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Afghanistan Parliament Blocks Anti-Violence Against Women Law

The Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women, a 2009 mandate approved by President Hamid Karzai's decree that aims to protect women's rights — specifically, one that bans child marriage and the practice of "baad," selling and buying women to settle disputes — was shot down in Afghani Parliament today. Read more...

Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Rights Bill

The bill would have banned violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages. Detractors said the bill would bring Western values into Afghanistan.

Debate on bill to protect Afghan women from violence halted after complaints it is ‘against Islamic teaching’

Law Protecting Afghan Women Is Blocked

Afghanistan's parliament has blocked a law banning violence against women in what is being seen as a serious blow to the progress of women's rights.President Hamid Karzai approved the legislation by decree in 2009 but the country's politicians...Show More Summary

Afghan parliament fails to pass law banning violence against women

The Afghan parliament's failure is a severe blow to women's rights in the conservative Muslim country.

Weekly Feminist GIF

WHEN YET ANOTHER MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION OFFICER IS ARRESTED FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Melis Figanmese: Working to End Violence Against Women in Turkey

"For years I was intimidated though oppression and fear. I went to a KAMER meeting. There was a beautiful woman there. A really beautiful woman,...

Melis Figanmese: Working to End Violence Against Women in Turkey

"For years I was intimidated though oppression and fear. I went to a KAMER meeting. There was a beautiful woman there. A really beautiful woman,...

No, actually. No. Violence against women actually isn’t funny.

No, The Onion. No, Hanna Rosin. A joke about beating a woman to death is not funny.

Higher child marriage rates associated with higher maternal and infant mortality

Countries in which girls are commonly married before the age of 18 have significantly higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, report researchers in the current online issue of the journal Violence Against Women. read more

This Mother’s Day, It’s Motherhood, Not Rape, That Makes Congo the Worst Place to Be a Woman

The gross abuses associated with wartime violence against women don’t even factor into Congo’s ranking; the report cites among the highest rates of maternal mortality, child mortality, poverty, poor education and, interestingly, women’s very limited political participation.

Terri Ludwig: To Curb Domestic Violence, Start With Housing

When lawmakers in March reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act--the landmark legislation that guarantees certain rights and protections for survivors of domestic violence--they expanded a rule to bar landlords from evicting survivors from any publicly-supported home.

Terry O'Neill: We Must Change the Culture of Violence Against Women in the Military

Is "military justice" for women an oxymoron? I hope not, but this has been an eye-opening week about the culture of violence against women in the military.

The Ongoing Failure of Cleveland Police to Take Violence Against Women Seriously

We’re pleased to present this guest post from Stephanie Liscio, who writes well about the Cleveland Indians and has a lot of valuable background about the chilling abduction case in her fair city. –SL I used to live in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, less than a mile from the west side Seymour Avenue home where three [...]

The Charles Ramsey-McDonald’s Episode: How a Viral Marketing Opportunity Can Backfire

Using a story about women being kidnapped and held against their will for years for marketing purposes is questionable enough. Now that the “hero” in the story turns out to have a history of domestic violence convictions, the Charles...Show More Summary

Violence Against Women Can Be Funny

Louis C.K. recently told Jon Stewart that, when it comes to making rape jokes, comedians and feminists are “natural enemies.” Why? “Because stereotypically speaking, feminists can’t take a joke” and “comedians can’t take criticism.”

Listing for Ex-Girlfriend Shooting Target Removed from Amazon

A listing for a bloody mannequin has disappeared from Amazon after feminists complained it was promoting violence against women. The activist group UltraViolet collected 63,000 signatures on a petition to get rid of the shooting target...Show More Summary

Sequestration Cuts Strapped Domestic Violence Services Amid Increased Need

After Republicans stalled the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) for months, it was finally signed back into law in March. Yet another act of Congress, the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, could undo VAWA’s impact. Programs that serve the victims of domestic violence have already suffered decreased funding from tight state [...]

Congress Helps Air Travelers, Ignores Victims of Rape and Domestic Violence

In March, shortly after President Barack Obama signed an extension of the Violence Against Women Act into law, the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women sent an email to the hundreds of non-profits and government agencies around the country that rely on its annual grants. Show More Summary

Violence & Silence: Jackson Katz asks, “What’s Going On With Men?”

Sarah Hope looks at the ways in which men have been largely erased in the discussion of gender and violence against women, as proposed by Jackson Katz.