Gay Hendricks, Arjuna Ardagh and a group of Conscious Men from around the world offer apologies to women for thousands of years of imbalance between masculine and feminine energy, as well as vision of a new era of co-creation.
Indiana Republicans are about to force through one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country; the law would make all abortions illegal after 20 weeks.
When state Rep. Gail Riecken (D) introduced an amendment that would create exceptions for victims of rape or incest, the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Eric Turner (R), took the podium and said Riecken was trying to create a "giant loophole" — because women "could simply say they've been raped."
Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here), Wafa Sultan, courageous author of the indispensable jeremiad "A G-d Who Hates," strove gamely to educate Bill O'Reilly -- often seemingly impenetrable by facts regarding Sharia -- about how Islamic Law, patte …
The photograph is not easy to look at, and it's not clear at first glance if Millicent Gaika, the woman in the photo, is dead or alive. Huge purple bruises surround both of her swollen eyes, and her neck is crisscrossed by a number of open gashes and scars.
"Congratulations," the greeting card says, "You got bad touched." The cartoon depicts a traumatized young woman, naked, hunched down in a shower. It attracted attention when it was posted on Ebay by a seller called "youstupidbitch."
It isn't an unusual story, but it's bracing to me, in particular because I am one of those young feminists who philosophically believes that prostitution should be legal. For the first time, though, I viscerally understand the anti-legalization stance.
And the result of that is not only that these women are receiving death threats, they are in hiding—one of them has gone to Palestine, because she couldn't feel safe in Sweden anymore—but the even more important result of that, when we perpetuate rape myths in the media—a …
Mahjouba was raped in March on the nighttime streets of Mauritania's capital, but she will not bring charges against the man she says did it since she may be the one who ends up in prison.
"Foreign visitors to Stockholm's lively bar scene might be struck by the assertiveness of the nation's women - the typical Swedish female seems to have no qualms about approaching men to start a conversation or initiate a romantic encounter.
"More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy.
"Though I didn't agree or consent to it (it) was not rape." Does that sentence make sense to you? It shouldn't. If you don't agree or consent to sexual intercourse, that's called rape.
"Britain's Islam Channel broke broadcasting regulations by condoning marital rape, encouraging violence against women, and promoting an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas line, the country's broadcast regulator Ofcom ruled Monday.
Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape.
The weeks of harassment eventually became too much.
"A lot of violence against women on television is from the point of view of law enforcement," points out executive producer Shonda Rhimes, "as opposed to standing in the shoes of the actual victim and seeing how it is for them and the people around them."
The UN has released a report which accuses armies and rebel groups of committing massacres and rapes in the eastern Congo, despite a chorus protest from African governments. Hours before its publication, Rwanda's government slammed it as "flawed and dangerous" and an "insult to history," while Uganda threatened to review the deployment of its troops in peacekeeping missions. The final report reportedly suggests that war crimes and even genocide may have been committed by foreign armies and rebel groups over two wars from 1993 to 2003 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He went on to say "Freedom of the press clearly includes the right to question the actions and motives of religious figures and institutions. But freedom doesn't excuse prejudice or poor handling of serious material, especially people's religious convictions.
"By increasing the risk of harm to street prostitutes, the communicating law is simply too high a price to pay for the alleviation of social nuisance," Himel wrote in her 131-page verdict.
"Just over 60 years ago, with the horrors of the Holocaust fresh in mind, the world adopted the U.N. Genocide Convention, and promised to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger originally received a six-game suspension as a result of rape accusations against him. But now the punishment has been cut down because he went to church. And apologized to his teammates. And cried.
Nicholas Kristof is not the kind of person you would expect to be a slave owner. As a columnist on that most august of newspapers, the New York Times, he belongs to an elite within an elite, the embodiment of journalistic seriousness.
Bed Intruder Song Auto-Tune Of Huntsville News Report About Attempted Rape Is An iTunes Hit
The Bed Intruder Song video has been steadily climbing the charts on iTunes reaching number 35 not bad for a music mash-up form the Gregory Brothers, the guys behind Auto-Tune News.
A girl of 13 begged for mercy moments before a mob buried her up to her shoulders and stoned her to death, it was claimed yesterday. The Somalian youngster is said to have pleaded 'Don't kill me, don't kill me' before her horrific execution in front of a 1,000-strong crowd. ...
When WAFF of Huntsville, Alabama arrived at the home of Kelly Dodson last week, their intention was to interview her about her experience with an attempted rapist. Instead, they ended up making a viral star out of her brother, Antoine.
It's the coolest social networking tool in the world. But is the geo-location app Foursquare a stalker's dream? Just how easy it is to uncover the intimate details of a complete stranger's life?
In Jerusalem, lying your way into a woman's bed can get you in big trouble. A court has convicted an Arab man of "rape by deception" and sentenced him to 18 months in prison after he posed as a Jew in order to have sex with a Jewish woman...
"According to HRANA, Elnaz Babazadeh, a 26 year old woman was raped and murdered by Basij forces in the city of Tabriz (northwestern Iran) last week. According to the reports, Basij forces stopped Babazadeh in her car for not following the Iranian regime's dress code.
"In a country long plagued by violence, corruption, and an authoritarian government, Zimbabwe's President Mugabe is known as one of the worst anti-gay autocrats in Africa.
We are not sure where Mel got his sentiment from, about a pack of '@!$%#s' raping women, but we are sure somewhere is that head of his is a racist and an evil individual just waiting to pop out.
"The fact that in some way, the products that I'm buying is supporting [violence against women in Congo] is something I can't live with. So it just seems like a no brainer," Smith said.
Moments after winning his ultimate freedom in a courtroom Monday, having his name cleared for a rape he never committed, Douglas Pacyon knew what he had to do.
He used his cell phone to dial his 81-year-old mother, Betty, in her Cheektowaga home.
"It was in 1968 or 1969, and I was a young intern counseling a girl from one of South Africa's townships, who'd been raped. She said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" Ehlers told AOL News. "And I thought, God, it would be great to make something that could really be useful."
South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.
"Ignorant" officials are obsessed with punishing victims of trafficking rather than targeting those behind the crime, a report claims.
A coalition of human rights groups says the system for handling victims in the UK is "not fit for purpose". It wants an independent anti-trafficking watchdog to be created to oversee the work of officials.
my mother never wanted children. she married young, was forced into it by her own mother to hear her tell it, and she was on the pill 5 years when she started having side effects from it. so she quit taking it.
Tina Anderson was only 15 when she said she was forced to stand terrified before her entire Baptist congregation to confess her "sin" -- she had become pregnant.
"When 100 million women are discriminated against to death, that's not just a woman's issue…both for intrinsic moral reasons and also for practical reasons…it's essential that men get on board."
Leyla W. couldn't figure out where her birth control pills kept going. One day a few tablets would be missing; the next, the whole container. Her then-boyfriend shrugged and said he hadn't seen them. She believed him—until she found them in his drawer.
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Larry Klein was the man who heard the alleged victim's cries for help. Police the suspect pulled the woman off the street to a dumpster and raped her.
The idea that children are being sold for sex is upsetting. It is so upsetting and ugly, no one really wants to see it. Yet it is happening from Las Vegas up to Portland, Oregon with Portland a major hub.
'The rebel leader asked me two things: 'Do you want us to be your husband? Or do you want us to rape you?'"
Congolese mother-of-eight Clementine speaks in a quiet and hesitant voice: "I chose to be raped." She explains: "I told myself, if I tell them that I want to be their wife, they will kill my husband. I didn't want my children growing up saying the one that made our father die is our mother."
In what is one of the most deplorable examples of "What About the Menz" I've ever seen, Milwaukee County's chief mental health official, John Chianelli, decided to placate violent male psychiatric patients by housing female patients in the previously sex-segregated locked …
Today, another brave soldier comes forward to share with the President, yet another story of what life is like under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Former Sgt. Tracey L.
Rios and another man robbed and raped a 30-year-old hooker - who testified about how he bragged he would never get caught because she was a woman "nobody cared about."
California and six other states are hoping to prohibit the sale to minors of violent video games that show images of humans being maimed, killed or sexually assaulted -- and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the states will be able to regulate the sale.
Is there anything creepier than a big, beer-breathed celebrity athlete exposing himself in a night club and hitting on underage girls, all the while protected by an entourage of off-duty cops? Well, yes.
President Barack Obama, treading carefully in the explosive arena of abortion and the Supreme Court, said Wednesday he will choose a nominee who pays heed to the rights of women and the privacy of their bodies. Yet he said he won't enforce any abortion rights "litmus tests."
"We have a problem," Blash reportedly said. "This drunken b****, drunk off her ass, is accusing Ben of rape. This pisses me off. Women can do this. It's bull**** but we've got to do this, we've got to do a report. This is BS. She's making s*** up."
The number of rapes carried out by civilians in eastern Congo has increased by 17-fold in the last few years, according to a study released Thursday that says sexual assaults long perpetrated by armed groups are spreading across the population.
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President Bush seemed at a loss for words this week when he was asked during a press conference if he would use his influence to help a Saudi rape victim who has drawn international attention.
"Police say the 15-year-old girl went to a party with some men at Rowan Towers on March 28 and the younger girl tagged along because she was worried about her stepsister's safety.
I was looking up some stats the other day and came across some disturbing numbers.
South Africa is the #1 country per capita. Over 1 in every 1,000 have been raped. The United States in #1 in raw totals, 95,000 reported rapes.
Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, "Can I help you with something?"
That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.
NYALA, Darfur — When Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March, he responded by expelling 13 international aid agencies from Darfur and disbanding three other domestic relief groups.
I was checking out the FBI's crime numbers for my home state this morning. One that stood out was Forcible Rape. In the state of Florida in 2008 there have been 1,355 reported cases of forcible rape for that year.
A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that the police were notified repeatedly about violence there, but little was done.
"Solar cooking is empowering women and girls who are refugees from the atrocities of Darfur to be able to live life with confidence, dreams, and hope for the future.
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The date, 28 September, was repeated by just about everyone I spoke with there - women and men - etched in their memories as if they had been branded.
It is etched in mine too - and yet I was not at the main stadium in Conakry on that day.
This so-called virgin myth, perpetuated by Zimbabwe's traditional healers, has led to the rape of hundreds of girls, according to UNICEF. Some of those victims are too young to walk, much less protect themselves.
Actress Emma Thompson has played fictional characters on the big screen for 20 years, but her latest project tackles the real-life horrors of human trafficking.
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- Activist says a new type of war is being fought on the bodies of women
- Congo war is bloodiest since World War II, UNICEF says
- Rape victims try to turn "pain into power"
One in four men in South Africa have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study that exposes the country's endemic culture of sexual violence.
Dumisani Rebombo wasn't circumcised, did chores considered girls' work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So at age 15, he took the only course considered "manly" in his rural South African village: He raped a girl.
London, Jan 8: A Brit woman, who went to the police after being raped by a waiter in a Dubai hotel, found herself arrested instead for having illegal sex with her fiance.
"In addition to the AU, both the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference are calling for the indictment to be deferred by the U.N. Security Council to prevent further destabilization.
A woman who is forced into marriage is likely to be raped and may be raped repeatedly until she becomes pregnant," says the report published into the first year of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act of 2007
"Ardeshir — not his real name — is one of scores, perhaps hundreds, of detainees who have been raped and tortured by their jailers in the past three months in what appears to be a systematic attempt to break their will.
"Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighbouring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.-trained forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
"This week the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) reported on a series of attacks on the civilian population in North Darfur by Chadian rebel groups.
As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.
Mary Katharine Ham takes you on a tour of Durham, highlighting Mike Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case-- as well as other parties' collusion.
The latest in a series of disturbing reports on campus assault found that colleges and government agencies alike often botch rape investigations. One solution may be to keep rape from happening in the first place.