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NEWS ABOUT: sexual violence

sexual violence stories: 7 news summaries

House Bill Adds Hate-Crime Coverage for Gays

Dems secure victory by attaching measure to defense funding measure

Oct 8, 09 6:33 PM CDT
(AP) - The House voted today to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate-crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. With expected passage by the Senate, and President Obama promising to sign the legislation,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • House of Representatives • sexual orientation • defense policy bill • sexual violence • homosexual • Matthew Shepard • President Obama • hate crimes

 In Coup-Torn Guinea, 
 Women Raped in Public 

Cell phone images harden opposition to military junta

Oct 6, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the west African nation of Guinea, where a military junta seized power in 2008, 50,000 people attended a political demonstration in a stadium last week, where they were attacked by soldiers who shot and killed at least 157 unarmed people, according to human rights groups, and raped at... More »

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Africa • rape • Doctors Without Borders • junta • sexual violence • coup d'etat • Guinea

(AP) - Hillary Clinton traveled to war-ravaged eastern Congo today, where the nation's top diplomat demanded an end to the sexual violence that has claimed at least 200,000 victims. Clinton came to Goma aboard a UN plane over the objections of some top aides who were concerned about security and logistics... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Africa • rape • civil war • Democratic Republic of Congo • sexual violence • Goma • Congo • women's issues

(Newser) - Iranian protesters, both male and female, were raped in a notorious prison in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election, one of the defeated candidates alleged today. Reformist Mehdi Karroubi wrote on his website that senior prison officials told him about "really shameful issues," including sexual violence that... More »

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Iran • rape • Revolutionary Guards • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • sexual violence • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests • Mehdi Karoubi

(Newser) - Hundreds of thousands of women have been sexually assaulted in the ongoing war in eastern Congo, but suddenly, the region is seeing a sharp increase in rapes of men. More than 10% of the victims of sexual violence in the region are male, and victims are often ostracized by their... More »

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Africa • rape • civil war • Congolese • sexual violence • sexual assault • Congo

The Taser Party: Chicks Dig It

Self-defense-minded women seek something a little more shocking

Jan 6, 08 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - At-home female entrepreneurs are ditching Mary Kay for Tasers, but they're keeping the pink. Taser International is marketing its user-friendly C2 "personal protector" to the public, and women with an interest in self-defense are holding independent Taser parties in states where the stun gun is legal. "It's a... More »

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feminism • Amnesty International • Taser • stun gun • sexual violence • self defense • Tupperware • Taser C2 • Mary Kay

So Many Men, So Much Frustration

Asian gender gap will see millions without mates, stall economies

Nov 2, 07 8:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - A growing gender gap spells trouble for Asian markets, where scholars predict that a glut of men without partners—Chinese and Indian men will outnumber women by more than 20 million each in 2030—will have a cascade of unintended consequences, economic as well as social.  Sexual violence and... More »

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China • United Nations • India • Asia • human trafficking • gender gap • sexual violence

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