intimate partner violence

Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Homicides*: Sex Differences April 2012 – March 2015 (3 years)

September 7, 2016, Admin Activism,

Domestic Homicide or Intimate Partner Homicide? The ONS defines domestic homicide as including the following: spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriends/girlfriend, ex-spouse/ex-co-habiting partner, ex-boyfriend/girlfriend, adulterous relationship, lover’s spouse and emotional-rival as well as son/daughter, parent (including step and adopted relationships), which is broader than the generally understood partner or ex-partner to more closely align with the government definition of […]

Domestic Abuse, domestic violence, fatal male violence, Homicide, intimate partner violence, male violence

The erasure of Claire and Charlotte Hart by the media

August 1, 2016, Admin Media Complaints,

This letter was written by Paula Cleary in response to an article by journalist Amy Collett in the Fenland Citizen. Cleary originally posted this letter on her Facebook page and has asked for it be shared widely to honour the lives of Claire and Charlotte Hart who were murdered on the 19th of July in […]

Domestic Abuse, domestic violence, femicide, intimate partner violence, Media

If we’re serious about ending men’s violence against women and girls, we need to listen to feminists

June 17, 2015, Admin Media Complaints,

The UK’s lack of “a consistent and coherent approach to tackling violence against women” has been criticised in an official report by the UN special rapporteur, Rashida Manjoo . In addition, last week Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO chair of gender research at Lancaster University, criticised official statistics for drastically under-representing the scale of violent crime against […]

coercive coontol, Domestic Abuse, domestic violence, domestic violence homicide, fatal male violence, intimate partner violence, male violence, Sexual Abuse, sexual violence