'Safe rooms' for abused women
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Ministers are to announce plans for 'safe rooms' in houses to help protect victims of domestic violence.
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Measures to support the survivors of abuse in children's homes are set out by the Scottish Government.
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LIMA -- For years, life in her neighborhood was a wearying, endless run of sleepless nights from the screams of crime victims outside her door, Valeria Salazar recalls.
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Â· Elderly woman found battered to death at home  Â· Sex attacker who killed in 2005 also lived at facility
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A woman was sexually abused, beaten and humiliated while being held captive in a home for at least a week, sheriff's officials said Monday after making six arrests and calling the FBI to investigate it as a possible hate crime.
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RIYADH: As the UN&#39;s Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women approaches, Saudi women are calling for urgent state policies to protect victims of domestic violence in the conservative Muslim kingdom.
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LOBBYIST Dr Glenda Simms is urging sexually abused women in the upper echelons of society to speak out more about their experiences as victims of violence, as a means of empowering their less affluent counterparts to do likewise.
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CAMBODIA PHNOM PENH -- A shelter for women and girls forced into the sex trade temporarily shut its doors yesterday after gunmen kidnapped 92 of its occupants and made death threats against the staff, the shelter's director said. Attackers stormed the shelter Wednesday and abducted 84 women and girls who had been rescued from a Phnom Penh brothel the day ...
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Women activists urged Sri Lankan authorities to step up protection for tsunami survivors amid unconfirmed reports some had been molested or even gang raped at refugee shelters.
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Protecting the rights of women is a matter of fairness, social stability and public health. Improving the overall societal treatment of women and girls is one way to control the AIDS epidemic worldwide.
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A woman is treated in hospital after suffering a serious sexual assault in County Londonderry.
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Â· Women underestimate dangers, ministers believeÂ· Evidence in support of ban may be uncertain
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Doctors' leaders warned of an 'unspoken epidemic' of domestic abuse today, which they described as ultimately unquantifiable because some victims were not believed while others did not realise the abuse they suffered was a crime.
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More women than ever are reporting instances of domestic abuse to a special Scottish Executive helpline.
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Girls and women prisoners are verbally abused while transported in vans along with males, a new report says.
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MUHANGA, Rwanda  - For a decade, Beata Uwitije never slept in her own bed at home. It was always a police cell, an alleyway, a bar or one of her client's homes.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.