Coercive Control
Manya WakefieldWriting about coercive control legislation, survivor advocacy, and the systems that fail victims – worldwide. Home of the Global Coercive Control Legislation Index and the Global Femicide Legislation Index.
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Manslaughter by Coercive Control: The Femicides the Count Leaves Out
Content note: This article discusses and describes sensitive topics. If you are currently experiencing abuse or are in early recovery from coercive control, please read with care, or seek support from Samaritans.
For the second year runnin...
Europe Is Recognizing Femicide. The Global Femicide Legislation Index Maps What Comes Next
Photo by Serhii Yevdokymov.
A thousand women a year.1 That is how many women are killed by intimate partners and family members in the EU and that number is not falling.
Despite a decade of reforms, despite the Istanbul Convention, despi...
Canada Just Did Something No Legislature Has Done Before
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
If you have ever been told that what happened in your marriage was “just a high-conflict relationship,” you should know what the Supreme Court of Canada did on May 15, 2026.
In a 6-3 decisio...
Colorado Did It! HB26-1309 Has Passed.
Building of the State Capitol in Denver, Colorado.
I am writing this in the wee hours of in the morning, because I couldn’t wait to share the good news.
HB26-1309 has passed the Colorado legislature.
The bill that would have been easy to...
Colorado Is About to Vote on a Coercive Control Bill. Here's What's at Stake.
You would have to live it to believe what coercive control looks like from the inside. The monitoring. The isolation. The slow erosion of your sense of reality until you can’t trust your own perceptions. The way your world shrinks — your fa...
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Independent researcher. Coercive trauma specialist. Author of ‘Are You In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship.' Creator of The Coercive Control Global Legislation Database.
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