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Reuters
Social distancing restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus have taken a steep toll on the already fragile systems U.S. cities and states use to track and prevent child abuse and neglect.
Chronically understaffed and underfunded agencies across the country say calls to the hotlines they rely on to flag abuse and neglect are down by as much as 70 percent.
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Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action
Health systems have an important role to play in ensuring services for women who have experienced violence remain safe and accessible during the COVID-19 outbreak. While recognizing that COVID-19 has placed an immense burden on the health systems and health workers caring for the sick, there are things that can help mitigate the impacts of violence on women and children during this time.
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Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via Medical Xpress
Gender-based violence has been shown to increase during global emergencies. In a paper just published by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, researchers report that according to early evidence it is the same for the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings are online in the journal Bioethics.
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Newsweek
As shelter-in-place orders were implemented across the country last month, forcing families to "stay home" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network's sexual assault hotline saw an unprecedented surge in messages from minors.
For the first time ever, RAINN said in a press release sent out on April 16, half of the requests for support sent to RAINN's online chat hotline in March were made by minors.
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The Guardian
At least 16 suspected domestic abuse killings in the UK have been identified by campaigners since the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were imposed, far higher than the average rate for the time of year, it has emerged.
Karen Ingala Smith, the founder of Counting Dead Women, a pioneering project that records the killing of women by men in the UK, has identified at least 16 killings between March 23 and April 12, including those of children.
Looking at the same period over the last 10 years, Smith’s data records an average of five deaths.
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ABC News
Just as first responders have been working hard to treat and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, another group of medical staff have been working hard as last responders: medical examiners.
Medical examiners, also called forensic pathologists, are doctors who undergo intensive training to examine dead bodies to determine the likely cause of death.
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Chicago Tribune
Her bloodstained clothes. A necklace. Her DNA.
Lisette thinks about everything taken from her the night she says she was assaulted. She wonders where it all is. She pictures the evidence box on a shelf, in a warehouse, deteriorating. The rape kit in Lisette’s case is among thousands of pieces of evidence languishing as they await DNA testing in the state of Illinois.
An excruciatingly slow turnaround on evidence processing is not new, but it remains urgently troubling to advocates who say waiting so long compounds trauma and imperils prosecutions as memories fade and victims struggle to move forward.
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Al-Jazeera
Alain (whose name has been changed to protect his identity) is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But last autumn, he was sitting in the office of the Refugee Law Project in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, as he calmly recounted his story.
He described the night in May 2012 when government forces attacked his family's home in the DRC.
"It was 8pm and they shot open the door with a gun, yelling at us, accusing us of being rebel sympathisers," Alain recalled.
His father, he said, had been in a dispute with a local politician over some land. He believes this is why they were targeted.
"They said: 'You support the rebels. We'll show you that you are not a man.'"
Alain said his father begged them not to hurt his family. But they did not listen.
"They shot me in the back. They put a cable around my neck and began choking me. The soldiers grabbed and held me down. They said, 'We are going to rape you.' And they each took turns."
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Oregon State University
A recent study found that LGBTQ service members face an elevated risk of sexual victimization including harassment, assault and stalking while in the military than their non-LGBTQ counterparts.
The study, one of the first funded by the Department of Defense to look specifically at LGBTQ victimization in the military, aims to inform future polices that will identify vulnerable populations and appropriate interventions to help prevent such experiences going forward.
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George Washington University via EurekAlert!
The percentage of women and girls in Nicaragua's second-largest city who reported experiencing physical violence by their partners during their lifetimes decreased from 55 percent in 1995 to 28 percent in 2016, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ Global Health. Researchers at the George Washington University's Global Women's Institute, in partnership with the Autonomous National University of Nicaragua at León and InterCambios, a Nicaraguan nongovernmental organization, recorded the decline in a follow-up study conducted on intimate partner violence in the city of León 20 years after the initial prevalence study.
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Scientific American
If everyone had to rely on flash memory—the data-storage system used in memory cards and thumb drives—the amount of information that the world is estimated to produce by 2040 would exceed the planet’s expected supply of microchip-grade silicon by up to 100 times. To prevent such a crisis, researchers have been exploring a storage material that life itself relies on: DNA.
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Universitaet Tübingen via PhysOrg
Researchers at the University of Tübingen have shown that the shape of human teeth can be used to reconstruct genetic relationships. Dr. Hannes Rathmann and Dr. Hugo Reyes-Centeno of the University of Tübingen's Humanities Center for Advanced Studies have established which specific dental features are best suited to infer genetic relationships and which dental features might instead reflect other factors, such as adaptations to the environment. The study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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