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Violence against women

  • HomophobiaGeorge Weinberg, a psychologist based in New York City, spoke the word homophobia for the first time during a speech in the 1960s.
  • Domestic violenceIn 1973, Jack Ashley addressed the Parliament of the United Kingdom with a speech that introduced the modern term domestic violence to describe violence…
  • Human traffickingThe act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving individuals through force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploiting them…
  • War crimeA U.S. soldier observed victims of the Malmedy massacre on the 17th of December 1944 in Belgium, where 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by…