Posts Tagged ‘rape’
This weekend, in human rights outrage…
Way up there in Canada….
Half of the sexual assault staff at a Canadian hospital center is sick, or tired — literally — and that has meant women seeking rape kits and time-sensitive preventive medications are being sent home and told to “come back later.” Oh, and by the way, don’t shower until we’ve had [...]
Why a “girl” can’t “change her mind” about rape
“can a girl change her mind about rape”?
Dear Internet surfer who put that into Google and ended up on my blog:
No. Rape is not a state of mind. It is not a “mood.” It is not a choice by the fickle feminine species to decide that sex was rape and not consensual sex.
We women change [...]
Well, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.”
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and executive director, African Women’s Development Fund: “….She found a man standing over her daughter, in the process of raping her…She had a machete in her hand. So she did what she had to [...]
How to: Be a junta!
Foreign Policy mag has an amazing slideshow up right now. Say what you will about its Gettleman piece, but “The Ultimate Idiot’s Guide to Being an African Junta” is fantastically surreal. David Crane — you remember him, surely, from his role prosecuting some of the most notorious war criminals in recent West African [...]
Actually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo, Nick Kristof” email, I mentioned I’d face a similar, though totally unscrutinized, decision in Liberia last year. He replied that he had too — and he’d not used a girl’s name, [...]
When can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got up to another email from Nick Kristof. Thanks, Nick, for taking the time to talk with me about this. Readers might want to see Part II.
There was a bit of a [...]
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