Hey Ladies and Gents! I know sometimes we forget until the last moment about Valentines Day and that will always turn out bad. Well, I have a solution for you. While you are scrambling to find that special something to get our sweetie that expresses our love and devotion why not do it with a beautiful cover song by Peter Hollins. His cover of Katy Perry’s “Firework” is amazing and beautful. When you buy it through us, The Pixel Project, you will also be donating to stopping violence against women. So, why not do something for your Love and for the world at the same time! Here is the video so you can get a sneak peak. Sit back and enjoy! P. S. Flowers and chocolates are so over rated! :D
Interview With Madam Agnes Guillaud, EU Charge d’Affaires to the Gambia on EU’s Approach to Violence Against Women (Madam Agnes Guillaud, an agronomist by training, was born in Morocco by French parents.)
CHATTANOOGA — Part of a Gov. Bill Haslam’s major public safety overhaul would put wife beaters in jail and charge higher fines for the abuse.
Carson City District Attorney Neil Rombardo met with Senator Harry Reid, Senator Dean Heller, Representative Shelly Berkeley, and Representative Joe Heck on Capitol Hill today to urge continued support of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and Fight Crime and Invest in Kids, an anti-crime organization dedicated to early childhood crime prevention.
Gardai in the Carlow Kilkenny division receive nearly one call a day in relation to domestic violence. Supt Mick Nevin told a public meeting of the Kilkenny Joint Policing Committee that they had received 311 reports in relation to domestic violence last year a significant portion of which were drink related.
Supt Nevin said that not all of the calls resulted in a prosecution but that each one represented a person who felt the need to contact the Gardai in relation to an incident or the behaviour of a loved one.
The tremendous swirl of color and rhythm; the rich layering of djembe drums with the kora lute and marimba-like balafon; storytelling theater that starts as gentle conversation and escalates into a dance party that pulls the audience out of their seats: Nimbaya!, the dance and drumming troupe from Guinea, delivers all you expect from a top-notch African dance event.
Plus something more.
Four acts of domestic violence have occurred on The University of Memphis campus in the past two months, one ending in a misdemeanor arrest.
There are somewhere between 30 and 40 simple assaults each year, said Derek Myers, deputy director of police services. In 2011 there were 34 incidents of simple assault reported. Of those, 14 were classified as domestic violence.
Male students from the University of Massachusetts took the court at half time of the UMass men’s basketball game against St. Bonaventure on Wednesday night as part of the White Ribbon Campaign to end violence against women.
NEW research shows 13 per cent of women in Queensland suffer physical or sexual abuse from male partners, while nearly one-third are subjected to non-physical abuse.
The survey, by the Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, highlighted the mental health impacts of the problem and the reluctance of women to get help or end an abusive relationship.
