The NSW government wants courts to put proactive obligations on offenders to protect women as part of reforms to lower soaring domestic violence rates.
Alex Mitchell
US actor Michael Madsen has been arrested on a domestic battery charge.
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A royal commission has found hundreds of thousands of New Zealand children were abused, tortured or killed while in state and faith-based care.
Ben McKay
Approaches used for extremists and stalkers of politicians should be applied to perpetrators of domestic violence, a report suggests.
Kat Wong
Australia-first coercive control laws will require extra resources and time to enforce, the head of the nation's biggest police force says.
A new law bars Californian schools from notifying parents if their child asks to change their gender identification.
Sophie Austin
Paris Hilton has testified before US Congress at a hearing for strengthening child welfare.
Research into a decade of sentencing judgements reveals the criminal pasts of many men who killed a current or former partner in Australia.
Holly Hales
New government legislation would see people who share digitally-altered sexual content online slapped with criminal penalties.
A package of reforms to crack down on family violence has been unveiled by the Victorian government following a spate of high-profile deaths.
Callum Godde
Services helping women and children experiencing domestic violence are set for a funding boost in a bid to tackle Australia's ongoing crisis.
As social workers are faced with increasing levels of domestic violence, a study has found they are routinely underpaid compared with their qualifications.
Payments for women escaping abusive relationships and online reforms have been agreed to at a snap national cabinet meeting on domestic and family violence.
Andrew Brown
Tens of thousands of people have marched around Australia to call for an end to violence against women as the prime minister convenes an emergency meeting.
Dominic Giannini
Violence against women is becoming normalised in Australia, an advocacy group has warned, as thousands of people prepare to rally across the nation this weekend.
William Ton and Adrian Black
Amnesty International says human rights are facing their most serious threat in decades, highlighting the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine.
Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory suffer one of the highest rates of domestic, family and sexual violence in the world, a Senate inquiry has been told.
Rudi Maxwell
The UN has described a bill which criminalises LGBTQ+ people in Ghana as "profoundly disturbing".
FRANCIS KOKUTSE (Associated Press)
The domestic violence policy for NSW Police has not been reviewed for years and includes no mention of coercive control offences that will soon be introduced.
Esther Linder
Advocates believe the federal government is moving in the right direction to help end family and domestic violence against First Nations women and children.
China has reportedly been lobbying non-Western countries to praise its human rights record at a United Nations meeting in Geneva.
Emma Farge
More than half of Indigenous women are survivors of violence and it's hoped an expansion of community-driven services will provide culturally-based healing.
Millions of dollars in funding will help a Central Australia support group clear a waiting list of women seeking help against violence.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles face still more pressure over their response to last month’s High Court after a third former immigration detainee was arrested.
Katina Curtis and Kimberley Caines