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Maybe he doesn’t hit you, but he makes passive aggressive remarks and labels you as the “crazy one” for reacting to the bait. Maybe he doesn’t hit you, but he threatens suicide if you want to leave him.

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.

This May, let’s bring our attention to the importance of building and sustaining partnerships between domestic violence programs and anti-poverty organizations, as we celebrate and promote National Community Action Month. This observance was created by the Community Action Partnership (CAP) to reinforce the critical role of Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in helping low-income families achieve economic stability.

In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito [Massachusetts] today announced new policies to target human trafficking in the Commonwealth led by the Massachusetts State Police and Department of Children and Families (DCF).

April is national Sexual Assault Awareness Month. What is the Navy doing to support awareness, prevention and response? Quite a lot, according to Cmdr. Hillary Darby from Navy Region Hawaii.

Malawi recently passed a law making marriage under the age of 18 illegal, but in many villages, custom supersedes law. The backlash was immediate, with some telling Kachindamoto she had no right to overturn tradition. She’s ignored the death threats, and is instead lobbying the government to increase marriageable age to 21. Read More