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Almost every time the media reports yet another case of intimate partner or domestic violence, the usual question emerges: does violence have a gender? Although in the majority of cases the news is about women who were abused, or in worse cases, murdered by men, there are still some who claim that…

The priest who molested A. – let’s call him Brúnó – used to organize camps for children in a bad socio-economic situation from congregations near Budapest. Thousands of children from the most vulnerable classes participated in these camps, but we do not know how many fell victim to the sexual…

Oh, come on ladies, come on children, what’s so hard in a little quarantine? You just have to stay inside. You can keep that up for one or two YEARS.   Only the most vicious homebodies say that the measures taken in spring following the appearance of the corona virus were not exaggerated or…

“Crass, systematical intimate partner violence was constructed in front of our eyes: from punishment by silence through a destruction of a woman’s personality and self-esteem to verbal abuse and threats”, wrote media researcher and opinion journalist Vera Mérő in a Facebook post on the 10th season…

24.hu 01. 13. 11:09 In 2020, 65% more domestic violence crimes were registered in Hungary than in 2019: 650 cases, as opposed to 392 a year before. The number of registered sexual abuse cases has also grown by 36%, from 240 in 2019 to 327 in 2020. 56 cases of sexual coercion were registered in…

What can political decision makers do to eliminate violence against women? How did the government conclude the Year of Victim Assistance? During Mérce’s roundtable discussion on Wednesday organized within the 16 Days of Activism Kata Ámon, Fanni Dés and Barbara Tonté provided possible solutions…

Hungarian journalist Nóra Miavecz has worked as a volunteer in London and South Africa for various civil society organizations specialized in helping prostitutes and victims of sex trafficking. Borbála Juhász from the Hungarian Women’s Lobby interviewed her about the interconnections of…

A 52-year-old man was found having been peeping at altogether 17 guests while they were using the bathroom. He was not just peeping; he also made recordings about the guests and many pornographic pictures about children were found on his computer too. The District Attorney’s Office of Kaposvár…

Where we started from Talking about the media representation of gender-based violence, we can all bring up horrifying examples. And though we might claim that the situation has improved enormously in the past decades, some memorable cases from the recent past show that we often automatically…