According to the previous law, juries rarely convicted men of rape if their accuser was drunk. The study found jurors believe that when a woman is intoxicated, it is reasonable for a man to take her silence as consent to sex and so hardly 5% of the...
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Recent law in Togo, Africa has given green signal to abortion by legalizing it if the pregnancy is the result of rape or an incestuous relationship.
In most parts of Africa, abortion is illegal unless the medical team considers the procedure...
A survey in South Korea revealed that discrimination against women based on age and appearance is a common occurrence in the nation so the authorities have issued notification to the employers, which has been aimed to end the nuisance.
Korea's...
Sun Jingxia is among those few teachers in China who had not even completed high school but had been teaching math and Chinese for more than thirty years.
She was also not financially sound yet equipped herself with a middle school education and a...
Women Affairs Committee Head MP Saleh Ashor announced that a legislature would be passed concerning women's civil and social rights.
Therefore, the committee has decided to invite all civil society organizations concerned with women and family to...
Dorothy Evans, 81, of Park Crescent, Abergavenny, south Wales is facing the prospect of Christmas behind bars after a judge issued a warrant for her arrest. She’s been indicted for harassment and six charges of breaching her Asbo.
The plea and case...
The Prime Minister Bernard Makuza who was making a presentation at the just concluded National Dialogue, said crime against women has mounted comparatively and so has requested Rwandans to oppose violence against women.
He added that out of 1000...
Stephen Wright, 48, a forklift driver from Ipswich, has been charged with murdering five women who were working as prostitutes and whose naked bodies had been found within 10 miles of the town earlier this month.
The police caught hold of him in the...
Death sentence have been passed down in Libya over five Bulgarian nurses who were indicted of intentionally infecting more than 400 children with HIV.
The 2004 death sentence on the 'Benghazi six' - five Bulgarian nurses (Kristiyana Valtcheva,...
The Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), have raised concern over the slow pace in the prosecution of rape cases and other sexual and gender based violence issues, being faced by women and children.
The AFELL asserted that it is not...
Indonesia, a country with more than 200 million people is still not recovered from the 1997 Asian economic crisis consequent upon which, many people drift abroad in search of a better life particularly women and children.
Not only were they harassed,...
A former vice president of Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has sued the group for practicing gender discrimination as women were paid less than men and denied high-profile assignments and promotions.
According to the complaint, ‘Willis has retaliated...
Jewish Women International Canada (JWI/C) has created a speakers’ bureau to help spread awareness of domestic abuse in the Jewish community.
Executive director of JWI/C, Penny Krowitz, said that the idea is not for the woman to get revenge publicly,...
Onnine, an online women’s organization in South Korea has personified Choi Yeon-hee, a former Grand National Party lawmaker, as the worst offender of the year since he gave some derogatory remarks about women.
He caught hold of a female reporter...
THE Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, has condemned marginalization, discrimination and other forms of violence against women and advocated in favor of fighting against it.
He asserted that women’s deteriorating condition is...
Interview
Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she won’t return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.
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