What’s Current: Retreat for Canadian military sexual assault survivors used sex offender as ‘peer mentor’

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  • A trauma retreat intended for female sexual assault survivors of Canada’s Armed Forces was found to be led by a man with a history of sexual assault. Several participants spoke with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) about their feelings on learning that their mentor was a registered sex offender, with one attendee saying, “I drove away from the program suicidal.”
  • A report from The New Humanitarian details accusations from more than 20 Congolese women who say that they were sexually abused by aid workers during the outbreak of the Ebola virus between 2018 and 2020.
  • A man in New Zealand avoided jail after secretly filming voyeuristic videos of women and teenage girls in public restrooms, their homes, and in church, which he uploaded to pornography websites. According to The New Zealand Herald, the illegal content netted over 370,000 views in a single month.
  • Icelandic police are investigating OnlyFans users for going against laws prohibiting the distribution and production of pornography.
Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve Gluck is a writer and advocate for women's sex-based rights and creator of Women's Voices, an audio library dedicated to bringing awareness to feminist texts and speeches.