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The silent epidemic: Abuse against Spanish women rises during lockdown Reuters 1/20/2021
By Clara-Laeila Laudette
MADRID, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Fewer Spanish women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2020 than in previous years, but that statistic masks a rise in gender-based violence as COVID lockdowns left victims confined with their abusers, rights groups and officials say.
Emails to abuse helplines soared nearly six-fold in April, the first full month of Spain s lockdown. Control-based violence - which doesn t murder, but is insidious and devastating - grew, because violent partners already had women under their physical control, Victoria Rosell, the ministry s top official on gender abuse issues, told reporters on Wednesday.
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She’s a legend, icon and our most enduring movie star of all time. As JOAN COLLINS celebrates 70 years in the business, her best friend Piers Morgan joins her for lunch. And, from sex (‘two times a day is too much, dahling’) to rich men (‘mean and selfish’), nothing is off limits…
Dame Joan Collins elegantly speared a large piece of sea bass at Club 55, our mutual favourite St Tropez beach restaurant, and made a sudden dramatic, table-silencing announcement. ‘This year is my 70th year in the movie business!’ she declared. ‘Sorry, WHAT?’ I replied, astounded by what I’d just heard. ‘You’ve been making films for 15 years longer than I’ve been alive?’