- Pregnant incarcerated women in the UK will be temporarily released in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19.
- Australia announced a $100 million increase in funding to domestic violence support services in response to a spike in abuse.
- UK police are encouraging victims of domestic abuse to make a “silent call” by dialing the emergency number and entering a numerical code to alert police without placing themselves at risk.
- Reported instances of domestic abuse in Brazil increased by 50 per cent over the past week.
- The number of visits to New York City’s website for survivors of domestic violence more than doubled since the start of the month.
- An Italian nurse who strangled his doctor girlfriend used the pandemic as a defense, claiming he “killed her because she gave [him] coronavirus,” despite testing negative.