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NEWS ABOUT: harassment

harassment stories: 11 news summaries

Fired Disabled Woman: Abercrombie a 'Sweatshop'

Brit won nearly $15K for wrongful dismissal

Aug 16, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 22-year-old British student with a prosthetic arm who won nearly $15,000 in a discrimination lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch compares its working conditions to a sweatshop. “I found it disturbing,” Riam Dean tells the Daily Mail. “There were so many people in such a tiny... More »

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London • workplace discrimination • prosthesis • disability • harassment • Abercrombie & Fitch

(Newser) - The London woman banished to the Abercrombie & Fitch stockroom because of her prosthetic arm has been awarded more $13,000 by an employment tribunal, the BBC reports. Riam Dean wore a cardigan to cover the joint between her prosthesis and her body, but the sweater clashed with the retailer’... More »

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London • workplace discrimination • discrimination • prosthesis • employment • disability • harassment • tribunal • Abercrombie & Fitch • disability rights • Riam Dean

 Killer Harassed 
 Wesleyan Student 
 2 Years Ago 

Two were in summer program at New York University

May 8, 09 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stephen Morgan sent slain Wesleyan student Johanna Justin-Jinich 38 “insulting” and “unwanted” emails during a brief summer program the two attended at New York University in 2007, according to a police report that quoted an expletive-tinged email as reading, “You’re going to have a lot more... More »

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crime • harassment • New York University • shooting • Wesleyan • Johanna Justin-Jinich • Stephen Morgan

 Sexting Pics 
 Live Forever, 
 Teens Warned 

Stalkers, potential employers may have access to photos years later

May 4, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The critical problem with sexting is that salacious snaps teens send of themselves from their cell phones can exist forever in cyberspace. That's the message Australian authorities are stressing in a new educational anti-sexting campaign. Nude pictures sent in fun could end up being posted on the Internet by sexual... More »

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Internet • sexual harassment • pornography • harassment • child pornography • texting • teen sex • cyberspace • teenager • sexting

Tyra Stalker
Convicted,
Avoids Jail

Judge urges attorney
to get Brady Green out of New York

Apr 30, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Brooklyn grocer who threatened to slit the throat of a studio staffer for denying him access to Tyra Banks was convicted today of stalking the supermodel. A judge spared Brady Green jail time and suggested he leave New York for “a location where he can thrive,” the... More »

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entertainment • crime • New York • stalker • Tyra Banks • court • harassment • Brady Green

 IMF Won't 
 Punish Boss 
 Over Affair 

But 'serious error in judgment' sidetracked fund

Oct 26, 08 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The IMF’s governing board unanimously cleared its managing director of using his position to pursue an affair with a subordinate, the Wall Street Journal reports. Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn’t engage in “harassment, favoritism, or any other abuse of authority,” but his actions were “regrettable and reflected... More »

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investigation • International Monetary Fund • abuse • IMF • harassment • affair • probe • Dominique Strauss Kahn

 Ex-Sis-in-Law:
 Billy Bob's
 Stalking Me 

'He is out of control and must be stopped,' woman tells tabloids

May 22, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The sister of Billy Bob Thornton's fourth wife says the star has been stalking her for a decade, the New York Daily News reports. The actor's former sister-in-law—who offers up no proof—also accuses him of wife-beating, drug abuse, and bugging her home. A spokesman for Thornton said the... More »

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cyberattack • stalker • celebrity • harassment • actor • Billy Bob Thornton

Brown Upbraids UK Public for Taunting Troops

PM irked that some personnel advised not to wear uniform off base

Mar 7, 08 5:34 PM CST
(Newser) - After reports that officers in Britain's Royal Air Force advised members against wearing uniforms in public, Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged troops to show their colors, the Telegraph reports—and chastised citizens for the verbal abuse that prompted the guidelines. Brown said troops should “have the respect and gratitude... More »

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uniforms • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • England • abuse • harassment • British military • Royal Air Force • Britain • Armed Forces

Online Suicide Brings Fury
of Neighbors

Parents who harassed teen now getting harassed themselves

Nov 22, 07 10:33 PM CST
(Newser) - The two parents who used MySpace to harass a teenage girl so relentlessly that she committed suicide are now the target of internet vigilantes, the Los Angeles Times reports. When prosecutors could not mount a case, angry neighbors posted the family's address, photos, and phone numbers on blogs. Their workplaces... More »

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suicide • MySpace • harassment • vigilante justice

Doping Scandal Takes a Turn
for the Tabloid

Witness LeMond
describes intimidation
by Landis' manager

May 18, 07 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Floyd Landis' doping hearing vaulted from procedural to lurid yesterday with an allegation of harassment and acknowledgment of sexual abuse by a fellow American Tour de France winner. In an attempt to keep Greg LeMond from taking the stand, Landis' manager phoned him on Wednesday and impersonated the uncle who... More »

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steroids • drugs • Greg LeMond • Floyd Landis • cycling • drug use • abuse • harassment

The Women's War

The Unprecedented Deployment of Women's in the Iraq War Has Created Unprecedented Challenges for Them and the Armed Forces

Mar 18, 07 8:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sara Corbett writes in The New York Times Magazine about the role of women soldiers in the Iraq war and the extraordinary toll it is taking on many of them. More »

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Iraq • women • harassment • US Army • soldier • PTSD • Iraq war

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