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The BMJ
Workers who have been exposed to sexual harassment in their workplace are at greater risk of suicide and attempting suicide, finds a study published by The BMJ.
The authors say their findings suggest that workplace interventions focusing on the social side of the work environment could help reduce suicide.
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The Washington Post
For untold numbers of women and children around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has meant a twofold threat: The risk of catching a deadly virus coupled with the peril of being locked in confined spaces with increasingly violent abusers. Official statistics are mixed. In some countries, reports of abuse have risen during the pandemic; in others, including the United States, they’ve fallen. But people who work with victims say that in countries seeing fewer complaints, the numbers mask a darker reality. The closure of schools and day-care centers means teachers and social workers have been unable to identify and report abuse. A growing body of evidence suggests incidents of domestic violence are rising as families struggle with restrictions on movement and mounting economic hardship.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
A rise in gun violence and a resulting increase in severe injury demand urgent action to curb these trends and lower the high cost of saving victims' lives, researchers say. "We hope that our findings are able to better inform policy in terms of violence prevention as well as reimbursement to hospitals, which are often in underserved regions, that care for these patients," said Dr. Peyman Benharash, an associate professor-in-residence of surgery and bioengineering at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Vanderbilt University
More than half of all African American women in the United States report having at least one family member who is incarcerated, causing higher levels of depressive symptoms and psychological distress than previously understood.
The findings come from a new paper in the Journal of Marriage and Family, whose lead author, Evelyn J. Patterson, associate professor of sociology and a Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow, said the study sheds new light on the challenges facing African American women.
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RCI
Two new reports–one from UNICEF Canada, the other from Children First Canada and the University of Calgary–paint a grim and bleak picture of life for children in Canada these days.
UNICEF Report Card 16, which measures the state of children and youth under age 18 in wealthy countries, ranks Canada 30th out of 38 nations on the most recently available data from just before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Holyrood
Domestic abuse and stalking charges in Scotland are at their highest level in four years.
New figures covering the year ending March 31, 2020, show that there were 30,718 charges – 5.7 per cent higher than the previous year and the highest level since 2015-16.
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University of South Australia
As domestic violence skyrockets amid COVID-19, women’s health experts are calling for compulsory training of obstetric health practitioners to ensure they can recognize the signs of coercive control for women in their care.
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The Guardian
They can’t shout “whodunnit,” but plants could offer vital clues when it comes to finding clandestine graves, researchers say.
Forensic experts in the U.S. have begun experiments at a body farm – a facility where decay processes can be studied – to explore whether decomposing human remains leave their mark on surrounding vegetation, for example by affecting the color of the leaves.
If successful, the team say the approach could help efforts to find and recover bodies.
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