Over the last few weeks, passionate arguments have been made in support of or against House Bill 2, the bill that requires transgender people in North Carolina to use the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. I even saw a long, eloquent post on an acquaintance’s Facebook …
Read More »250 Anti-Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Groups Condemn “Bathroom Bills” Targeting Transgender Population
The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women released a statement Thursday opposing anti-transgender initiatives–such as North Carolina’s notorious HB2–because they will inevitably increase violence against transgender people rather than protect women from violence. 250+ Anti-Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Orgs: Support Trans Community https://t.co/xI41ybQWw3 #ProtectEveryone …
Read More »Ex-Cop In Missouri On Trial For Sexually Assaulting Women And Children On Duty Found Dead In Jail Cell
Marty L. Rainey, the former Gasconade County, Missouri deputy in Set. Genevieve County jail for multiple state and federal charges alleging he sexually assaulted several women, one of whom was underage, was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s Major Jason Schott said the Missouri State …
Read More »NYPD Detective Arrested For Raping, Sexually Abusing Brooklyn Woman
A source in the NYPD has told the NY Daily News that an undercover detective, whose name has not yet been released, has been accused of rape and sexual assault on a woman. Sources say the 10-year veteran of the Internal Affairs Bureau was arrested on Friday. A woman reportedly …
Read More »India: Teenage Rape Victim Raped Again While Recovering In Hospital
On Monday a fifteen-year-old girl reported being raped by a hospital security guard while she was in the hospital recovering from another rape by another teenager in Jamshedpur, India. The second rape occurred only five days after the first. While the victim’s mother was out, the security guard escorted the victim to the …
Read More »Sexual assault and the European migrant trail–migrant women at high risk
Amnesty International has released a report on the plight of women and girls on the migrant trail from Turkey into Europe and the results are grave. Migrant women are at high risk of sexual violence, financial exploitation and harassment while other refugees, smugglers and security staff such as European police …
Read More »Migrants take to the streets in Cologne: “We are refugees from Syria. “We’re against racism, sexism and war.”
Migrants in Germany have arranged their own protests against the New Years Eve attacks against women at the Cologne cathedral. Reports of attacks on that night have now grown to over 500, leading primarily men to take to the street with signs declaring that not all migrants are responsible. The …
Read More »Utah Dept. of Health issues detailed report on cost of sexual violence
The conclusion of a study by the Utah Department of Health is that the state currently pays an estimated $5 billion each year on the costs related to sexual violence. The report estimates that the state spends 15.1% of this total on victim services such as medical and psychological care, 84.4% …
Read More »Five years after rape accusations, Ecuador and Sweden come to agreement that will allow Swedish authorities to question Julian Assange
Because Assange has been granted political asylum from Ecuador, he has not been available for questioning on the sexual violence claims brought by two Swedish women.
Read More »New Delhi under scrutiny for five brutal rape cases reported in the city in just the last week
The five separate incidents include young children, incest and gang rape…
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