Violence against women is omnipresent: at the workplace, at home, in public and on the Internet. The report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published in March 2014 is based on research into direct violence and reveals the magnitude and scale of this kind of violence. One third of all women in …
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Women with severe mental illness are up to five times more likely than the general population to be victims of sexual assault and two to three times more likely to suffer domestic violence, reveals new research led by UCL and King’s College London funded by the Medical Research Council and the Big Lottery. The study …
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WE DREAM OF A WORLD WITHOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT…. … and we’re on our way to creating that world. SAVE – Sexual Assault Voices of Edmonton – is a broad-based coalition comprised of educators, NGO’s, sexual assault counselors, the Edmonton Police Service, caring/invested businesses, and individuals who are committed to creating a safe community and city …
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A participant at a conference on LGBT issues in Serbia is in critical condition at a Belgrade hospital today after a brutal attack left him so injured he required emergency brain surgery. Alex Cooper, a conference participant and graduate student at Central European University, told Balkanist that witnesses said the perpetrators shouted, “we don’t want …
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