Welcome to the 91st edition of the Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest!
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre has conducted a study and reveals that domestic violence costs more lives and financial loss worldwide than wars.
In Australia, a survey reveals that many people still trivialize and excuse forms of violence against women, including believing that drunkenness makes a person ‘partially responsible’ for rape.
The United States marks 20 years of the Violence Against Women Act. Read Vice President Joe Biden’s address on it. On this same fortnight, President Obama launches the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign, seeking to end rape on campus.
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Violence Against Women – General News
- AUSTRALIA – Australians still trivialize and excuse violence against women
- COLOMBIA – Colombia wants more convictions for violence against women
- GUAM – Federal Violence Against Women Agency on Guam for site visit
- NEPAL – South Asia should seize opportunity to end violence against women
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Oxfam Australia says that violence against women is holding Papua New Guinea back
- SOUTH AFRICA – Pistorius and South Africa’s culture of violence
- UNITED KINGDOM – Lessons in relationships should be included in curriculum to prevent violence against women
- UNITED STATES – Vice President Joe Biden on 20 years of the Violence Against Women Act
Domestic Violence
- WORLD – Domestic violence kills more people than wars, study finds
- LATIN AMERICA / UNITED STATES – Domestic violence ruling may help thousands of immigrants get asylum in the US
- AUSTRALIA – Powerful PSA by Australian organization Our Watch on effects of domestic violence on children
- LEBANON – Landmark verdict issued over domestic violence case
- MEXICO – More than 80% of women have suffered from family, labour, community or institutional violence
- NEW ZEALAND – Hundreds protest against domestic violence and child abuse
- SOLOMON ISLANDS – Women from Solomon Islands fleeing from domestic violence
- UNITED STATES – Four NFL players suspended for domestic violence, eleven more with previous charges still able to play
Rape and Sexual Assault
- WORLD / NORWAY – Science’s sexual assault problem – raising awareness on women scientists sexually assaulted while doing field work
- AUSTRALIA – One in five Australians believe drunk women partly responsible for rape
- CHINA – Campus sexual assault prevention seminar held in Beijing
- INDIA – 42% of women are sexually assaulted before 19
- IRAQ – Women abducted by ISIS feared trapped in sexual slavery
- MALAYSIA – Only 10% of rapes are ever reported
- MEXICO – Is rape the price migrant women pay for chasing the American dream?
- SYRIA – The young girls escaping the ISIS war
- UNITED STATES – Seeking to end rape on campus, White House launches ‘It’s On Us’ campaign
Sex / Human Trafficking
- EUROPE – Legal prostitution in Europe: the shady façade of human trafficking
- BANGLADESH – The state of trafficking of women and girls in South Asia
- CANADA – Aboriginal women part of crisis of human trafficking
- CHINA – Police to target websites touting foreign brides
- INDIA – Half of India’s missing children last year were sold to prostitution
- THAILAND AND MALAYSIA – The United States has waived the call to sanction against Thailand and Malaysia for failing to meet the minimum in combating human trafficking
- NEPAL – Child trafficking: Nepal’s tragic dilemma
- UNITED STATES – More than 100 nonprofits are joining forces to tackle sex trafficking of children and girls
Female Genital Mutilation
- AFRICA – New report reveals that violence against children, including FGM, remain high in Africa
- EGYPT – Female genital mutilation trial sheds light on Egyptian practice
- GAMBIA – EU on crusade to improve women’s rights (includes FGM)
- GHANA – Chiefs urged to abolish outmoded cultural practices
- IRAQ – Iraqi Kurdistan could end FGM within a generation
- KENYA – Fifty cases of FGM are brought to court, raising the stakes for female genital mutilation
- UNITED KINGDOM – Border Force officers issue warning about FGM cutters flying into the UK
- UNITED STATES – Green Tree conference at Pittsburgh examines African immigrant health issues, including checks for FGM
Forced Marriage and Honour Killings
- BANGLADESH – The British High Commission invites posters from college, university and art college students across Bangladesh to raise awareness on forced marriage
- CANADA – Asylum seeker from Pakistan may face honour killing for adultery if deported
- KENYA – Kenya launches hotline for FGM and forced marriages
- PAKISTAN – Girl stoned to death by brother for having an affair
- TANZANIA – Combating Tanzania’s high child marriage rates
- UNITED KINGDOM – Interview with Mussurut Zia, activist against forced marriages and honour killings
- ZAMBIA – Zambian government commended for its leadership andWORLD – One Billion Rising campaign to focus on eradicating corruption and creating system change commitment to end early, forced and child marriages
Street Harassment
- SRI LANKA – Harassed woman slaps harasser, creating responses and prompting replies to public responses
- UNITED STATES – SoHo bartender fed up with harassment writes a public letter and outs her harasser on Gothamist
- UNITED STATES – Kansas City considers outlawing street harassment
Activism
- WORLD – One Billion Rising campaign to tackle corruption and system change in 2015
- AFGHANISTAN – Afghan graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani shortlisted for Artraker Award
- CANADA – BC Lions campaign urges men to break the silence on violence against women
- COLUMBIA – Artist and thespian Patricia Ariza granted LPTW International Award for her work that focuses on women’s rights, including violence against women
- NIGERIA – Interview with Oby Nwanko, who calls for a Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill to be passed into law
- SOUTH KOREA – Students raise awareness about survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery
- UNITED KINGDOM – Take Back the Night marks 21 years
- UNITED STATES – Students carry Emma Sulkowicz’s mattress to support her call for the expelling of her alleged rapist