Female Genital Mutilation During COVID-19 By: Caison Bates In a world plagued by COVID-19, the fears involve social isolation, quarantining, or even hospitalization, but never was it thought that this pandemic would put an increasing number of young girls at risk for female genital mutilation (FGM). Due to COVID-19 related school closures, European experts estimated that … Read more
Dr. Pearce invited us to share articles that touched on the topics that we chose for our final paper, so the article that I will be discussing today relates to sexual abuse within the Catholic church. In June of this year, it was announced that from 1950 to the present day, French Catholic Clergymen had … Read more
In the article “After Lives Fraught With Pain, Housing That Says ‘You’re Worthy’,” the author tells a story of former women inmates who suffered severe domestic violence living in a San Francisco apartment complex. The apartment complex in this story is called Home Free and is designed by volunteers in San Francisco to help women … Read more
In this United Nations story, a teenager was trafficked between Burundi and Tanzania, in East Africa. Four years ago, 12-year-old Elisabeth (her name was changed for safety purposes) sought after domestic work in Tanzania as a minor, to ensure that she had food and a bed to sleep in. She expected no money, but only … Read more
For my first blog post assignment, I wanted to incorporate the #MeToo movement that has been ever so prevalent in our class over the past couple of weeks. The article that I chose was published by The Washington Post and is called “#Metoo raised awareness about sexual misconduct. Has it curbed bad behavior?” The author … Read more