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Violence against women and girls

July 2024

  • Photographs and floral tributes to Carol Hunt and her daughters.

    The Observer view on violence against women after Bushey murders: rampant misogyny must be tackled

  • Naomi Westerman, writer and playwrite photographed near her home in Woolwich, SE London

    When my mother died, I thought her violent boyfriend had won. But she had secretly taken back control

  • Gavin Plumb, 37, who planned to kill the presenter during a ‘home invasion’ at her property, receives life sentence

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    Man jailed for life for ‘vile’ Holly Willoughby murder plot – video

  • Gavin Plumb mugshot

    Holly Willoughby: man jailed for life over kidnap, rape and murder plot

  • Bindweed review – complex account of the scale of violence against women

  • Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

  • Prisons crisis must not jeopardise Labour’s pledge on domestic abuse, Starmer told

  • Irish defence forces to discharge soldier who attacked woman and avoided jail

  • ‘It’s like watching a TV drama’: what happens when police go rogue – and get caught?

  • Holly Willoughby speaks out after man convicted of plot to rape and murder her

  • Rights and freedom
    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

June 2024

  • Natasha Walter

    Gender, poverty, violence: all matter to women, and all must matter to Labour

    Natasha Walter
  • Justine McCarthy

    The shocking case of Natasha O’Brien shows that Ireland is still a cold country for women

    Justine McCarthy
  • Two children suffering from malnutrition sit on an emaciated donkey next to a line of people

    Sudan’s warring factions using starvation as weapon, experts say

  • Zara Aleena

    Zara Aleena murder: agencies’ failures contributed to death, inquest finds

  • Birmingham election candidate apologises for ‘deeply disturbing’ remarks about women

  • Thousands protest across Ireland after soldier who attacked woman walks free

  • ‘We’re really funny people’: Native American director Erica Tremblay on Lily Gladstone, laughter for survival and breaking Hollywood

  • Acid offences up 75% in UK but only 8% go to court, data suggests

  • Birmingham general election hopeful joked about domestic violence on podcast

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