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16 February 2021
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Since its April 2018 founding in Malaysia, the Be My Protector app has enabled interventions in 120 cases of suspected human trafficking, sparked by anonymous reports that its app enables. In about a third of those ca...
8 February 2021
Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Since 2017, two publicly funded trauma recovery centers in Illinois have helped violent-crime survivors cope with the emotional fallout that can accompany a loved one's murder or surviving their own violent attack. Ca...
30 January 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
Next Step is a hospital-based violence intervention program based at Minneapolis' Hennepin County Medical Center that counsels gunshot victims to try to help lower the chances that they will be harmed again or seek to...
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...
24 December 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
A network of trauma recovery centers nationwide helps victims of violence and survivors of murder victims by focusing on their emotional, medical, and financial needs first. What started as a single healing center run...
9 December 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Behind the nightly protests against racism and police brutality on Portland's streets for more than five months stands a network of street medics and mutual aid groups dedicated to equipping and protecting protesters,...
14 November 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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The Violence Intervention Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center's Shock Trauma Center helps people meet basic needs after they have suffered a gunshot injury. Along with clothing, transportation voucher...
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
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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...
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...
12 October 2020
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The nationwide surge in gun violence during the pandemic has forced support groups for grieving survivors to persevere in their work using different tools and strategies in a process that depends on intimate forms of ...
25 September 2020
France
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
A mobile app called App-Elles was used 5,400 times during the early months of the pandemic by either the victims of domestic violence or witnesses and helpers trying to connect the victims to assistance. Created by Fr...
22 September 2020
Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To provide emergency housing to domestic violence victims without crowding them into shelters during the pandemic, Ohio victim-aid groups have helped hundreds of families to flee violence and find safe housing in subs...
19 September 2020
Cambridge, England
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800-1500 Words
Facebook groups are reuniting bicycle-theft victims with their property by creating a place to report thefts and alerting others to be on the lookout for the bikes. A pandemic-inspired boom in bicycling, as a means to...
16 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since the 2018 opening of a trauma-care center near the neighborhoods most affected by Chicago's gun violence, the University of Chicago Medical Center's Violence Recovery Program has helped survivors and victims' fam...
Raw Love Productions
Katherine Hervey
22 August 2020
San Quentin, California, United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
In San Quentin Prison, men convicted of murder attend a 72-week restorative-justice circle where they tell their stories of trauma: what they suffered in their lives, and how they turned that into harm they inflicted ...
7 August 2020
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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The nationwide non-profit Trauma Intervention Programs Inc. uses volunteers trained in "compassionate notifications" – informing families of loved ones' deaths, a task that often is bungled by untrained, rushed first ...
7 August 2020
Glasgow, Scotland
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In Scotland, the Navigators program performs violence interruption work in seven hospitals, at the bedside of victims of violence, with counseling and connections to social services to nudge people into safer lifestyl...
5 August 2020
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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Over 3000 Words
Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte is a group of about 200 members, mostly mothers whose children are among the more than 73,000 people who have disappeared and presumably were murdered in Mexico's long drug war. Las Rastr...
28 July 2020
United States
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Over 3000 Words
Criminalizing domestic violence was considered a feminist-inspired advance for crime victims, but making arrests and prosecution the main responses to the problem has backfired in many ways. With funding and attention...
21 July 2020
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Jacksonville’s prosecutor began a unique experiment in using restorative justice dialogue in murder cases, seeking to help survivors learn the full truth of a crime in ways a traditional trial would not provide. In re...
2 July 2020
England
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1500-3000 Words
Ignoring the pleas of victim-aid groups and the examples set by other countries, the British government and courts failed to protect domestic violence victims during the pandemic. Italy, Spain, Germany, and New Zealan...
25 June 2020
California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Since 2016, California's Domestic Violence Housing First program has grown to 65 organizations that give victims the financial help they need to stay housed after leaving an abusive spouse. Financial and housing insta...
The Laconia Daily Sun
Roberta Baker
17 June 2020
Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To connect children with the counseling and other services they need to heal from traumatic experiences, the Adverse Childhood Experience Response team trains police and others to spot problems early and make prompt r...
Ventures Africa
Hadassah Egbedi
18 May 2020
Nigeria
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Over 3000 Words
Stand To End Rape (STER) is a youth-led Nigerian NGO that works with sexual and gender abuse survivors by providing services, including psychosocial support and advocacy to address cultural norms of victim-blaming, sh...
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