Sexual Assault of Incarcerated Women: Op-Ed

A large part of our women’s population is made up of incarcerated women. Currently, there are over 200,000 women who are incarcerated in the United States, and at least 15% of these women have experienced sexual victimization, while serving their jail/prison sentence. When people mention sexual victimization of incarcerated men or women, the average person … Read more

The Death of Miya Marcano

Miya Marcano was a 19-year old college student who attended Valencia College. Tragically, Miya was murdered by a maintenance worker where she lived and also worked, at least police are pretty sure the culprit was Armando Caballero. Armando was a lot older than the victim. Police know now that he used a universal access key … Read more

Sexual Abuse/Torture in Women’s Prisons (Mexico)

Sexual abuse is threatening the lives of women every single day. Mexico has abused their power by using a institutional system (jail/prison) to sanction rape, sexual and physical harassment, sexual and physical abuse, and even torture. A investigation called the “Amnesty International Investigation” found that 3-quarters of women who have been imprisoned in Mexico experience … Read more

Abortion in Texas

Recently, it has been trending news about what has been becoming of the new abortion laws in Texas. The Supreme Court set forth a new law that now bans women from being able to carry out an abortion after the sixth week into pregnancy. The decision was made with a 5-4 vote from Trump appointed … Read more

Afghan Women Beaten For Speaking Out

Recently the Taliban has announced their interim cabinet of ministers, whose role is to help decision making and governing. When making these selections we would like to think that the population and group that’s being governed as a whole, would be represented unbiasedly and according. Unfortunately, this is not the case for citizens under their … Read more