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Should SA brand condoms with soccer balls for 2010?
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Cape Town’s mayor Dan Plato has dropped the ball by slamming a proposal to brand condoms with soccer balls as “nuts”, for promoting prostitution. In fact the innovative idea from the sex workers union (SWEAT) and the SA National AIDS Council (SANAC) is aiming to promote HIV prevention and awareness. “I think ...2 days ago -
Govts Pressed to Protect Migrants in 2010 (OneWorld.net)
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OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Dec 24 (OneWorld.net) - Millions of migrants continue to face exploitative work conditions, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, and a slew of other violations, say human rights advocates launching a new effort pressing countries to adopt and enforce a global convention on the rights of those ...4 days ago -
Are we closer to an end for Female Genital Mutilation?
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Female Genital Mutilation (Circumcision) (FGM) is a human rights violation that follows women and girls across the globe. In the last few years news has begun to shed a little more light on the global fight, which in many ways is only in its infancy. In February 2008 10 UN agencies urge end to female genital ...1 week ago -
Changing Reality
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By David Morris—Two surprising articles about race and the First World recently appeared in the world’s media: the first in Britain and the other in Russia. Both revealed startling truths which are worth considering in detail. In Britain, Rod Liddle wrote the wrong thing on his Spectator blog about two black ...1 week ago -
Congress Moves on the 2009 Tribal Law and Order Act
Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog —
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On Thursday, December 10th, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing to discuss the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2009 , for which AIUSA was invited to submit written testimony. The bill, a close approximation of the early Senate draft of the bill, would make crucial and ...1 week ago -
“In Congo, it’s more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier.”
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Sarah Spencer Photo: The IRC Sarah Spencer, the IRC’s emergency gender-based violence coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo , e-mailed IRC supporters today with an update on the situation for women there. Here’s part of that message: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls the ...1 week ago -
Guinea: Stadium Massacre, Rape Likely Crimes Against Humanity
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(Paris) - The killing and rape of hundreds of opposition supporters on September 28, 2009, by Guinean security forces are likely to amount to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a comprehensive report issued today. read more1 week ago -
A fight against Bullying - a painful experience
Learn Without Fear blog —
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Support the cause by signing the Petition HERE & Helping Children Believe in a Violence FREE World Ayush was a young boy of 10 studying in a school only consisting of boys. He was not aggressive like other boys and was generally a calm and quiet child. He did not like football and other games played by boys ...1 week ago -
Outrage over Oz govt’s plans to hand control of internet to moral minority
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Canberra, Dec. 16 (ANI): Australian internet users and industries have expressed outrage over the federal government’s controversial plan to firewall the country’s internet, saying that filtering will hand the control of the internet to the moral minority.Critics claimed that ISP filter’s introduction will ...1 week ago -
ACC changes hurt sexual violence victims
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The biker lobby has managed to get considerable public attention and support for motorcyclists’ grievances over ACC levies, but there is a group of more vulnerable people who cannot march in their thousands on Parliament grounds to defend their ACC access. Many of them cannot email Members of Parliament because it ...1 week ago -
United States: Senate Should Act on Rape Investigations
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(New York) - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing tomorrow on the backlog of untested DNA evidence in rape cases across the nation should move the United States closer to addressing the issue, Human Rights Watch said. Thousands of sets of evidence, called "rape kits," sit untested in police and crime lab storage ...2 weeks ago -
Sexual assault in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
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A new report out today documents Robert Mugabe’s alleged campaign of organized sexual violence against opposition supporters during the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports. (Audio available after 5PM Eastern) Read the report at AIDS-free World Jeb Sharp on rape as a weapon of war ...2 weeks ago -
Rape as campaign tactic in Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections
Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe —
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Aids Free World has released their report Electing to rape: Sexual terror in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe . Based on interviews with 72 survivors and witnesses, and documentation of 380 rapes, the report describes the deliberate, systematic use of rape as a campaign tactic by Zanu PF. According to their press release : ...2 weeks ago -
Elsevier Announces The November 2009 Issue Of Reproductive Health Matters On Criminalization
Information on HPV —
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Elsevier announced recently the publication of the November issue of Reproductive Health Matters. Articles in the issue look at criminalisation in relation to a range of global issues: rape and sexual violence; female genital mutilation; selling and buying sex; provision and use of modern contraception and induced ...3 weeks ago -
HIV and human rights: HIV/AIDS educational campaign in Gyumri and Vanadzor 4-6 December 2009 supported by OSI Armenia
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*press release in Armenian /emphasis mine/ Բաց Հասարակության ինստիտուտի Հայաստանի մասնաճյուղի նախաձեռնությամբ 2009թ-ի դեկտեմբերի 4-ից մինչև 6-ը Հայաստանի մի շարք մարզերում իրականացվում է ...3 weeks ago -
Femmostroppo Reader – December 1, 2009
Hoyden About Town —
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Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what youve been reading (and writing!) in the comments. An Australian double standard – Our government refuses to fund an atheist conference while blithely funding a religious convention. Update on "coma man" Rom Houben: Dr. ...3 weeks ago -
"I received flowers today"... ("Այսոր ես ծաղիկներ ստացա"...)
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*via Womens Resource Centre Youtube channel : from the candle lighting ceremony on November 25 to end violence against women. Elvira Meliksetyan from the Womens Resource Center is reading a poem [in Armenian] on domestic violence by an unknown author.4 weeks ago -
N.H. Sexual Predator Uses Online Dating to Find Victims
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Information sought on Hampton, New Hampshire sex-assault suspect (from 2008) Following a probable cause hearing involving sex assault suspect Thomas Currier on Wednesday, prosecutors involved in the case are urging anyone who may have had contact with the Hampton Falls resident to contact police as soon as ...4 weeks ago -
Uganda to Host Great Lakes Conference on Sexual Violence
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Uganda is to play host to the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) expected to bring together representatives of security forces from eleven member states to review the state of the crime of sexual violence in the region as well as share mechanisms in place to address it. According to a release ...4 weeks ago -
Uniting to Eliminate Violence against Women
God's Politics Blog —
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“Some 70 percent of women experience in their lifetime some form of physical or sexual violence from men – the majority from husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.”– Ban Ki-moon. Yesterday, in his address marking the 10 th anniversary of the International Day…4 weeks ago
