Domestic abuse isn’t just physical. People can be subject to assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation that is used to punish or frighten them – this is known as coercive control. Coercive ...
Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and ...
Proposed laws, agreed to by shadow cabinet on Thursday, would see abusers found guilty of coercive control jailed for up to seven years under a Coalition policy — with Labor also leaving the door open ...
Advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour, including practice tips on how to assist if you spot the signs Photo ...
Members of Parliament are renewing calls for Canada to criminalize the concept of coercive control as a way of combating intimate partner violence. The House committee on the status of women made 16 ...
The family justice system is systematically misrecognising intimate image abuse within coercively controlling relationships, ...
OTTAWA — MPs on the House of Commons status of women committee called on the federal government Tuesday to criminalize coercive behaviour in intimate relationships. The committee members, representing ...
Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...
MPs on the House of Commons status of women committee want to criminalize coercive behaviour in intimate relationships. The committee members, representing multiple parties, issued a report that ...
New Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has vowed to push the laws through parliament in her first 100 days in office if efforts to introduce them to parliament next week are blocked by the Allan government ...