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About half of the 314,000 students enrolled in JROTC, the high school pre-military program, are female. For 10 of those girls interviewed here, the military’s problem with sex assault seem far away.
A new report on violence experienced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender and queer identified documents its pervasiveness in the U.S.
A defense to sexual assault in the military is now history; sexual violence against Syrian women may continue after conflict ends.
U.S. women are creating businesses at a record rate, yet they remain smaller than average. The Taliban kidnapped a female member of the Afghan parliament.
Justice for survivors of campus rape is often weakened by administrators leery of attracting negative press. The Campus Accountability Project confronts this with an online, free, searchable database compiled by students that shows how well a school responds.
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In a landmark decision, an international tribunal has found the U.S. government responsible for human rights violations against a Colorado woman and her three deceased children, who were murdered by their father, the ACLU said in an Aug. 17 press statement.
Win or lose, Wendy Murphy says justice demands that a jury consider a hotel worker’s charges of sex assault against Strauss Khan and that Manhattan District Attoney Vance finish what he started.
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New York State Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry introduced a bill in Albany June 7 that would allow judges to shorten prison sentences for survivors of domestic violence who are convicted of crimes directly related to their abuse.
Don’t assume women are morally superior because we aren’t getting mired in sex scandals so often. A recent survey of professional people finds that adultery rises with rank. It could be women simply have less opportunity to fall from public grace.
The legal system’s ability to deter sexual violence could change overnight if the woman bringing sex assault charges against DSK stands firm against the power of money, says Wendy Murphy. “We need a heroic victim.”