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Updated: Update to the The Domestic Programme Fund (DPF). Overview A forced marriage is where one or both people do not (or in cases of people with learning or physical disabilities, cannot) consent to the marriage and pressure or abuse is used. The...

Here is the status of major bills near the halfway point of the 60-day legislative session. The bills that are alive have passed at least one chamber of the Legislature, or are about to pass. The bills that are failing were not approved by the House...

Amanda Carmichael. Photo by Nick Patterson. Year after year in October, individuals and institutions around the country observe Domestic Violence Month, an annual effort to draw attention to what President Barack Obama has called a scourge, an injustice...

While Catherine Cortez Masto was working to secure funding to help victims of rape and sexual assault, Congressman Joe Heck voted against new funding to test rape kits and 3 times against funding to increase support for sexual assault victims Heck also...

by Parul Jain 1. Introduction Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviours by one partner against...