Quebec report recommends rights-based approach to tackle intimate partner violence, homelessness | Law360 Canada

Published: 24 March 2023

January 3, 2023 | Intimate partner violence, after a period of decline, has been on the rise in Quebec and the rest of Canada since 2016, according to Statistics Canada. The report suggests that...

RADIO-CANADA INTERNATIONAL | Environmental activists face high risk of violence and assassination: study

Published: 7 July 2020

Activists defending their communities and the surrounding environment against development of extractive industries and land grabs for agrarian use face high rates of criminalization, physical...

Youth violence lower in countries with complete ban on corporal punishment

Published: 16 October 2018

A study published today in the BMJ Open shows that in countries where there is a complete ban on all corporal punishment of children there is less fighting among young people. There was 31% less...

Playing with your brain

Published: 8 August 2017

Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For over 10 years, scientists have...

Domestic violence deters contraception

Published: 31 March 2015

Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman’s reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by McGill PhD student Lauren Maxwell,...

Different types of child abuse: similar consequences

Published: 14 October 2015

Emotional abuse may be as harmful as physical abuse and neglect. This finding led by a team of researchers at McGill University complements previous imaging research showing that emotional and...

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