Legislative violence broadly refers to any violent clashes between members of a legislature, often physically, inside the legislature and triggered by...

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction. Some definitions...

The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members...

2004 to 2009, the assembly gained notoriety as a frequent site for legislative violence. The Assembly first came to the world's attention during a violent...

Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. Domestic violence is often used...

of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and willingness to resort to violence that eventually led to the Civil War. Although Sumner was unable to return...

Slow violence is violence which occurs gradually and is not necessarily visible. Slow violence is incremental and is dynamic across time, in contrast...

of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to protect women from domestic violence. The law came into force...

The Legislative Yuan votes in favor of highly controversial legislative reform bills that result in some lawmakers engaging in legislative violence. Chung...

Violence occurred in the aftermath of the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, which the ruling Trinamool Congress won for a third consecutive...

The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355)...

The Manipur Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Manipur. The seat of the Manipur Legislative Assembly is at Imphal...

1887, on which date the Indiana General Assembly dissolved into legislative violence. The event began as an attempt by Governor Isaac P. Gray (R/D) to...

War. Keitt is notable for his involvement in two separate acts of legislative violence in the Congressional chambers. In the first, Keitt assisted fellow...

Legislative Assembly elections are expected to be held in Maharashtra by November 2024 to elect the 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly...

Nandigram Violence refers to the violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, India, in 2007 due to the land acquisition for a project taken up by the CPI(M)-led...

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily committed by men...

Edmundson (Democrat-Virginia), a personal friend with his own history of legislative violence. In May 1854, Edmundson had been arrested by the House Sergeant at...

There have been numerous incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, as well as in the greater Washington Metropolitan...

Pradesh Legislative Assembly election were held in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2019 for constituting the fifteenth legislative assembly...

The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Pub.L. 103–159, 107 Stat. 1536, enacted November 30, 1993), often referred to as the Brady Act, the Brady Bill...

Violence against women in India refers to physical or sexual violence committed against a woman, typically by a man. Common forms of violence against...

the opposition parties' input on 8 December 2010. It had caused legislative violence before. This process of passing the budget bill sparked controversy...

confirmed some attacks hurt minorities and found that many claims about the violence were unverified, exaggerated, or misleadingly framed. Fact checkers highlighted...

speaking in the Haryana Legislative Assembly in February 2023, Mamman Khan displayed photographs depicting acts of violence allegedly by the cow vigilante...

Religious violence in India includes acts of violence by followers of one religious group against followers and institutions of another religious group...

Strangulation in the context of domestic violence is a potentially lethal form of assault. Unconsciousness may occur within seconds of strangulation and...

The 2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in five phases from 25 November – 20 December...

The use of politically and religiously-motivated violence in Islam dates back to its early history. Islam has its origins in the behavior, sayings, and...

National Assembly attack Storming of the Venezuelan National Congress Legislative violence Neumann, William (2022). Things are never so bad that they can't...