by Lee Rossi | Jul 2, 2021 | Gender Inequality, Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
From Thomson Reuters Foundation June 29, 2021 By Anuradha Nagaraj The 1961 Prohibition of Dowry Act made dowries illegal, but many families still participate today. CHENNAI, India, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — India’s Kerala state has launched a...
by Lee Rossi | Jun 5, 2021 | Gender Inequality
A Message From GLOBAL CITIZEN: Women lost out on over $800 billion USD when the pandemic crashed the global economy. Disproportionate job losses that hit women hardest show how fragile gains for gender equality have been over recent decades. We have to demand better....
by Lee Rossi | Jun 4, 2021 | Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
By James Hitchings-Hales JAN. 14, 2021 Domestic violence has risen dramatically during lockdown. But this could be a lifeline. If you’re suffering from domestic abuse, there’s now a discreet way you can get help right away. Just say ANI — pronounced “Annie”, standing...
by Lee Rossi | Jun 3, 2021 | Gender Inequality, Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
By Helen Lock JUNE 2, 2021 Two women every week are killed by a partner or former partner in England and Wales, data from the Office for National Statistics shows. Across the UK, almost 1 in 3 women aged between 16 and 59 will experience domestic abuse in their...
by Lee Rossi | May 26, 2021 | Anti-Trafficking Organizations
A message from ECPAT USA: ECPAT-USA recognizes May as National Foster Care Month There are many experiences and circumstances that make a child more vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. During National Foster Care Month, ECPAT-USA wants to recognize the...
by Lee Rossi | May 22, 2021 | Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Article by ROBIN ABCARIAN COLUMNIST MAY 16, 2021 3:04 AM PT Who would have thought, in the year 2021, that a man who rapes his wife in California is guilty of a lesser crime than a man who rapes someone to whom he’s not married? Who would have thought that a man...
by Lee Rossi | May 8, 2021 | Gender Inequality, Legislative News of Relevance
A message from EME: On March 5, 2021, Attorney Wendy Murphy argued, before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, that the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) was ratified by 38 states in January, 2020, but the U.S. Archivist refused to publish it as the...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 25, 2021 | Reflections, Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Written and Directed by Emerald Fennel Focus Features By HTP Editorial It takes a village to commit sexual assault. The perpetrator relies on a host of willing collaborators. He counts on a certain amount of apathy, of disavowal, of active passivity, of convenient...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 19, 2021 | Gender Inequality
By Allison Frost (OPB) Feb. 19, 2021 7:52 a.m. CLICK HERE TO WATCH BROADCAST Portland biomedical engineer Arlyne Simon has been interested in science and invention ever since she was a small child. Later, she realized women are vastly underrepresented in professional...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 15, 2021 | Sexual Consent, Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Article by Lisa Norgren November 21, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges “A grown man looms behind my three-year-old daughter. Occasionally he will poke or tickle her and she responds by shrinking. Smaller and smaller with each unwanted advance. I imagine her...
