Sentences with phrase «women against abuse»

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Her over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

The petition, created by an anonymous person on Tuesday, reads: «If you believe The Weinstein Company should completely dissolve after 30 years of sexual abuse against innocent women please join me in signing this petition to honor the victims and their bravery.»

There were also rumors of abuse against women and children on the compound.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who has said Trump should resign over the abuse allegations against him, said through a spokesman that Trump «has shown through words and actions that he doesn't value women.»

Life: A story Oct. 12 about allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein mischaracterized the nature of discussions around Louis C.K.'s behavior toward women.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

It's about time the men stop discriminating against women, stop abusing little boys, and whittle down Canon Law so it makes sense.

So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against wWomen, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against womenwomen.

More importantly Carter says the Pope agrees with him on the need to somehow work together to end slavery and various forms of abuse against women worldwide.

Gay men and lesbian women are physically and psychologically abused, they are excluded from families, frozen out of churches and discriminated against in a variety of legal ways.

Women in the Church have been speaking out against sexual abuse by speaking up.

One of them concerned allegations of physical abuse against women in the Morman church and Morman women who supported the Equal Rights Amendment.

In a series of tweets posted this weekend, influential Christian author and speaker Beth Moore spoke out against Christian leaders who dismiss talk of sexual abuse and the objectification women.

Following horrific allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and rape against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, actress Alyssa Milano posted this on Twitter, «If all the women who have been sexually harassed...

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

My church has taken a strong stand against abuse of children and women which is something I feel is my area to make the world a safer place.

In its most recent resolution on the subject, the Episcopal Church declared in July 1988 that hard - core pornography abuses the self - images of women, children and men, and urged congregations to support then — Attorney General Edwin Meese's report with its call for stricter and tougher enforcement of already existing laws against pornography.

The petition said: «The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get «health» points.

It's dangerous enough to be a woman these days, let alone a woman who dares to stand up publicly against abuse.

If what you say is true then the bible condones abuse against women.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

We call out the sins of violence, rape, abuse, torture, against all women.

The multiple recent allegations of sexual impropriety lodged against megachurch pastor Bill Hybels are provoking heated discussion about how churches should respond to allegations of sexual abuse and how Christian men and women should relate to one another.

and everywhere it is evident that a woman was always possessed by some man who exercised over her a proprietorship which only gradually was mitigated and guarded against abuse.

Cultural sexism affects women's self - understanding and self - esteem and their ability or willingness to defend themselves against men who would seek to take advantage or abuse.

«We have a whole generation of young people who don't know that abuse is wrong, and who are learning about sex from pornography,» says Natalie Collins, domestic abuse survivor and founder of Spark, a consultancy preventing violence against women.

There are more than a few upsides to a polygamous arrangement that women enter into freely and willingly because it suits their needs (versus what we usually read and hear about the traditionally male - driven practice, which is often about secrecy and child brides forced to marry against their will and sexual abuse and other scandals).

Since the Weinstein revelations and the subsequent #MeToo campaign, the scale of sexual violence and abuse committed by men against women in every sector of society has become impossible to ignore.

Another thing working against both men: There is strong appetite, particularly in the New York delegation, for the next attorney general to be a woman given the abuse scandal that led to Schneiderman's downfall after he made himself a very public champion of women's rights in the era of the #MeToo movement.

The details published in The New Yorker include allegations of choking, slapping and other forms of verbal and physical abuse by Schneiderman against women.

«The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are disturbing, horrid and the debate should be on how to best root out this reprehensible behavior and protect women from harassment and abuse.

After The New Yorker published an article on Monday evening detailing accounts of abuse against four women, Schneiderman announced he would resign his post effective May 8.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned just hours after accounts of abuse by four women.

«There are serious allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law against Nigerians and other African women, men and children in Libya with absolute impunity.

The horrific accusations included alcohol - fueled rages, racist remarks, prescription drug abuse and threats — including to kill the women or use his power as the state's top law enforcement officer against them if they defied him.

By effectively siding with the SWP against women who have either been abused by them, or are campaigning against such abuse, Corbyn has done himself some serious damage.

You will be challenged to become an active part of the crusade against abuse of women.»

Authorities in Montgomery County, PA, announced criminal charges against entertainer Bill Cosby stemming from a woman's accusation that he drugged and abused her at his home in Cheltenham Township, a suburb north of Philadelphia, in 2004.

Slaughter was a co-author of the Violence Against Women Act, a landmark 1994 law aimed at preventing domestic abuse and helping its victims.

In 1999 Freilich was indicted in Brooklyn on charges of intimidating a witness for allegedly threatening the life of a young woman if she testified against her father, a Russian Orthodox Jew accused of sexually abusing her for years.

The Nigerian Police force has said incidences of rape, women and child abuse, trafficking and other gender based offences which have been fallouts of violence against women and children would soon be a thing of the past following...

The latest involves horrific allegations against Eric Schneiderman, who resigned as New York State's attorney general less than three hours after The New Yorker magazine published a piece reporting that he had physically and verbally abused four women.

«The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are disturbing, horrid and the debate should be on how to best root out this reprehensible behavior and protect women from harassment and abuse,» the Cuomo campaign said in a statement.

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a frequent antagonist of President Donald Trump, resigned his post following an explosive report that detailed allegations against him of physical abuse by four women.

NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned just hours after accounts of abuse by four women.