This is called critogenesis, the harm caused by the legal system itself, not by the original matter.
It is to the legal system what side effects, or iatrogenesis, is to medicine.
The courts do not favour victims of gendered abuse
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
It is to the legal system what side effects, or iatrogenesis, is to medicine.
The courts do not favour victims of gendered abuse
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
“Today marks the end of a very difficult, traumatic journey that has taken me 14 years and 58 court appearances to get to.
“My experience of the criminal courts of justice has been every bit as damaging as the abuse itself.”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...
“My experience of the criminal courts of justice has been every bit as damaging as the abuse itself.”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...
Garda who carried out 'protracted and vicious assault' on former wife avoids jail
Trevor Bolger, 48, was given a three-month sentence, which the judge suspended in full on strict conditions
www.irishexaminer.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This is called critogenesis, the harm caused by the legal system itself, not by the original matter.
It is to the legal system what side effects, or iatrogenesis, is to medicine.
The courts do not favour victims of gendered abuse
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
It is to the legal system what side effects, or iatrogenesis, is to medicine.
The courts do not favour victims of gendered abuse
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
As BadEnoch shows her rascism yet again a great commentary from The Bear yet again... #Violenceagainstwomen is usually perpetrated by someone KNOWN to them... So it IS important to reach young boys before social media does...
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Please follow @bearlypolitics.co.uk!
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The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm really happens, and who is actually responsible.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
As BadEnoch shows her rascism yet again a great commentary from The Bear yet again... #Violenceagainstwomen is usually perpetrated by someone KNOWN to them... So it IS important to reach young boys before social media does...
Please follow @bearlypolitics.co.uk!
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Please follow @bearlypolitics.co.uk!
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
@loosewomen - hands off @Keir_Starmer - how f*king dare you be in any way hostile to Labour over ending #ViolenceAgainstWomen What did the Tories do? A reform member actually attacked his girlfriend! The govt's new intervention/strategy are amazing, esp the education & prevention!
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@loosewomen - hands off @Keir_Starmer - how f*king dare you be in any way hostile to Labour over ending #ViolenceAgainstWomen What did the Tories do? A reform member actually attacked his girlfriend! The govt's new intervention/strategy are amazing, esp the education & prevention!
On 25 November, the Italian Parliament unanimously recognised femicide as a distinct crime – a powerful step towards creating accountability and prevention.
Naming femicide is the first step toward ending it. #NoExcuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen
www.healthpolicypartnership.com/femicide-why...
Naming femicide is the first step toward ending it. #NoExcuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen
www.healthpolicypartnership.com/femicide-why...
Femicide: why giving it a name matters
Italy's new law provides recognition and long-overdue condemnation of rising violence against women and girls.
www.healthpolicypartnership.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
On 25 November, the Italian Parliament unanimously recognised femicide as a distinct crime – a powerful step towards creating accountability and prevention.
Naming femicide is the first step toward ending it. #NoExcuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen
www.healthpolicypartnership.com/femicide-why...
Naming femicide is the first step toward ending it. #NoExcuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen
www.healthpolicypartnership.com/femicide-why...
It’s December 6. The anniversary of the mass murder of 14 women in #Montréal by an envious misogynist at #ÉcolePolytechnique in 1989.
Such a powerful and painful memory. They were my age, mostly students, murdered for being women.
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#MaleViolence
Such a powerful and painful memory. They were my age, mostly students, murdered for being women.
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#MaleViolence
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It’s December 6. The anniversary of the mass murder of 14 women in #Montréal by an envious misogynist at #ÉcolePolytechnique in 1989.
Such a powerful and painful memory. They were my age, mostly students, murdered for being women.
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#MaleViolence
Such a powerful and painful memory. They were my age, mostly students, murdered for being women.
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#MaleViolence
Dec 6, 1989. 14 women targeted & executed because they were female. Please take time to pause to honour their memory. They had families, friends, hopes, & dreams for a future they were building. #violenceagainstwomen is every day. 💔
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Dec 6, 1989. 14 women targeted & executed because they were female. Please take time to pause to honour their memory. They had families, friends, hopes, & dreams for a future they were building. #violenceagainstwomen is every day. 💔
Femicide is still a crisis in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ViolenceAgainstWomen #GenderBasedViolence #sexism #misogyny #patriarchy #Montreal #MontrealMassacre #Quebec #Canada
FIRST PERSON | I remember the horror of the Montreal massacre. I worry that everyone else is forgetting | CBC News
I remember the phone call. The person on the other end of the phone was a reporter, telling me what had just happened at École Polytechnique in Montréal: 14 women — murdered. Today, it feels like litt...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Femicide is still a crisis in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ViolenceAgainstWomen #GenderBasedViolence #sexism #misogyny #patriarchy #Montreal #MontrealMassacre #Quebec #Canada
"We are the loudest and fiercest cry
of all those women who no longer have a voice."
🇮🇹 The women's team of Hic Sunt Leones, a community football club in Bologna, stands against #violenceagainstwomen.
of all those women who no longer have a voice."
🇮🇹 The women's team of Hic Sunt Leones, a community football club in Bologna, stands against #violenceagainstwomen.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"We are the loudest and fiercest cry
of all those women who no longer have a voice."
🇮🇹 The women's team of Hic Sunt Leones, a community football club in Bologna, stands against #violenceagainstwomen.
of all those women who no longer have a voice."
🇮🇹 The women's team of Hic Sunt Leones, a community football club in Bologna, stands against #violenceagainstwomen.
Judith C. de Jong and Zahra Runderkamp discuss how #ViolenceAgainstWomen in politics, especially online and intersectional, discourages their participation, limits visibility, and threatens democratic representation. #16Days
https://ow.ly/KRz250Xz1l7
https://ow.ly/KRz250Xz1l7
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Judith C. de Jong and Zahra Runderkamp discuss how #ViolenceAgainstWomen in politics, especially online and intersectional, discourages their participation, limits visibility, and threatens democratic representation. #16Days
https://ow.ly/KRz250Xz1l7
https://ow.ly/KRz250Xz1l7
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Tomorrow is November 25th, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, what can #Education do?
✏️ @garazilda.bsky.social shares three guidelines 👇
🔗 t.co/36W3so6RVi #ViolenceAgainstWomen #IsolatingGenderViolence #News #Daily27
✏️ @garazilda.bsky.social shares three guidelines 👇
🔗 t.co/36W3so6RVi #ViolenceAgainstWomen #IsolatingGenderViolence #News #Daily27
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tomorrow is November 25th, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, what can #Education do?
✏️ @garazilda.bsky.social shares three guidelines 👇
🔗 t.co/36W3so6RVi #ViolenceAgainstWomen #IsolatingGenderViolence #News #Daily27
✏️ @garazilda.bsky.social shares three guidelines 👇
🔗 t.co/36W3so6RVi #ViolenceAgainstWomen #IsolatingGenderViolence #News #Daily27
" #Violenceagainstwomen and girls is going unreported and unpunished in Taliban-led #Afghanistan
... A patriarchal religious society ruled by an ideological group, such as the #Taliban, produces nothing but an apartheid culture against women."
#BanTaliban #Misogyny #GenderApartheid
... A patriarchal religious society ruled by an ideological group, such as the #Taliban, produces nothing but an apartheid culture against women."
#BanTaliban #Misogyny #GenderApartheid
Violence against women and girls is going unreported and unpunished in Taliban-led Afghanistan - Rukhshana Media
Violence against women and girls is going unreported and unpunished in Taliban-led Afghanistan, activists and humanitarian actors are warning,
rukhshana.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
" #Violenceagainstwomen and girls is going unreported and unpunished in Taliban-led #Afghanistan
... A patriarchal religious society ruled by an ideological group, such as the #Taliban, produces nothing but an apartheid culture against women."
#BanTaliban #Misogyny #GenderApartheid
... A patriarchal religious society ruled by an ideological group, such as the #Taliban, produces nothing but an apartheid culture against women."
#BanTaliban #Misogyny #GenderApartheid
November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of #ViolenceAgainstWomen, and the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto is speaking out about the effects this crisis has on children.
nowtoronto.com/news/kids-ar...
nowtoronto.com/news/kids-ar...
Toronto's CAS warns kids are silent victims of intimate partner violence - NOW Toronto
Toronto’s Children’s Aid Society is emphasizing how the crisis of violence against women is impacting children.
nowtoronto.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of #ViolenceAgainstWomen, and the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto is speaking out about the effects this crisis has on children.
nowtoronto.com/news/kids-ar...
nowtoronto.com/news/kids-ar...
On this International Day to End #ViolenceAgainstWomen:
👉 676 MN women live near armed conflict.
👉 Sexual violence surged 87% in two years.
👉 Governments spend $2.7 trillion on militaries, but give war-zone women’s groups 0.4% of aid.
This violence is funded, then forgotten buff.ly/QO0tqLH #NoExcuse
👉 676 MN women live near armed conflict.
👉 Sexual violence surged 87% in two years.
👉 Governments spend $2.7 trillion on militaries, but give war-zone women’s groups 0.4% of aid.
This violence is funded, then forgotten buff.ly/QO0tqLH #NoExcuse
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On this International Day to End #ViolenceAgainstWomen:
👉 676 MN women live near armed conflict.
👉 Sexual violence surged 87% in two years.
👉 Governments spend $2.7 trillion on militaries, but give war-zone women’s groups 0.4% of aid.
This violence is funded, then forgotten buff.ly/QO0tqLH #NoExcuse
👉 676 MN women live near armed conflict.
👉 Sexual violence surged 87% in two years.
👉 Governments spend $2.7 trillion on militaries, but give war-zone women’s groups 0.4% of aid.
This violence is funded, then forgotten buff.ly/QO0tqLH #NoExcuse
#Violenceagainstwomen often happens in a sexual context. In this fundamental paper Professor @debbyherbenick.bsky.social and her team demonstrates that 1 in every 5 women in the USA experienced various forms of #roughsex without their consent or permission.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Prevalence and Demographic Correlates of “Rough Sex” Behaviors: Findings from a U.S. Nationally Representative Survey of Adults Ages 18–94 Years - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Rough sex behaviors have become prevalent among young adults in the U.S. and internationally. However, little is known about these behaviors at the population level. Using nationally representative su...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
#Violenceagainstwomen often happens in a sexual context. In this fundamental paper Professor @debbyherbenick.bsky.social and her team demonstrates that 1 in every 5 women in the USA experienced various forms of #roughsex without their consent or permission.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Combatting #ViolenceAgainstWomen, in all its forms, must be everybody’s cause.
It is essential to equality, dignity, and the very values the EU firmly stands for.
Let us not remain silent!
#OrangeTheWorld #IDEVAW2025
It is essential to equality, dignity, and the very values the EU firmly stands for.
Let us not remain silent!
#OrangeTheWorld #IDEVAW2025
The Council building shines orange 🧡 in support of the UN Women’s campaign to end #ViolenceAgainstWomen.
Gender-based violence remains a daily reality for far too many.
It has no place in the EU or anywhere in the world.
There is #NoExcuse.
Gender-based violence remains a daily reality for far too many.
It has no place in the EU or anywhere in the world.
There is #NoExcuse.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Combatting #ViolenceAgainstWomen, in all its forms, must be everybody’s cause.
It is essential to equality, dignity, and the very values the EU firmly stands for.
Let us not remain silent!
#OrangeTheWorld #IDEVAW2025
It is essential to equality, dignity, and the very values the EU firmly stands for.
Let us not remain silent!
#OrangeTheWorld #IDEVAW2025
Aujourd'hui c'est la journée international contre les violences faites aux femmes.
Que les maisons soient des lieux sûrs pour toutes!
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
#25N #violencesfaitesauxfemmes #dessindepresse #violenceagainstwomen #editorialcartoon
Que les maisons soient des lieux sûrs pour toutes!
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
#25N #violencesfaitesauxfemmes #dessindepresse #violenceagainstwomen #editorialcartoon
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Aujourd'hui c'est la journée international contre les violences faites aux femmes.
Que les maisons soient des lieux sûrs pour toutes!
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
#25N #violencesfaitesauxfemmes #dessindepresse #violenceagainstwomen #editorialcartoon
Que les maisons soient des lieux sûrs pour toutes!
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
#25N #violencesfaitesauxfemmes #dessindepresse #violenceagainstwomen #editorialcartoon
“Women’s Voices” International Day of Elimination of #violenceagainstwomen
#November25 #WomensRights #Equality #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen
#AndreaArroyoArt #ArtAsSolidarity #FeministArtist
#NewYorkerArtist #NewYorkTimesArtist www.thenation.com/article/worl...
#November25 #WomensRights #Equality #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen
#AndreaArroyoArt #ArtAsSolidarity #FeministArtist
#NewYorkerArtist #NewYorkTimesArtist www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Afghanistan: Women’s Voices Silenced
The Taliban published new restrictions prohibiting women from singing or reading aloud in public or letting their voices carry beyond the walls of their homes.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“Women’s Voices” International Day of Elimination of #violenceagainstwomen
#November25 #WomensRights #Equality #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen
#AndreaArroyoArt #ArtAsSolidarity #FeministArtist
#NewYorkerArtist #NewYorkTimesArtist www.thenation.com/article/worl...
#November25 #WomensRights #Equality #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen
#AndreaArroyoArt #ArtAsSolidarity #FeministArtist
#NewYorkerArtist #NewYorkTimesArtist www.thenation.com/article/worl...
During the final weekend of the Italian championship, dedicated to the fight against violence against women, three players with first-degree convictions for sexual assault took to the field.
#violenceagainstwomen #November25
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#violenceagainstwomen #November25
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November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
During the final weekend of the Italian championship, dedicated to the fight against violence against women, three players with first-degree convictions for sexual assault took to the field.
#violenceagainstwomen #November25
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#violenceagainstwomen #November25
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globalnews.ca/news/1153967... #cdnpoli #sexism #GenderBasedViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #equality #inclusion
Carney says Canada drops talk of ‘feminist foreign policy’ but upholds values - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he wants Canada to uphold values on the world stage including combatting violence against women, but says it doesn't have a feminist foreign policy.
globalnews.ca
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
November 25, 2024 at 7:20 PM
I love the red sign. #noviolenzasulledonne #ViolenceAgainstWomen
November 19, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I love the red sign. #noviolenzasulledonne #ViolenceAgainstWomen