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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.

Michael King has been described in Birmingham Crown Court as an "angry and bitter man" who gives "all decent men a bad name," for turning his ex-girlfriend's life 'upside-down'

A newly expanded court program will aim to better identify child abuse and domestic violence victims.

Nour Norris has launched a new campaign, backed by Labour MP Jess Phillips, calling on all police to be better educated on domestic violence after the shocking double murder of her sister and niece

More than half the women and children who died by suicide in a 12-month period in Western Australia were known to authorities as victims of domestic violence, research reveals.