Sentences with phrase «violence against females»

The grants under the axe fund local organizations that work to prevent physical and sexual violence against females and assist the victims.

Connecticut Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty announced she will not seek reelection this year amid calls for her resignation over her handling of the firing of a former chief of staff accused of harassment, threats and violence against female staffers in her congressional office.

According to the report's author, Professor Kate Shannon, factors such as being forced to service clients in cars or public places, inability to access drug treatment and a prior assault by police all correlated with violence against female sex workers.

The Lagos State Police Command has warned those who may want to capitalize on the Oro Day festival to perpetrate violence against the female gender of non-existent cultural beliefs, to desist from such, as its personnel will deal ruthlessly with such trouble makers.

Bonobos, however, are not entirely peaceful, and any male that attempts violence against a female is quickly ostracized.

While playing, gamers are routinely forced to witness graphic scenes of violence against female NPCs as these acts are committed in real time by other game characters.

Violence against female characters should never be presented as «sexy».

Not exact matches

The family, along with the state today, has sought to control women through rigid definitions of sexuality and appropriate for itself reproductive rights and control over her body; violence and subjugation have been woven into institutionalized forms of religion whose patriarchal tenets have marginalized and domesticated the female and the feminine, shackling her and legitimizing violence against her.

When Faludi touches on the rise in female poverty (directly correlated with the rise in female - headed households» there's no doubt about this relationship), the rise in violence against women, the rise of eating disorders, she blames it all on The Backlash.

As consultant to the new Song Kitchen restaurant in Sydney, leading sommelier Sophie Otton has instigated a policy of having 50 per cent of the wines on the list supplied by female producers — which fits with the venue's owner, the YWCA, which donates all profits from the business to programs against domestic violence.

Many observers have suggested a female attorney general could restore credibility to the office, given the accusations of domestic violence leveled against Schneiderman.

Instead they are bundled into a category called «violence against women and girls» and expected to be content with policies that are designed entirely around female experiences and needs.

Representative Nan Hayworth's official campaign spokesman actually went so far as to call for violence against sitting female Democratic Senators.

But after an ethics panel ruled the Brooklyn power broker sexually harassed several female staffers, many, including a group of men concerned about violence against women, said it's time for Lopez to leave office, CBS 2's Tony Aiello reported Wednesday.

«The persistent relationship between enforcement of prostitution and drug use policies (eg confiscation of drug use paraphernalia without arrest, and enforced displacement to outlying areas) suggests that criminalisation may enhance the likelihood of violence against street - based female sex workers,» Professor Shannon said.

[1] According to the report, Schneiderman had, between about 2013 and 2016, committed acts of violence against four of his romantic partners: the blogger and activist Michelle Manning Barish, the author and actor Tanya Selvaratnam, an unnamed female lawyer, and a fourth woman.

Members of the Parliament's Lower House previously attempted to revise Afghanistan's electoral laws to remove the requirement for female representation on provincial councils; while conservative MPs have called for the repeal of the Elimination of Violence Against Women Law.

When she became the UK's second female home secretary, Theresa May spoke at the Women's Aid conference promising «actions not words» on violence against women and wider equality.

Yet, despite increased global attention to violence perpetrated against women and girls, and recent advances in knowledge about how to tackle these abuses (Paper 1, Paper 3), levels of violence against women — including intimate partner violence, rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and forced marriages — remain unacceptably high, with serious consequences for victims» physical and mental health.

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports that approximately 20 percent of female and 13 percent of male, high school students say they have been physically or sexually abused in a dating relationship.

«The American» is rated R and features strong violent content and imagery (gunplay and shootings, strangulation, automotive mayhem, and violence against women), simulated sex and other sexual contact, full female and partial male nudity, gory and bloody imagery, and scattered strong sexual language (profanity).

, or My Brother's Name, or, frankly, Fatih Akin's simplistic and overrated film about Nazi violence against Turks in contemporary Germany, Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), Oskar Roehler's tired satire about the wealthy, Herrliche Zeiten (Subs), or Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Overkill, a Berlin film about a reckless female teenager that could have easily been made in the 1990s during the city's famous raving decade but that today lacks any raison d'être.

BEST FOREIGN FILM I've Loved You So Long BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Nothing But The Truth BEST MUSIC: Cadillac Records BEST ANIMATED FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Nothing But The Truth BEST MUSIC: Cadillac Records BEST ANIMATED FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied women.

Sisters in Law (2005) This acclaimed documentary by British filmmaker, Kim Longinotto takes us into the courtrooms of Kumba in Cameroon and focuses on violence against women and female judiciaries.

The lack of relatable female characters, combined with the ethical indifference toward violence against women, makes Three Billboards already feel like a relic.

This year, we are focusing on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), an extreme form of violence against young girls» way before womanhood is even on the horizon.

A male writer is taken to task by his female muse for his unfortunate penchant for killing off the women he writes about in Oyeyemi's imaginative fourth novel, which shares Gone Girl's interest in violence against women and the dark side of marriage.

So in addition to helping paint a gritty picture for the rest of the game experience, this kind of sexualized violence against inessential female characters is exploited by developers as a sort of cheap one - note character development for the «bad guys».

Now you might be asking yourself, «Doesn't having female enemies in a game perpetuate violence against women?»

In the 2009 game Wolfenstein, the Elite Guard are a special all - female enemy unit whose absurd uniforms sexualize not only the female characters themselves but also player's acts of violence against them.

Peruvian newspaper company, Peru 21, joined the fight against female violence by turning their front and back pages into large protest signs.

• Feminist Art (1970s) An art movement which dealt with specific female issues, such as having a baby, violence against women, employment conditions for women and so on.

This means that good population advocacy should always Speak Out against oppressive cultural practices such as gender - based violence, female genital mutilation, and child marriage.

Valenti talks about the war raging between feminists and the «latest crop of female anti-feminists» and their Washington - based organizations that seek repeal of the Violence Against Women Act and pay equity reforms.

The limits of the tool should be noted: it was designed to assess the likelihood that males accused of domestic violence would re-offend against female intimates; the assessment may not be relevant in disputes between people in other kinds of relationships.

[3] In this case, the respondents the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society, whose objects include improving working conditions for female sex workers, and Ms. Kiselbach, have launched a broad constitutional challenge to the prostitution provisions of theCriminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C - 46.

In female students who experienced and witnessed violence, the odds of having higher levels of mental health difficulties and using physical or sexual violence against peers were about four and eight times higher versus students who did not experience or witness any violence (model 2).

Intimate Partner Violence against Deaf Female College Students.

The Impact of Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Young Women Involved or at Risk of Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System Goodkind, Ng, & Sarri Violence Against Women, 12, 2006 View Abstract Analyzes young females at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system to determine the relationship between previous sexual abuse and placement in the system.

Psychometric properties of the WHO Violence Against Women instrument in a female population - based sample in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey

The observed cross-loadings of individual items as well as items that belonged to other domains than in the conceptual model may reflect that female victims often are not exposed to one form of violence in isolation of the other.32 For example, the sexual violence item «Forced me to have sex against my will by using his / her physical strength (by hitting, holding me firmly or threatening me with a weapon),» which loaded in both the physical and sexual IPV components, is hard to divide into one or the other category.

Data collection procedures, questionnaires and statistical analyses were the same as those used in the companion paper and are described in greater detail there (see companion paper entitled «Psychometric properties of the WHO Violence Against Women instrument in a female population - based sample in Sweden»).

They argue that female violence against men is intentionally underreported.