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…
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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…
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…
More and more female students are turning to “sugar daddy” arrangements in order to afford tuition and expenses. The Seattle Times reports: “U.S. undergraduate students last year finished school with an average…
Survivors speak out against Amnesty International’s policy supporting the decriminalization of pimps and johns. In her message to Amnesty, Alisa Bernard, survivor and Board Member at Organization of Prostitution Survivors, says: “Demand…
That research claiming women are responsible for half of misogynistic abuse on Twitter may not be entirely accurate. Meagan Tyler explains: “In terms of women’s abuse of other women it’s best understood…
Today, British Labour Party politician Yvette Cooper launched Reclaim the Internet, a campaign in the House of Commons against online misogyny. Surprisingly (or perhaps not, for those who spend a lot of…
Hundreds of South Koreans marched on Saturday to protest the stabbing death of a 23-year-old woman. Associated Press reports: “Police said the man waited around 40 minutes for a woman to appear…
Three Northern Irish women hand themselves into a police station, stating they had procured and taken illegal abortion pills and requesting that they be prosecuted, in protest at Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion…
Thomas Pogge, Yale’s world-famous ethics professor, has been accused of sexual harassment. BuzzFeed News reports: “… a recent federal civil rights complaint describes a distinction unlikely to appear on any curriculum vitae:…
“Associating elbowgate with violence against women is an insult to victims,” says Gabrielle Gallant in the Globe and Mail. No charges laid in Thunder Bay case of Aboriginal woman found naked and…
“I felt degraded.” Supervisor at Movati Athletic Club tells Ottawa woman her breasts are too large for her to wear a tank top and that she may come back and finish her…
Sophie Grégoire under fire for admitting she can’t do it all. Labrador woman sexually harassed by her doctor during a Pap test. Arguing about the “best” way women should give birth is…
Male anchor hands sleeveless female meteorologist a cardigan to cover up with, on air; Twitter erupts. “Been getting a lot of emails,” he explains. Because nothing helps a woman’s professional position like…
Executive Director of Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), Taina Bien-Aime, points to all the areas New York Times journalist, Emily Bazelon, could have and should have followed up on, in order…