Welcome to the 62nd edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest.
Sex trafficking is becoming a global concern are more countries get involved in efforts to identify and eliminate trafficking rings. Australia is tackling domestic violence in the indigenous communities. And activism against street harassment continues with new campaigns.
Additionally, this fortnight we highlight several technological advances in the pursuit of eliminating violence against women:
– Google uses its expertise in data mining to aid anti-sex trafficking endeavours
– An app that can be used to mitigate domestic violence has been launched in Canada
– In the tragic scenario of a victim dying due to domestic violence, alternative light source can be used to identify non-visible wounds
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The Pixel Project Team
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – GENERAL NEWS
- AUSTRALIA – Government body set up to prevent violence against women
- CANADA – Harper government announces support to end violence against aboriginal women and girls in Northern Alberta
- CHINA – UN symposium says level of violence against women shocking
- INDIA – Women activists in India face a brutally sexist and violent twittersphere
- ITALY – Acid attacks against women on the rise in Italy
- NIGERIA – Students march to support the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Call for closer ties between Papua New Guinea and Australian police forces to fight violence against women
- SOMALIA – The wife of Somalia’s Prime Minister speaks on issues of violence against women
- TURKEY – Working to end violence against women in Turkey
- USA – Condom companies should focus on violence against women
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- AUSTRALIA – Tackling indigenous domestic violence
- CANADA – App to mitigate risk of domestic violence launched in Canada
- ISRAEL: Standing up to domestic violence in Tel Aviv
- NEW ZEALAND – Plan to track domestic violence offenders
- SCOTLAND: Vets are recruited in fight against domestic violence in Scotland
- SOUTH AFRICA – South African police force fails on domestic violence act mandate
- TURKEY: Alcohol leading factor in domestic violence according to chief prosecutor’s office
- UNITED STATES – Alternative light source technology can be used to expose signs of abuse on a victim’s body
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RAPE/SEXUAL ASSAULT
- INDIA – Mother of the gang-rape victim in Delhi pleads for justice
- HONG KONG – Security minister comes under fire for rape victim-blaming
- JAPAN – Japanese mayor says that comfort women in World War 2 were necessary to maintain discipline
- JAPAN – Japanese mayor accuses the United States of using Japanese women to provide sex for American soldiers in World War 2
- SOUTH AFRICA – Children need good role models (how a child learns to commit rape from watching role models)
- SOMALIA – Inside the rape crisis centre that’s helping Somalia’s women (video included)
- UNITED KINGDOM: South West Rape Awareness Campaign launched
- UNITED STATES – Government survey finds that juvenile inmates at no greater risk of prison rape than adults
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HUMAN/SEX TRAFFICKING
- WORLD – Special focus: how Google is fighting sex trafficking with big data
- AFRICA – The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa bloc countries decide to step up efforts to tackle human trafficking
- SOUTHEAST ASIA – Analysis – Southeast Asia’s human trafficking conundrum (includes sex trafficking)
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Dominican Republic cracking down on sex trafficking and prostitution
- INDIA – An estimated 200,000 Bangladeshi children trafficked to India for sexual exploitation
- INDIA – Indian film on child sex trafficking at Cannes
- KENYA – Poverty fuels human trafficking in Kenya
- NORWAY – Underage Uzbek girls arrested for ‘debauchery’ in Baku, were victims of sex trafficking
- THE PHILIPPINES – Two-hour documentary on human trafficking in The Philippines to be screened
- UNITED STATES – Play puts audiences face-to-face with the horrors of sex trafficking
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
- WORLD – Female Genital Mutilation Campaigners face death threats and intimidation
- NIGER – Villagers take mass public vow to end FGM
- SOMALIA – Female genital mutilation campaigners face death threats and intimidation
- SOMALILAND – Fighting against FGM
- UGANDA – 400 children in the Amudat district flee their homes in fear of FGM
- UNITED KINGDOM – Suggestion for a ‘Keep Safe’ helpline on FGM to be established in the United Kingdom
- UNITED KINGDOM – Financier gives away £ 50,000 to help fight female genital mutilation
- UNITED KINGDOM – Members of the Somali community paying foreign doctors to carry out FGM
- UNITED KINGDOM – Zarah Hassan, survivor of FGM, tells her story
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FORCED MARRIAGE AND HONOUR KILLING
- WORLD – Infographic of percentages on what the Muslim world believes, including on honour killings
- WORLD – Forced marriage still exists and is a form of slavery
- AUSTRALIA – Changes in federal legislation have seen forced marriage criminalized in Australia for the first time. Part 2 here
- GAMBIA – An editorial on ending forced marriages
- JORDAN – Editorial on honor killing in the Middle East, with focus on Jordan
- THE NETHERLANDS – Dutch police criticised for allegedly helping two underage Muslims to marry
- PAKISTAN – Decoding ‘honour killings’
- SWEDEN – Court reduces sentence in honour killing case
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ACTIVISM
- AUSTRALIA: New South Wales government launches domestic violence safety app
- CANADA: Rape victim finds her voice and diginity
- EGYPT: Egyptian man dresses up like a woman to experience street harassment
- INDIA – Citizen journalist endeavour to deal with street harassment
- NAMIBIA – The National Art Gallery in partnership with various organizations to host a national-based art exhibition on domestic violence
- UNITED KINGDOM – Campaign group holds free workshop against street harassment
- UNITED STATES – The next step in fighting street harassment? A comic book
- UNITED STATES – Window Sex Project explores the problem of street harassment
- ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwean human rights lawyer and women and children’s activist nominated for position of Executive Director of UN Women