Imelda Cortez, a 20-year-old woman from San Miguel, El Salvador, faces up to 20 years in prison on an attempted murder charge after being accused of attempting a home abortion. According to The Guardian, she was impregnated by her rapist, her 70-year-old stepfather, who Cortez says began abusing her when she was 12ā¦
A Boston woman says she was raped by an Uber driver early Tuesday morning following her birthday party at the Wild Rover bar in Faneuil Hall, the Boston Globe reports.
In a new report from Human Rights Watch, 54 North Korean women who fled the country after Kim Jong-un took power in 2011 detail systematic, abhorrent sexual violence against women perpetrated by police and secret police, high-ranking party officials, prison guards, interrogators, and soldiers. The assaults describedā¦
Nine women in West Virginia were arrested early Tuesday morning after staging a daylong sit-in at Democratic Senator Joe Manchinās campaign office. The protesters were demanding Manchin vote ānoā on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by three women.
Ian Rylett is the 55-year-old owner of one of YouTubeās most popular tween channels, SevenAwesomeKids. BuzzFeed reports that last month, Rylett was arrested in Florida for lewd and lascivious molestation of one of the young girls who made videos for him, and who is under the age of 16.
At 1 p.m. eastern, people across the country are walking out in solidarity with Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. In Washington, DC, a coalition of organizers are converging at the offices of the United States Senate before walking to the Supreme Court. Elsewhere, the walkout may mean stepping outside yourā¦
Last week, Jezebel reported on George Tyndall, the University of Southern California student health centerās primary gynecologist who was allowed to continue practicing at the school despite years of sexual misconduct allegations. Since the 1990s, Tyndall has been accused of making sexualized comments about patientsāā¦
Itās been eight months since Puerto Rico was first devastated by Hurricane Maria in September 2017, and the situation has yet to improveāleaving in its waste toxic, unlivable conditions for much of the U.S. territory. Women are especially vulnerable.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who is facing a criminal invasion of privacy charge and is the subject of an intensifying Republican-led state House investigation, was accused by a woman under oath of sexual coercion and physical violence, according to a report released by a state House committee.
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in cities across Ireland and Northern Ireland to protest the unanimous acquittal of two international rugby stars accused of raping a 19-year-old girl in 2016.
Last week, the Associated Press published a nightmarish story about the mass rape of Rohingya women in the Rakhine district of Myanmar. Kristen Gelineau, AP bureau chief for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, interviewed 29 Rohingya women and girls who had escaped to refugee camps in Bangladesh; the storiesā¦
A new Associated Press report on the Rohingya refugee crisis illuminates, in excruciating detail, the methodical and nightmarish sexual violence being perpetrated against Rohingya women in the Rakhine province of Myanmar.
Hundreds of former employees of Sterling Jewelersāthe multibillion dollar conglomerate comprising Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and Kay Jewelersāhave filed claims attesting that the chief executive, not to mention many other company managers, cultivated an environment rife with sexual harassment and discrimination.
Westworld, HBOās brand new series, tells the penetrative, frighteningly possible story of an amusement park where androids essentially play world for the enjoyment of human patrons. The androids, which are virtually (but not totally) indistinguishable from their human counterparts, are designed with at least theā¦
In an attempt to reinstate bail for 21-year-old sex offender Owen Labrie, his attorneys presented a letter from an unnamed professor who compares Labrie to 15th century canonized military heroine Joan of Arc. Wow, so creative!
On Monday, Kenyon College alum Michael Hayes published an open letter to his alma mater regarding the alleged rape of his sister, a current student. In the letter, shared on Facebook over 800 times, Hayes claimed Kenyon dropped his sisterās case despite overwhelming evidence of a nonconsensual encounterāincludingā¦
Americaās terrible track record for maternity leave is no secret. This country and Papua New Guinea are the only ones in the world where women donāt have government-mandated paid maternity leave. PNG just won its independence in 1975, so whatās our excuse?
Whether or not you watched the fifth season of Game of Thrones, you likely caught wind of the controversy surrounding its especially gratuitous violence against women. Even fans of the show condemned certain scenesāSansa Starkās rape in particularāas both excessive and lazy plot devices. And what do you know? Theā¦
Zainab Bangura, a U.N. special representative, recently concluded a tour of refugee camps that house refugees largely from Syria and Iraq - countries where the Islamic State hold a large amount of territory. The Washington Post reports that she recounted the stories of sexual violence, rape and abuse to Middle Eastā¦
A not guilty verdict in the death of 36-year-old First Nations woman Cindy Gladue is stirring widespread anger in Canada; Bradley Barton, a long-haul trucker from Ontario, was acquitted last week on charges related to her 2011 death. The jury evidently bought the argument that Gladue, a sex worker, died from woundsā¦
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