domestic violence

Even though the UNHCR has determined Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun is a refugee, her future remains uncertain. The original definition of ‘refugee’ was not developed for women fleeing violence.

Every heart on the Australian Femicide Map represents a woman or a child lost to violence. The project is run by The Red Heart Campaign’s Sherele Moody.

Olga Edwards, a Sydney solicitor whose teenage children Jack and Jennifer were murdered by their father in June, has been found dead.

The latest National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey shows alarming attitudes to violence and gender equality.

More than half of female murder victims last year globally, were killed by their partners or family members a new United Nations study has reported. 

I’m angry because women in this country are being hurt and killed by the men that they trust, by the men that they know, by the men that they love.

The government approved Charlie Sheen’s publicity tour despite 20 years of domestic assault charges. Are we turning a blind eye to celebrity perpetrators?

A woman has been killed in Australia every second day in October. Ten women murdered in 22 days hasn’t happened in a far-flung war zone.

A horror start to October has seen eight women killed in ten days. Six were killed at home and in seven cases the person charged was known to the victim.

How many people have to die before our leaders do what so many advocates have said needs to be done to prevent family violence? Tarang Chawla asks.

It’s the third mass murder in four months: police found twin girls, their three-and-a-half-year-old sister, their mother & their grandmother all deceased.

Without appropriate legal aid funding the Law Council of Australia says the proposed ban on cross examining DV survivors will not be realised.