February 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Carmen is still hashing out a custody agreement with the man she says raped her when she was sedated.
‘I never reported because I felt I would be blamed’: Your stories on sexual assault
Violence Against Women
This is what it’s like to take your rape to court
February 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The world is watching former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi’s sex assault trial, and the cross-examination of women who say he assaulted them, play out in real time. (Ghomeshi has denied all the charges against him.)
Global News took this opportunity to talk to women who’ve experienced sexual assault and struggled with whether to report it and how to pursue justice in the court system.
Why Canada still has a long way to go in tackling domestic abuse
September 9, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Aruna Papp had lived in Canada for a dozen years, had taken courses at York University while working as a short-order cook there, had started organizations to help immigrant women escape violence. But she couldn’t bring herself to leave a spouse who made her life “hell.”
The fear ran too deep.
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