Sentences with phrase «victims of rape»

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.

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.

For example, victims of rape do not always develop a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which by the way was originally termed a syndrome and as well was not immediately accepted into the medical / psychological community.

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

The concentration on professional failings in this latest round of media coverage at least makes a refreshing contrast with the tone being set as recently as last November when the government's report was published on the responses to its 2006 consultation paper Convicting Rapists and Protecting Victims — Justice for Victims of Rape.

It is expected to include the obvious warnings that, contrary to common expectations, genuine victims of rape may sometimes take time to decide to make a complaint and that, instead of being upset and emotionally raw when they relive the experience in the witness box, the impact of post-traumatic stress can make victims seem unemotional and matter - of - fact.

Organization: The Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC) is a nonprofit law center that provides free legal representation to victims of rape and sexual assault throughout Massachusetts and in Oregon, and national training and support for lawyers and advocates on the civil legal needs of rape and sexual assault victims.

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

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

Due to broken down system due to conflict few of the victims of rape have been able to access post-rape care.

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.

Hence, where is the justice for the multitude of women who were the victims of rape, used as a tool and strategy of this war?

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In February of this year, the MoJ announced a fund of # 500,000 to be used on advice and counseling services for male victims of rape and sexual assault.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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?

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.

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.

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.»

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

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

We have seen the tribal practice of honor killing of females suspected of sexual transgression in modern tribal societies, even when they have been the victims of rape.

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.

And by the way, no Christian would tell the victim of rape or other sexual abuse that she was henceforth worthless.

Being a victim of rape should not create guilt and shame and humiliation and deep filthiness in the first place.

When the victim of rape is nonwhite — as in the trial of Joan Little for the murder of her rapist — it takes the rousing of national support to get justice done.

Is it fair to force the woman who is the victim of rape to carry through a pregnancy she had no say in or the person who gets pregnant via incest?

A recent show featured Sharmeta Lovely a victim of rape, whom Oprah had interviewed ten years earlier, Oprah expressed amazement at Lovely's stated willingness to sit down to dinner with her assailant.

So what you're basically telling us is that you blame the victim on incest or the victim of rape for not protecting themselves.

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

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.

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

She is the victim of rape and attempted rape.

Then guilt when he learned that his wife had been the victim of rape because he was not able to protect her.

According to Amnesty International, an average of 2 women are killed each day in Pakistan for «betraying the honor of the family» (the reasons for this loss of honor could range from infidelity, including being the victim of rape, through to simply being a bad cook).

Lorretta appears on Straight Talk discussing Gordon Stuckless» claims that he was also a victim of rape.

In this way, the offense of statutory rape criminalizes being raped; it criminalizes being the victim of rape.

When an adult is raped by a juvenile, the offense of statutory rape imposes criminal liability on the adult for the same intercourse by which the adult is a victim of rape.

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

It is important that you should leave behind any such assumptions about the nature of the offence because experience tells the courts that there is no stereotype for a rape, or a rapist, or a victim of rape.

It takes a key step to ensure that a woman serving in the Peace Corps has the same rights and access to abortion in cases when she is the victim of rape or when her life is endangered as are afforded women in the armed services and many other women covered by federal health programs.