By C. White November 14, 2015 Bernat and Zhiliana (2011:452-453) further explains the creation of the Tier system. To combat sex trafficking, international countries work together in the battle because the problem often involves an international, secretive, wealthy cartel and trafficking is viewed as “modern day slavery”. Bernat and Zhiliana discusses (2011:458) how enactment of … Read more
By C. White November 14, 2015 The US Department of State define sex traffic victims as people who are trapped in their work after taking jobs willingly (Risley 2015:214). Risley states that actions from feminists, human rights activists, the United States (US) government, and members of different international organizations led to the enforcement of major … Read more
Blog post Nov 11th Today text messaging and other forms of instant messaging on smart phones has led to young teenagers sending sexual pictures to each other. These nude pictures, also known as “sexting” is accelerating young teenagers lives into sexual exploration. Not only is this dangerous in the sense that it could lead young … Read more
https://news.vice.com/article/women-protesting-new-zealand-leaders-rapist-comment-kicked-out-of-parliament The New Zealand legislature recently met to discuss the fate of a group of detainees who are currently being held in the Christmas Island detention center in Australia. The detainees are waiting to be deported back to New Zealand for an array of various crimes they committed in Australia. John Key, New Zealand’s prime minister … Read more
By C. White on October 28, 2015 Nationwide research found that African Americans experience intimate partner violence (IPV) more than other ethnic groups and many victims avoid seeking help, due to the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. An effect of IPV is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTDS) and this particular study by Anyikwa looked … Read more
Posted by: Andrea Fulle Link: http://time.com/money/4098469/paid-parental-leave-google-amazon-apple-facebook/ This article caught my eye because it details all the various US based companies that have recently adopted new/ upped preexisting maternity and paternity leave policies. It decribes the current policies for high profile companies such as Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Change.org, Facebook, Google (and YouTube), Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Reddit, … Read more
Since I study immigration and women, and how they experience intimate partner violence, this short op-ed by a North Carolina doctor was very interesting. What are your thoughts? It is entitled “A Typical American Life, a Very American Death” North Carolina and Intimate Partner Violence and reflects on the fact that more than half of … Read more
http://www.sciencedirect.com.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X12001453 This article written by Seo-Young Cho out of the German Institute for Economic Research has some flaws. We see that when the article starts out by stating that most victims of human trafficking are women when we know it is a pretty even split between men and women. However the article aims to find … Read more
Thomas Hennessey http://wgbhnews.org/post/half-battle-women-combat As Veteran’s day approaches (November 9) the discussion of women in combat heats up once again. In this article Callie Crossley discusses why imagery of women serving is not seen all that often during Veteran’s day celebration despite it being well known that women serve right along side men. The author states that she … Read more
Thomas Hennessey http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14080377/ray-rice-hopes-work-nfl-raise-awareness-domestic-violence An article released by ESPN announced that Ray Rice would like to work with the NFL to raise awareness for domestic violence. This announcement came during an interview with the former Baltimore Ravens running back in which he stated that if he did not get another chance to play in the NFL … Read more