Tag Archives: sexual violence
UK PSA: “Sex with someone who doesn’t want to is rape”
Tweet**Trigger warning** This recent PSA from the UK’s “This is Abuse” campaign takes aim at the misconception that rape is something that only happens in dark alleys and at the hands of a stranger. “Anyone who has been pressured to have sex without giving their consent has been raped,” the campaign’s website stresses. The video [...]
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GOP: Preventing violence against women in detention centers is a “luxury”
TweetFrom the Friday indignation files. When faced with report after report that recounts the inhumane conditions at ICE detention centers, some Republican lawmakers are arguing that remedying these horrific conditions is unnecessary. On Wednesday, the House Committee on the Judiciary convened a hearing on the conditions at the Department of Homeland Security’s immigrant detention centers. Making perhaps [...]
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Women Dems push for Violence Against Women Act
Tweet“This one shouldn’t be about politics. Protecting women against violence shouldn’t be a partisan issue.” – Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) But of course, in this twilight of reason, even the issue of violence against women is charged with partisan politics. Originally passed in 1994, and up for renewal this year, the Violence Against Women Act, [...]
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Rock Center uncovers sexual abuse of foreign exchange students
Tweet*Trigger warning* Last night on Rock Center with Brian Williams, reporter Kate Snow covered the disturbing problem of foreign exchange host parents who sexually abuse the teenagers who come to stay with them. The story was broken by Anna Schecter, the same woman who recently uncovered sexual assault and abuse cover-ups in the Peace Corps. [...]
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A thank you note for Todd Akin