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While the world went into lockdown at the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, shelters helping women who are survivors of domestic violence remained open.

It features miscarriage leave, Defence service leave and an increase from 10 days domestic violence leave per year to 20.

Simon Gilchrist was stabbed in the heart by his abusive fiancée, Caroline Mawhood in his flat in 2004 after she came home from a night out.

"Ruling that these laws are unconstitutional will put mainly women and children in danger," experts say

The approach is one part of a wider Wirral Council programme called “Breaking the Cycle” aiming to improve people’s lives

Jose Linnane is calling for more refuges for male victims of domestic violence after her son Simon Gilchrist, 23, was murdered by his abusive fiancée Caroline Mawhood

Domestic violence is a public health problem in most parts of the world. A 2021 United Nations report showed that one in three women aged 15-49 years in sub-Saharan Africa had experienced one form of violence or another by an intimate partner.

For a large part of the history of the United States, domestic abuse was tolerated under the nation’s legal system. There were few laws criminalizing domestic violence, and enforcement of the existing laws was rare.

WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing. An 11-week-old baby known to South Australia's Department for Child Protection died in a squalid and overcrowded house littered with faeces and infested with cockroaches, where drug use and domestic violence took place.

New guidance released as World Cup and festive season drive increase in domestic violence

A newly expanded national court initiative will attempt to identify children at risk of abuse and domestic violence victims earlier.