Sentences with phrase «victim of rape»

Also, it certainly is not uncommon for victims of rape or sexual abuse to be «triggered» by breastfeeding.

In the case of victims of rape and torture, it often sends them over the edge.

Some stereotypes we easily reject, as they seem obvious; it is not particularly original to state that women are in the workforce and men are also victims of rape.

Founded in 1978, ACT assists victims of rape and domestic violence.

Female victims of rape and torture are subjected to abuse and intimidation in British detention centres, according to a damning new report into the plight of women asylum seekers in the UK.

As Taylor and his men advanced towards Monrovia, thousands of people became displaced as well as victims of rape, looting, and violence, by both government and rebel soldiers.

Oyo State House of Assembly on Tuesday appealed to the state government to exempt victims of rape from paying the mandatory N5000 fee for obtaining medical...

In a way, these modesty rules are a version of the tired and terrible questions asked about victims of rape: «What was she wearing?»

The AVIVI Association for Victims of Rape made a formal complaint before a local prosecutor on Monday.

I haven't heard about this statement, but I have heard about controversies involving similar statements by public figures, and most likely he is being accused of promoting rape culture, by telling potential victims of rape what to do, which is interpreted as blaming the victim for being raped, rather than focusing on the actions of rapists.

For how many of us want to wake up with the knowledge that we live in a country willing to imprison victims of rape and torture, who have arrived at our shores to request asylum?

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

Tory MP Anna Soubry tweeted that Gove's comments «insulted victims of rape & other sexual assaults & perpetuated pathetic notion that these crimes are not to be taken seriously».

[35] In 1976 he sponsored the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill which allowed victims of rape to remain anonymous.

Cuomo's ad uses images of medical examination rooms with distraught women, presumably victims of rape or incest who became pregnant as a result of the crimes against them.

Within Somalia, the sort of justice that victims of rape attain through the customary justice contrasts with the actual outcomes of customary justice elsewhere.

In this regard, the firm acted recently on behalf of the parents of a young girl victim of rape and obtained a judgement convicting and sentencing the accused

The firm handles cases involving employment law, discrimination, sexual harassment, and victims» rights, including representing victims of rape and sexual assault.

Of course, the harsh restrictions don't stop abortion from happening, and horror stories abound: of 4 million unsafe and illegal abortions occurring per year; of women being killed and mutilated after botched back - alley procedures; of pregnant victims of rape and incest — like, recently, an 11 - year - old girl in Paraguay who was raped by her stepfather — being forced to carry their abusers» children to term.

It should be no surprise that in the same way sexual violence is often shrouded in secrecy in the general community, it is even more difficult to estimate with any accuracy the extent and experience of Aboriginal victims of rape.

Mr. Bush vetoed the bill because it would have allowed federal funding of abortions for victims of rape and incest — a provision anti-abortion House members had kept out of appropriations bills for almost a decade.

Once again you've demonstrated that your perspective very selective, and care far more about male victims of slander than female victims of rape.

Studies have shown this to be true of victims of rape, 82 battered women, 63 and victims of child abuse.53 Nonhuman primates subjected to extended periods of isolation may later become reasonably well integrated socially.

While I can't say my mugging compares to being a victim of rape, I feel I've developed some understanding of what they go through.

The women who started the movement agreed that when it came to being a victim of rape, there was no distinction between religion or ethnicity: If a man came into a roomful of women with the intention to rape, he would not discriminate among his victims based on religious or ethnic grounds.

Here's what to do if your daughter or son is the victim of a rape.

I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and later a victim of rape.

The database will point out, for example, that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are supporting the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, who once said that victims of rape should make «what was really a lemon situation into lemonade,» and Ms. O'Donnell, who has said that having women in the service academies «cripples the readiness of our defense.»

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo has released a hard - hitting new attack ad that slams his GOP / Conservative opponent, Carl Paladino, on the issue of choice, saying the Buffalo businessman would make women who are victims of rape or incest «victims a second time» by denying them access to abortion services.

Since the 1980s, individuals persecuted for their gender - identity have had access to asylum — albeit rarely — and both men and women can be victims of rape and victims of Sexual and Gender - based Violence (SGBV).

It found that the process of indefinite detention with heavily - restricted access to a lawyer was mentally traumatic for many detainees and that there should be a «presumption against detention» for victims of rape and sexual violence, people with learning difficulties, and those with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Once again, when the Guardian revealed that there were 1,400 victims of rape and sexual abuse between 1997 and 2013, people demanded why the girls hadn't come forward.

They wrote: «The verdict and events in this case set a dangerous precedent that how a victim of rape, usually a woman, has behaved in the past can be taken as evidence of the way she behaved at the time of the alleged rape.

Cuomo's campaign released a new TV ad claiming that Paladino would take away rights and that victims of rape and incest would be denied abortions that are now legal.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can trigger involuntary, distressing flashbacks in people who have been through trauma, such as soldiers or victims of rape.

In the general population, 7 % of women had been victims of rape or attempted rape, of whom 3 % had attempted suicide.

«40 percent of women with severe mental illness are victims of rape, attempted rape.»

As a victim of rape at 16, my blood was absolutely boiling.