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Christmas can be one of the most dreaded times for women and children affected by domestic violence.
Christmas can be one of the most dreaded times for women and children affected by domestic violence.
Home detention has been rejected for a Northlander who seriously assaulted his partner and locked her in a shipping container during their short but turbulent relationship.
I'd like to see church ministers being proactive in curbing violence before it happens. It is good to see church ministers taking a positive step to curb violence.
A jury has taken just three hours to find a woman guilty of the manslaughter of her partner on Valentine's Day, but cleared her of murder.
More than 3500 domestic-violence reports were made to Northland police in the year to June - nearly 10 a day - but family violence experts say the problem is much bigger.
Accused murderer Patricia Erica Paton had a "huge egg" on her forehead and a split lip when she hitchhiked to Opotiki on the night her partner died from a stab wound.
King Tuheitia's private secretary, Rangi Wallace, has had his firearms licence revoked after a domestic incident at the home he shared with his fiancee.
A woman who claims she stabbed her partner to death in self defence cried "I killed my man" after she inflicted the fatal wound, a witness has told the High Court.
Here's a quick quiz. You are a child. Who is most likely to kill you. Your mum? Your dad? Stepdad? Rodney Hide says police have the answer.
White ribbons fluttered on the black leather jackets of the motorcycle riders who roared up to St Paul's Cathedral in Dunedin yesterday morning.
A mass rolling haka lined the streets of Upper Hutt yesterday as the annual White Ribbon motorcycle ride roared past on its way to Auckland.
Men have colonised women's minds just as the English colonised the Maori, says Auckland University psychologist Peter Adams.
More than a dozen Upper Hutt schools will this afternoon take part in a "rolling haka" stretching for several kilometres along Upper Hutt streets.
The police armed offenders squad used flash-bang grenades to apprehend a man involved in a domestic incident in west Auckland last night.
Organisers of the annual White Ribbon Day believe violence toward women has been reduced since the campaign started six years ago.
Sexual assaults by players and supporters in last year's Rugby World Cup helped set a new record for assaults on women reported to an Auckland sexual abuse service.
Children are far more likely to be killed by their mothers than any other category of offender, a new police review of family violence case shows.
Police reported an increase in domestic violence following the All Blacks' win over Australia last night.