79 m. ago Five women plan legal claim against Mohamed Al Fayed’s estate after abuse allegations

More than 100 alleged victims have contacted police to say they were sexually abused by the tycoon

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14 h. ago Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse? | Barbara Ellen

Ono was blamed for splitting the Beatles and taking John Lennon from his true calling. Let’s hope things are getting easier for women who date famous musiciansMore than 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, protesting against war, Ono finally gets her love-in. David Sheff’s biography Yoko, published last week, seeks to put the record straight about her stellar achievements as an internationally renowned conceptual artist.In recent years there have been retrospectives, including one at London’s Tate Modern. Kevin Macdonald’s docufilm, One To One: John And Yoko, is released in the UK next month. Ono, 92, is seeing reputational rehabilitation on a global scale, and all a long time coming. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago How a new Georgia bill could change the fate of domestic abuse survivors in prison

Many women are in prison for killing their abusive partners

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42 h. ago Gérard Depardieu trial finally gives France its #MeToo moment

Actor’s week in court seen as turning point as French film industry has been slow to take abuse claims seriouslyWhen the actor Gérard Depardieu took the stand at his sexual assault trial in Paris this week, it was seen as a turning point for the #MeToo movement in France.As a parliamentary commission examines why the French film industry has been slow – even resistant – to take women’s claims of abuse seriously, Depardieu, the nation’s biggest film star, faced accusations that he trapped a set decorator between his legs and sexually assaulted her while shooting the film Les Volets verts (The Green Shutters) in 2021. He is also accused of touching the breasts and buttocks of an assistant director on the same film on three separate occasions. Depardieu, 76, has denied all the charges, telling the court he had been “dragged through the mud by calumny and lies”. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Love Island's Whitney Adebayo faces racist abuse proving #BeKind doesn't always exist for Black women

Netflix's Inside star Whitney Adebayo has spoken out against recent racist backlash, but have we learned nothing from the era of #BeKind or is that mercy not sparred for Black celebrities?

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4 d. ago Loose Women’s black panellists given extra support to deal with racist abuse

Some members of ITV's Loose Women panel are being given extra support after being targeted by vile trolls online who hurl racist abuse at the TV stars

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4 d. ago Jesuits make broad offer of reparations to women who say they were abused by ex

Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order is making a broad gesture of reparations to some 20 women who say they were sexually, psychologically and spiritually abused by a famous ex-Jesuit artist

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5 d. ago Violence and sexist harassment against female MPs ‘rife across Asia

Report reveals scale of abuse faced by women in politics from countries including Australia, China, Japan and IndiaSexism, harassment and violence against women are rife in parliaments across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a damning report published on Tuesday that lays bare the scale of abuse faced by women in politics.Based on interviews with 150 female MPs and parliamentary staff across 33 countries across the region – including Australia, Mongolia, India, Indonesia and Micronesia – the study found that 76% of MPs and 63% of staff had experienced psychological gender-based violence, with 60% of MPs saying they had been targeted online by hate speech, disinformation and image-based abuse. An equal number of women were interviewed from each country. Continue reading...

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1 week ago More than 100 convicted as part of Met crackdown on abuse of women

A new points-based system has been used to track down the worst suspected abusers of women in the capital.

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1 week ago Kiena Dawes' mum opens centre for women after daughter's suicide at hands of abusive ex

Kiena Dawes was left feeling suicidal by repeated physical and psychological attacks at the hands of her ex-partner Ryan Wellings from January 2020 to July 2022

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1 week ago West Lothian school teacher is running to help other women suffering domestic abuse

Mum-of-three Vicky says she got her life back thanks to Women's Aid

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1 week ago Denise Welch opens up about her experience of domestic abuse

‘You don't realise what's happening, so he started to chip, chip, chip away at my personality,’ she shared

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1 week ago Only one in three women fleeing domestic abuse can be helped by refuges as services on ‘brink of collapse’

‘We have no way of even beginning to address this issue’, the chief executive of Women’s Aid warned

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1 week ago Loose Women's Denise Welch bravely shares harrowing domestic abuse story

Loose Women aired a special show to highlight their campaign Facing It Together, and Denise Welch opened up about suffering domestic abuse in a past relationship

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2 w. ago Jonathan Majors says he was sexually abused by ‘both men and women’ as a child

The Marvel actor was convicted of domestic assault in December 2023

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2 w. ago Vivianne Miedema: ‘Women’s football is proud to be inclusive but it is starting to slip. We need to act’

Forward sounds urgent warning, discusses Manchester City upheaval and says she is starting to click with Khadija ShawVivianne Miedema made her senior debut as a 15-year-old in the Netherlands, and 13 and a half years and more than 300 goals later there are few players better qualified to comment on the evolution of the women’s game than the Manchester City forward. She is deeply concerned by the growing number of incidents of so-called fans abusing players.“We’re always saying we’re proud in the women’s game that we’re very inclusive but somehow that is starting to slip away a bit,” Miedema says. “If we don’t act really strongly right now then it might be too late. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report

First such study finds laws on abortion, debt and dress help increase rate of women being jailed twice as fast as for menPoverty, abuse and discriminatory laws are driving a huge rise in the number of women in prison globally, according to a new report.With the rise of the far right and an international backlash against women’s rights, the research said there was a risk that laws would increasingly be used to target women, forcing more behind bars. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Teacher tortured women in underground sex bunker with trapdoor and chilling bench

A former headteacher and Scottish millionaire, who filmed himself abusing vulnerable women at his remote Highland lodge, has been banned from leaving Scotland. But what happened to the women he trapped in his underground chamber?

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3 w. ago Economic abuse is a growing threat to women but female 'finfluencers' are fighting back

New data reveals that economic abuse is a growing danger to women in the UK, but female financial gurus are using education to help women feel empowered and get their lives back on track

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3 w. ago First Minister refutes claims his government's gender policies are 'state

John Swinney was questioned on his government’s policies on single-sex spaces.

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