Teen recounts horror of abduction into sex slavery:
Many young victims of human traffickers treated as criminals themselves
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 10:52 a.m. CT, Thurs., Oct. 9, 2008
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27098993/
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
HONOR KILLINGS PERSIST IN 'MAN'S WORLD'
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/12/1382073.aspx
Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:37 AMFiled Under: Islamabad, Pakistan
By NBC News’ Shahid Qazi and Carol Grisanti
BABAKOT, Pakistan – In a tangle of bushes and trees outside a remote village in southwest Pakistan, six close male relatives of three teenage girls dug a 4-foot wide by 6-foot deep ditch, on a sweltering night in mid-July, and allegedly buried the girls alive.
The girls' crime: they dared to defy the will of their fathers and the customs of their tribe and choose their own husbands. The mother of one of the girls and the aunt of another were shot and killed while begging for the girls’ lives, according to local media reports.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Evolution...
Each day we are faced with so many ideals of who we should be, how we should look, walk, talk, dress, even smell. Each day we are bombarded with 3,000 ads of these ideals.
Here is an interesting Dove commerical that gives us a sense of how unrealistic some of these images are to try to aspire to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U
How would things be different if we knew the difference between reality and fantasy in advertising?
Here is an interesting Dove commerical that gives us a sense of how unrealistic some of these images are to try to aspire to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U
How would things be different if we knew the difference between reality and fantasy in advertising?
The Girl Effect...
Here is a great website about the impact of investing in girls, and what it means when we provide resources, safety and opportunity for young girls, to learn and thrive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw
Some of the facts:
http://www.girleffect.org/downloads/TheGirlEffect_FactSheet.pdf
And the website:
www.girleffect.org
It leads me to ponder, what would happen if we invested our resources in different ways?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw
Some of the facts:
http://www.girleffect.org/downloads/TheGirlEffect_FactSheet.pdf
And the website:
www.girleffect.org
It leads me to ponder, what would happen if we invested our resources in different ways?
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Global Violence Against Women
http://www.tides.org/index.php?id=947
Momentum 08
Video from Tides
07.21.2008 21:46 minutes
Plenary:
Synopsis:A forceful and moving indictment of violence against women. Former U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis delivers a rallying cry to stop the systemic use of rape and abuse against girls and women across the globe.
Bio: Stephen Lewis is a U.S. based Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, an advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and more effective responses to HIV/AIDS... More
Momentum 08
Video from Tides
07.21.2008 21:46 minutes
Plenary:
Synopsis:A forceful and moving indictment of violence against women. Former U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis delivers a rallying cry to stop the systemic use of rape and abuse against girls and women across the globe.
Bio: Stephen Lewis is a U.S. based Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, an advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and more effective responses to HIV/AIDS... More
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Trivialization of Sexism
Most police don't want rape by partner to be reported
By Jen Kelly
July 15, 2008 07:48am
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Police discourage women from reporting partner rape
The crime is difficult to prove and often trivialised
Many husbands do not consider the crime rape
ONLY one in five police officers believe a woman should report being raped by her husband, according to a study showing the crime is often trivialised. Nuns, ministers, doctors and police often knew a woman had been raped by her partner but did nothing, the Victorian study found. Each of the 21 victims interviewed for the study said her partner would not consider it rape, despite some suffering drugging and near-suffocation. Only six of the 30 police interviewed said they would recommend a woman report partner rape, despite 28 calling it a serious crime. They cited as reasons "the disrespectful and damaging treatment of women in court", difficulty in proving it, and long waits before cases got to court. Health workers told researchers some police discouraged women from reporting rape. "There were several accounts of police trying to dissuade women who had gone to them for help from taking action ... and suggesting the complaint was trivial," the report said.
The researchers from Women's Health Goulburn North East and Upper Murray Centre Against Sexual Assault interviewed 21 partner rape victims from the Goulburn Valley and northeast Victoria, and scores of police and health professionals. The study, to be released today, found the men believed it was their right to do what they liked with their partner and that society often trivialised partner rape, despite it being a crime since 1985. "One of the women went to her minister in her church, and he said, 'Go home and pray about it'," study co-author Debra Parkinson said. "There was domestic violence as well and she said, 'What if he kills me?' And the minister said, 'Well, at least you'll go to heaven'." The husband of one victim shook their marriage certificate in her face and said, "I own you with this".
By Jen Kelly
July 15, 2008 07:48am
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Police discourage women from reporting partner rape
The crime is difficult to prove and often trivialised
Many husbands do not consider the crime rape
ONLY one in five police officers believe a woman should report being raped by her husband, according to a study showing the crime is often trivialised. Nuns, ministers, doctors and police often knew a woman had been raped by her partner but did nothing, the Victorian study found. Each of the 21 victims interviewed for the study said her partner would not consider it rape, despite some suffering drugging and near-suffocation. Only six of the 30 police interviewed said they would recommend a woman report partner rape, despite 28 calling it a serious crime. They cited as reasons "the disrespectful and damaging treatment of women in court", difficulty in proving it, and long waits before cases got to court. Health workers told researchers some police discouraged women from reporting rape. "There were several accounts of police trying to dissuade women who had gone to them for help from taking action ... and suggesting the complaint was trivial," the report said.
The researchers from Women's Health Goulburn North East and Upper Murray Centre Against Sexual Assault interviewed 21 partner rape victims from the Goulburn Valley and northeast Victoria, and scores of police and health professionals. The study, to be released today, found the men believed it was their right to do what they liked with their partner and that society often trivialised partner rape, despite it being a crime since 1985. "One of the women went to her minister in her church, and he said, 'Go home and pray about it'," study co-author Debra Parkinson said. "There was domestic violence as well and she said, 'What if he kills me?' And the minister said, 'Well, at least you'll go to heaven'." The husband of one victim shook their marriage certificate in her face and said, "I own you with this".
Sexism Defines Sexual Assault
Helen Mirren Shocker: I 'Loved Coke' & Was Date Raped
By Chris Jefferies
Originally posted Tuesday September 02, 2008 09:00 AM EDT
Helen Mirren Photo by: Hal Horowitz / WireImage
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Helen Mirren makes some startling revelations – she was date raped more than once and has tried several illegal drugs – in a revealing new interview with the British edition of GQ. "I was, yes. A couple of times," the Oscar-winning Queen actress says in the October issue, recalling her experiences being raped as a youth in London. "Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will." And while Mirren defended a woman's right to say "no" at any point, she's not always in favor of reporting such attacks. "I don't think [a woman] can have that man into court under those circumstances," she continued, "It's such a tricky area, isn't it? Especially if there is no violence. I mean, look at Mike Tyson. I don't think he was a rapist."
By Chris Jefferies
Originally posted Tuesday September 02, 2008 09:00 AM EDT
Helen Mirren Photo by: Hal Horowitz / WireImage
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People Magazine
Helen Mirren makes some startling revelations – she was date raped more than once and has tried several illegal drugs – in a revealing new interview with the British edition of GQ. "I was, yes. A couple of times," the Oscar-winning Queen actress says in the October issue, recalling her experiences being raped as a youth in London. "Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will." And while Mirren defended a woman's right to say "no" at any point, she's not always in favor of reporting such attacks. "I don't think [a woman] can have that man into court under those circumstances," she continued, "It's such a tricky area, isn't it? Especially if there is no violence. I mean, look at Mike Tyson. I don't think he was a rapist."
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