Violence against women: Australia says “no, but…”A new survey of Australian community attitudes around violence towards women has found far fewer think women who are raped “ask for it” — but many still think women hold some responsibility, says VicHealth CEO Todd Harper.
Violence against women
The horror of Mexico’s femicide
The rate of femicide in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez is a chilling statistic. But why are some many women and girls being killed? Is it linked to drugs, selling their organs or prostitution? Mainly it’s just because they’re female.
Violence against women we say no — except from another woman
When it comes to violence against women, ‘Australia Says No’. But what happens when women are the ones committing these crimes against other women, asks Katie Weiss.
Female-female violent crime rate triples
When did females become so nasty to each other, asks Sarah McKenzie.
As Taliban rises, life gets worse for Pakistan’s women
If you need proof that Pakistan’s Taliban are rising, just ask the women and girls, who are increasingly under threat from a “fear campaign” as a result of the growing militant presence.
Political snippets: Afghan anti-women law update
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has described a new law signed by Afghanistan’s President Karzai earlier this month “extraordinary, reprehensible and reminiscent of the decrees made by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the 1990s.”
Guy Rundle: Are allied troops dying for an Afghan man’s right to rape his wife?
We have come to the end-point of the Afghan adventure. After eight years it is over, writes Guy Rundle.
Domestic violence crosses cultural barriers
How can the problem be resolved when moronic tabloids across the land turn issues like domestic violence into yet another exercise in shoring up “Australian values”? asks Irfan Yusuf.
Matthew Newton case betrays both women and men
In Looking for Alibrandi, playing John Barton, the gifted schoolboy who wins Josie Alibrandi’s heart but dies young, Matthew Newton showed his brilliance as an actor. In pleading guilty to assaulting his former live-in partner Brooke Satchwell, Newton showed contrition and acceptance of fault for offending against her and the law. In appealing against his conviction and 12-month good behaviour bond, he exercised his right to have the sentence imposed by the Local Court revisited in the District Court.
