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Published in: 50.50: FeatureA Russian lawyer stood up for Ukrainians. She was labelled a ‘foreign agent’
Activist, lawyer and Forbes 30 Under 30 star Anna Rivina reflects on women’s rights and her fight to get back home
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMet Police won’t reveal abuse claims against its own sexual violence unit
Exclusive: The force said publishing allegations against sexual violence team would ‘breach their right to privacy’
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Birmingham pays half a billion pounds to under-fire landlords
Social housing providers were criticised by a watchdog for failures – including conflicts of interest over funding
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Substandard landlords bank £132m to house vulnerable residents
Specialist providers pocket huge sums in housing benefit, despite criticism from Regulator of Social Housing
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Published in: 50.50: NewsCost of living crisis could be ‘catastrophic’ for domestic abuse survivors
Experts say surging costs may offer perpetrators an excuse to control the household’s finances – depriving survivors...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureCoercive control: why is it still missing from the social work curriculum?
Domestic abuse doesn’t have to be physical, but until social workers are taught properly about psychological abuse,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI survived abuse by a serving police officer, and I know where impunity leads
My stepfather used the closed-ranks culture of the Metropolitan Police as cover to terrorise our family. If that...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionMurdered women can’t give birth: Why we opposed the Demographic Summit in Hungary
Last week’s international summit in Budapest shows that the Hungarian government’s attacks on women’s and LGBTIQ...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisThe question should be ‘Why doesn’t he stop?’ Not ‘Why doesn’t she leave?’
The UK's new Domestic Abuse Act puts the focus on changing perpetrators’ behaviour, but that’s not enough: major...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill the new Iraqi government face the domestic violence epidemic?
With domestic violence reaching alarming levels in Iraq during the pandemic, can the Iraqi government do the right thing?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFrom Mexico to India: the need for new paradigms to eradicate gender based violence
The rankings of the worst countries in the world to be a woman usually list Yemen, India, Pakistan, Chad, Syria and...
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Published in: TransformationHow random acts of kindness could transform support for battered women
What happens when your cause is ill-suited to campaigns that tug the heart-strings?
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Published in: TransformationCan religion be a force for transformation?
Growing up with an abusive father, Ouyporn Khuankaew learned a distorted version of the Buddhist teaching on karma:...