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• Haverford Student Sexually Assaulted in Science Center

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 133
  By Robin Riskin A female student was sexually assaulted in the Integrated Natural Sciences Center sometime Sunday between midnight and 8 a.m. The assailant was described as a college-age white male around 6 feet tall. He has an athletic build with short, possibly brown hair, and was wearing a plain shirt, green hat ...
  11 hours ago

• Richmond Rape Rhetoric Reminiscent of “Boys Will Be Boys”

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 469
  Reading about the heinous, two-and-a-half-hour gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School in Northern California takes me back to a sexual assault incident I dealt with a few years ago as a middle school teacher at an upscale private school.At my school, an eighth-grade girl alleged that three boys had ...
  21 hours ago

• Sex assault and consent

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 538
  Rookie officer acquitted in sex assault A man meets a woman on a dating website. They get together for coffee. Later, they move on to her car and start making out and talking about sex. But she changes her mind and he gets charged with sexual assault. Did she consent to the making out? Peter Small writes for the ...
  1 day ago

• Sexual Abuse By Women on the Rise

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 531
  According to the Press Association, "New figures show a 132% rise in complaints of female sexual assaults to the helpline service in this period, compared with a 27% increase in reports of abuse by men."The number of children reporting sexual assault to ChildLine has more than doubled in the past 5 year s.
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• Facebook Allows "Pro-Rape, Anti-Consent" Group To Stay On The Site For Months [Antisocial Media]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 825
  A group of students, both past and present, of the all-male St. Pauls College at Sydney University, decided to create a pro-rape Facebook page called "Define Statutory" that reportedly was allowed to stay up on the site for several months. The site, which went up in August, was shut down recently, but Reverend ...
  1 day ago

• B.C. RCMP seek sex assault suspect

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  Mounties in two B.C. communities are searching for a 35-year-old sexual assault suspect wanted in connection with at least two attacks on women.
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• Conscious Mendacity

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  From my recently kindled copy of Eating the Dinosaur , Chuck Klosterman is interviewing Errol Morris , the documentary filmmaker, on the subject of interviewing people: What’s more interesting to you: someone who lies consciously, someone who lies unconsciously, or someone who tells a relatively mundane version ...
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• Husband faces jail for having sex with sleeping wife

  
  movies, news, photos, gossip, videos - Searchandhra.com — Authority: 454
  A husband in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, faces a charge of sexual assault and one count of domestic violence
  2 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 days ago

• Advancements in womens rights in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia

  
  Appetite For Equal Rights — Authority: 120
  Two positive pieces of news regarding womens rights in the Middle East: In Pakistan , the National Assembly passed a law increasing the penalty for sexual harassment. It now must be passed in the senate, but lets keep our fingers crossed. If passed, the law would increase the penalty for sexual harassment from one ...
  2 days ago

• British tourist shot dead in Texas bar robbery

  
  Calvin Palmer's Weblog — Authority: 128
  By Calvin Palmer Police yesterday arrested a man who allegedly shot dead a British tourist during a robbery at a bar in Texas. Ray Carlos Cisneros, 25, of Lubbock, was taken into custody at a truck stop near Interstate 40 after a police hunt lasting nearly 19 hours. Police allege that Cisneros shot two men at the ...
  2 days ago

• Sue Scheff: Teen Dating Abuse

  
  Sue Scheff (P.U.R.E.) - "Parent Empowerment!" — Authority: 119
  With the recent gang rape of a 15 year-old girl in Richmond, California, our country is awakening to one of the ugliest forms of abuse to teens. Sexual abuse, assault and rape of teens are horrendous and more attention needs to be brought on this subject. Teen dating violence and abuse is an issue parents need ...
  3 days ago

• Al Franken: S.2736 – Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 128
  Al Franken continues his crusade for women by introducing new legislation to remove an institutional bias against women. For context, review his “Anti-Rape” Amendment- H.R. 3326 discussing how ADR disenfranchises employee’s whom are subjected to outrageous contract stipulations. The legislation will work ...
  3 days ago

• Franken co-sponsors bill to get unexamined rape kits tested

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 680
  Photo: Chris Steller, MnIndy U.S. Sen. Al Franken introduced legislation Thursday that would encourage states to examine untested rape kits for DNA evidence. The bill would also provide for more health workers trained to administer rape-kit exams, particularly for Native American women. Another aspect of the ...
  3 days ago

• Polygamist sect member guilty of sex assault of a child

  
  Crime Time — Authority: 135
  Jurors in Eldorado, Texas, took about two hours Thursday to convict the fist polygamist sect member to be tried of sexual assault of a child, the Associated Press reported. Raymond Jessop, 38 -- who has nine wives and also has been charged with bigamy -- was convicted of sexually assaulting the then teenage girl ...
  4 days ago

• Emma Thompson to remove name from Polanski petition

  
  Feministing — Authority: 723
  And because of a blogger, no less! As a big Emma Thompson fan, Im relieved to find that after blog reader and blogger Caitlin to put together a petition urging Thompson to take her name off of Bernard-Henri Lévys petition supporting Roman Polanski, it looks like the actress has had a change of heart. Reports Caitlin ...
  4 days ago

• Texas polygamist sect member found guilty of sexual assault

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  CNN.com (CNN) — A polygamist sect member arrested following last year’s raid of a west Texas ranch was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had entered into a “spiritual” marriage, the state’s attorney general said. Raymond Jessop was found guilty of assaulting a girl ...
  4 days ago

• Anand Jon is my inspiration, says sis Sanjana

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New York, Nov 6 (ANI): Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon may be behind bars but his sister Sanjana seems to be keeping his fashion dream alive. Sanjana, who just showed her own collection during Wills Fashion Week in New Delhi, said that her brother inspired her new range of clothes.“The line is my own, but ...
  4 days ago

• My Friend Called To Say She Was Raped

  
  Womanist Musings — Authority: 638
  I was sitting watching The Smurfs with the boys, when I got the phone call I won’t soon forget.  My friend from college called to tell me that she had been assaulted in her own home.  We cried together and shared our stories and I tried my best to be of comfort, even though I knew that no matter what I said, I ...
  4 days ago

• Another Step Backwards For Women’s Rights in Italy

  
  Gender & Sexuality Law Blog — Authority: 416
  Letizia Palumbo is a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Palermo, Department of Politics, Law and Society.  This fall at Columbia she is researching the limits of current feminist interpretations of sex-trafficking developed around the “victim” versus “agency” ...
  4 days ago

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