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• Quickie: Another rugby player using his fists off the field

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 500
  Yet another sportsman in a domestic violence incident, seeking a discharge without conviction on the grounds that the penalty would outweigh the crime:In a video interview played to the court, Perez admitted he had got angry because he believed Ms Brooks had lied to him about a second pair of shoes she had when he ...
  9 hours ago

• The Killer Inside Me: Sex, Death & Sadism

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 825
  Sociological Images has come across a trailer for the film The Killer Inside Me and its disturbing. Caution: Weve rated it NSFW, Spoiler Alert, and Serious Trigger Warning. The Killer Inside Me is set for release in 2010; its five minute trailer promo gives away a good chunk of the plot, which seems to ...
  11 hours ago

• Pulitzer-Prize Winning Play “Ruined” Staged in DC – Chouchou Namegabe Featured in Panel Discussion

  
  Vital Voices Blog — Authority: 130
  Playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-Prize winning work, “Ruined,” was staged on the evening of November 9 at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with the cooperation of The Enough Project. A powerful depiction of the plight of Congolese women during ongoing war, “Ruined” is the product of Nottage’s ...
  13 hours ago

• Women’s Human Rights Under Siege In Honduras

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 549
  Excerpted from Axis of Logic : On Nov. 2 representatives from Honduran women’s organizations presented a grim panorama of violations of women’s human rights by the de facto regime led by Roberto Micheletti before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. During a fact-finding mission with ...
  17 hours ago

• It’s not sex – it’s …

  
  In a strange land — Authority: 500
  Another case for the “It’s not sex, it’s rape” files, except that this time, I’m not sure that “rape” is the right word to use. This case concerns murder and sexual violation. It could be triggering , so the rest of the post is below the cut, and I’ve included some blank space so that you can flick ...
  17 hours ago

• November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set Battered Mothers loose Custody to Abusers; Domestic Violence on rise in Shawnee County

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  2009 November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set November 13 dombrowski   http://www.ktka.com/news/2009/oct/20/domestic_violence_rise_shawnee_county/Domestic violence is on the rise in Shawnee County "I remember curling up in a ball to protect her from the ...
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• Video: Iraqi Feminists Speak Out

  
  myMADRE — Authority: 419
  The leadership of our sister organization in Iraq, the Organization of Womens Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), was recently featured on CNN and Al-Jazeera , talking about their courageous work to defend womens rights. In this video from CNN, Yanar Mohammed describes conditions for women who are forced into sex work, due to ...
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• Not The Man I Know

  
  The Curvature — Authority: 515
  We all know the common response from family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances when a man is alleged to have committed intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence: That’s not the man that I know. It’s a curious statement, and one that I’ve personally run into some variation of in a very specific ...
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• Just Say NO! UNIFEM Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women

  
  Vital Voices Blog — Authority: 130
  On November 6 the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) launched a new advocacy program called “Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence Against Women”. The campaign serves to spotlight international efforts to garner attention and action on the issue of violence against women.The goal of the campaign is to ...
  1 day ago

• Say No to Violence Against Women

  
  Amy Stein | Photography | Blog — Authority: 550
  © Nan Goldin UNIFEM , the United Nations development fund for women, just launched a global call for action to end violence against women and girls. The facts are staggering : up to 70 per cent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime. The UNIFEM campaign, Say NO - UNITE to End ...
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• Australian students create "pro-rape" Facebook group

  
  Feministing — Authority: 723
  This is the kind of story that makes you wonder about the basic goodness of people. A group of past and present University of Sydney students set up a pro-rape page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as anti-consent. The male students, mostly from the elite, all-male St Pauls ...
  1 day ago

• Australian students create “pro-rape” Facebook group

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  This is the kind of story that makes you wonder about the basic goodness of people. A group of past and present University of Sydney students set up a pro-rape page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as anti-consent. The male students, mostly from the elite, all-male St Pauls ...
  1 day ago

• Violence against women on television, especially teens, skyrockets

  
  Feministing — Authority: 723
  A new report from the Parents Television Council , Women in Peril , found a 120% increase in depictions of violence against women on television since 2004. (In the same time period, violence that occurred irrespective of gender only increased by 2%.) Cumulatively, across all study periods and all networks, the ...
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• So where did the rape culture at St Paul’s come from?

  
  In a strange land — Authority: 500
  Some current and former inmates residents of St Pauls College at the University of Sydney set up a pro-rape Facebook group , saying they were “anti-consent.” There seems to be a culture of rape at St Pauls, and at other colleges at the Sydney University. It’s not just the Facebook group – there seems to ...
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• Art Gallery of Alberta, Gerard Depardieu, William Conrad and violence against women in film.

  
  Picture This — Authority: 114
  These are a few shots taken yesterday of the new art gallery building (still under construction) designed by Randall Stout . Edmonton has too few striking structures and I am glad to see more going up (even if it is a little behind the wave). And Gerard Depardieu ? Nothing to do with the gallery bit. I ...
  2 days ago

• Thelma and Louise compared with Monster

  
  Feminist Legal Theory — Authority: 126
  (spoiler ahead) I know I write too much in here about TV shows and movies Ive seen, but I want to spend a brief moment on Thelma and Louise . This is a movie where one crime leads to another and, like Monster, the crimes originate with mens abuse of women. First, the women leave home in the first place because of ...
  2 days ago

• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Fronting up

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 500
  Todays cartoon from the Herald is rather pointed. And sadly I cannot insert it in this blog post for reasons unknown. A friend pointed out to me on the weekend that by going for permanent name suppression this person has effectively undermined all the other things that they did right here (pleading guilty, ...
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Reclaim the Night Leeds 28th November 2009

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 136
  A group of women in Leeds are planning a Reclaim the Night March for Saturday 28th November 2009. A Reclaim the Night March is direct action by women to reclaim the streets and assert our right to feel free from fear of rape and sexual violence. The march will take women on a route around the city centre to reclaim ...
  3 days ago

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