Violence Against Women

A German police union chief has sparked controversy after suggesting that women should avoid relationships with men because of rising crime rates in the country, while apparently ignoring that government statistics indicate a higher likelihood of being a victim of migrant crime.

Nationwide protests in India attracted thousands in support of doctors striking to protest rampant violence against them on Tuesday and into Wednesday, when the nation marked its Independence Day.

A Spanish study has revealed around 22 per cent of users of the hook-up app Tinder have experienced a form of sexual violence, with a majority of women saying they felt pressure to have sex.

Chinese state media on Monday reluctantly acknowledged a growing problem with violent crime and gang activity in central China after public attention was captivated by a disturbing video of several women suffering a brutal assault in a barbecue restaurant.

Pope Francis said Saturday that hurting a woman insults God because God took on our humanity from a woman, the Virgin Mary.

Angelina Jolie recently returned to Washington, D.C. to meet with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) to urge the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, the legislation that was originally spearheaded by then-Sen. Joe Biden nearly three decades ago.

(AFP) — On a dark autumn evening, first-timers arriving for self-defence classes at Urban Fit and Fearless are asked if they have had any past traumas before they start training.

A woman was hospitalised after a vicious beating by a group of masked men in one of Sweden’s so-called “vulnerable” areas, or no-go zones, while out with friends.

A 29-year-old Moroccan migrant has been convicted by a French court of violence toward his former partner who had helped him gain residency in the country.

Iraqi migrant Tishko S. has maintained his innocence during an appeal after he was convicted in July of murdering Swedish teen Wilma Andersson and dismembering her body.

A 30-year-old woman was beaten by a man on the streets of the French city of Montpellier after refusing his sexual advances.

Women in several cities in France have reported being assaulted in the streets by young men in recent weeks, allegedly for wearing skirts. One woman was punched in the face.

The Mexican bishops’ conference has issued a statement condemning the growing rate of femicide in the country and calling for a campaign to educate people in respect for the dignity of women.

A 37-year-old Indian woman was killed by her husband last week after she allegedly served him too little mutton, or lamb, The Times of India reported Wednesday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly used the term “punching at it” while touting his plan combat violence against women on Wednesday.

TNT basketball commentator Charles Barkley has officially apologized on Wednesday, for what he is calling a bad “joke” about hitting a female reporter.

A female reporter raised the alarm Wednesday by claiming that TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley told her, “I don’t hit women, but if I did, I would hit you.”

Women at an asylum home in Halmstad have claimed to feel increasingly unsafe around male residents who make abusive comments at them and try to sexually assault them.

The Cleveland Browns, are facing backlash from women’s groups for signing controversial running back Kareem Hunt to a contract. Mere months after video emerged showing Hunt pushing and kicking a woman in a hotel.

More than half of the suspects involved in murders where women were the victims have foreign backgrounds, according to Austrian Family Minister Juliane Bogner-Strauss.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kareem Hunt’s status with the Kansas City Chiefs was in limbo Friday night after video surfaced of the reigning NFL rushing champion striking a woman during an incident at a Cleveland hotel.

The Iraqi migrant suspected of having killed a 14-year-old girl is understood to have been able to flee to his own nation despite having previously been claiming asylum from persecution in his homeland.

Activists from the anti-migrant violence women’s movement 120dB stormed a panel on harassment and violence against women in the film and television industry at the Berlinale film festival holding a banner reading, “the voice of forgotten women.”

A 29-year-old Nigerian migrant drug dealer has been arrested by police in the Italian commune of Pollenza after being accused of killing an 18-year-old girl and chopping her into pieces.

A group of German women have launched a campaign called #120db to lend a voice to women who have been physically or sexually attacked as a result of mass migration policies.

The European Parliament has been accused of trying to “criminalise” pro-life views and opposition abortion, after passing a paper describing restricting abortion as “violence” and demanding “all the Member States to guarantee… legal abortion.”

A 23-year-old old woman identified as S Dhanya was hacked to death in India on Wednesday after rejecting a marriage proposal from a 27-year-old mill worker.

The feminist activist group UltraViolet condemned Donald Trump’s comments on the Second Amendment on Tuesday, saying that he had threatened violence against Hillary Clinton, and that he had done so because she is a woman.

The husband of a British woman who was killed in Pakistan has called for the UK and Pakistani governments to ensure his wife received justice, as he sought to keep the spotlight on so-called “honour” killings.

A pregnant 14-year-old died in Afghanistan after she was tortured and set on fire last week by her in-laws as revenge for her father eloping with their young niece.

Muslims in France have left a waitress with a large facial haematoma on the first day of Ramadan because the attackers had seen her serving alcohol. The waitress said she was alone in the bar when the men entered. They

Actress Rose McGowan blasted film studio 20th Century Fox this week over promotional billboards for its latest film, X-Men Apocalypse, that depict Jennifer Lawrence’s character Mystique being violently choked by the villain Apocalypse, played in the film by Oscar Isaac.

On Tuesday, Utah became the first state in the country to designate pornography a “public health” issue.

As Game of Thrones critics line up, George R.R. Martin is defending the HBO hit series from accusations the show is not only sexist, but features too much sexual violence.

A teenage Turkish woman competing in a televised singing contest similar to The Voice is in critical condition after being shot in the head Monday.

Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has begged for an end to the “horrible crime” of femicide in Honduras, a country that is suffering from a veritable epidemic of violent crimes against women in the last decade.