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What do I need to know to support women whose partners have sexually assaulted them?

October 24, 2017

Intimate partner sexual abuse/violence is poorly understood and under-recognized, both by the women who experience it and those who provide services to them. And yet, in Canada in 2011, 17% of sexual assault reported to the police were committed by current or former partners of the women making the report. Sexual control/violence within an intimate relationship can look like many things,

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