Tag Archives: sexual violence
Quick hit: New protests over sexual violence in India
Tweet**Trigger warning** New protests have erupted in Delhi after a seven-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted at her school. The BBC reports: Police used batons to break up angry crowds outside a hospital where the girl had been taken for treatment. Teachers and security guards at the government school are being questioned over the alleged assault, [...]
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A tipping point on gender-based violence in South Africa?
TweetA number of recent articles have suggested that February 2013 will go down in history as the month when South Africa finally began an earnest fight against epidemic intimate partner and gender-based violence. Femicide is no rare occurrence in the country, but in the last three weeks two particularly brutal, high-profile murders have captured media [...]
Also tagged Anene Booysen, Gender Links, Gender-Based Violence, intimate partner violence, Reeva Steenkamp, Sally Matthews, South Africa Comments closed
How ending violence against women and girls became my passion
Tweet Photo credit: UN Women/Laura Beke Written by Mwasapi Kihongosi. 24-year-old Mwasapi led a Caravan for Change in November 2012 – a bus consisting of 25 activists who visited five different regions of Tanzania over eight days in November 2012 to raise awareness and encouraging people to “Open Up!” and speak out against violence against women. He [...]
Also tagged Men, Rape, Tanzania, Violence Against Women Comments closed
Amherst student debunks all the rape myths in the school’s “sexual misconduct” report
TweetIn response to former student Angie Epifano’s account of Amherst’s shockingly cruel and inept response to her sexual assault, the school called together a Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct to conduct an investigation of campus policy and practice. Last week the Committee released its 55-page report. While the document does criticize Amherst’s approach to sexual [...]
Also tagged Amherst, Angie Epifano, campus activism, campus safety, Dana Bolger, It Happens Here, Rape, Sexual Assault Comments closed
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