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Treaties alone can’t protect women from violence
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Rahila Gupta is an author and journalist. She has written several books, insluitend "Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong" en "Enslaved: The New British Slavery." Volg haar op Twitter: @RahilaG. The opinions...
Puerto Rico declares a state of emergency due to gender-based violence
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Puerto Rico is declaring a state of emergency over gender-based violence, delivering on a demand made by activists in recent years after a wave of killings targeting women and transgender people. Goewerneur. Pedro Pierluis...
Sam Burgess steps down from coaching position with South Sydney Rabbitohs amid allegations of domestic violence and drug use
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Sam Burgess has stepped down from his coaching role with the South Sydney Rabbitohs following what the club calls "very concerning" allegations against the team's former star player. The newspaper The Australian pub...
A Disney World ticket booker alerted police to a domestic violence victim after taking their call
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A Walt Disney World employee who took a call from a woman in Pennsylvania inquiring about booking tickets to the Florida resort on January 9 alerted police in central Pennsylvania that the woman may be dealing with ...
A Wisconsin County cut funding to a domestic violence shelter that showed support for Black Lives Matter
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When Embrace, a Wisconsin-based domestic violence shelter, put up Black Lives Matter signs in its offices earlier this summer, employees expected it would prompt tough conversations from people in the community. Die...
Offensive lineman Chad Wheeler arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence, waived by Seattle Seahawks
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Now-former Seahawks player Chad Wheeler was arrested Friday on suspicion of felony domestic violence after an incident at a residence in a Seattle suburb, police and court records say. The incident began at around 9...
Die Universiteit van Utah kom met die gesin van die vermoorde student Lauren McCluskey in aanraking en hernoem sy sentrum vir die voorkoming van geweld
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Die Universiteit van Utah het twee regsgedinge met die ouers van Lauren McCluskey afgehandel, 'n 21-jarige student wat vermoor is deur 'n ekskêrel waaroor sy meer as die polisie gekla het 20 keer. McCluskey se lyk met ...
Boston se nuwe polisiekommissaris met verlof na bewering oor huishoudelike geweld
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Boston se burgemeester het sy pas aangestelde polisiekommissaris Dennis White met verlof geplaas nadat 'n bewering van gesinsgeweld uit die laat negentigerjare Woensdag opgeduik het. In 'n verklaring wat aan CNN verskaf is, Burgemeester Mart ...
Op hierdie dag 100 jare terug, 'n wit gepeupel het die dodelikste verkiesingsdaggeweld in die Amerikaanse geskiedenis ontketen
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Dit was al 100 jare sedert die slagting in Ocoee, 'n donker hoofstuk wat dikwels oor die hoof gesien word in die Amerikaanse geskiedenis. Op November 2, 1920, Afro-Amerikaanse inwoners van Ocoee, Florida, het uitgegaan om hul stemme in die presidensie te gee ...
Domestic violence incidents rose in the US during pandemic lockdowns, analysis finds
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Domestic violence incidents rose in the United States by about 8.1% after the imposition of pandemic-related lockdowns, according to an analysis by the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice. The analy...
Fury over brutal beating in Brazil amid pattern of ‘daily’ geweld, activists say
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Sao Paulo Brazilians outraged by the death of a Black man after being beaten by supermarket security guards have been protesting in major cities across the country, chanting a phrase familiar to Americans: "I can't b...
Drie vroulike joernaliste vermoor deur gewapende mans in Afghanistan in die laaste golf van geweld
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Drie vroulike mediawerkers is Dinsdag in die oostelike Afghaanse stad Jalalabad doodgeskiet, regeringsamptenare gesê, te midde van 'n vlaag moorde wat vrees versprei onder professionele werkers in stedelike sentrums. Sal ...
Amerika se topgeneraal vergader met Taliban, vra vir 'n vermindering in geweld
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Washington Amerika se voorste militêre offisier, Voorsitter van die gesamentlike stafhoofgenl. Mark Milley, het tydens 'n onaangekondigde reis hierdie week deur die Midde-Ooste met verteenwoordigers van die Taliban in Katar vergader. Mille ...
Drie Franse polisiebeamptes is doodgeskiet nadat hulle op 'n huishoudelike geweldvoorval gereageer het
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Parys Drie polisiebeamptes is doodgeskiet en 'n vierde is beseer na 'n gesinsgeweldvoorval in sentraal-Frankryk, het plaaslike aanklaers aan CNN-filiaal BFM TV gesê. Die beamptes van die Gendarmerie N ...
A Confederate statue is coming down today in the Virginia city of deadly ‘Unite the Right’ geweld
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The statue of a Confederate soldier, flanked by a cannon and ammunition, has stood at the county courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, sedert 1909, meer as 40 years after the Civil War. It was christened "At Rea...
Biden to take train to Washington for inauguration, moving forward to ‘not be deterred’ by violence or virus
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Joe Biden will begin his new journey as the 46th President of the United States in a familiar way: riding Amtrak from Wilmington to Washington. A day before he is sworn into office, Biden is planning to make his way...