The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies has released a special issue on sexual harassment and sexual assault, featuring articles and resources available at no cost through the end of the year.
In an aim to change the prevailing university culture of silence around student sexual assault and consequent bureaucratic inepititude at preventing it, a special White House task force issued a series of recommendations for universities and support mechanisms for victims.
Last week at Women's eNews headquarters, guest speaker Claudia Garcia-Rojas shared best practices in reporting on rape and sexual violence, including how to use language and framing respectfully during an interview, how to make sources comfortable and how to use statistics effectively in reporting.
Judy Holland of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer carefully documents sexual assault within the military. Statistics and victims’ stories provide context for proposed legislation that would require an investigation into the handling of these cases and provide support for female veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Dart's Elana Newman spoke on a panel at the United Nations on the Safety of Women Journalists, as sexual assualts against women continue to gain attention.
Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times writes a disturbing report on the rape epidemic in Congo.
In a five-part series, NPR's Michelle Norris looks at the expanding role of women in the U.S. military.
Two prominent Australian journalists, Suzanne Smith and Joanne McCarthy, will not be covering the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2012, McCarthy wrote that child sexual abuse “is the genesis of decades of suffering, the silent wrecking ball in our community behind too many broken families, too many lost and shattered lives and too much pain."
Approximately one billion children worldwide are subjected to regular physical abuse, according to a staggering new study released by UNICEF last week.
On June 5, while Dart Centre Asia Pacific was running its first workshop on covering trauma, war crimes and sexual violence in Bangladesh, a terrible incident of intimate partner violence elsewhere in the country captured the attention of reporters: Hasan Sayeed brutally assaulted his wife Rumana Munzur, shoving his fingers into her eyes and blinding her.