Women’s Aid has launched a new campaign to help raise awareness of coercive control, a lesser-known form of domestic abuse. The campaign, named “Not Model’s Own”, sees three different women posing for ...

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The UK was the first country in the world to criminalise coercive control. So why are we still not paying attention to this insidious form of violence? We were in the smoking area, a place where ...

Abusive behavior is not always obvious. Here are some of the mechanisms controlling individuals use to keep their partners silent and disempowered. When we think of an unhealthy relationship, we often ...

In an intimate relationship, the harmful effects of coercive abuse can often be missed by those enduring—it as well as their therapists. Unlike physical violence which is criminalized with laws and ...

Laws criminalizing coercive control came into force in New South Wales (NSW), Australia on Monday. Section 54D of the NSW’s Crimes Act 1900 criminalizes coercive conduct and abusive behavior against ...

There's no shortage of discussion over the impending New York trial of rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. One phrase you won't hear during the legal process? "Coercive control." Combs was arrested in ...

When it comes to tackling abuse and violence against women and girls (VAWG), it's clear there's still a lot of work to be done, especially when it comes to ensuring non-physical forms of abuse are ...