Tag: gender violence
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Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of physically abusing her in lawsuit
It's been more than seven years since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie broke up their relationship, a two-year marriage that followed a decade-long courtship. Then, the revelations began to arrive, such as Jolie's accusations against Pitt that he had mistreated his children. A serious incident on a private plane, which even the FBI investigated, set…
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The Court of Navarra sentences a man to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting his stepdaughter and one year to her mother for not protecting her
The First Section of the Court of Navarra has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for a continuous crime of sexual assault with carnal access to a minor under 16 years of age. The 33-year-old man raped his stepdaughter and touched her continuously from when she was six years old until she turned…
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Four civil guards arrested in Castellón for simulating reports of a victim of gender violence who had been dead for three years
The Civil Guard of Castellón has arrested and removed from their posts a sergeant and three agents from the Nules civil guard barracks (Castellón) after detecting “irregularities” in the monitoring of a victim of gender violence included in the protection system VioGén who had died in August 2021 due to natural causes. The sergeant and…
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VIDEO. Several women report that an unknown man hit them in the face in New York
Several women report on social networks having been beaten by a man suddenly, while they were walking in the city of NY. At least six women have shared that they were attacked, one of them is the influencer Halley Kate who on Monday, March 25, shared a video in TikTok in which he relates that…
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The veteran LGTBQIA+ activist who defies statistics and dreams of becoming a centenarian
The dream of leaving his small town to see the world has been fulfilled both inside and outside his native Brazil. Now she has yet to reach her centenary. It would be quite a feat considering the life expectancy of Brazilian transsexuals, a scary figure: only 35 years. But, on the verge of turning 58…
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Surviving 37 stab wounds and other dramas of sexist violence in Mexico shake the film festival in Soria
For seven years, films that tell lurid, emotional or motivating stories about women have been featured in Soria. Director Mariana Rivera traveled there from Mexico City to attend the VII International Documentary Film Festival on Gender MujerDOC. In his suitcase, his short documentary Flowers of the plain. A work that addresses the grief that Yecenia…
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Keys | What is vicarious violence? When it occurs?
“I'm going to hit you where it hurts the most” is one of the phrases that condense what vicarious violence is in sexist violence: the damage that violent men exert on women through another person, especially their children and daughters. The term is relatively recent, it was coined by the psychologist and forensic expert Sonia…
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The disappearance of Ana María Knezevich: “As a brother, I put myself in the worst scenario”
The last time Felipe Henao spoke with his sister Ana María Knezevich was on January 24 of this year. Shortly before they had had another conversation in which their ties were reunited after a time apart. The woman had been very focused on her marriage and she had distanced herself from her family. They all…