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…
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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…
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…
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…
Sara Di Pietrantonio, a Rome university student, was burned alive by her ex-boyfriend, Vincenzo Paduano, who set her car afire, then chased the 22-year-old about 500 metres as she tried to flee, setting…
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…