Solidaritas #149
How has digital violence become such a major issue in South Korea?
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Regional
A first-ever regional analysis shows that over half of children in Oceania are victims of violence in the home. Over 1 in 10 adolescent girls and women (aged 15 and older) have been subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in the past 12 months.
At least eight migrant domestic workers died in the Tai Po apartment complex fire. Many of those who survived, after saving children and others in their care, are worried about losing their jobs and being forced to leave:
Their stories reveal how foreign domestic workers, who help form the backbone of the city’s economy, also bore a significant share of the danger. There are almost 370,000 such workers in Hong Kong, the vast majority of whom are women, and they do the housework and provide child care for many of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents.
COP30 is over, but without enforceable finance and political will, the Gender Action Plan (GAP) adopted in Belém risks becoming another trophy text.
Thanks to a greater emphasis on women’s education in recent years, Tibetan Buddhist nuns are increasingly becoming teachers and abbesses. In monastic institutions and in Buddhist centers around the world, nuns are taking on leadership roles and being acknowledged for their religious scholarship.
