Sentences with phrase «experience rape»

According to RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, among undergraduate students at college, 23.1 percent of females experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation.

In the majority of reported rape cases, the victims are women, however, a considerable number of men experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime.

18.8 % of black women will report sexual assault in their lifetimes while 60 % will experience rape before they turn eighteen.

While research consistently estimates that one in every four women in higher education will experience rape or attempted rape during their college careers, limited proactive approaches to address the issue are found on Texas college campuses, according to the Crime Victims» Institute at Sam Houston State University.

But Holly Dustin, manager of End Violence Against Women, believes the home secretary is continuing to fail the three million women across the UK who experience rape, domestic violence, forced marriage, trafficking, or other violent behaviour each year.

If you want to call your traumatic birth experience rape, I will not judge you.

For example, in 2002, approximately 150 million girls and 73 million boys under the age of 18 experienced rape or some other form of sexual violence.

«If a woman has already experienced rape, torture, imprisonment in her home country then it is really hard for her to be locked up here.

In the UK, one out of every 20 women said they have experienced rape, yet only 15 per cent actually report the crime.

I have absolute sympathy for people who were in the World Trade Center or people who have experienced rape who want to have some way of blunting these memories to minimize the trauma.

I have varied experience as a clinical psychotherapist: suicide prevention, working with both men and women who have experienced rape, sexual and religious abuse - institutionally and otherwise, people who have experienced extreme difficulties with the current benefits system, first episode psychosis and substance misuse, in fact throughout the spectrum of health care.»

Nearly 1 in 5 women have experienced rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives, and 1 in 67 men have experienced rape or attempted rape.

women in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and / or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Not exact matches

I hate rape, I know it traumatizes people, I don't believe it is okay to blame someone for their traumatic experience but you can always blame someone for irresponsible behavior.

Angelou's legacy is staggering: Born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis, MO. in 1928, she would experience sexual abuse and rape at a young age.

Isn't it possible that the entire culture she was raised in nurtured that worldview and that her rape experiences only confirmed it?

The image of the raped woman forms an exaggerated metaphor for the oppression that every woman knows from her own experience, at least emotionally if not physically.

I think that wrestling with God and losing is a far more universal experience than, say, rape or murder.

You have been through a very traumatic sexual experience, which is defined as rape — sex without your consent.

These «old» pains sprang from having been sexually abused and gang - raped by three men in my youth, experiences I had hidden deep inside my heart.

But, rape is never something to be used as a hook in a story to describe the disappointments of a religious experience.

First, the author ties her experience of attending a religious youth conference to the rape at Steubenville.

This weekend, the hashtag #YesAllWomen was used more than 1 million times as women across the world shared their experiences with misogyny, rape, harassment, and fear of sexual assault as an act of solidarity with the women who were the target of last week's mass shooting.

True, Ms. Gilligan writes, I never suffered through poverty, anti-Semitism, war, or rape, «but I did experience a shocking break in my relationship with my mother.»

--------- I have NOT experienced the desire to rape, but I know it is wrong and a sin.

I heard hundreds of personal stories of passion and crucifixion from people who had experienced in the flesh of their own families and communities the terror, torture, rape, and murder that accompanied attacks by U.S. - backed contras.

My question is, «What do you say to a person who has experienced horrible evil from the hands of another person (such as: abuse, rape, war, etc.) when they find out you believe that his / her tormentor will be reconciled to God and not suffer eternal punishment?»

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.

My wife has been a counselor for rape and abuse victims for years, and so it's a topic that matters to me, but it's one that should matter without personal experience.

In Gold, she writes of Gibney's alleged rapes and molestations: «I had had no personal experience of any such incidents.»

Powered by WP Greet Box WordPress PluginShare6Photo: Some rights reserved by Raphael Goetter Anxiety Disorder Birth rape experiences are on the rise Nothing catches a woman's attention more than the word rape.

These are all things told to women who are suffering after their birth and find the phrase «birth rape» to be fitting for their own personal experience.

I obviously did not experience birth rape.

There's also been a fringe push to recognize some of these experiences as «birth rape.»

This time, she's telling victims that acquaintance rape isn't rape — it's «a learning experience.»

Speaking from personal experience, the only comments I have seen being made are support for rape victims and requests that Steubenville law enforcement does their job.

Now I have my own children and like any other parent, I hope and pray they will never have to live through the experience of physical abuse, but I also hope that if they ever do, I'll have provided them the right kind of tools and language for them to feel confident in stepping forward and standing up against rape culture.

Like I said above, as many as one in every twenty women had such a negative birth experience that they are left with post-traumatic stress disorder, and in more severe cases, are able to honestly use the term «Birth Rape.»

Women who have experienced sexual assault and / or rape are more likely to experience the following physical symptoms: frequent feelings of fatigue, obesity, severe PMS, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pelvic pain, frequent headaches, frequent vaginal infections, trouble sleeping and overall less satisfaction with their physical health.

It all seems synonymous with childbirth these days, and from birth to birth trauma to birth rape, the range of experiences mothers go through are as varied as the mothers themselves, and the babies they birth.

In the UK, it's estimated that 1.2 million women experience domestic abuse and 85,000 women are raped every year.

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

It is vitally important that service providers (who have also often experienced human rights abuses) are assisted to develop peer support and supervision groups and receive culturally sensitive training in supporting traumatised survivors and their children born from rape.

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

Dahr Jamail's 2010 article, «Rape Rampant in US Military», discusses on the «extreme shame and trauma» experienced by US military personnel who have survived sexual violence, as their stories all too often go unheard or are blatantly disregarded by the military (see also the documentary exposé «The Invisible War», on the subject of US military inaction towards sexual violence within the armed forces).

«I haven't put this idea to women who've been raped because I haven't met one recently but my experience of rape trials is that contesting a rape case makes things worse [for the victim],» he said.

This time he was claiming that Labour's candidate Naz Shah, a victim of forced marriage and rape in that marriage, was lying about her experiences.

Speaking on her experience in the hands of the alleged rapists, the septuagenarian, Akinseye explained that she was working on her farm on the fateful day when the two Fulani herdsmen attacked her and took turns to rape her.

Now, researchers have detailed evidence that a person's risk of developing the disorder — which results from experiencing traumatic events like rape and war — is inherited.