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#womenslives: Powerful Photos Show the Crisis Facing Canada’s Aboriginal Women

Powerful Photos Show the Crisis Facing Canada’s Aboriginal Women (on msmagazine) Between 1980 and 2012, more than 1,100 Aboriginal women in Canada were murdered,and in 2013 there were 164 Aborigi...

#research: Ten findings from the United Nation’s Violence Against Women Study

Headline: little has improved for women and girls worldwide since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995) where the UN vowed to address the discrimination against, and violence towards,...

#feminismisdead: Rape Culture is Very Real; We Are Not Hysterical

Don’t read the Time article unless you are particularly strong of stomach. I think I can speak for many people when I say reading the Time article ”It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria” by Caroli...

#research: Victim Blaming Others: Rape Myth Acceptance and the Just World Belief

This is an interesting study published in the journal of Feminist Criminology recently. It’s the about the extent to which rape myths are accepted (i.e. rape is normalised and excused) if individuals ...

A Very Sick Irony: Women’s Anti-Violence Demonstration in Sweden Turns Violent According to multiple left-wing Swedish news sources, the group of feminists were attacked at 1am, leaving a “Recl...

A Very Sick Irony: Women’s Anti-Violence Demonstration in Sweden Turns Violent According to multiple left-wing Swedish news sources, the group of feminists were attacked at 1am, leaving a “Recl...

#research: New study shows surprising trends on how people are lured into sex trafficking

From alternet:Human trafficking is a serious problem in the United States that is complex and frequently misunderstood. The sensationalist trafficking narrative commonly depicted in the media and by a...

#research: [TW] A group of South African men explained why they raped

[TW] A group of South African men explained why they raped:Q: How did it happen?A: Fridays we went out to chill and drink some beers … after hours me and my friend we saw a young good-looking woman wh...

#research: WHO report: 30% of women worldwide victims of domestic violence

A WHO report has shown that 30% of women worldwide are victims of domestic violence and that 40% of women killed worldwide are killed by an intimate partner.Link to the report: who.int and first few p...

#research: Violent crime rate in US same as it was in 1968; prison system has grown by over 500 percent

On politifact: In recent years, elected officials, criminologists and others have examined ways to decrease the number of people sitting in U.S. prisons. For some officials, it’s a matter of money. I...

#research: Men Who Buy Sex: Who They Buy And What They Know

This is a research study of 103 men who describe their use of trafficked and non-trafficked women in prostitution, and their awareness of coercion and violence. Authors: Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel a...

#research: Women in some countries still say domestic violence is okay

This is distressing.Aside: the Washington Post piece is disingenuous to the findings of the research, really (or, at the very least, it doesn’t go a good enough job of locating the research in t...

#research: Domestic violence: ‘As a man, it’s very difficult to say I’ve been beaten up’

The first ever research project in which I was involved found exactly the same thing. Fifteen years later, there’s no change.An inch under six foot tall, Dave, a gardener with a deep, gravelly v...

#research: Saturated market ‘putting prostitutes at risk’ [TW]

A report says that sex workers in Westminster are at greater risk of violence because of a fall in demand and an increase in those selling sex.The study by Westminster Council shows the recession has ...

#research: Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: What Are theReal Numbers?

If an act of violence is perpetrated, but is never reported or documented, did it happen at all?Of course the answer is “yes.” There are many reasons why survivors may not report incidents of violence...

#research: Feminism blamed for rising female violence

Feminism blamed for rising female violence, via onlylivinglesbian: A Northern Territory researcher says studies show women can be just as violent as men and social changes are behind a reported rise ...

#vivelafeminism: #research: Feminism blamed for rising female violence

Feminism blamed for rising female violence, via onlylivinglesbian: A Northern Territory researcher says studies show women can be just as violent as men and social changes are behind a reported rise ...

#research: Australian Survey Shows Dangerous Attitudes Towards Violence AgainstWomen

Australian Survey Shows Dangerous Attitudes Towards Violence Against Womenthecurvature:One subject of concern is that a rather high numbers of men and women agreed that there are some situations under...