NY Model for Batterer Programs

The “good old boys/bro club” is why women are afraid to report sexual assault. It was r**e. The extremely distressing details of his victim’s officially recorded medical state afterwards seem to confirm that. The jury certainly thought so.

https://www.aol.com/entertainment/disgraceful-jimmy-fallon-slammed-hosting-165319037.html

Femicide vigil: man convicted of fatally stabbing charity worker Annabel Rook after she tried to end relationship, and then set off a gas explosion at their north-east London home.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/03/electrician-guilty-of-murdering-partner-and-blowing-up-their-london-home

Not a DEI hire: For 125 years, no woman had ever commanded the Australian Army. Now, Lieutenant General Susan Coyle takes charge — becoming not just the first female Chief of Army, but the first woman to lead any branch of the Australian military.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-appoints-woman-lead-its-army-first-time-2026-04-13/

FIFA has appointed 170 match officials for the Men’s World Cup tournament, including a record-tying six women. Each has spent years breaking barriers, earning respect, and proving themselves at the highest levels of the game.

https://en.as.com/soccer/world-cup/meet-the-six-female-referees-making-history-at-the-2026-world-cup-roles-names-and-profiles-f202606-n/?outputType=amp

Four years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson that overturned Roe v. Wade, and millions of American women woke up with fewer rights than they had the day before, with deadly consequences.

Death of Academic freedom: An Indiana University instructor, Jessica Adams, has lost her job, after Senator Jim Banks, an ally of President Trump, contacted the campus about the anti-White supremacy lecture.

https://nyti.ms/4exWoRa

Data confirms that being followed, harassed and assaulted are universally shared experiences of being a woman and girl, and that the threat of men’s violence leads to additional “safety work” and a restricted sense of freedom.

www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/new-data-women-feel-unsafe-at-night/

Germany introduced women-only parking spaces in the 1990s to enhance safety, placing them in well-lit, high-traffic areas with security monitoring. True progress means building a world where women don’t need designated spaces to feel safe.

“Slow femicide.” New research is calling for the investigation of su***des linked to domestic abuse and coercive control - and hold perpetrators accountable: women who die by su***de after years of abuse are often missing from official domestic violence statistics.

“The freedom to marry the person you love is a guarantee under Nepal’s Constitution, and LGBTQIA+ couples and their families must be afforded the dignity, respect, and protections that only marriage can provide,”

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/22/nepal-same-sex-equal-marriage/