Murdered women’s inquiry must confront barriers Indigenous women face in Canadian society. “Fay Blaney, a chairwoman of Vancouver’s annual memorial march for missing and murdered aboriginal women says she’s concerned a national…
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Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, responds to a string of 38 reported sexual assaults and rapes at a teen music festival in Stockholm: “Whatever the motive we have to work more with attitudes…
UK police have established a “managed prostitution area” in Leeds, where johns and prostituted women are decriminalized in buying and selling sex, from seven at night till seven in the morning. Sarah…
Feminism is to be taught in UK A-level politics curriculum after 17-year-old June Eric-Udorie’s online campaign. Sister of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi arrested and jailed in same prison. In a statement, Amnesty…
“The war against German women has been raging all along.” The mass sexual assault in Cologne is not a freak incident caused by an influx of Arab asylum seekers. Germany, itself, has…
We should look to the sex of the Cologne attackers, not their race: “In focussing on difference, in this case, racial or ethnic difference, we miss vital similarity. There is a common…
Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women brief Indigenous Affairs Minister, Carolyn Bennett, and Status of Women Minister, Patty Hajdu, on women going missing after being sold into prostitution on Lake Superior ships:…
New study finds that attractive female university students earn higher grades than unattractive female students do. For male students, looks don’t seem to matter. Isis has executed what is believed to be…
Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen has been arrested for domestic assault of his wife, musician Libby Titus. Thirteen-year-old American girl dies from tampon use. New York Democratic rep, Carolyn Maloney, has since introduced…
Flying in the face of sex-role stereotypes, which dictate that a man can’t wear feminine-designated clothing, 17-year-old male actor, Jaden Smith, becomes the new face of Louis Vuitton’s women’s wear. If Wonder…
Twitter has a new hate speech policy. Attacking users on the basis of their “gender” and “gender identity” will now supposedly prompt the deletion of accounts. It remains to be seen whether…
Mark Salling, known for his role as Puck on Glee, has been arrested by the LAPD for child pornography. Listen to the story of WHER, America’s first all-women’s radio station. Polyamourous guy…
Bill Cosby appeared in court on Wednesday to face his first criminal charge for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004. The charge is punishable by five to 10 years in…
New domestic violence law will come into effect today in England and Wales, recognizing, for the first time, that “abuse is a complex and sustained pattern of behaviour intended to create fear.”…
Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, offers his “most sincere apologies” to Korean “comfort women.” The Japanese government also concedes that its military authorities played a role in the sexual enslavement of the…