“The breakfast seminar, part of a national initiative, was aimed at educating coaches — from recreation leagues to the college level — about domestic violence against women and urging the coaches to use their influence to affect change.”
Read more at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/04/16/giants-chris-canty-domestic-violence-prevention/2089185/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomNfl-TopStories+(Sports+-+NFL+-+Top+Stories)
“Domestic violence is often unnoticed, hidden from our eyes, but actually it is rampant in our society and in our communities. We know, of course, that there are probably women here this morning who have experienced violence in their own homes, and our heart goes out to you.”
Read more at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/april-12-2013/churches-and-domestic-violence/15846/
“Mayors Against Illegal Guns continues its push for commonsense gun law reforms today with a new ad and research highlighting the disturbing link between violence against women and guns. The ad features Elvin Daniel , a gun owner and NRA member whose sister Zina Daniel was murdered in the Brookfield, Wisconsin, spa shooting in October 2012. Several days after she obtained a restraining order against her violent estranged husband – which made him a prohibited purchaser – he bought a semiautomatic handgun from a private online seller without a background check, which he used the next day to murder her and two other people.”
Read more at: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/women-and-guns-new-ad-and-research-show-how-weak-gun-laws-turn-domestic-abuse-into-murder-201315351.html
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“Conflict-related sexual violence is one of the most urgent challenges facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a senior United Nations official says, stressing that leadership and responsibility on the part of the Government is critical to tackling this issue.”
Read more at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44514&Cr=sexual+violence&Cr1=
Categories: In the News Tags: awareness, bullying, children, conflict, Congo, DR congo, ending violence, gender violence, sexual violence, violence, violence against children, violence against women, women, youth
The article reports, “A national hotline for human trafficking victims received calls from about 10,000 individuals last year, from every state in the union. A new report out today by the Polaris Project, which runs the 24-hour hotline through a federal grant, says the volume of calls for help is on the rise, as awareness of the problem grows.”
Read the full article at: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/12/154800249/human-trafficking-hotline-received-10-000-calls-in-2011
The article reports, “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presented today the report ‘Access to Justice for Women Victims of Violence in Mesoamerica’ at a regional activity, which analyzes the multiple dimensions of the problem of sexual violence and its treatment by the justice systems of the Mesoamerican region, with a special emphasis on Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.”
Read the full article at: http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2012/057.asp
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