South Africa has notoriously high levels of violence against women. The latest police figures show that 10,818 rape cases were reported in the first quarter of 2022. The country has among the highest rape incidence in the ...
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Nov 30, 2022
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College athletes—about 30% of whom experience sexual violence during college—want more certainty about receiving a policy violation finding in their favor, as well as policies that protect them if they happen to have ...
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Nov 8, 2022
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The decomposed bodies of six women, four of whom were identified as sex workers, were recently discovered at a panel beating factory in Johannesburg. A 20-year-old man has been charged with six counts of murder. The case ...
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Oct 19, 2022
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Intimate partner violence is chronic among young sexual and gender minorities assigned male at birth, with bisexual, transgender and lower-income people in this group having the highest likelihood of victimization, a Rutgers ...
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Oct 14, 2022
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Over the past 40 years, considerable progress has been made in lowering rates of domestic violence (DV) in our communities. However, this progress has been uneven due to continuing misconceptions about the causes and dynamics ...
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Oct 4, 2022
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When Zougba's husband fled the jihadist violence crippling Burkina Faso, she soon found herself with her young son, daughter and other women on the road in a mission to join him. After 10km, four armed men surged into view ...
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Sep 22, 2022
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Image-based abuse, also commonly known as "revenge pornography" involves three main behaviors—non-consensually taking or creating nude or sexual images, threatening to share or distribute nude or sexual images, and non-consensually ...
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Sep 2, 2022
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Music festivals are important cultural and economic events. They have become symbols of the British summertime.
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Aug 26, 2022
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HBO's fantasy series "Game of Thrones" dominated television and pop culture discourse for much of a decade. Its upcoming prequel series, "House of the Dragon," is similarly generating conversation, although not in ways the ...
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Aug 12, 2022
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Every week millions of Australian children play community sport. Participating in community sports can improve children's mental, physical and social well-being, but only if the sports environment is physically and emotionally ...
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Aug 11, 2022
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