August 28th, 2008
According to The Scotsman,
“Only one in 14 reported rapes in Scotland is taken to court, according to new figures that have triggered calls for a national inquiry into why so many cases collapse.
Statistics seen by The Scotsman reveal that 922 rapes were reported to police in 2006-7, but only 65 of the alleged crimes were […]
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August 27th, 2008
This article by Col. Ann Wright is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and Truthdig (www.truthdig.com) and was originally published here.
Since I posted on April 28 the article “Is There an Army Cover Up of the Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers,” the deaths of two more U.S. Army women in […]
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August 27th, 2008
From the UN News Centre:
“Three more young girls have been kidnapped in Haiti over the past week, the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the impoverished Caribbean country reports, amid mounting UN concern about the continuing spate of child abductions.
An eight-year-old girl was kidnapped in the capital, Port-au-Prince, last Thursday, and the following day a seven-year-old […]
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August 22nd, 2008
Helen Benedict has an excellent article in In These Times that examines sexual assault in the military. She writes,
“(The) Department of Defense reports show that nearly 90 percent of rape victims in the Army are junior-ranking women, whose average age is 21, while most of the assailants are non-commissioned officers or junior men, whose […]
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July 30th, 2008
From RAWA:
“A 12-year old schoolgirl was gang-raped by five gunmen in Sarpul province in Northern Afghanistan.
The girl and her family asked Hamid Karzai to prosecute the rapists and take their case seriously. They threatened that if they are not provided justice, the whole family will commit mass suicide to get rid of such life. They […]
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July 29th, 2008
From Color of Change:
LaVena Johnson was a 19 year old private in the Army, serving in Iraq,
when she was raped, murdered, and her body was burned–by someone from her own military base. Despite overwhelming physical evidence, the Army called her death a suicide and has closed the case.1
For three years, LaVena’s parents have been fighting […]
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July 3rd, 2008
The exploitation of people crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. is certainly nothing new. But one of the aspects of this abuse that has received very little notice is the sexual abuse against women that is taking place. Several months ago we were horrified at reports of Iraqi women being forced […]
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June 30th, 2008
For a blogger, there is nothing that says welcome back after being on the road like finding a really good story about a major misogynist from your hometown on a seriously obscure website rather than in the morning paper where it belongs. But kudos to Ethics Daily which reports that Bruce […]
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