"In the first known case of its kind, a woman who made a rape complaint which was not investigated properly has reached an out of court settlement with police. Catherine says the man who raped her knew he was targeting a particularly vulnerable woman." This is gratifying news...
In Canada and the United States women enjoy a measure of equality but the hard earned status of personhood is fragile at best. Built into and part of our culture are subtle and not so subtle...
Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the UN has called on prominent men around the world to speak out against violence against women on the tenth anniversary of passing the resolution to mark November 25 as the...
" Christian teens abducted, raped and coerced into marriage and conversion to Islam does not happen in Egyptian soil alone.[12] In fact, many of them face the same abuses by the Muslim extremist in other countries too. Take Pakistan, for example. 10 years old and 12 years old...
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"Peers have been debating the policing and crime bill. Their deliberations mean that the government will take a historic step: instead of controlling prostitution by punishing women, it will penalise the purchasers – the men." This is an unpredictable development. (And one...
"Four Ethiopian domestic workers are thought to have killed themselves in three weeks. Lebanon must protect these women. They mop floors, take out the rubbish, walk the dog, buy groceries and care for the children, the elderly or disabled. Many a well-to-do and lower middle...
"A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people." Is this a sign of the patriarchy hard at work? Or is it evidence of the age-old practice of ritually humiliating 'wayward...
On Thursday November 12th, former president George W. Bush made a speech at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, announcing the George W. Bush Presidential Center. There are three components to the...
The hoopla surrounding the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver/Whistler has been going on for far too long already. Stories abound regarding the stupidity and callous disregard for the 'little people' who are...
Have you ever wonder why Japanese women appear to accept the sexism rampant in their own society? Have ever wonder why Japanese men are never blamed for enjokyosai or pedophilia in Japan? It is because sex trafficking is nothing but a mundane part of...
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Two of the Tower of London Beefeaters have been suspended and another is under investigation for harassing the lone female Yeoman Warder in the country. " These days Beefeaters chiefly act as tourist attractions...
"Women are paid less than half as much as men in some parts of the UK, according to statistics published today that reveal huge regional variations in the pay gap between male and female workers." Some recent reading had led me to believe that this was a situation that was...
... here is one of the reasons I give. "Marlon King, who earned about £1 million a year, was sacked by his club, Wigan Athletic, after being found guilty of groping a 20-year-old woman and breaking her nose with a single punch. He was out drinking last December to celebrate...
Rape as a weapon of war has been used for thousands of years. The famous painting The Rape of the Sabine Women commemorates a battle fought thousands of years ago. It is still a weapon of war...
"The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Over the past two years, the wages...