Sentences with phrase «against sexual violence against women»

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The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, gave a detailed account of an alleged 2012 gang rape that a woman identified as «Jackie» said had endured at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house as a first - year student, and accused the university of tolerating a culture that ignored sexual violence against women.

Violence against women in Canada — domestic, sexual and otherwise — is significant.

Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris, the highest - ranking woman in the House, said: «It is never appropriate to condone unwanted sexual advances or violence against women.»

The union took aim at «a hyper - masculine industrial camp culture, which can result in increased risk of sexual harassment, assault, increased levels of violence against women in sex work and hitchhiking and increased levels of child care and gender inequity.»

Many of the International Women's Day events on Thursday powerfully echoed the #MeToo movement that has mobilized women against sexual violence and workplace harassWomen's Day events on Thursday powerfully echoed the #MeToo movement that has mobilized women against sexual violence and workplace harasswomen against sexual violence and workplace harassment.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

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

Even if there is consent, it is dehumanizing to fantasize about and enact sexual violence against women.

Violence against women is epidemic and evil, it's not to be mined for sexual pleasure.

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 vioSexual 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 vViolence, 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 viosexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family vviolence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violenceviolence.

Sexual violence is primarily a problem of violence against women and girls.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

Men As Peacemakers: Promotes Equality & Ending Violence Against Women & Children, Sexual Assault Prevention, Youth Mentoring, and more.

The country's legal system also does not fully protect women against domestic and sexual violence.

In some European nations, there are more equal gender laws concerning public nudity but those nations have LESS sexual assault and violence against women than in the United States - so there is no legal rationale for this double - standard - it's simply an unconstitutional tradition that has never been challenged in court by ACLU attorneys.

Oral Questions - Culture, Media and Sport, including Topical Questions; Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris White

Ms Hilary Gbedemah, Ghana's representative to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), United Nations, took participants through the topic: «Understanding the content of sexual and gender based violence in Ghana».

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.

A petition led by the Everyday Sexism Project and the End Violence Against Women Coalition calling for classes on sexual consent, respectful relationships and online pornography received over 36,000 signatures.

«Take Back The Night» started in 1976 in Brussels, Belgium as a candlelight protest against worldwide sexual violence against women.

«To anyone who thinks you can commit acts of sexual violence or any other violence against women and girls or anyone else in this city, we're here to tell you, you can not.»

«We have a crisis on college campuses of rapes and sexual violence against young women,» Cuomo said.

These encompass basic security for all — including the protection of women against sexual violence...... that means a military that is effective and respects human rights...... it means a police force that people run towards not away from...... and it means a justice system that is fair, dependable and accessible to all who need it.

To a silent chamber, she had explained: «I wanted to give a very personal perspective to help people in this place and outside understand one element of sexual violence against women.

When the Syracuse University community gathers tomorrow to talk about sexual violence against women, the main message will be delivered by a man: Vice President Joe Biden, who graduated from SU law school in 1968.

The United Nations defines violence against women as «any act of gender - based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.»

The Cosby case is symptomatic of a wider societal problem around our attitudes to allegations of rape, sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women and girls.

Other parts of the Women's Equality Act would give a boost to laws against sexual harassment, domestic violence and salary discrimination.

Monday evening, Schneiderman announced his resignation less than four hours after The New Yorker magazine published an article detailing his alleged violence against four women during sexual encounters.

Using a sample size of 11,860 adults in the United States (5,922 men and 5,938 women) obtained from the National Violence Against Women Survey's database, the researchers sought to challenge a sociological theory that explains that men are more likely to respond to sexual assault with anger and by engaging in criminal activity, while women are more likely to respond with depression and sadwomen) obtained from the National Violence Against Women Survey's database, the researchers sought to challenge a sociological theory that explains that men are more likely to respond to sexual assault with anger and by engaging in criminal activity, while women are more likely to respond with depression and sadWomen Survey's database, the researchers sought to challenge a sociological theory that explains that men are more likely to respond to sexual assault with anger and by engaging in criminal activity, while women are more likely to respond with depression and sadwomen are more likely to respond with depression and sadness.

The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has received $ 300,000 from the Ontario Government to support sexual violence and harassment training projects for cViolence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has received $ 300,000 from the Ontario Government to support sexual violence and harassment training projects for cviolence and harassment training projects for campus...

As I look around today and see the rates of sexual violence against women on a terrifying rise, as well as what can only seem like a backwards slide of the very freedoms we fought so hard for, I can not help but look to my two daughters and pray that they will have in their lifetime the freedom that I have had.

Last year, the National Task Force to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Against Women released a statement giving their full support to equal bathroom access for the transgender community.

That means, in just one year, more than 12 million women and men will experience «intimate partner violence» — which, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is any physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner orviolence» — which, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is any physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner orViolence (NCADV) is any physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse.

The recent study into sexual victimization by a group of American researchers pointed out that objectification is the core precondition of violence against women.

«The American» is rated R and features strong violent content and imagery (gunplay and shootings, strangulation, automotive mayhem, and violence against women), simulated sex and other sexual contact, full female and partial male nudity, gory and bloody imagery, and scattered strong sexual language (profanity).

The blasé and flippant depiction of the violence and sexual violence used against the women is an almost titillating detail used to assist the faux gothic visual flourishes.

At a time when Hollywood couldn't be more sensitive about the sexual abuse meted out by powerful men, this is a film about the very worst sexual violence against women, with McDormand playing a grieving and furiously angry mother still mourning her pretty daughter, who was raped and murdered by an unknown attacker.

They frequently took as their subject matter sexual violence against black women and lynching.

The purpose of this Questionnaire is to gather information about sexual violence against women and girls (or rape) within Mogadishu.

1 In the context of this publication, the definition of «Sexual Violence» will borrow from UN reports that defines it as: Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a conSexual Violence» will borrow from UN reports that defines it as: Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a cViolence» will borrow from UN reports that defines it as: Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a consexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a consexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a cviolence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a conflict.

Existing community level structures, government and civil society actors in the area that are involved in addressing sexual violence against women / girls or rape (probe on the various initiatives)

Types and forms of interventions to sexual violence against women / girls or rape in the area that the participants are aware of in the areas

Section D: Suggestions on the way forward in tackling sexual violence against women / girls or rape

Participants» suggestions on how to surmount the identified challenges and barriers to effectively addressing sexual violence against women / girls or rape in general and their area in particular (probe for what they perceive as appropriate individual, community, civil society and government level initiatives)

Participants» ideas on who should be involved in processes for addressing sexual violence against women / girls or rape and for what reasons

Whether participants are aware of sexual violence against women / girls or rape violence in the area, their estimation on prevalence and who the main perpetrators are (community member / police / military /?)

Performance (success / failure stories) of initiatives focusing on sexual violence against women / girls or rape in the area

Consequences of the various types and forms of sexual violence against women / girls or rape in the area