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Clinic Throws Survivors Of Violence A Lifeline In Nigeria's Adamawa State

Saduwo Banyawa

March 30, 2023 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Numan, Adamawa

Hope Center offers free medical services, including psychosocial and counseling services, for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. The Center also collaborates with the legal system to work to achieve justice for survivors.

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How Lagos youth friendly initiative is improving lives of young Nigerians

Tobi Awodipe

March 28, 2023 |

The Guardian Nigeria News |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Hello Lagos! youth center provides a safe space for youth, particularly those experiencing teenage pregnancies, issues around sexual reproductive health, substance abuse and anything else that gets in the way of youth having a healthy lifestyle. One of the Center’s program, the young moms clinic, has led to a 20% decrease in teen pregnancy and 15% of those in the program have returned to school.

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Boarding School Alumni Push for a New Kind of Abuse Investigation

Emily Belz

March 13, 2023 |

Christianity Today |

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Response Location: Japan

In an effort to uncover decades of abuse allegations at the Christian Academy of Japan, investigators began working with academy alumni who helped push the investigation forward. Over the course of several years, alumni met regularly, clocking thousands of hours of work on the case, meeting with investigators and survivors. When the final report was released in 2021, 72 cases of alleged abuse — including sexual, physical, emotional and child-on-child abuse — were uncovered over a 44 year period.

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Safe, not seedy: How sex work changed after two decades of decrim in New Zealand

Mia Malan Mohale Moloi Linda Pretorius

March 07, 2023 |

Bhekisisa |

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Response Location: New Zealand

Making sex work a legal, recognized profession allows sex workers to conduct business in a much safer way. The decriminalization of sex work has also helped to strengthen relationships between sex workers and law enforcement, ensuring they have someone to call upon in emergencies. There are also now clinics, like the New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective, which provides specialized care to sex workers.

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Rural patients struggle to access expert sexual assault exams. Telehealth services are closing that gap.

Arielle Zionts

December 22, 2022 |

The 19th |

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Response Location: United States, Eagle County, Colorado

teleSANE services allow remote sexual assault nurse examiners to assist patients and guide nurses through exams via video chat. teleSANE services are expanding across the country, specifically in rural areas, expanding access for those in need of care.

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An initiative is securing justice for rape survivors but faces a heap of challenges

Umo Akwang

August 20, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative provides free legal representation, emergency shelter, and psychological support to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria's Cross River state. In a country where prosecutions can be hampered by ineffective or under-resourced institutions, the organization has filed 822 court cases and secured 30 arrests and convictions.

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Nigerian advocate who launched mobile app to tackle GBV

Blessing Udeobasi

July 31, 2022 |

African Women in Media (AWiM) |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The CampusPal mobile app is a safe, confidential place for students at colleges in Nigeria to report cases of sexual assault and gender-based violence.

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How K9s are helping law enforcement track child predators

Katie Ellington

December 09, 2021 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

Specially trained dogs help law enforcement catch child sexual abuse predators. The dogs can sniff out electronic storage devices like cell phones, USB drives and SD cards, where child sexual abuse material is often stored. The dogs use their keen sense of smell to find devices, which they indicate by pawing at it or putting their nose up against the object. The dogs also provide emotional comfort to the victims, and their trainers, as well as serve as good public relations messengers raising awareness about child sexual exploitation.

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Hello? This Is Colombia's Antimachismo Hotline.

Julie Turkewitz

October 18, 2021 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

Bogotá’s city government started the Calm Line to give men a way to connect by telephone with psychologists trained in therapeutic responses to the machismo that leads to gender-based violence. Despite doubts that Colombian men would use the service, the line fields about a dozen calls a day. "Fear, shame and confusion pervade many of the conversations," but also can lead to breakthroughs in understanding the attitudes that oppress women. That understanding is the first step toward cultural change, the Calm Line's supporters believe.

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Sexual Violence Is Endemic In Sokoto But A Law Firm Is Changing The Narrative

Abiodun Jamiu

September 23, 2021 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

Rashida Muhammad and Co. is a small law firm in Nigeria's northwest states that gives free representation to women and girls who have been victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Despite harsh laws on the books, the people who commit such crimes benefit from an inefficient and slow system of justice. The Rashida firm has successfully prosecuted five cases, with more in progress. When victims do not see a likely way to seek justice, crimes go unreported, people committing harm remain unaccountable, and victims are discriminated against in education.

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