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Join the No Amnesty Global Day of Online Action on October 23 — feminists, allies, activists, and survivors around the world will share news articles, testimonies, and subversive art raising awareness of…
Sign the petition to investigate Maggie’s Toronto for using government funds in the promotion of child sex trafficking. This blogger doesn’t care if men are intimidated by her. Here’s why. Facebook blocks…
St. Paul’s rape case resurrects the debate on whether the language in American sexual assault law should change. The New York Times reports that “A majority of states still erect a far…
Virginia TV reporter, Alison Parker, was shot dead during a live broadcast by a man who formerly worked at the same news station. Also killed was camera man Adam Ward. There are…
Seven people have been charged with promoting prostitution on Rentboy, an escorting website geared towards gay men. Kelly T. Currie, acting United States attorney for New York’s Eastern District, tells The New…
New “female Viagra” exposes women to dangerous side effects and doesn’t even work. Nine year old girl, Jamyla Bolden, fatally shot in Ferguson while studying at home. “Girls called Jack and…
According to Federal authorities, Subway’s Jared Fogle paid for statutory rape of underage girls and admitted to possessing and sharing child porn images. Fogle faces 12 and a half years in prison…
Oscar Pistorius was expected to be released from prison on Friday in order to serve the remainder of his sentence on house arrest, but the Justice Minister said releasing him after he…
“The biggest problem with Straight Outta Compton is that it ignores several of N.W.A.’s own harsh realities.” – Dee Barnes tells the truth about violence against women that was erased from Straight…
Chris Hedges with the help of Lee Lakeman, Alice Lee, and Rachel Moran, brilliantly conveys the sickness of our neoliberal culture, in which a renowned and respected humanitarian organization advocates for modern…
“The village where men are banned.” Julie Bindel visits the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of rape and discovers the inhabitants are thriving in the female-only community. On…
Douglas Fox, the man who runs the largest prostitution ring in the north-east of England (and also runs the so-called “sex workers union,” IUSW) was responsible for first bringing about the motion…
Joy of Resistance feminist radio show to guest Meghan Murphy on Amnesty International’s vote to support the decriminalization of pimps and johns, and Sunsara Taylor on women in Mississippi — a state…
Yesterday, Amnesty International voted in favor of a policy that recommends the decriminalization of pimps, brothel owners, and buyers of sex, rather than recommending the Nordic Model, which evidence shows decreases violence…