Women's Safety In India A Growing Concern

click for more info Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called on the Indian people to protect women from sexual assaults. Police are being criticized in a recent attack on a five year old girl, after allegedly offering the parents of the victim a sum of money to drop the case. You can read the whole story HERE. "This case shows the appalling...

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Dog Attacks Are Because Of Owners Not Dogs

There was an opinion piece recently in the Baltimore Sun that made the argument that dog attacks are not the fault of dogs but the fault of their owners. Not sure I buy that but here's part of what the opinion piece had to say "If reader Tom Paxton were actually a lifelong animal lover, he would understand that all dogs are...

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Toronto Man Assaulted By Four Women

This is a story about a man who was supposedly sexually assaulted by four women who offered to give him a ride home after a nightclub visit. Instead, they took him to a parking lot and assaulted him. You can read the rest of the story HERE. Toronto police are looking for four anglo women who are 200 pounds each. Attacks by...

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Women's Rights Groups Push Back In Egypt

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...

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Woman Armed With Stun Gun Disarmed By Taser

This is a story about a woman who was menacing people with a stun device. You can read the whole story HERE. “A woman armed with a stun gun accused of menacing people at a Grant Pass home was hit with a Taser by police and taken into custody. Troopers said when they made contact with Novack, she demanded they shoot her and...

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Tasers To Get New Bells And Whistles

"Tasers are used extensively in more than 90 percent of the 18,000 police departments in the United States. The Taser has given police officers a non-lethal weapon that is more effective than pepper spray." This is a story about Taser, international and their efforts to give police officers another tool to fight crime. It is a "head-mounted camera called Axon Flex, that...

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Curbing Domestic Violence-What You Can Do To Protect Yourself

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...

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