Sentences with phrase «violence happening to women»

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«The board has an obligation to prevent this violence from happening again and you can't say that you value women's rights at the same time that you say that these types of cases have to go into confidential arbitration,» Christensen said.

I'm not opposed to shows depicting sexual violence, but rape - as - prop is always distressing, particularly in a show like this, where that disregard echoes the kinds of ideas that foster rape culture in the first place: that women's feelings don't matter, that sexual agency isn't a big deal, that rape is something that just kind of happens and that healthy people simply move on.

Diaz, who addressed the women in white in both English and Spanish, said that their march was a powerful reminder to the city of New York of what happened on Ricart «s wedding day and to break the silence of domestic violence.

Domestic violence in family happens that many women want to escape from such society.

In light of the recent happenings in Afghanistan the world needs to be concerned, about the law that eliminates violence against women and girls which was enacted in Afghanistan 2009.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

Because we offer both a family violence and sexual assault response, we're now able to respond immediately when a woman's risk elevates and keep her engaged with therapeutic counselling without the interruption that would happen if we referred her to another service.

While much of the research on this topic focuses on young women, dating violence can happen to anyone at any age.

Family violence happens to one in four Australian women.

Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....