Climate change — characterized by an increase in extreme weather and natural disasters — increases trafficking, prostitution, and violence against women throughout Asia. The situation in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan offers one example:
“After the skies cleared, a second humanitarian disaster unfolded in the Tacloban Astrodome, a sports arena where thousands took shelter. An underground economy took root as women and girls were sold for food and scarce aid supplies, or trafficked into forced labor and [prostitution] by recruiters offering jobs and scholarships. Kristine says she was sold to men every night; some of the men were foreign-aid workers, she believes. The men raped her, and took graphic pictures and videos. Kristine was 13.”
Three Aboriginal girls have died in Ontario group homes in the last six months.
The 27-year-old man who kicked a woman down the stairs at a German subway station, in a random act of male violence that was caught on video, has been charged by the police.
Republican lawmaker Robert Fisher, founder of misogynistic online forum The Red Pill, says he will “stand strong for men’s rights.”
Before Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale was released, Glosswitch pointed out that it already come true — just not for white Western women.