Primary prevention programs with a footballing focus aim to change behaviours and attitudes among men towards women.
People gather at a memorial ceremony to honour the 13 students and one staff member killed at the École Polytechnique Massacre, Tuesday, December 6, 2016 in Montreal.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
The day of remembrance and action, also called White Ribbon Day, marks the anniversary of the murders of 14 female engineering students killed in 1989 at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Over 47% of women in Kenya have experienced physical or sexual violence by their partner.
Chaiyapong/Shutterstock
A video uploaded to YouTube last month depicted an avatar in a video game physically assaulting a female character until she was unconscious. Should that be allowed in today’s gaming culture?
Cheryl Zondi bucked the trend of rape accusers staying anonymous in South Africa.
African News Agency (ANA)
Prevailing patriarchal and cultural norms in some societies prevent women victims of sexual crimes from talking out by shaming them.
Australia has launched countless domestic violence campaigns over the years. So, why haven’t they shifted public attitudes on the problem?
Joe Castro/AAP
In order to change public opinion, campaigns need to move beyond awareness raising and start addressing the perpetrators and causes of domestic violence.
The Yazidis – targeted by Islamic State.
EPA-EFE/Gailan Haji
There is an urgent need for a binding convention for the prohibition of violence against women.
There are many barriers to the implementation of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. In particular, the community has yet to be adequately educated about domestic violence laws.
Despite several barriers, journalists are changing the way they report on violence against women for the better.
Women gather outside of the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013 to dance as a part of the One Billion Rising movement, a global campaign by women for women which calls for the an end to violence against women.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
We tend to pay attention to mass killings and terrorism. But one girl or woman is killed every other day in Canada. If we identify that as terrorism, we might pay more attention and do something.
The man who plowed a van into a crowd in Toronto was a member of the so-called ‘incel’ community.
CrowdSpark/Julla Shanghavi/AAP
Men who subscribe to ideological masculinity believe that women’s empowerment has left them victimised and discriminated against. And they play out their resentment through violent acts.
A single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel in Chinatown in Vancouver, B.C.
(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Low-income women suffer evictions and violence in Canada’s most “livable” cities.
With some foul-mouthed words to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Senator David Leyonhjelm has turned a debate about the safety of women into a sleazy political sideshow.
AAP/Mick Tsikas/Sam Mooy
Many female politicians have had to endure sexist abuse, from Cheryl Kernot to Julia Gillard to Sarah Hanson-Young. And it is not a matter that should simply be brushed aside.
Contraception is sometimes controlled in abusive relationships.
from www.shutterstock.com
Australia’s record on women’s rights will come under scrutiny, including its treatment of Indigenous women and girls, sexual harassment and violence against women.
Members of a ‘particular social group’ may qualify for asylum if they have suffered violence for such traits as gender, sexual identity and sexual orientation.
AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal
International law recognizes that women and LGBTQ people face unique forms of violence that may qualify them for asylum. The US now asserts that domestic abuse is a ‘private’ matter.
Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Lead Researcher with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and Lecturer in Criminology at the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University