Sentences with phrase «epidemic of sexual violence»

There is an epidemic of sexual violence being perpetrated against indigenous women in the Great Lakes region, driven by extreme extraction in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and the Tar Sands of Alberta.

The governor, citing a «disturbing» «epidemic of sexual violence in this country,» says the state university system can be a leader in finding solutions.

There has been an epidemic of sexual violence in this country that is truly disturbing and it is plaguing college campuses.»

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I'm more concerned with the epidemic of sexual assault and violence toward women that occurs throughout college sports and the covering up and protecting of players who commit these crimes.

In a wide - ranging speech that mentioned the NFL's recent domestic violence scandal and an epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses, Cuomo said, «My daughters by birth are equal to any boy that is born in the state of New York.

The two most controversial initiatives have come under Title IX: The office's seven - year effort to combat what it described as an «epidemic» of sexual violence on campus, and its 2016 directive on the right of transgender students to choose restrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and sports teams on the basis of their subjective sense of «gender identity» rather than their biological sex.

Direct and indirect cultural and physical genocidal strategies carried out against Indigenous peoples have greatly contributed to the environmental crisis we now face paralleled with epidemic rates of sexual violence, addiction, and attacks against Native girls» and women's sanctity, bodies, communities, and lands.