{"id":277851,"date":"2019-06-03T04:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBy7pMazUi0ma_BFFlCZJOMqFAgEKgwIACoFCAowhgIwkDgw87UI?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:31","slug":"al-jazeera-reported-ethiopians-speaking-up-against-sexual-violence-and-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277851","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera reported Ethiopians speaking up against sexual violence and domestic abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Al Jazeera published a feature on Ethiopians breaking silence around sexual violence, child abuse, and domestic violence, describing stigma, weak reporting pathways, and survivors who still faced pressure to stay quiet.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Al Jazeera reported Ethiopians speaking up against sexual violence and domestic abuse\" \/>\n<p>The piece treated abuse as a social and justice problem rather than a private shame, and it collected voices that wanted clearer protection and services.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as gender and social archive, the Al Jazeera feature dates public conversation about sexual and domestic violence in Ethiopia in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2019\/6\/3\/speaking-up-against-sexual-violence-domestic-abuse-in-ethiopia\">Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking up against sexual violence, domestic abuse in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Jazeera EnglishAddis Ababa &#8211; Twin sisters Dagim and Yeabsera were young children when their uncle first sexually assaulted them. The abuse continued for years, as their fathe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755014,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277851\/revisions\/755014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}