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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To the Hon. Keith L. Schwartz c/o Los Angeles County Superior Court Re: Lindsay Lohan Dear Judge Schwartz, With all due respect, do you really think you’re treating Ms. Lohan like “Jane Doe or John Doe”? Or that that’s even possible? Let’s say John Doe walked into your courtroom today, on felony grand theft charges. ...
Women were never intended to be protected under the Constitution, said Justice Scalia in an interview with California Lawyer. He said the document allows for discrimination on the basis of sex or sexual orientation. That’s right — according to him it is perfectly legal to say “No, I won’t hire you because your breasts will ...
Wanting to have group sex in certain (consensual) situations tarnishes a woman’s credibility. A British woman was allegedly raped and the judge thought “her credibility was shot to pieces” after her online chats praising group sex. She was obviously a dirty lying whore who deserved to be gang raped. The judge in this case “ordered the jury ...
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