Category: Women’s Rights

Yes. He actually started to make a move on me, and when I declined I started crying and told him that I had been raped a few months prior. He told me how horrible it was that something like that could happen to a nice girl like me and soothed me until I stopped crying, […]

When people say “sex sells” what they mean is “exploiting women’s bodies sells.” via Commenter on Jezebel.

Thirty-one lesbian women have been reported raped and murdered in homophobic attacks in South Africa since 1998. But according to Triangle – a gay rights organisation – only two cases of “corrective rape” have ever made it to the courts; there has been only one conviction. “This is a sad fact in this country generally, […]

Via Alternet: Coursework for the program includes nutrition and meal preparation, textile design and classes on “the value of a child” and the “biblical model for the home and family.” Seminary President Paige Patterson says “We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for […]

Taking it to the streets: Clad only in her lingerie and armed with a baseball bat, Chauhan finds this the best way to get the police’s attention to solve her post-marital life issues. Chauhan apparently has registered complaints against her in-laws — husband Pratapsinh, brother-in-law Ranchhod, in-laws Bhavdeep and Mangooben, who have been harassing her […]

Shunned from society, widows flock to city to die Ostracized by society, thousands of India’s widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They are found on side streets, hunched over with walking canes, their heads shaved and their pain etched by hundreds of deep wrinkles in their faces. A widow makes […]