Rape Case More Difficult For the Accused

" The mere filing of a Rape Case against an individual especially a prominent personality is in essence the easiest way to ruin one's reputation. Though presumed innocent until proved otherwise, most accused...

New Study Reveals Men Lack Sympathy for Rape Victims

Commentary, Michelle Says So, true crime blogger As a two time rape victim myself, I would have to agree with this finding. Personally, I find it's only the men who have been sexually assaulted themselves or...

Police still dismiss rape victims

This article indicates that, not only is the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales unlikely to achieve a criminal conviction in rape cases, the very 'rape champions' it has introduced are openly hostile to rape victims. This perspective is summed up in the following...

An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo

"In 1996, I was sitting with 20,000 grieving women in a stadium in Tuzla, Bosnia. The women were holding photographs of husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and boyfriends who had been ­disappeared a year earlier in a place called Srebrenica, a UN enclave where Bosnian...

One out of four South African men admit rape

According to a study into rape and HIV by South Africa's Medical Research Council (MRC) a quater of men in South Africa have raped at least one man or woman. The study includes a representative sample of 1738 men...

Your Cell Phone Could Save Your Life With "Face File"

I recently rented the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson’s character (an ex-government operative, or what he calls a “preventer”) was very reluctant when his 17-year old daughter went to Paris...

Exploitation of women in the fashion industry

"A beautiful woman sits in front of a video camera. Her name is Sena Cech and she is a fashion model. ...Halfway through the meeting Cech is asked to strip. She does as instructed and takes off her clothes. Then the photographer starts undressing as well. "Baby - can you do...

Zimbabwean refugees denied access to medical care

A number of Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa are prevented from getting medical care because their either being rejected by hospital staff or charged exorbitant fees said the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontiere.A child as young as six who was raped was turned away from a...

Playboy: Conservative Women Top 10 List to 'Hate F*ck' a Hit List

Playboy and conservative women don't seem like a natural pairing so a morbid curiosity made me investigate further when I heard the two terms used together. I am sorry that I did. I am, for the most part, a believer...

Report: In South Africa a child is raped every three minutes

According to a new report by South African NGO Solidarity Help Hand, a child is raped in South Africa every three minutes. This comes down to 530 child rapes each day. To make things worse, only 1.3 percent of...

Johnathon Richard Hock raped an unconscious woman live on the web

Johnathon Richard Hock, 20, has turned himself in for raping an uncounscious woman live on the internet on February 26th, but police only received an incomplete recording of it a few days ago.  Police in Surprise, Arizona have Hock in custody, without bail, on suspicion...

Sexual abuse and Kidnappings in camps of Sri Lanka - Sky News

Sky news exposes the human rights violations going on in the army controlled IDP camps in Sri Lanka. Though Rajapakshe declared the war is over still the independent medias and aid agencies are banned from the...

In Colombia, Rape Now Being Prosecuted as Weapon of War

Columbia is taking steps to prosecute those who use rape as a weapon of war.  Rape of women has been used as a tool of military for as long as history has been written and most probably before.  Force...

Women at war face sexual violence

"In her new book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, Helen Benedict examines the experience. "I hope that other readers here find this as shocking as I do. Not only are US soldiers serving in a war built on lies and deceit (in my opinion) but they...

LIC subway rape victim files suit against MTA

A Queens judge has thrown out a suit against the MTA and two of its employees filed by a woman who was raped on the platform of the G train's 21st Street stop and accused onlooking transit workers of not doing...

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