Women's Voices

 

4 March 2021

 

Women's Voices

13 posts today

Three female journalists at Enikas TV were gunned down on their way home from work. Authorities believe it was the latest in a series of targeted attacks on female journalists, civil society members and working women. https://t.co/M5yOFf...

March 4th @ 11:00 pm |

Women's Voices

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More than 100 survivors of sexual exploitation and hundreds of NGOs are urging Ottawa to pursue a "full criminal investigation" of Pornhub's parent company. At least five other lawsuits have been filed in the US and Canada in the past year. ...

March 4th @ 8:30 pm |

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Senate Bill 2536, which prohibits male athletes from competing on women's sports teams in the state's high schools and universities, passed the Mississippi House by a vote of 81-28. #SaveWomensSports https://t.co/VlMsfc...

March 4th @ 7:43 pm |

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador supported Félix Salgado Macedonio, who has been accused by five women of rape and sexual harassment, as a candidate for governor of Guerrero State. Protests were quick to follow. https://t.co/509ttG...

March 4th @ 7:37 pm |

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The former governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, Mario Marin, was arrested for allegedly torturing journalist Lydia Cacho in 2005 after she uncovered a child pornography and prostitution network. https://t.co/8IjBXi...

March 4th @ 7:12 pm |

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Philippines — Some senators have pushed for the filing of criminal charges against social media giant Facebook and other social network platforms for failing to stop the proliferation of online sexual abuses against women and children in the country. ...

March 4th @ 3:30 pm |

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200,000 UK women were systematically underpaid pension over a period of 20 years. Some women received as little as 86p a week instead of £80 a week. Pension back-payments average £13,500, totaling about £2.7bn. https://t.co/B5D8eU...

March 4th @ 1:54 pm |

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Excerpt from Torrey Peters' "Detransition, Baby," which reads like a porn subreddit: "She’d be over here, getting knocked around, each blow [an] illustration of her place... So yeah, Stanley, bring it on. Hit Reese. Show her what it means to be a ...

March 4th @ 1:26 pm |

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A New Orleans police officer brought a 14 year-old girl to the emergency room for a rape kit exam and began grooming her by showing her modelling images of his own teenage daughter in lingerie. After months of such behavior he eventually raped her. ...

March 4th @ 1:11 pm |

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A fifth of all Russian women have been physically abused by a partner, and an estimated 14,000 women die as a result each year—more than nine times the number of deaths in the US, though Russia’s population is less than half the size. #IWD2021 ...

March 4th @ 11:13 am |

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By the hundreds of thousands, they have gathered for marches: unions of teachers, garment, and medical workers — all sectors dominated by women. Two young women were shot in the head and another near the heart, three bullets ending their lives. ...

March 4th @ 10:40 am |

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Every time a girl is born in Piplantri, villagers plant 111 trees – an auspicious number for local Hindus – to honor her and renew the environment. The region now has more than 350,000 trees growing across the once-barren lands. ...

March 4th @ 3:59 am |

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A Chinese legislator proposes legalization of the surrogacy industry, where it is currently outlawed. The flawed rationale given is the same used by proponents of the sex industry, IE, exploitation will happen anyway but legalizing abuse will reduce ...

March 4th @ 2:50 am |