The UK is offering payments to abuse victims – but it may not be enough to help them leave: Marjan Apostolovic/Shutterstock For the 1.7 million women in England and Wales who are victims of domestic abuse, the cost of living crisis has added more barriers to leaving their abuser. The charity Women’s Aid has found …
Child sexual abuse: what the data tells us about perpetrators and victims: Amir Bajric/Shutterstock The government has announced plans to make it a crime not to report child abuse. As part of this, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has vowed to “stamp out” grooming gangs who perpetuate child exploitation. Ending child sexual abuse is of …
‘You rarely see abuse directed at men’: a look at the sexist abuse women police officers face online: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock The third series of BBC police drama Happy Valley marked the end of a beloved programme, and the end of Sergeant Catherine Cawood’s career navigating Yorkshire’s criminal underworld. Cawood’s age and gender is not …
Misogyny in policing: how some male officers abuse their power over female victims and colleagues: John Gomez/Shutterstock The case of David Carrick, a serial rapist and a serving officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, is the latest shocking example of violence against women committed by the police. For years, I have studied misogyny in policing …
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Netflix’s Pamela, A Love Story overturns stereotypes about victims of intimate partner abuse: Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary is worth watching for many reasons, but one of the greatest lessons it has to offer is what a victim-survivor of intimate partner abuse looks like: resilient, resourceful, eternally optimistic and compassionate. Unlike most other victim-survivors, Anderson has …
Child sexual abuse review: how research can help to tackle growing online abuse: Each time abuse material is shared, the victim is revictimised. Chinnapong | Shutterstock In the seven years since the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse launched in 2015, it has held more than 300 days of public hearings, processed over 2 million …
Child sexual abuse review: listening to children and young people is crucial: The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris scandals, has published its final report. Commissioned by then home secretary Theresa May in 2014, the inquiry has spent seven years examining how …
Johannesburg’s informal traders face abuse: the city’s ‘world class’ aspirations create hostility towards them: Street vendors ply their trade in Johannesburg. EPA-EFE/Kim Lubrook Unemployment and the rising cost of living force many people to make a living in the informal economy, particularly street trading. While it is difficult to measure the size of the informal …
Simi and Bella Shmurda: two Afrobeats stars reveal a growing tendency to abuse Fela Kuti: Frans Schellekens/Redferns via Getty Images There can no longer be any doubt that Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Nigerian musician, activist and father of Afrobeat music, has become an easy career booster for today’s Afrobeats artists who are undergoing creative droughts. …
Domestic abuse and mental health remain taboo subjects for many Sikhs – with deadly consequences: shutterstock Nicola Palmieri The suicide of Mandeep Kaur caught the attention of people around the world. Kaur, a woman of Sikh heritage from Utter Pradesh in northern India and living in the US, posted a video on social media that …
UN report on China’s abuse of Uyghurs is stronger than expected but missing a vital word: genocide: The long-awaited UN report into human rights abuses committed in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was finally published last week to a mixed reception. For some – principally the Chinese government – it went too far. Others …
Domestic abuse: how survivors can get through family law court: Know that there is hope. matt hoffman | unsplash, CC BY-SA One year on from the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 being enacted, survivors of domestic abuse in England and Wales are still navigating a broken system. Courts are massively under-resourced and face a huge backlog. …
Johnny Depp v Amber Heard: what to understand about intimate partner abuse before taking sides: The libel trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has brought a formerly private issue – intimate partner abuse – onto a very public stage. The loud and judgmental response from huge swaths of online observers reveals how little people …
Jimmy Savile: how the Netflix documentary fails to address the role institutions play in abuse: Jimmy Savile was one of the UK’s most serious serial sexual predators. Over several decades the television personality groomed and abused up to 1,000 boys and girls in TV studios as well as patients at NHS hospitals across Britain. That …
How colonialism is a major cause of domestic abuse against women around the world: Canada's residential school system has had a lasting effect on First Nations communities. Blake Elliott | Shutterstock One in three women around the world will experience violence from an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. That is a shocking …
Domestic abuse: new UK housing plan doesn’t go far enough to keep survivors safe: Domestic abuse survivors in England may find it easier to move away from abusive partners as a result of new proposals from the British government. Under plans, which are out for consultation, the local connection test would be scrapped. Currently, this …
How tech is driving new forms of domestic abuse: Spyware and covert monitoring devices can be exploited to abusive ends. Trismegist san | Shutterstock Perpetrators of domestic abuse are increasingly exploiting digital tools to coerce and control their victims. Where there is abuse in a relationship, technology will also feature in how that abuse is …