click for more details This is a story about how the student newspaper at Swarthmore College revealed shortcomings in the handling of sexual assaults on campus. This is leading the college to take a look and review their sexual assault policies. You can read the whole story HERE "The paper said her story 'reveals serious flaws in the college’s procedures for handling...

click image for more details Here is a story out of Ireland that makes the point that domestic violence is not just physical or sexual. Academics prefer to use the term “intimate partner violence” so as not to exclude dating relationships where victim and abuser do not share a home. Also, there is debate among support services as to whether the term...

In Egypt, women's rights groups are pushing back against some Islamists' attempts to blame women for an upsurge in sexual harassment. You can read the whole story HERE. In Egypt fundamentalist Islamist groups have a history of repressing women. Women there are striving for equal rights that are running up against a brick wall starting with sexual harassment where these fundamentalists blame...

This is an article written recently entitled "Time to Talk Seriously About Sexual Violence on Campus" It is a very thoughtful article that brings up some scary statistics about life on a college campus for female students. They also mention that 90% of the time alcohol or drugs is involved in acquaintance rape, also known as date rape. As many as 25...

click for more info "Every year, police in Baltimore City respond to thousands of calls related to domestic violence. Officers arrest and charge abusive partners, judges issue protective orders to women who fear for their lives, and domestic violence counselors struggle to help battered women and their children recover from the physical and emotional traumas they have suffered." You can read the...

click image for more info Here is an editorial opinion about how colleges and universities handle sexual assaults committed other campuses. "A student who commits sexual assault on a college campus is less likely to suffer long-term personal consequences than a student who gets caught drinking and driving. That doesn’t appear like it will be changing anytime soon." You can read the...