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DRC Congo: Killing of Civilians Continues Despite Cease Fire Agreement

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Women, Rape, Human Rights, Africa, Democratic Repiblic of Congo, Children, War, Congo, Kivu Province, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

In the Congo, there have been more than 200 killings of civilians documented, as well as rape of hundreds of women and girls since January by all armed groups, including Congolese army soldiers.

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Chris Weigant

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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Where Is Hillary On The Campaign Trail?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Concession, Speech, Clayton Williams, Poll, Campaign, Unity, Misogynist, Vp, Patti Solis-Doyle, 2008, Ohio, Donors, Veep, 2008 Campaign, Fundraiser, Women, Bill Clinton, Vice President, Michelle Obama, Florida, Rape, 2008 Elections, 08, Pennsylvania, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, Ticket, 08 Election, Work My Heart Out, Elections, Obama-Clinton, Baby Mama, 08 Campaign, Campaign Trail, 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Party Unity, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Hillary Clinton needs to start making some campaign appearances for Barack Obama and get on board the bandwagon in order to help this process along.

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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Menstruation, Rape, Sharon Stone, Victoria's Secret, Underpants, Crimes Against Women, Panties for Peace, Thailand, Myanmar, Lindsay Logan, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Junta, Period, Underwear, Burma, Sex Slaves, Karma, Protests, Upskirting, Women's Underwear, Period Panties, Cyclones, China, Ralph Lauren, Political Protest, Panties, The Giving Life, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...

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Mike Tyson and James Toback: Two Obsessives Meeting

Karin Badt | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Cannes Film Festival 2008, Mike Tyson, Rape, Violence, Tyson Movie, James Toback, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

It was clear, from the scenes Toback chose to emphasize that he, who has personally known Tyson for twenty-two years, shares an understanding of both Tyson's self-destructive appetite and his fight to the finish.

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O'Reilly Says Media "Raped the President Verbally"

Jonathan Kim | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Pat Buchanan, Rape, Scott Mcclellan, Ann Coulter, Michell Malkin, Violence, Jonah Goldberg, Barack Obama, Sean Hannity, Dailykos, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Beck, Arianna Huffington, Bill O'Reilly, Markos Moutitsas, Media News
Jonathan Kim

How open-minded can Bill O'Reilly be if he thinks McClellan doing TV interviews is the equivalent of doing nothing while watching a friend get gang raped?

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If You've Been Raped, Please Consider Reading This

Joyce McFadden | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: You Tube Rape Victim Plea, On Point With Tom Ashbrook, Joanna Connors, Women's Studies, Npr, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Rape, Epilogue to Beyond Rape: A Survivor's Journey, Trauma, Rainn, Living News
Joyce McFadden

Reporter Joanna Connors talks about living with having been raped over 20 years ago on NPR. I encourage you to listen to her interview, which includes callers' stories.

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The Estimated Cost of Human Life in Zimbabwe is Four Dollars!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Civil War, Abuse, Rape, Zimbabwe, Women and Children and Rape, The Elders, Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections, Tsengeri, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

The state-backed violence has reached a pinnacle in rural areas. Mugabe and his allies think the rural vote will decide the octogenarian's grip on power.

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In One Collective Pause -- the World Waits to Stop the Atrocities in Zimbabwe!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women, Global Outrage, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Abuse, Rape, Girls, Human Rights Violations, Human Despair, Blood Diamond, Mugabe, Mobsters, International Red Cross, The Red Cross, Youth Militia, Torture, Dictator, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Why does the world watch in slow motion as Zimbabweans are threatened, beaten and tortured back into submission.

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Reporter Reveals She Was Raped -- After 24 Years -- and Gets Massive Reaction

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Journalist, Media, Rape, Crime, Reporter, Media News
Greg Mitchell

For years, Joanna Connors never wrote about the incident, which resulted in the eventual conviction and imprisonment of the rapist. The paper covered the trial -- but kept her name hidden.

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Anniversary of a Massacre Foretold

Bryan Mealer | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peacekeepers, Congolese Children, Congo War, Rape, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations, Gold, Minerals, Hema, Lendu, Bunia, Politics News
Bryan Mealer

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the fall of Bunia, a tiny trading town in northeastern Congo where over 500 people were massacred by ethnic militia in a blood spree for gold and plunder.

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Camille Paglia, This One's for You

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: College Students, Camille Paglia, Feminism, Date Rape, Rape, Living News
Isabel Kaplan

Just because a girl makes a stupid decision doesn't mean that she is responsible if that decision leads to her being raped.

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What if You Gave a Revolution and CNN Didn't Come?

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, V-Day, Rape, The Vagina Monologues, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Feminism, Women and Hurricane Katrina, Superdome Superlove, Sexism, Katrina, Eve Ensler, Hurricane Katrina, Women in New Orleans, Domestic Abuse, Eve Ensler SuperLove, Superlove, Living News
Rev. Debra Haffner

This weekend, more than 10,000 women gathered in New Orleans to transform the Superdome into what creator Eve Ensler named "SuperLove."

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Pardon Me

Cheryl Saban | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Sexual Awareness Month, Women, Rape, Sexual Assault, Living News
Cheryl Saban

I was raped when I was 18. It was an event in my life that continues to mark the passage of time for me.

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month: If We Want to Live Honest Lives, We Have to Tell the Truth

Jenny Block | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Sexually Abused, Open Marriage, Sexuality, Sex, Open: Love, Jenny Block, Incest, Polyamory, Carly Milne, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Rape, Jennifer Baumgardner, Sexography, Feminist, Life in an Open Marriage, Feminism, Living News
Jenny Block

Jennifer Baumgardner has created a t-shirt as part of a multimedia rape awareness project that is causing quite a stir. The graphic is of an open safe in which a small handwritten note sits. "I was raped," the note reads.

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Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rape, Depression-Era Alabama, Sexists, Sexual Politics, Blue States, North, Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Gender, Scottsboro, Reacists, South, Red States, Communist Party, Langston Hughes, Hillary Clinton, Prostitute, 2008 Election and Race, 2008 Election and Sexism, Race, Feminism, 2008 Election and Gender, 2008 Election and Racism, 2008 Election and Feminism, Politics News
Ellen Feldman

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

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Will Rape Shut the Shock School?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Tough Love, Rotenberg, Autism, Child Abuse, Troubled Teens, Rape, Justice Rotenberg Center, Sexual Assault, Electric Shock, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

It's time to turn the page on this shameful chapter in the history of treating troubled children.

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Take Back Our Campuses

Ariela M. Migdal | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Victims, Title IX, Rape Surviors, Rape, ACLU Women's Rights Project, Sexual Assault on Campus, Rape Victims, Feminism, Sexual Assault, Athletes and Rape, Sexism, Victim-Blaming, Take Back the Night, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Rape on Campus, Athletes and Sexual Assault, Politics News
Ariela M. Migdal

Recent months have seen the revival of the old debate over whether sexual assault on campus is a reality or, as one commentator put it, a phony epidemic.

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Rapists in the Ranks

Rep. Jane Harman | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Soldiers Rape, Sexual Assault and Response Office, Rape, U.S. Military, Women in Military, Iraq Rape, Female Soldiers, Military Rape, Women Soldiers, Politics News
Rep. Jane Harman

Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.

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75 Years After Scottsboro Racial Profiling In Jury Selection Is Alive and Well

Ellen Feldman | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Death Sentence, Racial Bias in Jury Selection, Scottsboro, Black and Jewish Cooperation, Jim Crow, Permeptory Strikes, Batson v. Kentucky, Rape, Snyder v. Louisiana, Barack Obama, Fourteenth Amendment, Miller-El, Politics News
Ellen Feldman

While the ruling in favor of an African-American ex-marine found guilty by an all-white jury is gratifying, it does not go to the heart of racial injustice in the criminal justice system.

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Is Zimbabwe Heading Toward Great Change or a Colossal Fall?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Starvation, Elections, Hunger, Zimbabwe and Elections, Abuse, Rape, Human Rights, African Equality, Heroes, Zimbabwe, President Mugabe, Simba Makoni, President Bush, Grinch, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Robert Mugabe's reign of terror is so wide and so powerful, that it followed me into South Africa after my deportation from Zimbabwe.

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Ending the Hidden, Savage Routine of Prison Rape

Mike Farrell | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herman Wallace, Rape, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Prison, Prison Rape, Robert King Wilkerson, Albert Woodfox, Stop Prisoner Rape, Prison Inmates, Politics News
Mike Farrell

Even with what you think you know about our appalling prisons, you've certainly missed the disgusting secret: rape.

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Attention, New York Daily News: 7-Year-Olds Don't "Have Sex"

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Child Abuse, Rape, Nixzmary Brown, Media Coverage of Sexual Assault, Children Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Nixzmary Brown Sexual Assault, Nixzmary Brown Rape, Media News
Jessica Wakeman

Seven-year-old girls don't "have sex" with grown-ups. They're sexually abused by grownups. They're raped by grownups. But "have sex"? No.

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Top 10 Ways To Celebrate International Women's Day With A Click Of The Mouse

Katie Halper | Posted 03.08.2008 | Living

Read More: International Women's Day E-Cards, Rape, The Breast Cancer Fund, Darfur, Care2, Animated E-Card, International Women's Day, E-Cards, Breast Cancer, Elebrate International Women's Day, Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Programs, Rainforests, Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, Marie Curie, Celebrating Women E-Card, Living News
Katie Halper

Did you know you could celebrate International Women's Day without even leaving your house, or getting out of bed, or changing out of your pajamas, or spending a penny?

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If Your Vagina Could Talk, What Would it Say? "Take me to New Orleans."

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Sexual Violence, V-Day, Rape, Violence Against Women, The Vagina Monologues, Jane Fonda, Theater, Plays, Jane Fonda Vagina Monologues, Jane Fonda and Cunt, Women's Health, Eve Ensler, Valentine's Day, Vagina, Jane Fonda Today Show, Entertainment News
Elizabeth Benedict

What's happened as a result of The Vagina Monologues is a tribute to the power of one person - one misbehaving woman -- to move the world.

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