This article talks about Trump’s new Domestic Gag Rule. In this any healthcare providers that relies on Title X will either have to deny women any information for abortion or they will be denied federal funding. This is an issue because if denied funding they will also have to deny women to have basic healthcare … Read more
A teenage girl (16 years old) in India died after being brutally raped and beaten by a man in her own home. This was the third attack of this kind within a week. The main reportedly stormed into the home and raped the girl. Afterwards, he doused her in petrol and set her on fire … Read more
Men for Women’s Rights: Young SRHR leaders Show the Way In this article, two young men are highlighted for their work in the Southeast Asia and Africa areas with trying to promote sexual health and talk about reproductive health issues. These young men are working very hard to combat cultural practices that are very dangerous … Read more
Link to article: independent.co.uk/…/noura-hussein-sudan-teenage-girl-kill-husband-rape-murder-pardon-death-penalty-a8347041 This particular article is based on a teenager in Sudan who was forced to marry a man who eventually raped her. The victim, Noura, claims she was forced into a child marriage to her own cousin. Noura was only 16 years old when this marriage took place and she refused to have … Read more
The article I wanted to discuss is how the violence against women often goes unpunished in Afghanistan. This article discuss how the killings and harmful doings of women are normalized. They are often called “honor killing”. When something is normalized it makes it happen more often and more likely to occur. Why do men hold … Read more
The resignation and retirement of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary who for one week was honored as President emeritus and retaining salary and benefits was upgraded to termination. The Washington Post reports that Paige Patterson was fired due to false statements regarding his “treatment of an alleged rape victim in 2003” as well as a … Read more
Uber is getting a bad reputation now-a-days. There has been issues with Uber in the news recently. One, that our fellow classmates has covered, with passengers of the ride getting sexually assaulted by their Uber driver. Well, this story occurred where a shooting occurred by the Uber driver that shot and killed his passenger. Apparently, … Read more
Source: https://theconversation.com/gender-based-violence-in-south-africa-whats-missing-and-how-to-fix-it-78352 Overview: Gender-based violence is awful in South Africa. When it’s reported it’s very brutal and shocking, but it lacks contextual analysis. This lack of contextual analysis leads to consequences such as the normalization of gender-based violence and the descriptions are created in “popular reporting”, which doesn’t help society figure out a correct way with … Read more
https://theconversation.com/gender-based-violence-prevention-in-the-classroom-is-just-a-start-46515 Opinion: One of the questions raised in this article was, “How far can such classroom lessons go in ending violence against women?” I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about bringing gender-based violence prevention into schools and here’s why… Most of us participated in D.A.R.E., right? Well, how many of us actually stuck with the … Read more
This article was published Karma Allen on the ABC news website. It’s title giving a insight to something that I never thought could happen: “Former USC gynecologist may have assaulted as many as 52 women”. Allen noted that the assaults happened on USC campus and occurred for over three decades before anything happened to stop it. … Read more