16 Days of Activism
Never assume the clock won't be turned back on equality - Public Service
Public Service
Never assume the clock won't be turned back on equality
Public Service
The city, where in 1905, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney asked Winston Churchill if he supported votes for women, and became among the first suffragettes to be arrested as a result. And the city where .... We also need new action on violence ...
Yvette Cooper's speech to Labour's National Women's Conference 2012Labour Party
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How the parties measure up: women's issues - Standard Online
How the parties measure up: women's issues
Standard Online
... more; Support strengthening the Violence Against Women Act, which strengthened federal penalties for repeat sex offenders, created a federal “rape shield law” that prevents offenders from using victims' past sexual conduct against them during a ...
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Distraught Residents Cry-Violent Crimes - Caribarena Antigua
Distraught Residents Cry-Violent Crimes
Caribarena Antigua
Sexual Violence” being brutally perpetrated against defenceless and vulnerable women and girls, was “…frighteningly intolerable.” Then prompted by the “…gruesome” slaying of a 10 year-old female student, and bringing some measure of solace to the ...
Standing for children raped and murdered - Jamaica Observer
Standing for children raped and murdered
Jamaica Observer
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Despite ill health, 75-year-old Agatha Peterkin, placard firmly in hand, braved the sweltering mid-morning heat in the historic Sam Sharpe Square on Friday, to join the rallying cry for an end to violence in the society ...
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Hang them - Jamaicans call for death penalty, castration for rapists - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica Gleaner
Hang them - Jamaicans call for death penalty, castration for rapists
Jamaica Gleaner
Outraged by the recent spate of rapes, including the violation of an eight-year-old girl at gunpoint while her mother was held captive in nearby bushes, several prominent Jamaicans have joined a groundswell calling for stiffer penalties for sexual ...
Jamaicans call for death penalty for rapistsStabroek News
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Women are not to blame for violent attacks, on the street or in the home - Green Left Weekly
Green Left Weekly
Women are not to blame for violent attacks, on the street or in the home
Green Left Weekly
As a society, instead of telling women what to wear, how to behave and what to avoid, we need to get a lot better at teaching men not to rape, and that any sexual and other violence against women is not OK. This does not mean more police and CCTV ...
Jamaicans March Against Violence - Caribbean Journal
Jamaicans March Against Violence
Caribbean Journal
Jamaicans March Against Violence. September 29, 2012 | 1:28 ... tolerate crime and violence. Simpson Miller also said Jamaica's government was drafting regulations to accompany the Sexual Offences Act to include a provision for a sex offenders' registry.
Yvette Cooper's speech to Labour's National Women's Conference 2012 - Labour Party
Yvette Cooper's speech to Labour's National Women's Conference 2012
Labour Party
The city, where in 1905, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney asked Winston Churchill if he supported votes for women, and became amongst the first suffragettes to be arrested as a result. And the city where in six weeks' time, we will .... Still less ...
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St James voices loud objection to violence - Jamaica Observer
St James voices loud objection to violence
Jamaica Observer
Women's Inc representative, Elise Thomas, urged the protesters not to condone wrong doings. ... Meanwhile, Head of Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) Superintendent Gladys Brown-Campbell, in her address, called on ...
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'I wish someone had told me the relationship with my teacher was not my fault' - The Guardian
The Guardian
'I wish someone had told me the relationship with my teacher was not my fault'
The Guardian
She, on the other hand, struggles every day to cope with the effects his violence and oppression had on her teenage self. "He ruined ... The Sexual Offences Act 2003 made it an offence for a person over 18 in a position of trust to have a sexual ...
