Gender-based violence: why victims do not leave

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Gender-based violence is not a topic I look at very often.

I myself lived through and thankfully emerged from an abusive marriage many years ago, so the article below resonated with me. Every word of it, every possible scenario, and the multi-layered psychological and emotional aspects of the situations women find themselves in – all are clearly laid out here. I hope it will help someone (and help others to understand). I know, it takes guts to leave. As they say about relationships, “it’s complicated.” But as the author says: “Issues of safety are paramount.”

This article by Esther Nantana can be found here.

Esther Nantana

Gender-based violence: why victims do not leave

WINDHOEK, Namibia, Jun 30 2023 (IPS)– In almost every conversation I’ve had about gender-based violence (GBV), the question “why don’t they leave?” inevitably comes up.

After many years of working in this space, I have…

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Over 24,000 UK asylum seekers could be sent to Rwanda despite court ruling | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Steve Smith MBE, the CEO of the refugee charity Care4Calais, said: “Over two-thirds of the refugees we work with who have received Rwanda notices have reported indicators of modern slavery and torture. It is shameful that, having already created a record backlog of asylum claims by not processing them efficiently, the government has paused tens of thousands more. This only serves to inflict more trauma on the survivors of modern slavery and torture.” Source: Over 24,000 UK asylum seekers could be sent to Rwanda despite court ruling | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Opinion | Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s Remarkable Dissent – The New York Times 

“From the first page to the last, today’s opinion departs from the demands of judicial restraint,” Kagan wrote. “At the behest of a party that has suffered no injury, the majority decides a contested public policy issue properly belonging to the politically accountable branches and the people they represent.”

She continued: “That is a major problem not just for governance, but for democracy too. Congress is of course a democratic institution; it responds, even if imperfectly, to the preferences of American voters. And agency officials, though not themselves elected, serve a President with the broadest of all political constituencies. But this Court? It is, by design, as detached as possible from the body politic. That is why the Court is supposed to stick to its business — to decide only cases and controversies, and to stay away from making this Nation’s policy about subjects like student-loan relief.”

Shell still trading Russian gas despite pledge to stop – BBC News

The company was involved in nearly an eighth of Russia’s shipborne gas exports in 2022, according to analysis from campaign group Global Witness.

Oleg Ustenko, an adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, accused Shell of accepting “blood money”.

Shell said the trades were the result of “long-term contractual commitments” and do not violate laws or sanctions.

As recently as 9 May, a vast tanker capable of carrying more than 160,000 cubic metres of gas compressed into liquid form – liquefied natural gas or LNG – pulled out of the port of Sabetta, on the Yamal peninsula in Russia’s far north.

That cargo was purchased by Shell before heading onwards to its ultimate destination, Hong Kong.

It is one of eight LNG cargoes that Shell has bought from Yamal this year, according to data from the Kpler database analysed by Global Witness.

Last year Shell accounted for 12% of Russia’s seaborne LNG trade, Global Witness calculates, and was among the top five traders of Russian-originated LNG that year.

Source: Shell still trading Russian gas despite pledge to stop – BBC News

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