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Sexual Assault
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Haitian Sweatshop Workers Speak: Sub-Poverty Wages and Sexual Coercion
Harrowing tales of women forced to trade sex to keep employment in factories.
Pentagon Study Finds 26,000 Military Sexual Assaults Last Year, Over 70 Sex Crimes Per Day
A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day.
Under the International Spotlight, Mexican Government Asks for “Friendly Solution” After Perpetrating Sexual Torture
The case has serious implications for the perpetration of sexual violence by police everywhere.
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Armed and Angry about Regulation: Women Gun Owners
Twenty-three percent of US women own firearms.
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No More Steubenvilles: How to Raise Boys to Be Kind Men
What can we do to help young men respect women, recognize consent, and have healthy sexual relationships?
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War Stories: Missing in Action (From Our Histories)
Nick Turse explores the deafening silence behind wartime rape and sexual assault cases in Vietnam and beyond.
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Alaska Politicians Stand in the Way of Protections
American women are better protected from coast to coast - but all the way up north? Left out in the cold.
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A Tougher Time for Homosexuals: Review of “Robert Duncan in San Francisco“
Michael Rumacker's new memoir, Robert Duncan in San Francisco, provides a harrowing picture of what life was like for a homosexual man in that city before the Castro became …
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WikiLeaks Is a Rare Truth Teller; Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful
When Julian Assange moved his legal defense to Gareth Peirce, Britain's leading human rights lawyer, he found a true ally. Peirce asserts that her client faces a grave miscarriage …
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The Queer Case Against Prisons
Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.