Journal of Gender Based Violence call for special issue on the impact of technology

  The Journal for Gender Based Violence is calling for abstracts to be submitted for articles for a special Edition on Digital Technologies and Gender Based Violence: Mechanisms for oppression, activism and recovery. This decision came following the September conference in Oslo – The third European Conference on Domestic Violence.  Over 8,000 delegates from 41 …

Warnings that domestic violence increases as a result of self-isolation

With millions of people in China spending time indoors, rights activists say there have been increasing instances of domestic violence. Guo Jing, a female activist who had only moved to Wuhan – the origin of the virus – in November 2019, says she has personally received enquiries from young people living in the quarantined city …