Violence Against Women

Chairman, chairwoman, chairperson or chair? Housewife or homemaker? What is so controversial about contraception, the word ‘family’ or ‘sex worker’? Does being gender-sensitive in news mean hiding the genders and sexes of people who appear in them? Inter Press Service announces a third edition of “The Gender and Development Glossary” to offer journalists and writers a guide for picking their way through the sometimes tricky terrain of gender, media and development, and the use of gender-related terms and language in media.

 

As part of the historic international campaign “One Day One Struggle” organized by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR), over 20 organizations will hold simultaneous events and public demonstrations on topics like protesting customary practices such as honor killings and FGM/C, overturning discriminatory and life threatening laws like stoning or lashing of women, and calling for LGBT rights, the right to sexuality education and the right to bodily and sexual integrity of all people.

Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in Colombia by all parties in the country’s longstanding armed conflict, and its main victims are women and girls, states a report recently released by Intermón Oxfam, backing up claims made repeatedly by national and international human rights groups.

CONCERNED and angry women at KwaMashu men’s hostel in KwaZulu- Natal are calling for tougher law enforcement after the rape and killing of a two-year-old girl.

Phumzile Mtetwa from The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project writes about the conclusion of the murder trial of Eudy Simelane a lesbian activist and former Banyana Banyana football player. Simelane was gang raped and robbed in a brutal attack last year, the trial was concluded yesterday in Delmas court, East of Johannesburg. Crime statistics were released on Tuesday 22 September 2009 showing a shocking increase of sexual offences by 10,4 percent with 27 750 rapes commited in six months alone and proving that South Africa is one of the world's most violent societies with fresh crimes.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to investigate an incident in which a disabled Muslim traveler from Pennsylvania was forced to undergo a humiliating search by airport security personnel in Ohio.

This article is tells the story of Lara, a fifteen year old who survived human trafficking.

Teenage girls in Canada are selling sex online and police believe it might be related to se-trafficking.

A team of police officers is moving into the five Olympic boroughs to tackle the expected surge in sex trafficking in the run-up to the 2012 games.

An investigation by the UK Sunday Times has exposed child labour in eastern India.