Category Archives: Acts of Violence

“Rape Still Widespread in Darfur”

From the Feminist Daily News: Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that sexual violence in Darfur continues to be a constant threat for women and girls. According to HRW, the Sudanese government repeatedly denies the fact that sexual violence … Continue reading

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Just how many women have to be raped before the military DOES SOMETHING about it?

Here’s just the latest  depressing assessment from my virtual colleague Dan Filler over at  The Faculty Lounge:   Representative Jane Harman has a disturbing post up at Huffington (which is also an LA Times op-ed) discussing the frequency of   … Continue reading

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“The pop star also held the 3-month-old daughter of a 22-year-old woman who was sold by her father to a brothel and is now HIV-positive. The woman broke down in tears as she urged Martin to keep fighting against human trafficking.”

That’s an excerpt from this article.

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A Riff on Yale’s “Sex Week”

Here at the Nola Radfem Blog.

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The Cucumber Incident.

Watch this and see what you think. Just so you know what you are in for before you click the link, the title of the post is “Grandma Rapes Granddaughter’s Abuser With A Gourd”

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Difficult to read and comprehend: “Instead of scorn or silence, female students need to offer support to peers who are dealing with rape”

In this Letter to the Editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, the anonymous author writes: … During my junior year, I found myself suddenly thrust into a relationship with a reasonably attractive and yes, popular athlete from a neighboring high school. … Continue reading

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“An Agent, a Green Card, and a Demand for Sex”

This NYT article details the sexual blackmail that an immigration agent has been accused of.

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South Carolina No. 4 in New Study of”Most Dangerous”Places to Live

Rankings data here. This is in part because the Palmetto State has the highest level of violence of any state in the nation. See also (“…South Carolina has ranked first in the nation, per capita, for violent crime in all … Continue reading

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On “Torture Porn”

Rachel Corbett writes at Women’s Enews: When the movie “Hostel” raked in $19 million on its debut weekend and gripped the No. 1 spot for a week in 2005, some critics heralded the comeback of horror, which had been in … Continue reading

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The Second Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution

Here, at The Burning Times.

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NGO In Congo Says Pornography Contributing To Atrocities

From Womensphere: Last month, Stop Porn Culture (SPC) was contacted by Groupe d’Action pour le Droit (GAD), a non-profit NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo that advocates for the human rights of children, youth and women affected by sexual … Continue reading

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Martin Amis, “A Rough Trade”

“A Rough Trade” is an article about the porn industry that Amis published in The Guardian seven years ago. It’s difficult to read or to re-read. Below is a short and potentially triggering excerpt: … Temptress is one of the … Continue reading

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“It’s tough enough for rape victims to come forward. Now there’s another reason for them to think twice about reporting the crime: They may get stuck with a hefty bill for the rape kit used to collect evidence against their attacker.”

So begins this U.S. News article, entitled “Rape Victims Can Be Hurt Financially, Too.” The article notes that rape kits cost $1,600 and sexual assault victims are billed for them in a number of states. Via Jezebel.

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The United Nations has launched a $44 million program to reduce female genital mutilation by 40 percent by 2015.

More information here and here.

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Because there is always a women to blame.

From the Chicago Sun-Times article that is subtitled: While investigators search for a motive behind Stephen Kazmierczak’s bloody rampage, questions are raised about a history of mental illness, medications and a recently failed relationship Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak, the gunman who … Continue reading

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“Ms. Kineston is among a number of American women who have reported that they were sexually assaulted by co-workers while working as contractors in Iraq but now find themselves in legal limbo, unable to seek justice or even significant compensation.”

That’s a sentence from this NYT article. Here’s another excerpt: … Many of the same legal and logistical obstacles that have impeded other types of investigations involving contractors in Iraq, like shootings involving security guards for Blackwater Worldwide, have made … Continue reading

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Crazy Little Thing Called Rape

I generally like the writing at The Situationist blog a lot, but how can the clip of a “Pepe Le Pew” cartoon at the end of this post represent anything except extremely coercive, unwanted sexual contact? Pepe Le Pew cartoons … Continue reading

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Crime Prevention Tip Theater

A friend forwarded me an e-mail that university “safety officers” distributed after a man was observed by a number of students publicly masturbating on campus: CRIME PREVENTION TIPS: 1. QUICKLY walk away from an individual exposing his genitals and do … Continue reading

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Violence Against Law Profs

SSRN’s LSN Legal Educator e-mail notice from today included an abstract for a new article by Carol Parker of U. of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Law, nursing professor Sandra Thomas (also of UTK), and Dr. Helen Smith of violentkids.com. This article … Continue reading

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Afghanistan

The Independent, UK has launched a campaign to secure the freedom of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh. On Tuesday, a provincial court in Afghanistan sentenced the 23 year old journalism student to death for downloading a report that is said to defend … Continue reading

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For Flea: An Overview of Domestic Violence in South Carolina

At One Good Thing, Flea, a native of South Carolina, posted about a domestic violence situation here that touched her personally. And she captured in a sentence how I feel about this state most days when she wrote: I think … Continue reading

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The Hypocrisy of Fetishizing Sexual Hypocrisy

In a post salaciously entitled “Speaking of Teen Sex,” Duncan “Atrios” Black cackles and crows about a news story reporting: “A Utah retailer of family-friendly tapes and DVDs – Hollywood films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them – … Continue reading

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Congressional Rep Loiuse Slaughter: Letters to DoD and DoS Regarding KBR Rape Case

She writes: “I am asking the Department of Defense and the State Department about their efforts to address crimes against government contracted employees, like in the case against former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones.” Read the letters here. Heart has … Continue reading

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New Study On The Economics Of “Street Prostitution”

University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and coauthor Sudhir Venkatesh conducted a study which is based on surveys conducted with prostitutes and pimps in Chicago neighborhoods and incident data from the Chicago Police Department. Their focus seems to be on … Continue reading

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Does ‘gender neutral’ language serve to cover up male violence?

Jennifer Drew asks that question here at the f-word.

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Rape as Murder of the Soul

From the December 28, 2007 edition of the New York Times, this story about Susan Xenarios, the woman who heads the Crime Victims Treatment Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center: As director of the Crime Victims Treatment Center at St. … Continue reading

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“Sexual assault is a crime, even in war zones”

Read this post at Journey to Ithaca. And, see also.

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“When Will It Stop?”

Albuquerque has seen a rash of abortion clinic violence in the past few weeks.   One clinic was burned to the ground, another was set ablaze but suffered minor damage, and a third, a family planning clinic, had its windows … Continue reading

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Benazir Bhutto Killed in Pakistan

  Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s  Former Prime Minister, was killed this morning.  CNN has live news here. -Bridget Crawford

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Sex Slavery in the UK

“I was sold for 2,000 euros.” Edited to add: If you are a Supposedly Liberal Dood, the concept of a woman being sold is actually quite hilarious, apparently. –Ann Bartow

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“Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, a Saudi newspaper said on Monday.”

That’s the first sentence of this article and I hope it is true. The media coverage of this case has been very confusing; compare this with this, this and this. Initially it seemed like press and blog attention was making … Continue reading

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“Alexis Goggins – What we can do for her”

Overviews here and here and here. If only this was a unique story.   But yesterday right here in Columbia, SC a child was murdered by her mother’s boyfriend. –Ann Bartow

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“Police chief in southern city of Basra says religious vigilantes have killed 40 women this year”

Yesterday the International Heral Tribune reported: At least 40 women have died this year at the hands of religious vigilantes in the southern city of Basra, the police chief said Sunday, describing the discovery of mutilated bodies accompanied by dire … Continue reading

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Mass graves possibly containing the bodies of murdered women are being uncovered by forensic teams in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

The BBC reports: Forensic teams in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico are unearthing more than 4,000 bodies buried in common graves. A local government official said DNA samples from the bodies would be compared to those of missing persons. It is … Continue reading

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“I am Constance”

Here. Watch the video, and then read the stories.

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Frontline’s “Sex Slaves”

Website here. It aired in February of 2006. Overview: “How five women from the struggling countries of Eastern Europe were tricked into sexual slavery, beaten by traffickers and pimps, forced to work to turn a profit — and finally escaped. … Continue reading

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More About Anonymous Online Bullying

This ABC News article provides a lot of detail about the Myspace “hoax” that contributed to the suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier. Unlike previous accounts, it names the woman who tormented Megan in the guise of a teenaged … Continue reading

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Cover-up of Women Soldiers’ Deaths

On March 8, 2007, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! broadcast the testimony of former Abu Ghraib commander Col. Janis Karpinski as she responded to my questioning at a January 2006 war crimes commission in New York. Karpinski said American women … Continue reading

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Today is “International Women Human Rights Defenders Day”

It’s part of a “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence“ campaign that you can learn more about here.

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“The anonymity provided by new technology limits a victim from responding in a way that may ordinarily stop a peer’s aggressive behavior or influence the probability of future acts, which provides an advantage to the perpetrator…”

Article about online bullying   of and by teenagers here.

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Cynthia Bowman, “Street Harassment and the Informal Ghettoization of Women,” A Retrospective

I can hardly believe that this terrific law review article was published almost 15 years ago. I was reminded of it when I stumbled upon this Salon essay by Debra Dickerson in the course of some research. Dickerson wrote: … … Continue reading

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“I Know She Liked Her Mother….”

From the AP: A former Ivy League professor pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter for killing his wife as she wrapped Christmas presents last year, telling a judge he “just lost it” during an argument. Rafael Robb [shown at right], … Continue reading

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Abuse of Jailed Teen in Brazil

From the AP, this story: Arrested on a charge of theft, a teenage girl was locked up in an Amazon jail for weeks with 21 men who would only let her eat in return for sex. The 15-year-old performed sex … Continue reading

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Externalities Illustrated

Today’s NYT featires an article entitled At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment that reports: At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps … Continue reading

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One Very Sad Story About Internet Anonymity and Mean Assholishness

Here. A follow up article at Wired contemplates the newspaper’s decision to “protect the privacy” of the accused bad actors here.

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“Federal Judge Orders Anti-Abortion Extremist to Remove Threats to Clinic Staff from Website”

From Law.com: A federal judge ordered an anti-abortion activist to remove Web site postings that authorities said exhorted readers to kill an abortion provider by shooting her in the head. District Court Thomas Golden granted an injunction Nov. 8 seeking … Continue reading

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Eight Australian teenage boys who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl, filmed it, and distributed it as pornography will not serve time.

Full story here. One quick excerpt: The judge said the victim had organised to meet two of the boys at a Werribee train station on the day of the attack and had no idea a group of at least 11 … Continue reading

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Sexual Assault and the Military

The infamous Tailhook convention, during which 83 women and 7 men reported sexual assaults by military aviators, took place in 1991. See also.   Twelve years ago newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle decried the high rates of sexual abuse … Continue reading

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IRANIAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER SENTENCED TO LASHINGS, PRISON

Read more here, and here.

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Would Immigration Laws Be Different If Women Ruled The World?

This study suggests the answer is yes. And in today’s NYT, this article illustrates why that might be important. Entitled “Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear,” it explains that a culture of forced marriage and genital circumcision … Continue reading

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