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Women in the Crossfire: Understanding and Ending Honor Killing is a book by author, academic, and philosopher Robert Paul Churchill. It was published in 2018 by Oxford University Press and named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title the same year. The book explores the deeply rooted social practice of honor killing, analyzing its ...
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (née Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an English-American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. [1] She was the first woman admitted to study medicine at the University of Paris and the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college in the United States.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States Examining one month of deadly domestic violence in America. ‘This Is Not A Love Story’ by Huffington Post
This story contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse. If you or a loved one is a victim of abuse, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or log on to thehotline ...
In the last decade about 700 women have been killed in Spain by their partners or ex-partners in cases of violence against women. [1] Since 1999, the number of killed women is over 1,000. Sweden
The 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women was the first international instrument explicitly defining and addressing violence against women. This document specifically refers to the historically forever-present nature of gender inequalities in understanding violence against women. [1] (Include current 2nd paragraph here).
Violence on women is sometimes justified by women themselves, for example in Mali 60% of women with no education, just over half of women with a primary education, and fewer than 40% of women with a secondary or higher education believe that husbands have the right to use violence for corrective reasons.
A Wisconsin woman killed in a domestic violence incident over the weekend is being remembered for helping others who faced violence at home or at the hands of a loved one.