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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Economic abuse is common, affecting about 15% or 1 in 7 women who have been in a relationship, new University of Auckland research finds. The study is published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Further, economic violence compounds the impacts of other forms of intimate partner violence. Economic abuse is…

The age distribution is mostly consistent when compared by gender, however respondents reporting to be men tended to be younger than women and non-binary respondents. The older the respondent, the more likely they were to identify as women or non-binary. Credit: 2KNOW Preliminary Findings Report: Knowledge to Prevent Online Sexual Violence Against Children (2024) Viewing of child sexual abuse material, CSAM, is often preceded…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A project to learn about women's experiences of abuse while out running has found that more than two-thirds of them have been abused in some way. The study, by Dr. Caroline Miles and Professor Rose Broad from The University of Manchester, found women surveyed in Greater Manchester and Merseyside suffered from threats,…

Noora Niasari’s delicately moving “ Shayda ” puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter. HT Image The violence happens before we enter the story, and yet actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s face and body tells us everything we need to know. Whatever bruises might have been there are gone, but the pain and trauma is palpable. We understand immediately that she is terrified of her husband, of what he’s done and of what he might do, especially as…

The two Michael Jackson molestation accusers featured in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland have won the right to combine their negligence lawsuits against Jackson’s companies into a single case and are pressing for a trial by early next year – before the April 2025 debut of the Michael biopic helmed by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua. A judge granted the consolidation to plaintiffs Wade Robson and James Safechuck during a Wednesday hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif. Standing outside the courtroom after the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Parents offering their children a leg-up on the property ladder are at increased risk of financial elder abuse, according to a new study published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues. Led by University of Newcastle sociologist, Dr. Julia Cook, the report finds borrowing from the "Bank of Mum and Dad" encourages ageist attitudes that can, when…

The longtime record executive was accused of sexual misconduct last November amid a wave of suits against prominent music industry figures The Jane Doe who filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against record executive Jimmy Iovine last year dropped her case last week, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The plaintiff’s attorney Doug Wigdor filed a notice of discontinuance with prejudice on Feb. 15, permanently dropping the suit. Reps for Wigdor and Iovine did not immediately respond…

Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison on Tuesday, months after pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree felony child abuse. Utah Judge John J Walton sentenced Franke to four consecutive prison terms — each of which can require up to 15 years in prison. Local news outlet KUTV reports that Franke was extremely emotional when given time to speak during sentencing. (Representatives for Franke did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.) “My…

We often hear about nation-state hackers being behind cyberattacks, but those nation-states aren’t always named in security reports. When it comes to ChatGPT and Copilot abuse, Microsoft and OpenAI are going about security differently. In a pair of blog posts, the two AI partners on ChatGPT tech have named all the usual suspects you’d expect to target the US and other democracies with the help of generative AI services like ChatGPT. Hacker groups from Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China (twice) appear in the…

In January the Florida Select Committee on Health Innovation approved House Bill 1639 (HB 1639), which dramatically restricts treatment for transgender individuals. If the bill becomes law, it will make it easier for insurers to refuse to cover gender-affirming care, will require those that cover gender transition to also offer policies that do not and will bar transgender people from updating their driver’s license. It also mandates that insurers provide detransition care to those who want to revert to the sex they were…