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Independent review also calls for ban on other ‘legal, but harmful’ material that is degrading, violent or misogynisticUK politics live – latest updatesPornography depicting strangulation should be made illegal along with other kinds of “legal but harm…
Deaths of 22 women this year include a 240% rise in January, as rights groups say perpetrators are acting with impunityAlmost two dozen women have died due to gender-based violence across Nigeria in 2025 alone, activists and civil society organisations…
Prosecutors in England and Wales are failing to obtain orders requiring the deletion of intimate content shared without consent, analysis revealsPerpetrators of “revenge porn” offences are being allowed to keep explicit images of their victims on their…
Jess Phillips says ‘Raneem’s law’ scheme will support ‘force-wide cultural change’ as initial phase is rolled outDomestic abuse specialists embedded in control rooms receiving 999 emergency calls will help “create force-wide cultural change”, said Jess…
Those dealing with violence against women most at risk as local authorities try to balance budgets, experts sayDomestic abuse charities and centres dealing with sexual violence say council budget cuts will have a devastating impact on support for women…
Home secretary says his remark about putting Rohypnol in wife’s drink ‘clearly caused hurt’UK politics live – latest updatesThe UK home secretary, James Cleverly, has conceded that a pre-Christmas “joke” he made about spiking his wife’s drink with a “d…
Jozef Puska faces mandatory life sentence over January 2022 killing of 23-year-old teacherA man has been found guilty in Dublin of the murder of Ashling Murphy while she was out jogging in broad daylight, in a case that sent shockwaves across Ireland.M…
UK’s 43 police forces have all referred domestic abuse victims to Home Office in last three years, finds watchdogVictims of domestic abuse across the UK are being reported to immigration officials when they turn to the police for help, according to dat…
Farah Naz ‘extremely disappointed’ by decision to cut Jordan McSweeney’s minimum prison term from 38 years to 33The aunt of Zara Aleena has called for the law to be changed after her niece’s murderer won an appeal to reduce the minimum term of his life…
FoI requests reveal number of reports resulting in prosecution fell from 1 in 25 in 2018 to 1 in 400 in 2022Drug-spiking incidents reported to the police have increased five-fold in five years, yet the proportion leading to a criminal charge is falling…