Welcome to the 73rd edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest, which is also the special ‘16 for 16’ edition for the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence!
In the Arab world where old fashion attitudes die hard, women’s rights are frequently violated even in places where governments are relatively progressive on social issues . Sexual harassment is so rife that almost every woman in Egypt has experienced it, according to a United Nations (UN) report released earlier this year. In Saudi Arabia, they must cover themselves in public, cannot drive cars and must remain under male ‘guardianship.’
In the United Kingdom, members of parliament launched a major inquiry why female genital mutilation to ‘get to the truth’ about why no-one has been convicted three decades after it was made illegal . Home Affairs Select Committee is to challenge ministers and the police over why charges have never been brought against ‘cutters’ or families who arrange the surgery.
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Violence Against Women – General News
- WORLD-Arab women’s rights: Not yet sitting pretty
- WORLD-Gender Equality Progress A Bright Spot In U.N. Climate Negotiations
- WORLD-Global campaign targets violence against women and girls caused by ‘militarism’
- WORLD-UN Expresses Concern on International Day to End Violence Against Women
- WORLD-Violence against Women, a Global Phenomenon
- BURMA-Activists Launch Campaign to Raise Awareness of Violence Against Women
- CARIBBEAN-Violence against women one of the greater challenges facing the Caribbean – OAS Secretary General
- HONDURAS-Increasing violence against women
- INDIA-The missing men in violence against women
- ITALY-Kering Combats Violence Against Women
- NICARAGUA-Violence against women is systemic
- PAKISTAN-Signature drive for ending violence against women launched
- SOUTH AFRICA-More Police Stations capacitated to deal with violence against women, children and the elderly
- THAILAND-Bid to curb violence against women
- TURKEY-Turkey to tackle violence against women
- UNITED STATES-Why won’t Congress pass the International Violence Against Women Act?
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Domestic Violence
- WORLD-Domestic violence costs Pacific economies huge sums
- EUROPE-A quarter of all women in the WHO European Region experience physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner
- AUSTRALIA-NT says no more to domestic violence
- BELGIUM-Mobile phones for high-risk battered women
- BRAZIL-Brazil city battles domestic abuse with mobile panic button
- CANADA-Inquiry into the death of Brenda Moreside
- ITALY-Kering takes a stand against domestic violence in Italy
- MAURITIUS- Perpetrators Must Break the Silence to Stop the Violence
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA-PNG plans a comprehensive response to family and sexual violence
- SINGAPORE-Panel suggests ways to tackle rising family violence
- TONGA-New crisis services for victims of domestic violence
- TURKEY-An Unlikely Ally Against Domestic Violence
- UGANDA-Domestic Violence On the Rise in Tororo
- UNITED STATES-Raising Awareness of Domestic Violence During the Holidays
- UNITED KINGDOM-Sanctuary for domestic abuse survivors
- URUGUAY-Uruguay sees 68 reports of domestic violence daily
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Rape and Sexual Assault
- BANGLADESH-Awami League failing in manifesto pledge to end sexual violence
- BURMA-Reports of Rape On the Rise in Burma
- DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO-DR Congo officers in rape and war crimes trial
- INDIA-Bollywood flick tackles India’s rape culture
- LIBYA-Parliament must support justice for rape victims
- MALTA-Time to act against rape: Use the Istanbul Convention!- Malta seminar
- MOROCCO- Obama Must Press King Mohammed VI Over ‘Rape and Kissing’ Laws
- NEW ZEALAND-151K Kiwis sign online petitions to punish Facebook ‘rape club’
- PAKISTAN-Raped and buried alive, 13-year-old girl in Pakistan survives by digging her way out of shallow grave
- SOMALIA-Somali radio director arrested over rape case
- SOUTH AFRICA-National Sexual Offences Statistics Reflect Silence and Failure
- SYRIA-Syria conflict: Women ‘targets of abuse and torture’
- TANZANIA-Babu Seya: Tanzania court upholds singer’s life term for rape
- UNITED KINGDOM-Schoolboy, 13, spent years raping little girl aged younger than 8 after watching internet pornography
- UNITED STATES-Senate women unite in fighting sexual assault
- ZIMBABWE-Marital rape prevalent — Muchinguri
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Sex/Human Trafficking
- WORLD-The Role of Sex Trafficking
- ASIA-Vietnam-China Human Trafficking on the Rise
- EUROPE-In EU, most human trafficking victims are European, experts say
- BARBADOS-‘Not everyone involved in transactional sex doing it willingly’
- BRAZIL-Brazilian model to auction her virginity online for a second time
- CAMBODIA-Duo trafficked to China freed in joint effort
- CHINA-Compelled by Love: The Church in China Fights Human Trafficking, Part II
- COLOMBIA-Colombia must focus more on tackling internal human trafficking – report
- COSTA RICA-‘Love & Scissors’ Transforms Lives of Human Trafficking Victims in Costa Rica
- FRANCE-France wants to fight prostitution and sex trafficking with fines for those who buy sex
- GERMANY-Germany’s legalized sex industry is booming
- INDIA-Horrors of India’s brothels documented
- NIGERIA-Nigerian Women Face Mounting Danger Of Being Trafficked
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-Dubai trafficker jailed for forcing compatriot into prostitution
- UNITED KINGDOM-London slaves: three women freed after 30 years’ captivity
- UNITED STATES-What Is the Most Common Way People Are Lured into Sex Trafficking? New Study Shows Surprising Trends
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Female Genital Mutilation
- WORLD-In Asylum Cases Involving Female Genital Mutilation, the Medical Community Is Often Out of Reach
- WORLD-Podcast 224: Dexter Dias QC on female genital mutilation and human rights.
- AFRICA-Postcard from Africa: Have Buddha, Will Travel
- EUROPE-Ending female genital mutilation: Will future Europe take up the mantle?
- EUROPEAN UNION-International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women: European Commission takes action to combat Female Genital Mutilation
- COLOMBIA-Colombia steps up campaign to stop FGM among Embera Indians
- GUINEA-In Guinea, one girl’s story of violence reveals a commonplace nightmare
- IRAQ-Female Genital Mutilation: Scarring Women’s Rights
- KENYA-Kenyan women’s rights group aims to tackle FGM
- KENYA-More Than 1,000 Girls in Rift Set for FGM
- NIGERIA-Female Genital Mutilation is a Cruel Ritual Cut
- SIERRA LEONE-In Sierra Leone, Religious Leaders Declare War on Teenage Pregnancy, FGM
- TANZANIA-The FGM Monster Still Rears Its Ugly Head
- UNITED KINGDOM-After speaking out against FGM, I faced a backlash. That’s why we all need to stand together
- UNITED KINGDOM-MPs launch major inquiry into female genital mutilation to ‘get to the truth’ about no-one has ever been charged
- UNITED STATES-Book Review: The Strength in her Pain to Forgive
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Forced Marriage and Honour Killing
- WORLD-New UN resolution significant step forward to ending child marriage
- WORLD-No honour in the killing of women
- MIDDLE EAST-Child Marriage May Finally End in Yemen and Saudi
- MIDDLE EAST-Love across the line
- MIDDLE EAST-No More Honor-Killings of Women in the Middle East
- INDIA-500 and counting: Child marriages averted this year
- FINLAND-Schoolgirls in Finland forced abroad for arranged marriages
- MALAWI-Can Child Marriages Be Stopped?
- MOROCCO-Moroccan teen, forced to marry her rapist, commits suicide
- PAKISTAN-Case sought against father for forced marriage
- PALESTINE-“Violated Freedom” Shed Light on the Phenomenon of Women’s Honor Killing in Palestinian Society
- SAUDI ARABIA-Saudi woman elopes, seeks asylum in Yemen
- SUDAN-Sudan Worst in Africa With Legal Marriage At Age 10
- TANZANIA-Zanzibar Mobilises Community Support to Combat Child Marriages, Truancy
- UNITED KINGDOM-Documentary on forced marriages prompted phone call for help
- YEMEN-Yemen to Finally Ban Child Marriage?
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Activism
- WORLD-We must enlist men and boys in the fight to end violence against women
- AFRICA-Komla Dumor Listed Among 100 Most Influential Personalities in Africa
- AFRICA-Message By H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Chairperson of the African Union Commission On Occasion of White Ribbon Day
- AUSTRALIA-Song contest to help combat violence against women
- CAMBODIA-Boeng Kak Activists Protest State Violence Against Women
- CANADA-Rape survivor breaks silence as part of campaign fighting violence against women
- COLOMBIA-Colombian women march in miniskirts to protest club owner’s comments about alleged rape
- COSTA RICA-SlutWalk 2 to protest Costa Rica presidential candidate’s comments on rape
- FIJI-Homeless People Step in to Fight Violence Against Women in Fiji
- ITALY-Letta declares war on violence against women
- NEW ZEALAND-Marches against rape culture just the beginning
- SOMALIA-The Beaming Blood:Author of the Novel: Mohamed Abdikadir (Stanza)
- SOUTH AFRICA-W Cape launches 16 Days of Activism campaign
- UGANDA-Ugandan midwife to receive France’s Order of Merit
- UNITED KINGDOM-Worcestershire men urged to stand against domestic violence during White Ribbon Campaign
- UNITED STATES-Men: we can start a movement to stop violence against women