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COMMENT: Thank you for ensuring that women and children have a voice, and somewhere to go, actor and Refuge ambassador David Morrissey writes

Thousands of women in the UK will spend Christmas being abused by their partners

Survivors warn the effects of domestic abuse impact their careers years on – with little support available from employers. Athena Stavrou reports

‘I fell on my back and my stomach hit the side of the bed. A few days later I noticed the baby wasn’t moving around – that was the first sign something was wrong,’ Malin Andersson tells The Independent

Prime minister accused of putting issue ‘on the back burner’ despite horrific levels of abuse

VIRTUAL EVENTS SERIES: The panel, chaired by The Independent’s Caroline Gammell, includes BBC presenter Nikita Kanda, Refuge’s interim CEO Abigail Ampofo, head of development Rachel Shuter, and our women’s correspondent Maya Oppenheim, who will all offer unique perspectives on domestic abuse and the transformative power of refuges

Frontline worker reveals domestic abusers are weaponising everything from smart locks to home speakers

Colombia hosts the largest population of migrants and refugees from Venezuela, where more than 7.7 million have left since 2014 for economic, political and safety reasons

The chair of Refuge emphasised the link between schoolchildren experiencing sexual harassment and social media after she was made a CBE on Thursday.

It was her abuser’s campaign of abuse after she finally managed to escape that made her feel like it was impossible to move on with her life, Ivana Ivancakova tells Maya Oppenheim

The Independent has partnered with leading charity Refuge to raise money to create safe homes for domestic abuse survivors