Welcome to the 77th edition of The Pixel Project’s VAW e-News Digest!
The Brazilian city of Rio de Jainero has been in the process of pacifying its urban ghettos, better known as favelas, since 2008. Police Pacification Units (UPP) invade the favelas. Afterwards, community police units are installed to maintain order and ensure that the drug traffickers — imprisoned or scared into hiding — don’t come back. The Rio de Jainero State University (UERJ) recently released a report that pacification has decreased violent deaths in the favelas. But according to the Rio Times, “rape indices went from 1.3 to 4.8 and domestic violence shot up from 27 to 84.6” between 2006 and 2011.
Meanwhile in the United States, the National Football League (NFL) is holding its grand event the Super Bowl on February 2, 2014 in Rutherford, New Jersey. The Super Bowl will not just bring sports fans to Rutherford but, also, pimps selling their girls to sports fans demanding illicit sex.
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Violence Against Women – General News
- AUSTRALIA-Sunrise ‘strippergate’ ordeal leads to rape and death threats
- BANGLADESH-Church must take stand against abuse of women in Bangladesh, activist says
- BRAZIL-Is Pacification Increasing Violence Against Women in Rio’s Favelas?
- CANADA-Violence against women: Toronto Police Services Board sponsors local group’s book
- INDIA-Sex workers to protest rising violence against women
- INDONESIA-Sexual harassment victims face hurdles in getting justice
- NEW ZEALAND-NZ urged to keep addressing violence against women
- SYRIA-Stop Sexual Assaults and Violence Against Syrian Women and Girls
- UNITED KINGDOM-What needs to change to stop violence against women?
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Domestic Violence
- WORLD-New domestic violence video puts spotlight on victims and children
- AUSTRALIA-New laws will also hit domestic violence
- BELARUS-Belarus’ policemen to study foreign practices in combating domestic violence
- MALTA-US and Maltese volunteers renovate shelter for domestic violence victims
- NEW ZEALAND-Talking about it a way out of family violence
- NIGERIA-Top Nollywood Acts Walk Against Domestic Violence
- PAKISTAN-PTI submits draft bill against domestic violence in PA
- UNITED KINGDOM-Met crackdown on domestic violence
- UNITED STATES-Femicide Report: 37 domestic violence murders in 2013
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Rape and Sexual Assault
- WORLD-Top 5 Countries with the Highest Rates of Rape
- WORLD-Why it is wrong to call SA (or any country) the ‘rape capital of the world’
- AFRICA- Zim, SA Lead the Way As SADC Gets Tough On Rape
- INDIA-Why the tribal rape scandal is so unexpected
- MOROCCO-Morocco rape law quashed after public outcry
- SOUTH AFRICA-‘Rape stereotypes persist in SA’
- SRI LANKA-Sri Lankan police continue search for 20yo man suspected of raping Australian woman
- UNITED KINGDOM-UK routinely detains rape victims seeking asylum – report
- UNITED STATES-Obama Targeting College Sexual Assault Epidemic
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Sex Trafficking
- ASIA-From war brothels to cybersex?
- EUROPE-Europe Votes on Penalising Prostitute Clients in ‘Nordic Model’
- EUROPE-Sex trafficking gang dismantled by police in UK and Spain
- CANADA-Barbara Kay: On prostitution, make abolition the goal
- CHINA-China executes man for raping, murdering sex slaves
- INDIA-Inside India’s trafficking gangs: Lifting the lid on the criminals who steal girls as young as NINE and sell them into the sex trade
- NIGERIA-Investigation: Inside Nigeria’s Ruthless Human Trafficking Mafia
- SOUTH AFRICA-Keeping Strip Clubs Accountable
- UNITED STATES-The Super Bowl and Sex Trafficking
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Female Genital Mutilation
- AFRICA-Female genital mutilation affects a fifth of young girls in sub-Saharan Africa
- AFRICA-Why Ugandan, Kenyan Sex Workers Are At War
- AUSTRALIA-Australian Charged Over Jakarta Genital Mutilation of Baby Girl
- BURKINA FASO-Voice, choice and control: Tackling FGM in Burkina Faso
- GAMBIA-Gambian organisation briefs religious leaders on FGM
- INDONESIA-Calls mount for government to retract support for FGM
- KENYA-Man shocks court, defends FGM by quoting bible
- SUDAN-FGM Practice Down by 4%
- UNITED KINGDOM-Teachers face legal duty to report FGM cases in drive to bring mutilators to justice
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Forced Marriage/Honour Killing
- WORLD-“Honor Diaries”: Movie Review
- WORLD-Child marriage ‘worryingly high’ around world
- WORLD-Child Marriage in 2013: Third of Women in Developing World Married Before 18
- WORLD-Protecting girls from child marriage in Tanzania and worldwide
- WORLD-Time to end child marriage
- CANADA-Mother, son convicted of threatening woman, boyfriend with honour killing
- UNITED KINGDOM-Friend claims James Dunleavy murdered mum in ‘honour killing’ because he felt she’d shamed family
- UNITED STATES-Till death do us part: The forgotten US victims of forced marriage
- YEMEN-Yemen Takes a Step Toward Law Ending Child Marriage
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Activism
- WORLD-New York Opera voices Pakistan’s Rape victims
- WORLD-One Billion Rising For Justice: Women survivors of violence urged to break silence Feb 14
- AUSTRALIA-A former Geelong teacher launches charity to support victims of sex trafficking
- INDIA-Violence against women is cowardice, feels Aamir Khan
- SOUTH AFRICA-Abuse: A Goliath undertaking
- TANZANIA-Women Crave for Equal Representation in Constituent Assembly
- UGANDA-Bukirwa’s music rounds against gender violence
- UNITED KINGDOM-Laura Bates interview: ‘Two years ago, I didn’t know what feminism meant’
- UNITED STATES-Art exhibit strives to raise awareness