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• Wellington Reclaim the Night event coming up soon!

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 519
  Reclaim the Night is an international event putting the issue of women’s safety from male violence on the agenda for this night and every day. We march to demand our right to be free from the fear or reality of rape, of sexual harassment, of domestic violence, of stalking.This year the Wellington Reclaim the Night ...
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• Government pulls funding for groups that tackle forced marriage and murder

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 137
  Funding for the front line organisations which locate and save the victims of forced marriages and honour killings has been slashed by the Government according to a report in The Independent . Two of the country’s most prominent non-profit organisations involved in tackling so-called honour violence are now ...
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• Leeds HALT: Tackling the scourge of forced marriages

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 137
  Forced marriages must not be tolerated, warns a pioneering domestic violence project in Leeds. The historic practice is said to be going on in West Yorkshire, but steps to prevent it happening are in place, thanks to a new law introduced a year ago. Leeds project Halt (Help, Advice and the Law Team) which also ...
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• Some blogwhoring…

  
  random babble... — Authority: 490
  see more Lol Celebs I haven’t done one of these in a while … there has been a lot going on.  Apologies if I have missed something awesome that you did, and please share it in comments. Cara at the Curvature: Not the Man I Know : It’s not a musing about how violent people are generally capable of hiding ...
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• Should the charge be rape?

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 519
  From the Herald today, on the misnamed "police sex case":"He is a police officer, he can arrest, he can check relationships, he can check up on people. They were all lawful powers the police have and use every day, but when they are used for personal gain by a police officer it is corruption," Ms Toohey said.He was ...
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• Shawnee County Court LIVES of Battered Mothers and their Children Continue to be Destroyed

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  [I went ahead and hyperlinked for our ease and access to a site I DO NOT have access to. (For this VERY reason) albeit I must have provided much of the info as they are my case….. so be it then. My review to be in compliance (again) of Contempt is the Nov. 20th, 2009  [...]
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• Nicole Kidman In Mommy Mode

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 160
  We have definitely seen the two different sides to Nicole Kidman recently. She attended the CMAs in a dress that was just wow and now look at her in total mom mode. The dress she wore to the CMAs surprised everyone. There were even comments like “Nicole showed off the figure no one knew she had.” How did no one ...
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• The Australian who has become a prisoner of gender apartheid

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  An Australian is trapped with her children in Saudi Arabia while her husband languishes in jail, both victims of a campaign by her former husband. Rick Feneley and Tim Elliott report. At first glance Jennifer Birrell is a free woman living a privileged life in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. "Its a weird ...
  17 hours ago

• Human Rights Facts (164): Violence Against Women On Television

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  The infamous rape scene from "A clockwork orange" Prime time television shows in the U.S. are depicting significantly more scenes and stories including violence against women. The overall incidence of violence on television hasn’t increased. ( source , source , source ) The depiction of violence against ...
  22 hours ago

• When you write a column about violence against women…

  
  In a strange land — Authority: 473
  When you write a column about violence against women, you can guarantee that you’ll be able to fill out a bingo card in the comments thread, just like that. You’ll almost certainly be able to fill out the second bingo card too. Paul Sheehan has written a column about male violence against women: One Giant ...
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• Lots of Magic in Singapore in the Upcoming Weeks

  
  BACKSTAGE BUSINESS: The Art, Science & Business of Showbiz by J C Sum — Authority: 125
  Magic Enthusiasts revel! There will be lots of magic events and activities happening in Singapore in the next few weeks. This is the most number of magic-centric events organized by different parties at the same time ever that I can recall! Some of the upcoming events include a Magic Festival at the Singapore Flyer ...
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• i got more info on the column

  
  the nutmeg grater — Authority: 468
  i first wrote about here i got the name of the creature who wrote the column in question. you know the one that says women are full of diseases. fuck them (but be protected), humiliate them, then tell all your buds the funny tales! (yeah, humor my big fat ass). his name? C H R I S S U R E T T E. remember it. use ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 days ago

• Mitrice Richardson Still Missing, Police Say They Followed Procedure

  
  Whose shoes are these anyway? — Authority: 473
  According to Malibu Surfside News, the Sheriffs Department over Lost Hills, Ca., has released its investigative report on Mitrice Richardsons disappearance, which clears them of any wrong doing. They say releasing the young black woman in the wee hours of the morning with no phone and possibly no I.D. on September 17 ...
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• Alfaz del Pi Protection for Women

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 149
  Violence against women is up by a third in Alfaz del pi.The Local Safety Committee has met and decided to create a Police Coordination Board which will include members of the Violence Against Women Unit ,Guardia Civil,Policia Local,SocialServices and the Equality Council of alfaz del Pi town hall. The objective is to ...
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• Alarmism

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 534
  The Currents Sarah Haskins on the fear factor: At least the alarm company acknowledges that women are more likely to be attacked by men they know than by strangers. H/T Aunty Bertha
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• Does God hate women?

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 534
  I have to say I, like others, was somewhat underwhelmed by the book Does God Hate Women? which Id been looking forward to reading since first blogging about it during the summer. That despite its title being a question I have asked myself since being kicked out of Sunday school for not buying the lines about how women ...
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• True Madness

  
  Dirty Laundry — Authority: 419
  From Judith Warner’s excellent op-ed in the New York Times today: “Stupak-Pitts passed not just because a group of Catholic bishops bore down on Democratic lawmakers . It passed because it could. Maybe because our cultural memory is short; because our fantasyland nostalgia for a world of stay-at-home moms ...
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• PRESS RELEASE: WHY IS THIS MOTHER IN JAIL? StopFamilyViolence.org

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 19, 2009Contact: Irene Weiser                      Stop Family Violence iw@stopfamilyviolence.orgWHY IS THIS MOTHER IN JAIL?(Oconto Falls, WI) Today an Oconto County family court judge sentenced a mother to jail because she was unable to force her daughter to ...
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• When Systems of Oppression Intersect Part II: Transphobia and the Immigration System

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 620
  By Deputy Editor Thea Lim **TRIGGER WARNING**: The following post is about physical and sexual abuse in detention, and focuses on a trans woman who has chosen to speak out about the abuse she endured. Her choice is incredibly brave and her story is deeply distressing. Restore Fairness has a post about ...
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