Western experts break down Bill C-223, Keeping Children Safe Act, intended to improve how courts address family violence during divorce, custody proceedings

Debates over Bill C-223 should focus not on whether reform is needed but on how to protect children while preserving flexibility for complex, highly individualized cases.

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Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.

Author: Eden Hoffer, PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University | Editors: Romina Garcia de leon, Janielle Richards (blog co...

Centre for Women’s Justice says the criminalisation of women for their abusive partners’ actions is ‘shocking’

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The California Penal Code requires officers to make an arrest in domestic violence incidents, sometimes leading to victims being detained.

For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.

Between 74-95% of women who are incarcerated have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Georgia can join states like Oklahoma in stopping survivors from receiving convictions and serving long sente...

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread social and health problem disproportionately burdening women and, we are learning, gender and sexual minority (GSM) people, who are under-r...

The unhinged rhetoric and tone of public discourse unleashes the increased violence against women we are now seeing. And I fear it is about to get worse still.

An NYPD worker claims she faced retaliation and discrimination after she begged to be reassigned after an alleged domestic violence attack, she claims in a fiery new lawsuit.