Plans to ban child marriage in England and Wales have passed their first hurdle in parliament. The bill will raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 in all situations, as well as criminalising all marriages involving a child - even religious ...
Suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect have allegedly abducted 22 girls in Niger State. The gunmen allegedly told the villagers that they were going to marry the girls. https://t.co/ipkux3... https://t.co/h4arif...
Almost 10,000 people were raped in South Africa in the past three months, of which the overwhelming majority were women and girls. 42,289 rapes were recorded last year; on average, a woman was killed every 3 hours. https://t.co/n1i6vA...
Last week, coordinator of Philippines Against Child Trafficking & women's rights campaigner Sally Crisostomo-Ujano was arrested by police on a spurious charge of “rebellion”. This week, US prosecutors charged Duterte's advisor with child sex ...
Prosecutors allege that Bernardo Montoya, 53, killed Laura Luelmo, 26, by striking her across the head with a rock, but only after subjecting her to a terrifying ordeal. He had been released from prison for the murder of another woman two months ...
Lakim Miller-Nock, who goes by Roxanne Moore, pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault and burglary, and will very likely be placed in a women’s prison. #NotOurCrimes https://t.co/YKbZbD... https://t.co/EfEfvw...
RT @Margueritestern: Twitter deleted one of my tweet saying in french that "It is factually impossible to be born in the wrong body." so in French we start the hashtag #MonCorpsNestPasUne... which means #MyBodyIsNotAMistak...
New York City is a gateway and one of the largest destinations for trafficked women in the US. 98% of sex trafficking victims worldwide are female. Women are physically and bodily oppressed. Sex denialism robs us of the language to speak of it. ...
RT @thetimes: Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock’s views on the gender debate turned her into a hate figure at Sussex University. After three years of death threats and online abuse, the polarising academic resigned three weeks ago. She talks to ...
RT @ripx4nutmeg: Less than one year after California brought in a law that allows male prisoners to self ID into women's prisons, a female prisoner who was raped by a transferred male is one of the women suing the California Department of Corrections ...
“According to Interpol, 2.4 million cases of online child sexual abuse were reported in India from 2017 to 2020. Of these, 80 per cent were girls under the age of 14. The content and consumers of child pornography are increasing rapidly.” ...