During a worldwide pandemic, the safest place to be is home. But for people enduring domestic violence, home is never safe. The coronavirus pandemic—and the stay-at-home orders, social distancing measures, and quarantining that have been instituted in an attempt to keep the disease at bay—have the unintended side effect of trapping domestic violence survivors with…
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held on January 27 each year, Kate Middleton did more than show up to the annual U.K. Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Ceremony in Westminster. The Duchess of Cambridge also shared poignant photos of two Holocaust survivors and their grandchildren that she captured for an upcoming exhibition. Middleton, who…
Rachel Benavidez: This is important stuff, and this is an important sisterhood that we have. And Virginia said, “Well, we want to focus on moving forward,” which absolutely, I do. I want to move forward with this, and help other women and children. Virginia Giuffre: That’s what we were. Rachel Benavidez: So, it’s very important.…
The war came to the Equatoria Region, where Diria lived, in 2016. That area sits at the bottom tip of South Sudan, and Diria resided in a village called Lasu Payam. When the fighting broke out, she, her four children, her sister-in-law, and some other women in the community hired two vehicles to drive them…
Until a few weeks ago, Chanel Miller was known to the public as Emily Doe. A sexual assault survivor—whose powerful impact statement addressed to her assailant, Brock Turner, went viral—Miller chose not to speak out under her own name but instead to let her words stand on their own. That decision, Miller told the New…
The following article, based on this week’s episode of The Bachelor, could be triggering for anyone who’s experienced sexual assault. If you or someone you know need help, call RAINN’s hotline at 800-656-HOPE (4673). On the surface, the fourth episode of Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor was entirely typical. There were two romantic one-on-one…
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