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On International Women's Day, Twitter Targets Charlie Sheen

It's International Women's Day, and everyone's talking about ... Charlie Sheen. Sure, the tiger blood jokes are funny enough. But there's a growing backlash against the media frenzy that's been eager to document Sheen's every wild utterance and less eager to discuss his history of domestic violence charges. As...

Grand Jury to Hear Domestic Abuse Case Against New Orleans Saints' Will Smith

It was an embarrassing moment for the New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith. One day he is being filmed by the NFL for a family moment to be shown nationally for Thanksgiving. They were picture perfect, he and his wife. A few days later, Smith was being dragged away to jail for pulling his wife by the hair. A pair...

Hospital Discovers Mutilation as Woman Readies for Birth

(Nov. 23) -- An Uzbek immigrant in New York says her husband carved epithets into her skin, gouged out chunks of flesh with a key and beat her since they were married in December. Hospital workers called police Friday after discovering scars spelling out "bitch" and "whore" in Cyrillic, the alphabet used in her homeland,...

Disfigured Afghan on Cover of Time Heads to US

(Aug. 5) -- A disfigured Afghan teen whose image has fast become the new face of the 9-year-old Afghan war -- and a harbinger of what could come if U.S. troops quit the country -- lands in America today for reconstructive surgery on her missing nose and ears. Doctors in California will try to rebuild 18-year-old Bibi...

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05/31/12 One arrest a day for domestic abuse Source: Dumfries & Galloway Standard - Dumfries - UK ONE person a day is arrested in connection with domestic abuse in the region.
10/14/11 POSITIVE DEVIANTS GET PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DOMESTIC... Source: PublicNet Woodward Lewis and Blaenau Gwent Domestic Abuse Services are changing the deep-rooted culture of acceptance of domestic abuse by unlocking the community's existing wisdoms.This article explains how the challenge is approached and the results achieved.
12/22/10 Raising awareness of the Wales Domestic Abuse Helpline... Source: National Assembly for Wales Sadly, figures show that instances of domestic abuse and violence against women increase over the festive period as tensions at home sometimes boil over into abuse.

Background on domestic abuse

Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation.

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