Sentences with phrase «by sexual violence»

Confidential support for anyone experiencing or affected by sexual violence, or anyone supporting someone affected by sexual violence.

SVC is a crisis support agency offering confidential services free of charge to anyone affected by sexual violence.

Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson provides quality, nonjudgmental reproductive medical care and supports those affected by sexual violence; promotes healthy sexuality through education; and advocates for reproductive justice.

Well, it is estimated by the World Health Organization that one - third of all women worldwide are affected by sexual violence with even more experiencing harassment.

The NL Sexual Assault Crisis and Prevention Centre (NLSACPC) provides non-judgmental support and essential services to adults impacted by sexual violence.

Confidential support for anyone experiencing or affected by sexual violence, or anyone supporting someone affected by sexual violence.

Sexual Violence Protection Order (SVPO) Filing a petition for a SVPO may be the most appropriate step after you have been harmed by sexual violence that was perpetrated by someone other than a family or household member or intimate partner.

Domination, subjugation and submission play out through an assortment of scenarios, often tainted by sexual violence.

Subsequently, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized rape as a war crime, 58 thus recognizing that «women are particularly vulnerable to persecution by sexual violence as a weapon of war.»

One of my many reasons for doing teacher training was that I wanted to teach yoga to specialized populations, specifically those affected by sexual violence.

The mentoring program reports mothers also struggle to tell daughters about their menstrual cycle, and the secrecy is made worse because so many pregnancies are caused by sexual violence within families.

Girls are being turned on by sexual violence.

Not exact matches

Uber has sought arbitration in other cases involving alleged sexual violence against its passengers by drivers, as well as in battles with its drivers seeking better compensation.

The discredited story was intended to call attention to the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, but it might have had the opposite effect by reinforcing the notion that rape allegations are often fictitious, a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded in its critique.

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.

R - rated films limit their audiences based on excessive violence, sexual situations, drug use, and language, as determined by the MPAA.

(She'd had a decade - long battle with an eating disorder after a troubled childhood that included family violence and sexual abuse by a tennis instructor, which she revealed at a 2014 TEDx talk.)

In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

Many of us are shocked and depressed by the current state of America — its hardness of heart to the most vulnerable; its contempt for the poor; its violence abroad and at home; its corrupt sexual morality; its increasing intolerance and persecutory zeal (with ourselves as targets); and so on.

The emerging understanding of how widespread sexual violence is, especially in conflict situations, also points to transmission routes; the potential for moral and pragmatic leadership by faith leaders is enormous.

It's admirable that Biden is speaking out for the victims of sexual abuse, but resorting to insults and threats of violence seems more like (potentially dangerous) posturing than offering real long - term terms solutions to the problems highlighted by the #MeToo moment.

Just as family violence was tacitly accepted during former times, so was violation of community sexual standards — especially by men.

Another acknowledges that Hannah's evident delight in Adam's enthusiastic pantomiming of sexual violence is «patently ridiculous and degrading,» but immediately goes on to ask, portentously, «Who among us hasn't had our artistic judgment eroded by love?»

They often have to face non - or under - payment, physical or sexual violence by employers or their families.

In summary, there are four major reasons for the high amount of sexual violence and overall violence in TV produced in the U.S.: (1) monopoly control of program production and distribution by a handful of powerful companies (2) the drive for profits far in excess of those enjoyed by the vast majority of U.S. businesses (3) a lack of accountability on the part of sponsors and

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult cviolence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult cViolence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult cViolence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

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.

More recently, definitions of family violence have incorporated coercive sexual relations, including the sexual abuse of children by family members, and also marital rape.

Sexualize violence by rendering it pleasurable and / or by depicting an erotic payoff for the protagonists who initiate the sexual violence.

The document counted 500 cases of physical violence and 67 of sexual violence which were committed by a total of 49 perpetrators.

Pornography does contribute to the multiple forces giving rise to sexual and domestic violence, but we can not afford to be mesmerized by porn as the single issue.

To the credit of the authorities, and in part because of the international sympathy aroused by an unusual amount of publicity, significant steps were taken to, ameliorate the plight of the victimized women; nevertheless, the incident clearly dramatizes not only the vulnerability of women to this particular form of violence but also the injustice of a culture, sanctioned by religion, which regards the woman's sexual integrity as primarily the concern of husbands and male relatives whose honor is at stake: bluntly, she is property, not a full person in her own right.

A 1985 report on «Violence and Sexual Violence in Film, Television, Cable and Home Video» by the National Council of Churches of Christ suggested that the churches give «priority attention» to the «glut of violence and sexual violence» in thViolence and Sexual Violence in Film, Television, Cable and Home Video» by the National Council of Churches of Christ suggested that the churches give «priority attention» to the «glut of violence and sexual violence» in the Sexual Violence in Film, Television, Cable and Home Video» by the National Council of Churches of Christ suggested that the churches give «priority attention» to the «glut of violence and sexual violence» in thViolence in Film, Television, Cable and Home Video» by the National Council of Churches of Christ suggested that the churches give «priority attention» to the «glut of violence and sexual violence» in thviolence and sexual violence» in the sexual violence» in thviolence» in the media.

There are three major reasons for the high amount of sexual violence and overall violence in programs: (1) monopoly control of program production and distribution by a handful of powerful companies; (2) the drive for profits far in excess of those enjoyed by the vast majority of American corporate business, and (3) the failure of the Federal Communications Commission to exercise adequate oversight of broadcasting.

They wrote: «We don't blame him for despising his very existence, since he is DIRECTLY and PERSONALLY responsible for thrusting terrible violence upon every other gender (all of them), race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religion... even though by all accounts he's a good guy who works hard, takes care of his family, tries his best to love his neighbor as himself, and all that other stuff that doesn't matter because we only regard him as part of a collective group to which we assign blame.»

Thursday, Baylor University released the scathing findings of fact from the school - commissioned investigation by law firm Pepper Hamilton into a sexual violence scandal on its campus.

For this decision, I have been threatened with death and sexual violence by strangers.

While most countries have an «adults only» certification or disclaimers to movies, sexual imagery or violence is not considered unwatchable by Japanese parents.

Middle School Safety This middle school safety article focuses on safety in transportation, privacy issues, family issues, violence and theft, and safety in regard to bullying and sexual harassment by middle schoolers.

Offered as a service under the Pasadena Mental Health Center, our domestic violence support group program works with women and children who have been affected by emotional, physical, financial or sexual abuse.

Elizabeth has extensive training in trauma, particularly working with children, adolescents, and families whose lives are affected by physical abuse, sexual abuse, family violence, neglect, bullying, and attachment issues related to adoption.

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.

Services provided by GP practices, family planning clinics and A&E departments are all exempt from the rules, as is the treatment of physical or mental conditions caused by torture, female genital mutilation and domestic or sexual violence.

«Sexual violence is experienced by survivors simultaneously as a violation of the survivor's body and rights.

A top official at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who was found to have threatened female employees with physical violence and engaged in years of sexual harassment, racism and ageism was not disciplined by the agency, which instead punished two women who provided testimony about the case to the state IG's office.

Liddle: - The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African - Caribbean community.

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.