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What If We Treated All Consent Like Society Treats Sexual Consent?

Consent around sex is ignored all the time, and it’s not okay. These everyday examples of how we give consent for other things shows just how absurd it is to blame sexual assault survivors or to try to justify rape in any way. Here’s some much-needed perspective on what consent really means. With Love, The …

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The Women’s Court in the former Yugoslavia – 1990s war crimes

Yesterday May 7 the Women’s Court on war crimes against women during the war in the 1990ies formally started in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Women have come together from all the corners of the former-Yugoslavia to participate in the Women’s Court in Sarajevo, to demand justice for the crimes committed against them during the wars and the …

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Greece: Human traffickers walk free from court

Four individuals, including the former owner of a bakery chain, were served suspended sentences ranging from 10 to 12.5 years by a criminal appeals court on Tuesday for human trafficking. The four, who were tried in a case of sexual trafficking ring that provided women to nightclub and stripjoint clients, included the leader of the …

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Afghan women carry body of lynched woman to burial

An Afghan woman who was beaten to death by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Quran has been buried in Kabul, her coffin carried aloft by women’s rights activists in a rare protest in a male-dominated society. Hundreds of people, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the …

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Άστεγη από το Οχάιο περπατά χιλιόμετρα για τη δίκη του βιαστή της

A homeless woman in Ohio said that she sometimes had to walk three hours to court or the man who raped her would have been free to victimize another woman. The Columbus Dispatch reported that the homeless woman had been raped on March 12 last year while she was sleeping under an E. Broad Street bridge. She …

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