April 2, 2012
Jailers can strip-search anyone who is being arrested, no matter how minor the crime, according to a Supreme Court ruling Monday. If you get caught driving without a license, walking your dog without a leash, or being drunk in public, you can be stripped naked and searched before taken to jail. Even if police have ...
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criminal justice,
human rights,
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justice,
law,
police,
privacy,
sexual assault,
strip search,
Supreme Court,
unreasonable searches
March 22, 2012
Step down, Twihards, it’s time for evolution via the Hunger Games revolution. Let The Games begin! I don’t want to upset any Twilight fans, but the series boils down to a drawn out love affair that is not consummated for many moons. Bella and Edward meet in the first book and don’t have sex until…wait for ...
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bravery,
compassion,
complex characters,
female hero,
feminism,
feminist hero,
freedom,
gale,
Harry Potter,
heroic traits,
heroism,
independence,
individual,
J K Rowling,
Jennifer Lawrence,
justice,
Katniss,
love,
love triangle,
loyalty,
Peeta,
political tyranny,
politics,
pop culture,
Popping Culture,
post-apocalyptic,
rebellion,
role model,
Suzanne Collins,
teen fads,
The Hunger Games,
trends,
Twilight,
tyranny
February 14, 2012
Eliminating child porn on the web is a noble goal, but Canadian authorities may need to tread lightly in their efforts to search and destroy pedophiles. Why? If a new bill is introduced requiring “internet service providers to give subscriber data to police and national security agencies without a warrant, including names, unlisted phone numbers ...
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big brother,
breach of privacy,
child abuse,
child porn,
criminal,
Francis Scarpaleggia,
freedom,
government,
How to Catch a Predator,
internet porn,
justice,
law,
law enforcement,
online surveillance,
pedophiles,
police,
pornography,
power,
Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act,
privacy,
rights,
sexual abuse,
T.J. Eckleburg,
The Great Gatsby,
Vic Toews,
vulnerable people,
watchdog,
watchdogs
December 28, 2011
After suffering abuse, humiliation and abject degradation at the hands of Egypt’s interim military rulers, an Egyptian civilian court has finally ruled an end to virginity tests on female detainees. The practice of making women strip and spread their legs to determine their sexual status has been defended by the Egyptian army. One official said ...
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Cairo,
civil rights,
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danger,
debasement,
detainees,
Egypt,
human rights,
humiliation,
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justice,
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power,
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rape,
Samira Ibrahim,
sexual status,
Tahrir Square,
victim,
victimized,
violation,
virginity tests,
women's rights
November 18, 2011
Justice is served, although it took 28 years to get there. Women of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) were reinstated $150 million for unequal pay today after a long battle that began in 1983. The PSAC filed a complaint after they found that male clerical workers were getting paid more than female workers ...
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equal pay,
equal wages,
feminism,
justice,
law,
Postal Workers,
Supreme Court,
Walmart,
women's rights
October 11, 2011
The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry opened this morning surrounded by protesters demanding justice. Over the next eight months, the inquiry will be looking into the way the police handled the investigation of missing women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, who began disappearing in the early 1990s. When Robert Pickton was finally arrested in 2002, the ...
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East Side,
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justice,
missing women,
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry,
Missing Women Inquiry,
police,
prostitutes,
RCMP,
Robert Pickton,
sex workers
September 29, 2011
Robert Pickton was convicted of killing six women when it’s believed that he could have murdered another 27. So where are his missing victims? Perhaps they’re forever lost, but we must continue to find out why so many crimes of violence against women weren’t properly investigated. The BC Missing Women Inquiry was commissioned to give ...
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aboriginality,
disappearance,
discrimination,
equality,
government,
government support,
Inquiry,
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law,
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missing victims,
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry,
Missing Women Inquiry,
murder,
native women,
Native Women's Association of Canada,
rights,
Robert Pickton,
sex,
support,
United Nations,
victims,
violence against women,
women's rights
July 25, 2011
Although specific body parts don’t usually take on a life of their own to commit crimes, it seems that authorities are targeting the penis. Recently in Bangladesh, a village council beat a man and forced him to tie a brick to his penis and walk around in front of 200 people after they found out ...
Tags: Bangladesh,
chemical castration,
criminal,
humiliation,
inhumane,
justice,
pedophiles,
penis,
penis punishment,
punishment,
sex crimes,
South Korea,
torture,
violence,
violence against men
June 21, 2011
1.5 million women can’t be right. The Supreme Court Justices ruled for Walmart today in a case brought by women who were allegedly denied promotion and equal pay on the basis of gender. You can look at this decision in two different ways, but either way is disappointing. For one thing, this was the largest discrimination ...
June 7, 2011
It’s one thing to agree with the exchange of sex for money and quite another to propose it should be legal for women to be sex slaves. Salwa al Mutairi, a female Kuwaiti politician, has said that men should use women as sex slaves. But there’s more. She adds that prisoners from war-torn countries would ...
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Kuwait,
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money for sex,
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patriarchy,
prisoners of war,
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Salwa al Mutairi,
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war,
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women as sex slaves,
women's rights