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	There ARE Clear Boundaries by Edna Nelson Rihanna and Chris Brown's dating violence scandal is not only about how two young people cope with a relationship stained by violence, but also about how society itself becomes a container for this violence and how we react to it. Headlines ab
	Need for Concerted Action: Elimination of Violence Against Women by Rene Wadlow
	Because the abuse is not only physical by Thanos Kalamidas International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women! Writing it I felt that it sounds so pompous! I mean we all are so pompous, full of fancy words and declarations with organizations governmental and nongovernmental, institutes and fo

	Neither violence against women nor poverty are inevitable by The Ovi Team Irene Khan, Amnesty International writes about the links between violence against women and poverty to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. As w
	Torturing Aristotle by Thanos Kalamidas Is there any way to identify the meaning of the word ‘torture’? I grew up through a dictatorship and I heard unbelievable stories about torturing and methods of torturing, then after the dictatorship and all the cases came to the court
	Won't somebody think of the children!? by Asa Butcher Kudos to those who recognise the article title as Helen Lovejoy's catchphrase from "The Simpsons", but today that question should be on everybody's minds because it is International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
	Behind The Iron Doors of Hell by The Ovi Team Browsing through the beautiful memories of her Eastern European childhood and, later, the hardship of her life during the Balkan conflicts and as a non-EU immigran
	Husband cut off wife's ears and nose on Eid day by Abdulhadi Hairan A man named Mumtaz in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan first shaved wife, Nazia’s head and then cut off her ears, and nose and damaged her teeth on the first day of Eid ul Adha, an Islamic ritual of sacrifice.
	Elimination of Violence against Women by Jack Wellman Violence and abuse affect all kinds of people every day. It doesn't matter what race or culture you come from, how much money you have, how old you are, or if you have a disability. Violence does not discriminate. However, women are victims
	A uniformed crime by Thanos Kalamidas Drew Paterson’s case seems that it came to remind us how much and how many women suffer nowadays and furthermore it came to remind us of the special problems people in uniform are dealing with. Please, I don’t want to be misunderstood,
	Brazil raped for one month by Thanos Kalamidas Speechless and in real anger were my reaction a few hours ago after reading what happened in a Brazilian prison with a 15-year-old girl. The young woman was put in the same cell with 20 to 30 men and for one month she was repeatedly sexually abuse
	Bullying Families by Alexandra Pereira Verbal, emotional and physical violence, abuse, self-esteem attacks and bullying behaviors in families are undeniably a crime. Undeniably? It depends… as much as human rights depend on something. Many European countries – especially in
	From a slap to murder by Thanos Kalamidas A few weeks ago the foreign community in Finland, especially the Greeks, read in the papers that a musician of Greek origin, well-known in the circles that follow ethnic and music events in Finland, had violently killed his wife, mother of two inf