UN: Obstetric violence is a human rights violation

  A UN report published in April 2019 warns against “the widespread and systematic phenomenon of violence towards women and girls in reproductive services”, and urges states to “address the structural problems and root causes of violence against women in reproductive health services, with a focus on childbirth and obstetric violence.” We publish below an…

Towards responsible reporting of filicide in the media

The work “Maternal Filicide in Canadian News Media” by Kim Rock, A. Corkett, Shekarak Ghashghaei and Professor Gina Wong has been accepted for presentation at the conference “Addressing filicide” that will be hosted at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, next November 14th -15th. The European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health is collaborating with these researchers…