Over the past decade, laws in Western Australia have sent thousands of people to prison for unpaid fines. Aboriginal women are particularly vulnerable, and in the worst cases, have been arrested when they called for help.
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The Interpreter: #MeToo Paradox: Movement Topples the Powerful, Not the Ordinary
Óscar Arias Sánchez, the ex-president of Costa Rica, is the latest to be ensnared. But the movement has made little headway curbing abuses by ordinary men.
Sierra Leone Declares National Emergency Over Rape of Young Girls
President Julius Maada Bio said a majority of the victims were under 15, and announced measures to combat sexual violence.
After Backpacker’s Killing, New Zealand Looks Again at Violence Against Women
Thousands of people attended vigils to mourn the British tourist, Grace Millane, whose body was found last weekend. “It could have been one of us,” a woman at a vigil said.
Most Dangerous Place for Women Is the Home, U.N. Report Finds
More than half of female homicide victims last year were killed by intimate partners or relatives, says a report on homicides around the world by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
Marching to End Violence Against Women
People around the world are commemorating the U.N.-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
A Chinese Actor Admits Hitting a Woman — and Some Take His Side
After Jiang Jinfu acknowledged that he’d beaten Haruka Nakaura, a Japanese model, not all the reaction on social media was negative.
‘It’s Time to Try to Change the Men’: Papua New Guinea’s Epidemic of Abuse
A loose network of makeshift shelters is straining to meet the need in a region where 80 percent of women say they have been beaten by a partner.