16 Days of Activism
History Repeats Itself, India no Exception - The North Africa Post
India Today
History Repeats Itself, India no Exception
The North Africa Post
Over 228,650 of the total 256,329 violent crimes recorded by police in India in 2011 were against women – statistics that exclude non reported attacks, which is too often the case with rape. Last year, New Delhi, where the young student was attacked ...
Agenda: Harsh punishment: Solution to curb rape?Himalayan Times
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Five years after the Orissa pogroms, Christians still live in appalling conditions - AsiaNews.it
AsiaNews.it
Five years after the Orissa pogroms, Christians still live in appalling conditions
AsiaNews.it
The report slammed the Orissa government for failing to shield the victims from such violence or bring to justice offenders when violence did take place. This, according to the volunteers, is even more apparent than in the case of New Delhi gang rape ...
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The trans community has finally arrived - Politics.co.uk
The trans community has finally arrived
Politics.co.uk
Then, in rapid succession, there came European court rulings that established a few basic rights and ruled against discrimination, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010. Things have ... Gone, almost, are the bad old days when trans ...
Savile: Denialism and the "grooming the nation" delusion - New Statesman
Savile: Denialism and the "grooming the nation" delusion
New Statesman
Reports of offences at Leeds General Infirmary continue to 1995. ... Because we continue to allow a rape culture to exist, a culture that enables – and at times encourages - sexual violence against women and children. ... Most victims of sexual assault ...
A CULTURE OF RAPE - Daily Star Online
A CULTURE OF RAPE
Daily Star Online
Over the past few weeks our newspapers have been splashed with harrowing accounts of violence against women. Following the ... On November 25, 2012, a twenty-year-old woman was attacked in Savar by eleven men and raped as an act of revenge, for ...
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Thuthuzela – Responding to rape in South Africa - The Hindu
Thuthuzela – Responding to rape in South Africa
The Hindu
The Daily Maverick of South Africa reported on December 13, 2012 that research conducted in four provinces of the country showed that women had reported experiencing some form of violence perpetrated by men against them ranging from 36% in ... They are ...
Sex workers' vulnerability is our vulnerability - Daily Maverick
Daily Maverick
Sex workers' vulnerability is our vulnerability
Daily Maverick
While the Law Commission continues its decade-long hemming and hawing over its recommendations to amend legislation, South Africa's streets will remain places of rape, murder, bribery and brutality. Just less than a month ago, a small ... Violence and ...
Racial hatred bill offers open slather to obnoxious - The Age
Racial hatred bill offers open slather to obnoxious
The Age
In the week before the Cronulla riot, Jones described the young Muslim men who for years had been sexually harassing women on the beach as ''vermin'' and ''mongrels'' who ''rape and pillage''. That was the context of his comments, a context which ...
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Suzanne Moore, Julie Burchill, Lynne Featherstone & Transsexuals - Time For ... - Dale & Co.
Dale & Co.
Suzanne Moore, Julie Burchill, Lynne Featherstone & Transsexuals - Time For ...
Dale & Co.
Did you spot her offence there? If it hadn't been pointed out to me, I'm not sure I would have to be honest. For clarity, it was the bit about the Brazilian transsexual. Now I am not wholly familiar with what Brazilian transsexuals look like – I must ...
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Since '94 law, domestic violence down two-thirds in U.S., Democratic Rep. Gwen ... - PolitiFact
Since '94 law, domestic violence down two-thirds in U.S., Democratic Rep. Gwen ...
PolitiFact
Gwen Moore, D-Wis., and 119 other members of Congress signed a letter calling on House leaders to hold a vote on re-authorizing the Violence Against Women Act. Moore was among the lead writers of the letter, which declared that since the federal law ...
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