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VAWnet News Blog

This area provides access to current and past news coverage on various issues related to gender-based violence that has national reach or impact, a full archive of NRCDV eNewsletters featuring announcements of new resources, initiatives, and events and access to our recent and archived TA questions of the month.
In the News
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The article reports, “…Street harassment is no different than workplace harassment in its purpose and its effect. It is meant to put victims in their place, to remind them that they are objects and that their safety is a privilege, not a right. As a result, people change jobs, leave apartments or whole cities and suffer long-term stress and anxiety orders.”

In the News
Thursday, June 09, 2011

The article reports, “Experts suggest the United States’ ranking near the bottom of 33 developed countries for life expectancy at birth — 27th — may be due to domestic violence.

In the News
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

The article reports, “For months, CNN has been campaigning against modern-day slavery on its newscasts and Web sites. For the next stage, it’s bringing in star power. On Monday, the network will announce a plan for a one-hour documentary, ‘Nepal’s Stolen Children,’ reported and hosted by the actress Demi Moore. In the documentary, which will be shown for the first time on June 26, Ms.

In the News
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

The article reports, “A British Muslim women’s group has launched a ‘jihad against violence’, in a bid to reclaim the term jihad from extremists.

In the News
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

The article reports, “Boys who are bullies at school are at increased risk of abusing their partner later in life-a link that U.S. researchers say could hold potential for curbing domestic violence, which affects about a fourth of all U.S. women.

In the News
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The article reports, “A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that a large proportion of victims of community violence treated in its emergency department are female. Injured adolescent females are more likely than males to be injured by a relative or intimate partner, and are more likely to be injured by a single assailant.