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Do Women Often Lie About Rape?
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, americans, crime, culture, education, ethics, freedoms, feminists, law, police, politics, Rape, rights, society, women )

Kit
- 6 days ago - everydayfeminism.com
But given that we live in a world where 54% of rapes are not reported to police and 97% of accused rapists never go to jail, the fact that some women lie about rape isn't exactly the most pressing conversation we need to be having.
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8-Yr-Old Afghan Bride Who Was Brutally Killed By Her Mullah Husband On The First Night Of Her Wedding
Society & Culture  (tags: Child bride, Afghanistan, rape, murder, human righs, Mullah )

Beth
- 30 days ago - patdollard.com
This is so very sad.... The 8-years-old girl whose story you'll read in coming lines did not make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th birthday.
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Secretary Hagel: Support the Only Real Solution to Military Rape ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, military, rape, women, assault, protection, environment )

Cher
- 41 days ago - act.couragecampaign.org
Tell Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, "Lend your public support to the Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act (STOP) Act -- H.R. 1593 -- the only real solution to the military's epidemic of rape and sexual assault."
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India: Take Violence Against Women Seriously ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, children, women, rape, India, protection )

Cher
- 49 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The rape of a five-year-old in Delhi has sparked new protests in India demanding more action from the government to curb the nation's rape epidemic. Allegedly, local police refused to help find the missing child, who was left for dead for 48 hours after
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TAKE ACTION NOW! FCC: Create a "Sexual Violence" Warning for Television Shows
Society & Culture  (tags: politics, rights, society, tv, rape, ratings, violence, movies, ethics, culture, arts, americans, law, government, freedoms, women )

Cal
- 56 days ago - change.org
Right now, millions of sexual violence survivors are at risk for re-traumatization from the television programs they watch. But there's one easy thing the FCC can do to stop that -- create a "sexual violence" content warning for television.
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A Safer India for Women and Children ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, children, women, girls, rape, protection, India )

Cher
- 57 days ago - avaaz.org
April 19, 2013 A five year old girl was abducted and brutally raped in Delhi, by her neighbor for 48 hours. She had gone out to play with her friends when the man who lived in the same building kidnapped her and eventually left her unconscious and
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Stop The Maldives From Flogging Rape Survivors! - ACTION
Society & Culture  (tags: Islam, Sharia, law, flogging, Maledives, women, violence, rape, victims, religion, abuse )

Angelika
- 73 days ago - act.watchdog.net
With human rights organizations around the world up in arms over the case, the president has caved to global pressure and saved the 15 yrs old girl from brutality. But flogging still remains a punishment for women and children in Maldives.
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More Men Raped Than Women In US?
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, rape, U.S., rape in penetentiaries )

Judy
- 87 days ago - notthesingularity.com
The massive rate of male rape in prisons is something we all largely either ignore or joke about, and something which there is certainly no political will to change. The DOJ has finally released an estimate of the prevalence of rape in US penitentiaries.
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TAKE ACTION --- Horror in Paradise
Society & Culture  (tags: MALDIVES, SHARIA LAW, FLOGGING, RAPE, children, women, freedoms, human rights )

Lynn
- 89 days ago - secure.avaaz.org
It's hard to believe, but a 15-year-old rape survivor in the Maldives has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public! Let's put an end to this lunacy by hitting the government where it hurts: the tourism industry.
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Horror in Paradise - TAKE ACTION
Society & Culture  (tags: Women's rights, Maldives, rape, sex abuse, victims, public flogging, Sharia, children, violence )

Angelika
- 90 days ago - secure.avaaz.org
It's hard to believe, but a 15-year-old rape survivor in the Maldives has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public! Let's put an end to this lunacy by hitting the government where it hurts: the tourism industry.
79 comments
Shame on CNN: Apologize for Steubenville Coverage! -- TAKE ACTION!!!
Society & Culture  (tags: womens_rights, CNN, media, bias, rape, justice, media_misinformation )

Just
- 93 days ago - act.weareultraviolet.org
Yesterday a guilty verdict was handed down in the Steubenville rape case, where a 16-year-old girl was raped repeatedly by boys on a high school football team. The verdict was the beginning of justice for this brave young girl, but CNN's coverage . . .
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SHOCKING: 15-Year-Old Girl Raped, Police Dismiss the Case Because Victim and Attackers Have "Low IQs"
Society & Culture  (tags: rape, sexual assault, violence, women, girls, 15 yo girl, three boys, mentally challenged, handicapped, New York state, police, case dismissed, no justice, Martin De Porres Academy, Long Island, teacher present, nothing done )

Brian
- 124 days ago - alternet.org
"In some of the most disturbing and sickening news of the day, New York state police have decided that a 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by three boys was in fact not sexually assaulted because both she and the boys are mentally handicapped. "
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Celebrity Saudi Preacher Raped & Tortured 5 Y/O Daughter to Death for Not Being a Virgin & Gets Off!
Society & Culture  (tags: Saudi Arabia, Imam, Celebrity Preacher, Daughter, Rape, Torture, Broken Back, Crushed Skull, No Punishment, Sharia Law, Islamabuse, child, death, family, murder, religion, rights, sadness, safety, women, violence )

Rob and J
- 133 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
the judge ruled the few months al-Ghamdi spent in prison since his arrest in November was sufficient punishment. He has reportedly agreed to pay £31,000 ($50,000). Sharia law says a parent can't be punished for killing his own child but outrage growing.
30 comments
14yr Old Rape Victim Beaten to Death By Islamic Court
Society & Culture  (tags: Child abuse, Female rights, Islam, rape, Sharia, beating, murder )

Beth
- 133 days ago - fortliberty.org
Hena Begum was a fourteen year old girl growing up in the Shariatpur region of Bangladesh until her forty year old cousin decided to rape her. After she was raped, the rapist and his family then beat her until she was unconscious. Next, the local Sharia
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How the Steubenville Case Exposes the Cruelty Faced By Rape Survivors
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, corruption, crime, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, freedoms, government, law, politics, RAPE, rights, safety, society, women, violence )

Kit
- 159 days ago - readersupportednews.org
We're not here to get justice for you," the prosecutor in my sexual assault case told me in our first meeting. "We're here to get justice for society."
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