abc.net: by Danny Morgan — PHOTO Marcia Neave gave the opening address to Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence Family violence is at shockingly high levels in all areas of the community with police and support services struggling to cope with demand, Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence has heard. […]
Source: The Guardian By Amelia Gentlemen — When Anna Zhavnerovich wrote about a beating she received from her boyfriend, it triggered a huge reaction. Now there are signs of a political shift in attitudes regarding the campaign to identify domestic violence as a crime What it’s really like to be […]
Global Issues: by Fabina Frayssinet — BUENOS AIRES, Jun 05 (IPS) – In the wake of the massive response to their call to protest violence against women in Argentina, the organisers of this week’s demonstrations are starting to plan the steps to be taken to get results for their demand […]
theguardian: by Helen Davidson — A comprehensive national initiative is focusing on distorted ideas of gender equality as part of plans to tackle the “national emergency” of violence against women and children. Our Watch was established by the commonwealth and Victorian governments last year, and on Friday revealed its strategy […]
Epigraph: It is lawful for you to make love to your wives on the night of the fast. They are a garment for you, and you are a garment for […]
Epigraph: Say, “O My servants who have committed excesses against their own souls! despair not of the mercy of Allah, surely Allah forgives all sins. Verily He is Most Forgiving, Merciful. (Al Quran 39:54) O.J. Simpson is set to convert to Islam. The former American footballer and movie star has […]
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Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — A woman’s dress, marital status, and lifestyle do not inspire violence against women. Violence against women exists because the men in their lives — single, married and strangers — commit that violence. Violence against women exists because men do not treat women with respect. […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — A woman’s dress, marital status, and lifestyle do not inspire violence against women. Violence against women exists because the men in their lives — single, married and strangers — commit that violence. Violence against women exists because men do not treat women with respect. […]
PolicyMic: by Marcie Bianco — “Does this look like LOVE TO ANY ONE OF YOU?” That was the rhetorical question Angela Bower posed to her friends and family after posting photos allegedly showing the brutal beating she took from her ex-partner. The Tennessee woman said she took to her Facebook page not […]
A husband who strangled to death his pregnant wife two weeks after police arrested him for threatening to kill her with a hammer was sentenced to life imprisonment today. Mohammed Badiuzzaman, 34, pleaded guilty to murdering mother-of-three Sabeen Thandi at the Old Bailey earlier this month. Before the killing he […]
We.news: by Hajer Naili — (WOMENSENEWS)–On a single day last September, 9,641 victims of domestic violence tried and failed to find help, shows a March 6 study by the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Sixty percent of their unmet requests were for emergency housing. “The largest unmet need was for […]
theguardian: by Sandra Laville — Jenny Smith will never forget the phone call that saved her life. It was her second attempt after finding herself incapable of speech the first time. Trying again a few days later, she managed a few gasped words: “I’m a battered wife, can you help […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee During a discussion with my 11-year-old daughter on the subject of respect and the status of women in Islam, the conversation turned to the issue of domestic violence. When I told my daughter that critics of Islam allege the Quran encourages men to […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid: Author, ‘The Wrong Kind of Muslim’ Critics incorrectly allege that Islam commands husbands to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34. Unfortunately, like […]