Jo Cox, a 41-year-old Labour MP, was shot three times and stabbed in West Yorkshire. She was pronounced dead at the scene on Thursday afternoon. A 52-year-old man named Tommy Mair was arrested…
What’s Current: When three students accused a man of rape, SFU simply moved him to another residence
After three female students at Simon Fraser University reported the same man for sexual assault, the alleged assailant was simply moved to another residence. No warnings were given to female students at…
At 5:30 on Tuesday evening, just over 100 people gathered on the front steps of Vancouver City Hall to demand Mayor Gregor Robertson follow through on his commitments to women and girls.…
Early Sunday morning, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in an attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Many have speculated about the motivations of the shooter, Omar Mateen,…
Omar Mateen, who shot and killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, was, reportedly, a regular at the club and had exchanged messages with at least one gay man…
Brock Turner took and shared a photo of his victim’s breasts with his friends after he assaulted her. In a letter to Judge Aaron Pensky, Brock Turner’s mother says she is “proud”…
B.C. Supreme Court delivered its judgement granting Ivan Henry $8,000,000. Henry was convicted of ten counts of sexual offence in March 1983, involving eight victims who were attacked in Vancouver in 1980-1982.…
A forum in Winnipeg on Monday night, featuring Bridget Perrier, Gunilla Ekberg, and Diane Redsky, reveals that girls as young as nine are being bought and sold on Winnipeg streets and in shopping…
In a letter released this morning, B.C. Premier Christy Clark explains that she supported a private member’s bill on sexual assault because she went through things “no person should experience” as a young girl. “As…
In 1995, Andi Zeisler founded Bitch — a zine that became a magazine — as a means to “take pop culture seriously as a force that shapes the lives of everyone, and…
Brock Tuner’s privilege ensured his mugshot did not reach the public for months, forcing media to use a more dignified yearbook photo in their coverage (which, in turn, impacts public perception). Ongoing…
In January 2015, Brock Turner, a swimmer at Stanford University was seen sexually assaulting a woman who was lying on the ground, unconscious. He tried to run away after being seen by…
Maya Dillard Smith has resigned as head of Georgia’s American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) chapter in connection with Obama’s recent directive to schools to let transgender students use the bathroom that corresponds…
The witch hunts are viewed as a thing of the distant past, assumed to have happened over a century or two in Europe. But the truth is that the witch hunts lasted…
Barbara Davidson reports on the prostitution crisis in India and the important work Apne Aap does to help women and girls in the trade. The organization founded the Kasturba Gandhi Girls School…