Let’s Give the Flag a Hand
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I’m asking all supporters of gender equality to consider placing your right hands over your mouths, instead of your hearts, when the national anthem plays.
Super Bowl Weekend – Where Sex Traffickers Win
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This weekend, as fans gather for the Super Bowl to enjoy the game, others will be present–not to enjoy, but to be enjoyed. These are the unseen girls and women in the commercial sex trade.
Teen Voices
Girls Take Self-Defense Courses to Prepare for College
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These girls in Connecticut are taking classes to make sure they can defend themselves in college. “Going to college and being on your own, just the idea is kind of scary,” one participant said.
Commentary
This Father’s Day, Men Must Continue to Call Out the President’s Misogyny
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Men need to explicitly reject Donald Trump’s misogyny and model a sensitive, aware manhood, not what’s being expressed at the White House. This includes asking women and women’s organizations how best to support them.
Teen Voices
Massachusetts School Club Takes Aim at Assaults in Boarding Schools
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Boarding schools don’t have to comply with Title IX regulations that protect students from an unsafe school environment. One student said victims at boarding schools deal with sexual assault “any way they can, but the administration makes that hard when it’s such a taboo subject.”
Education
Betsy DeVos Confirmation Will Weaken Campus Sexual Assault Response
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Trump’s secretary of education nominee refused at her confirmation hearing to state a firm commitment to using Title IX to respond properly to sexual assault on college campuses. That’s reason for concern.
Rape
All Points Callout: We Need to Build a Culture of Consent
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We can all take steps to spread the ethos of consent among children and adults. A Planned Parenthood survey of male-female attitudes about sex, along with numerous recent incidents, shows why everyone has to be involved.
Reproductive Health
Planned Parenthood Is Crucial for Immigrant Women
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The current controversy over fetal tissue research has clouded the work this organization does to improve the quality of life for the impoverished women they assist in both the United States and 10 other countries.
Campus safety
Harvard’s Female Prez Shuts Down Meeting on Rape
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Despite being the first female president of Harvard, Drew Faust isn’t pushing for rapid policy change on the issue of on-campus sexual assault. To make schools safer for students, we as alumni and parents must keep pressing ahead.
Egypt
Now Is Moment for Egypt to Turn Sex Assault Tide
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Recent attacks against women and girls during celebrations of the election and inauguration of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi are nothing new. The Egyptian government needs a comprehensive and coordinated approach to curb this sexual violence.