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The next International Women’s Day is Saturday, March 8, 2014. The theme for this year is inspiring change. I hope that my words will inspire you to find ways to eradicate the gendered violence many women in our community live with day in and day out. I’m an immigrant from Glasgow, Scotland. I grew up in Ajax. .. read more
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GPs are putting victims of honour crimes at risk by using family members as translators and being afraid of offending “cultural sensitivities”, an NHS adviser on the issue has warned. Healthcare professionals who use victims’ relatives to translate confidential meetings have been accused of failing to address evidence of honour crimes — which can be .. read more
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female genital cutting,
Female genital mutilation,
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FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
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A young woman reacts violently when the phrase ‘izzat lootna’ (outraging modesty) is used to explain the fact that she has been raped. She insists that the word ‘balatkaar’ be used instead, because her ‘izzat’, or honour, isn’t tangible and cannot be taken away from her in an act of physical or sexual violence. This .. read more
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child marriage,
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domestic violence,
escape,
female genital cutting,
Female genital mutilation,
femicide,
FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
honor abuse,
honor based violence,
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honor killing,
honor killings,
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Hundreds of teenagers are being forced into unwanted marriages every year in Britain, according to new figures. The government’s Forced Marriage Unit says it dealt with 1,302 cases of men and women being pressured by relatives to wed in 2013. A quarter of incidents involved victims aged 16-17 and 82% of cases involved women. Although the total number .. read more
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Female genital mutilation,
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FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
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A 16-year-old girl who gave her name only as Irene says she has been in hiding for the past four years due to the threat of a forced marriage. She told Maame Akua, host of Asempa FM’s Abrabo programme in a telephone interview from her hideout that, she was ordered at the age of 12 .. read more
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female genital cutting,
Female genital mutilation,
femicide,
FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
honor abuse,
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Forced marriage is an appalling and indefensible abuse of human rights. Victims can suffer physical, psychological, emotional, financial and sexual abuse including being held unlawfully captive, assaulted and raped. The Government’s Forced Marriage Unit continues to be a global leader in tackling this heinous and abhorrent practice. The latest statistics, published on Thursday, show the .. read more
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forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
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HBVA,
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There are at least 60 child brides living in south-western Sydney, and many more girls are destined to be forced into under-age marriage, according to the head of a women’s health centre. Eman Sharobeem works with teenage girls in Fairfield, Liverpool and Cabramatta. Many of them have been married in the past three years. She .. read more
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Female genital mutilation,
femicide,
FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
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honor based violence,
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Journalists at a day’s workshop on reducing child, early and forced marriages in Kumasi have appealed to the justice delivery system to ensure speedy prosecution of people involve in child right related abuses. The workshop was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in collaboration the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and .. read more
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forced marriage,
forced marriages,
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HBVA,
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When we think of the most horrific acts of violence against women around the world — female genital mutilation, sex slavery, child marriage, honor killings — we tend to picture the Third World. We assume this can happen only in places like Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia, only in countries that don’t have democratic governments or .. read more
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Female genital mutilation,
femicide,
FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
honor abuse,
honor based violence,
honor crime,
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honor killings,
honor motivated violence,
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Indore: The police managed to prevent an honour killing incident by intercepting a vehicle, on Wednesday. The PCR cops of Sanyogitaganj were on duty at White Church junction when they heard help call ( save me) from a speeding Scorpio. They followed the SUV and intercepted it at Pipliyahana chauraha and found that a youth was .. read more
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child marriage,
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domestic violence,
escape,
female genital cutting,
Female genital mutilation,
femicide,
FGM,
forced marriage,
forced marriages,
gendercide,
hbv,
HBVA,
honor abuse,
honor based violence,
honor crime,
honor killing,
honor killings,
honor motivated violence,
honor oppression,
honor slaying,
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honour based violence,
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honour killings,
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