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Sexual Abuse

'Italian Fritzl' Arrested With Son For Enslaving Daughter: Police

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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An Italian man from Turin has been arrested for sexually abusing his daughter for over 25 years and encouraging his son to do the same. This case has...

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Religious Groups Assume The Victims' Role

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Religion, Adult ADHD, Adhd, Add, New York State, Bernard Madoff, Aclu, Sexual Abuse, Republican Party, Republicans, Sephardic, Hasidic, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

A bill is pending in the New York State Legislature to temporarily lift the statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of children.

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A Tale of Abortion

Patrick Kampert | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Religion, Abortion, Pedophiles, Men, Pregnancy, Obama, Christianity, Roe vs Wade, Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, Living News
Patrick Kampert

These issues of abortion came to mind recently as I met with Jane, a successful white businesswoman in her mid-30s who has had five abortions.

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Indigeous People Ask: "Where is the Outrage?"

Tim Giago | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Tim Giago

When the victims of these heinous crimes were white, the horror was on every front page of every major newspaper and on the prime time news of every television station in America.

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Teen Sexual Harassment at Work -- An Underreported Scandal

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

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Maria Hinojosa

The response to my latest NOW on PBS report -- about sexual harassment of teenage girls in the workplace, airing this Friday -- has been like no other.

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I ♥ Dr. Laura Berman, Sex Expert Extraordinaire

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

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Leeat Granek, PhD

70% of women have faked an orgasm at least once, if not multiple times. Clearly, many women are not having a great time in bed, and are so eager to get it over with they fake it to be "finished already."

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Women We Need: Towards a More Female-centred Foreign Policy

Margot Wallström | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, Female Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Women and Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Women in Conflct, Women and International Politics, Women and War, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assualt, Sexual Abuse in War, Madeleine Albright, Women in Politics, Carme Chacon, United Nations Resolution 1325, UNSCR 1325, International Women's Rights, Sexual Assault in Warzones, World News
Margot Wallström

We may have accepted in principle that politics should include both women and men, but this has not been adequately applied to foreign and security policy.

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"Sexual Bullying" On The Rise In Britain

BBC | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

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When parents drop their children at the school gates they do so in the trust that they will be safe until home time. But are they? We know that bul...

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British Teen Gang Rape Victim Shares Her Story

The Independent | Tom Rayner | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

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A schoolgirl who was brutally raped and beaten by a gang of nine boys spoke today of how the ordeal has destroyed her life. The 15-year-old said the ...

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The Tyranny of Perfection

Jane Shure | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Jane Fonda, Eating Disorders, Sexual Abuse, Perfectionism, Parent Child Relationships, Mother Daughter Relationships, Motherhood, Parenting, Living News
Jane Shure

So often, daughters and sons blame themselves for the unknown tragedies in their parents' childhoods. Often without awareness, they seek to transform their parent's sadness.

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Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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Alms for the Media Consultant? Catholic Dioceses Nationwide Fund Political Fight in WA State

David Goldstein | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

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David Goldstein

The Catholic Church has started pouring in hundreds of thousands of dollars from dioceses across the nation to fight I-1000, Washington's Death with Dignity initiative.

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DoD Shirks Congressional Oversight of Sexual Assault in the Military

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Louise Slaughter

It is unconscionable that women who are sexually assaulted while serving their country in the military should have to make the decision between confidentiality and justice.

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Sex Crimes in the White House

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lynndie England, Sexual Torture, Condoleezza Rice, CIA Torture, Sex Torture, Torture and Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Torture, Sexual Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.

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Supreme Court ruling on child rape strikes a blow to human rights.

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

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Michealene Cristini Risley

Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...

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Serious News: Indian Abuse Ignored For Decades. Why?

Sharon Waxman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Sharon Waxman

Canada has apologized to the country's Native Americans, for forcing them into residential schools where they were physically and sexually abused.

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Pope Benedict is Living in Denial

Bill Press | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living

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Bill Press

Even though for the first time he expressed regret at the way the Church covered up the priest pedophile scandal, he still refuses to recognize what lies at the heart of the problem.

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