Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
9 October 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Starting in 1968, Congress has passed a series of laws, as have some states, stripping gun possession rights from people convicted of felonies or of domestic violence, or who are the subjects of restraining orders. Bu...
1 October 2021
England
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Respect Phoneline started in the UK in 2004 to give anonymous callers, usually men, a way to seek help for their violent impulses. Rather than putting the burden for resolving domestic violence on survivors and on...
22 September 2021
Moab, Utah, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The case of Gabby Petito illustrates how decades-old laws meant to make police take domestic violence more seriously can backfire on the people who most need protection. Mandatory-arrest laws require police responding...
16 September 2021
Wisconsin, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Wisconsin is a leader in the movement to treat fathers as equal caregivers and to prioritize shared custody in divorces. But this fathers' rights reform, combined with outmoded ideas about women who allege domestic vi...
14 September 2021
Bihar, India
Text
800-1500 Words
The Bihar, India, state government banned drinking and selling of alcohol in 2016 after women in the mostly rural state mounted protests blaming men's alcohol abuse for rampant violence against women. Hundreds of thou...
4 September 2021
Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Nigeria's Oyo state, survivors of sexual abuse and gender-based violence can find emergency shelter and a host of services at Women Safe House. The stigmas attached to these crimes and the government's failure to e...
3 August 2021
Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Married off to an abusive older man at age 9, Akkatai Teli could not read or write. But she recognized how the rural India justice system neglected women like her in a misogynistic society with high rates of domestic ...
The Cut
Amelia Schonbek
21 July 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Among the many restorative justice programs in the U.S., the Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue program was one of the few to arrange face-to-face dialogue between survivors and men who had violently abused women. This f...
21 July 2021
California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Two decades ago, California became the first state to create a system to track and seize guns from people no longer legally permitted to possess a gun. Thousands of guns have been seized. But the database of gun owner...
17 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Stay-away orders are a tool New York judges can use to protect victims from their abusers even before accusations get scrutinized in court. They grew out of a reform movement that urged police and prosecutors to take ...
8 June 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Most domestic violence telephone helplines offer help to women who have been abused, and counseling programs for men provide their services in prison, once men have committed serious violence. But Línea Calma tries to...
15 May 2021
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Text
800-1500 Words
In Mongolia's capital city, more than 600 people who staff the kiosks where most residents get their drinking water have been trained to spot signs of domestic abuse. The Smart Triangle program aims to overcome low ra...
16 March 2021
Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Women and Survivors Project provides legal representation to women imprisoned for crimes that stemmed from histories of abuse. Nearly all incarcerated women have suffered violent abuse. Many end up punished for fi...
8 March 2021
New South Wales, Australia
Text
800-1500 Words
Mothers and Sons is a six-week domestic-violence prevention program for boys 6-8 years old and their mothers. Unlike programs aimed at older youth and men, mothers sign up for this because they want their sons to grow...
3 March 2021
Kingston, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
An early-intervention program targets people suspected of domestic violence with services meant to end the abuse through deterrence and counseling rather than after-the-fact punishment. In Kingston, New York, the Inti...
3 March 2021
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Duluth Model is one of multiple successful responses to domestic violence that focus on prevention through counseling and education, rather than relying only on punishment after a crime has been committed. The oft...
26 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In four of the 13 states where judges have the power to deny domestic-violence abusers access to guns, arbitrarily applied standards lead to a patchwork of enforcement of the laws. A review of cases heard in Arizona, ...
22 January 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
The Calm Hotline takes calls from men in Bogotá, Colombia, in an effort to address the root causes of domestic violence: a culture of machismo. Four psychologists take emergency calls – about 700 calls came in the ser...
7 January 2021
United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The story of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act starts with a young legal aide to Sen. Joe Biden who did not identify as a feminist and knew little about the issues, but whose methodical building of a coali...
10 December 2020
Burundi
Text
1500-3000 Words
A grassroots movement in Burundi has resulted in more familial bliss for households who suffered from domestic abuse. Through CARE International, a group of Burundian men are taking on toxic masculinity, entrenched cu...
6 November 2020
Portland, Maine, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
A free mobile app, Safe House, gives victims of domestic abuse a simple and quick way to call for help and find needed resources in four states. Putting local crisis helplines, shelters, and other local resources in o...
29 October 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Violence Against Women Act was billed as a way to make a patriarchal society, and policing profession in particular, take domestic violence more seriously. It encouraged policies making arrest of alleged abusers m...
23 October 2020
Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Two years after Maryland adopted a law allowing for court orders denying gun access to people at high risk of harming themselves or others, police and the public have invoked the law far more often than in most states...
14 October 2020
Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In southern Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, sheriff's deputy Valerie Martinez Jordan used her history as a domestic violence victim to create a countywide program to legally seize the guns of people convicted of domesti...
1 October 2020
Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Colorado’s Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse keep their physical addresses private. Registering to vote requires an address, which is part of the public record...
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