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…

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…

The police, the court system, health care and even the education system may betray those abused women who, when seeking help, turn to institutions that were meant to offer protection - this was the main subject of the discussion on Monday night, broadcasted on Facebook , organized by Patent…

The infamous case started in 2013, when Erika Renner was attacked in her home by her ex-boyfriend Krisztián Bene, that-time director of the Hospital of the Brothers Hospitallers in Budapest, who poured lye on the woman’s genitals. Bene was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Renner sued him for a…

The name of Bernadett Orosz and her story are familiar to many. On Wednesday, August 26th she would have stood in court with the charge of defamation, because after being brutally beaten, she had not kept it secret but was brave enough to share it. The trial was delayed at the request of the…