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The issue of consent in cases of sexual violence is a major grey area in Irish law as there is no statutory definition for it. “Introducing a statutory definition of consent is a matter which is under review in the department,” a spokeswoman from the Department of Justice told the Irish Examiner.

The recent cases of sexual violence against children that have emerged in several areas across Indonesia, has raised a question in our mind: What has happened to Indonesia’s morals?

While domestic violence is often depicted as strictly physical, there are many different types of abuse that don’t result in bruises and broken bones. But that doesn’t mean they are any less harmful.

You may know him as the anti-poverty activist who camped out to raise food for the foodbank, or as one of the many candidates in the recent Ward 12 by-election. But now, Dan Johnstone, also known as ‘Can Man Dan,’ wants to be known as something else: An abuse survivor.

Sometime this year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline expects to take the first call at a hotline created specifically to respond to tribal victims.

New figures, released by New Zealand Police, show officers attended a family violence incident somewhere in the country once every five and a half minutes last year. They attended, on average, 279 calls for help every day and about 105,000 domestic violence incidents overall.