary to launch bench book on violence against women
- NIGERIA: Curbing violence against women
- PERU: 50,000 march in Peru to protest violence against women
- UNITED KINGDOM: Half of the women in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, study finds
- UNITED STATES: Women journalists share their stories of sexual harassment
Domestic Violence
- AUSTRALIA: New domestic violence guidelines include ‘social abuse’ such as silent treatment and withholding affection
- BARBADOS: Boys are key to changing domestic violence
- BRAZIL: Domestic violence abuse child survivor pens essay
- INDONESIA: More women opt for divorce despite risks
- FIJI: Children can report domestic violence to the police
- MALAYSIA: Domestic violence cases involving senior citizens worrying
- RUSSIA: Russian MP seeks to decriminalize domestic violence
- UKRAINE: Up to 2000 women die from domestic violence in Ukraine every year
- UGANDA: ‘We cannot keep quiet’ – Ugandan archbishop stands against domestic violence
- UNITED STATES: Trump campaign CEO under scrutiny for domestic violence charge
Rape and Sexual Assault
- WORLD: Editorial – stop erasing sexual violence survivors with disabilities
- AUSTRALIA: Protesters attend Sydney University Open Day to campaign against sexual violence
- CANADA: UNB, STU prepare for Frosh Week with new sexual violence policies
- COLOMBIA: No amnesty for war rapists: Colombia peace talk returns to women’s rights
- DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The village where dozens of young girls have been raped is still waiting justice
- NEW ZEALAND: Slow progress on specialist sexual violence court
- SOUTH AFRICA: One in four women in Rustenburg mining area raped in her lifetime
- SOUTH SUDAN: Rape, sexual violence going unchecked in South Sudan
- UNITED KINGDOM: Homeless women are being exploited for sex in return for shelter
- UNITED STATES: Federal research on sexual violence is a mess
Sex Trafficking
- WORLD: Operation involves 25 nations in efforts against human trafficking
- EUROPE: Undercovered – video report on human trafficking in Europe sex industry
- LATIN AMERICA: Exposing the unspeakable – World Day against human trafficking
- ARGENTINA: Not My Life – the powerful human trafficking documentary coming to Argentine television
- BRAZIL: Rio child sex trafficking ‘epidemic’ could rocket during the 2016 Olympics – here’s why
- CANADA: Sex traffickers target indigenous Canadians
- NIGERIA: Trafficking of Nigerian women into prostitution in Europe at ‘crisis level’
- ROMANIA: Generations of Romanian girls trafficked into Europe’s sex industry
- UNITED KINGDOM: ‘No prosecutions’ for paying for sex in Northern Ireland despite new law
- UNITED STATES: Backpage demands that appeals court block Senate sex-trafficking subpoena
Female Genital Mutilation
- WORLD: Women suffering complication from genital mutilation years later
- AFRICA: Pan-African Parliament endorses ban on female genital mutilation
- EGPYT: New study reveals physicians not discouraging Egyptian women from practicing female circumcision
- INDIA: Petition against female genital mutilation provokes angry backlash
- NIGERIA: Osun – tackling the menace of female genital mutilation after more than a year of FGM being outlawed in Nigeria
- RUSSIA: Report on female genital mutilation in Dagestan sparks controversy in Russia
- SIERRA LEONE: Female genital mutilation victim calls for reform to refugee visa process
- SIERRA LEONE and GUINEA: Female genital mutilation claims two lives in Sierra Leone, Guinea
- UNITED KINGDOM: This exhibit wants to end the silence around female genital mutilation
- UNITED STATES: With 500,000 female genital mutilation survivors or at risk in the US, it’s not just someone else’s problem
Forced Marriage and Honour Killing
- WORLD: Child marriage shows it takes a village to achieve a goal
- GUATEMALA: In Guatemala, friends unite to end child marriage
- INDONESIA: The young brides of West Sulawesi
- INDIA: Gujarat HC demands FSL reports in honour killing case
- MALI and MAURITANIA: Threat of marriage hangs over young Malian refugees in Mauritiana
- PAKISTAN and the UNITED KINGDOM: Samia Sahid ‘honour killing’: ex-husband and father remanded
- SIERRA LEONE: Sierra Leone launches African Union campaign on child marriage
- SOUTH SUDAN: Child brides sold for cows – the price of being a girl in South Sudan.
- SYRIA: Conflict in Syria – child marriage in the midst of a humanitarian crisis
- TONGA: ‘Archaic’ Tongan law allows forced marriage to rapists
Activism
- WORLD: Meet the woman behind Women’s Equality Day
- BRAZIL: ‘My Body is Not a Game’ – Brazilian women speak out against domestic violence
- FRANCE: Vodka Mariette campaign combats catcalling
- INDIA: A father vows to save his daughter from a marriage her forced her into
- MEXICO: Mexico’s Institute for Women joins Orange Day celebrations
- SENEGAL: Senegal’s dancing grandmothers lead change for health over tradition
- SOUTH AFRICA: No more – activists up the fight against violence against women
- SOUTH KOREA: South Korean cyclists raising awareness of comfort women
- UKRAINE: Dispatches from the road – Goodwill ambassador Ashley Judd on conflict, abuse and healing in the Ukraine
- UNITED STATES: Rape survivor Brenda Tracy on her campaign against campus sexual assault