After 15 people were arrested over the past week in separate cases of sexual assault, including gang rape, in Pamplona, Spain thousands of people interrupted the running of the bulls. Maria Teresa…
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At least 50 protestors were arrested on Sunday at the Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, bringing the number of people taken into custody over the weekend in the Louisiana capital…
On Tuesday, 24-year-old Melissa Ventura was shot to death by two Yuma County sheriff’s deputies who were responding to a domestic-abuse call. Thousands of demonstrators marched through New York City’s streets on…
On Friday, legislation updating rules that had made it legal for girls as young as 12 to get married in Virginia (if they had parental consent and were pregnant) took effect. The law…
Lewis Pierre found guilty of murdering Daria Pionko in Leeds’ “managed prostitution zone.” He beat her to death, “massacred” her face with his steel tip boots, then still had the audacity to…
In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, Ivanka Trump says: “My father is a feminist. He’s a big reason I am the woman I am today… People talk about gender equality.…
Article in Men’s Fitness magazine tells men to “plow ahead anyway” when women ignore or reject them at bars. (The article has now, apparently, been removed.) Michelle Obama talks learnings from the…
Troy Millington, a former candidate for the Alberta Party, and nine other men face charges of possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, and making available child pornography. Pakistani clerics declare marriage…
That’s right, folks! Legalization brings blow job cafes. Is this what liberation feels like? Thanks to pro-choice advocates, on Monday, the Supreme Court voted to strike down two anti-abortion provisions that were part of…
A Canadian professor at Concordia University, Homa Hoodfar, is imprisoned in Iran for allegedly inciting a “feminist revolution.” She is being held in Evin Prison, where Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died after being…
Canadian federal government moves to block Sharon McIvor’s petition to the UN for sex discrimination of Indigenous women on the basis that the current government is planning to “consult further on the…
On Monday, a woman filed a federal lawsuit alleging Donald Trump raped her when she was 13-years-old, at a party hosted by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Judge denies bond to to…
Ben Butler sentenced to life in prison after he beat his six-year-old daughter to death 11 months after she was returned to his custody by the family court. The man had a…
Lee Kaplan, 51, has been charged with statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, and unlawful contact with a minor after 12 girls were found in his home.…
The B.C. government will finally be providing bus service between Prince George and Prince Rupert, the stretch of road known as the Highway of Tears, from which numerous Indigenous women have disappeared…