“‘The latest tragic death of Sohair El-Batea, 13, is another sad illustration of the terrible consequences that Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) has on the girl child,’ according to a joint UNICEF/UNFPA statement issued Monday.”
“The report, released this month by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, makes clear that prisons and other correctional institutions are falling well short of the law’s requirement to address this kind of abuse. It names several institutions that have particularly high rates of inmate-on-inmate or staff-on-inmate assaults.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/rape-behind-bars.html?ref=opinion&_r=3&
“We are pleased that Facebook will update their guidelines to include violence against women as a violation of its Community Standards, increase training on reviewing hateful and harmful speech, increase accountability of those who post hateful and reprehensible content about women, and work with other groups to ensure that content that is violent toward women not be acceptable on Facebook.”
“In the context of the annual gathering of the world’s ministers of health, seven governments – Belgium, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, United States of America, and Zambia – issued a statement at the conclusion of a panel discussion declaring violence against women and girls ‘a major global public health, gender equality and human rights challenge, touching every country and every part of society’ and proposing an agenda item on the topic for the 67th World Health Assembly.”
Read more: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/media/news/2013/21_05/en/index.html
“Last week, activists launched a campaign that urged companies to boycott Facebook advertising because the social media network allows users to post images of domestic violence against women, while banning advertisements about women’s health.”
“The woman had good reason to be afraid of this man, as she told the dispatcher on the other side of the phone, this same abusive ex had put her in the hospital just a few weeks before. But the dispatcher has no one to send. Because the local sheriff’s department recently lost millions in federal funds, it laid off 23 of its 29 deputies and limited their availability to eight hours on Mondays through Fridays. The woman’s call to 911 took place on a Saturday.”
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