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Christmas means women have to spend more time and money to stay safe

IN FOCUS: December is a time for making merry, but if you are female, a night out can often also be fraught with fear. Olivia Petter investigates why so many women continue to feel frightened when out after dark, and asks whether government awareness campaigns and some of the language…

The Independent UK

Gisèle Pélicot is a one-woman challenge to the still too common myths about rape

French court case is challenging media’s stereotype of the crime and the language used in reporting it

The Guardian - UK

How Hungary's Orbán uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark

In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has extended his party's control over the media, directly affecting informed democratic participation

The Independent UK

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Violence against women and girls a ‘national emergency’ – how to talk to teens about it

Experts talk to Lisa Salmon about helping stop rising violence by talking to young people about the issue as early as possible.

The Independent UK

Private equity groups collecting millions to run UK government-funded sexual assault referral centres

Exclusive: Charities concerned at profits being made from government contracts to help victims

The Guardian - UK

Abuse is main driver of mental ill health in women and girls, say psychiatrists

Findings from survey of UK practitioners may explain why many more women than men suffer from a range of conditions

The Guardian - UK

They admitted their response to rape victims wasn't good enough - but now GMP have stepped up

Bosses say the force is arresting and charging more people with the 'sickening' crimes

Manchester Evening News

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Rape survivors still hesitate to report crimes to police, say charities

Report claims improvements have been made in response to rape across ‘every stage of the criminal justice system’

The Independent UK

Government too quick to claim tangible changes for rape survivors, say charities

The Home Office said a report shows improvements have been made in response to rape across ‘every stage of the criminal justice system’.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of mourners gather for vigil to honour Zara Aleena

Crowds wore white and carried pictures of Ms Aleena.

The Independent UK

Met has ‘nowhere to hide’ after damning Casey report, say campaigners

Sadiq Khan promises to hold force to account after report highlights institutional misogyny, racism and homophobia

The Guardian - UK

UK urged to ‘do more to help women facing abuse in cost-of-living crisis’

‘Cost-of-living crisis disproportionately impacted women who have had to make unthinkable decisions about staying in dangerous situations’

The Independent UK

Government ‘should do more to help women facing abuse in cost-of-living crisis’

The End Violence Against Women Coalition said frontline specialist services such as refuges are facing ‘spiralling’ energy prices.

The Independent UK

Zara Aleena reports shows ‘women and girls are not safe’, says victim’s aunt

Farah Naz said it was an “extremely distressing report … revealing a litany of errors” which left Jordan McSweeney able to kill her 35-year-old niece.

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Years after alarm was raised, UK police officer admits rape

David Carrick admits to dozens of sexual offences over 18 years while in London’s Metropolitan Police.

The Independent UK

David Carrick used position as Met police officer to abuse and rape multiple women for 17 years

David Carrick told women he was nicknamed ‘Bastard Dave’ by his colleagues

The Guardian - UK

‘A thief came into our family and took the heart out of it’: the killing of Zara Aleena

Last year the bright, kind law graduate was brutally murdered as she walked home after a night out. Now her friends and family are striving to create meaning from the tragedy

The Independent UK

Victim blaming by police officers is harming rape investigations, report finds

Some police officers believe that most reports of rape are merely “regretful sex”, a shocking new report finds

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The Independent UK

Cost of living crisis putting women ‘at risk of harm, destitution or death’

Frontline workers at refuges for domestic abuse victims forced to use own money to help women - including those who have gone without food for days

Los Angeles Times

Carly Simon mourns sisters Joanna and Lucy, who died of cancer a day apart

While musician Carly Simon mourns the loss of her sisters, who died a day apart last week, the "You're So Vain" singer also said she can't do it without "celebrating the incredible lives that they lived."

Daily Mirror

Carly Simon shares 'haunting loss' in tribute to sisters who tragically died one day apart

Pop superstar Carly Simon said she is 'filled with sorrow' as she paid tribute to her elder sisters, Lucy and Joanna, after they both passed away from cancer just one day apart

The Independent UK

Carly Simon pays tribute to ‘trailblazing’ sisters Lucy and Joanna who died one day apart

The sisters died of cancer

The Independent UK

New Met Police commissioner criticised for not addressing race or violence against women in statement

Retired senior police officer says new Met commissioner must ‘confront’ issues around racism and sexism

The Independent UK

‘Lack of progress’ on rape condemned as government ‘shamefully silent’ on minority victims

Justice secretary Dominic Raab said rape convictions are up two thirds in last year but campaigners and survivors say it’s ‘nowhere near’ targets

The Independent UK

Society fails women by not believing rape victims, campaigner says

Emily Hunt, who helped on the Government’s End-to-End Rape Review last summer, said society needs to do more to increase prosecutions.

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