Violence against Women

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• School official calls alleged rape just "hormones gone wild"

  
  Feministing — Authority: 709
  A 14-year old boy in Contra Costa, California is going to be tried for raping a 12-year old girl in the stairwell of a middle school. The police and prosecutors say they have enough evidence to proceed with a criminal case. Why, then, is a school supervisor speaking out (somewhat in defense of the principal and ...
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• Domestic violence deaths in Kansas are on the rise Updated: Dec 15, 2009 05:11 PM

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 483
  Domestic violence deaths in Kansas are on the riseUpdated: Dec 15, 2009 05:11 PMBy ELIZABETH MATTHEWSNearly ten years ago Rebecca Reedy’s 21 year old daughter died in a murder-suicide.  Andrea Reedy died at the hands of her estranged husband.Today, Rebecca is the executive director of the Crisis Resource Center, ...
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• Capitalism At Its Best: Purchase Your Snooki Punch Souvenir [Trash TV]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 807
  Jersey Shore s Snooki getting punched in the face has graduated to bonafide cultural phenomenon with tasteless products real and fake . On the bright side, maybe itll help her fufill her wish of getting her own show. [ BWE , DonkeyTs ]
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• Pandering to Talkback Land

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 573
  The "Its Not Ok" campaign against family violence has been cut, despite pushing a significant increase in reporting and ultimately in intervention too. This is another bizarre decision by a Government that seems to automatically consign anything the last Government did to the Two Legs Bad basket. The money will be ...
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• (KS) How do you want to die? Domestic Violence Victim Claudine Dombrowski seeks redress grievances – a First Amendment right- Battered Mothers Custody Conference

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 483
   Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childrenBy Earl Glynn On December 4, 2009Listen to Claudine Dombrowski:            Listen to Claudine ...
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• How do you want to die? Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The System Sends Mixed Messages to Abuse Victims by Randi James

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 483
  Randi James is a brilliant writer- her site is replete with information from the top to bottom -thx you Randi James!  http://www.randijames.com/Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The System Sends Mixed Messages to Abuse Victims Do you stay, or do you leave? If you haven’t been a victim of abuse, or a victim of [...]
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• Domestic Violence Deaths Rising CJonline (KS)

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 483
  http://cjonline.com/news/local/2009-12-13/domestic_violence_deaths_risingKANSAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE There were 21,500 domestic violence incidents in 2008, according to Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s “Report on Domestic Violence and Rape Statistics in Kansas.” In 2007, there were 22,429 such incidents. The ...
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• Deadly year in domestic violence in Kansas

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 483
  http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/1097657.html “BUT god forbid if you do leave before you get dead- (with children  The batterer takes them-!! Take your choice, is the current DV response to victims via the system-  Which dead do you want? I will repost  “Victims between a rock and a hard place”  by ...
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• MTV Pulls the Punch. But why?

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 138
  While MTV originally planned to band-aid the episode of Jersey Shore featuring Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi getting punched --hard--in the face by by airing a PSA cautioning "Violence against women in any form is a crime," theyve now decided to not run the footage at all. An MTV representative said "What happened to ...
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• New Moon and domestic violence

  
  Feministing — Authority: 709
  **Spoiler warning!** So I saw the latest Twilight movie, New Moon , this weekend.* I was prepared for the manipulative relationship between the protagonist Bella and her sparkly vampire bf Edward. I was prepared for not-exactly-feminist messages about centering your life around men . I was prepared for ...
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• Thou shalt not spread falsehoods

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 564
  On Thursday, Big Blue Wave, one of the shrillest anti-choice blogs out there, posted an excerpt from this news release put out by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. (I added the boldface and some linkage.) Permissive Abortion Laws May Be Hazardous To Mothers Health, Per New Report By Samantha Singson (NEW ...
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• Television Violence Against Women On The Upswing

  
  Better Health — Authority: 510
  I guess the theme this week is “when things go wrong.” It seems like just when I think we are getting a grip on public health issues like smoking and violence against women, something appears to shake up my naive belief that we are making progress. Last month the Parents Television Council ( PTC ) reported that ...
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• Jimmy Carter: Abuse of Women Including Genital Mutilation is the Fault of Catholics & Southern Baptists

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  Jim Hoft America’s worst president attacked Catholics and Southern Baptists for the abuse of women in a speech he gave in Australia. He even blamed these traditional religious groups for female genital mutilation. Lifesite News reported: In an address to a gathering sponsored by the World ...
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• Female Genital Mutilation Banned In Uganda [Violence Against Women]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 807
  In contrast to the controversy surrounding a proposed anti-gay bill , there is some positive news coming from Uganda: female genital mutilation has been banned , with those caught in the practice facing 10 years to life in prison. [ CNN ]
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• The Feministing Five: Rana Husseini

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 156
  Rana Husseini is a Jordanian journalist and author who has devoted her career to exposing and ending the horror of so-called honor crimes. The practice of killing women whose behavior - real or imagined - threatens to stain the honor of their families is one that takes place all over the world. According to Husseini, ...
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• The Feministing Five: Rana Husseini

  
  Feministing — Authority: 709
  Rana Husseini is a Jordanian journalist and author who has devoted her career to exposing and ending the horror of so-called honor crimes. The practice of killing women whose behavior - real or imagined - threatens to stain the honor of their families is one that takes place all over the world. According to Husseini, ...
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• Women of Zimbabwe Arise Report Increased Harassment

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 132
  Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams, Women of Zimbabwe Arise Last month, Magodonga Mahlangu was awarded the RFK Human Rights Award for the work she does as co-leader of Women of Zimbabwe  Arise (WOZA). Since her return to Zimbabwe, however, she and co-leader Jenni Williams are reporting increased harassment ...
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• Kenya: Women Say No To Local Brew

  
  Women of History — Authority: 137
  From Capital FM : Kenyan women have taken issue with recent plans by government to legalise local brews saying it will facilitate moral decay. Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation(MYWO) chairperson Rukia Subow said it would increase violence against women and their children and that it would also derail the ...
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• Women - Victims of Mugabe

  
  Women of History — Authority: 137
  From Associated Press : Supporters of Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe used rape to terrorize the political opposition during last years contested elections, international human rights activists said Thursday. AIDS-Free World, led by former UNAIDS envoy Stephen Lewis, released a 64-page report that ...
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• Voluntary and community sector members sought for London Violence Against Women and Girls Panel

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 143
  The Mayor is committed to tackling violence to make London a safer city. The Mayor has set out in “The Way Forward” his proposals to tackle violence against women and girls. If you have senior level experience in the violence against women and girls voluntary and community sector your contribution is needed as a ...
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