Watch this and please do something on Feb 14 V Day!
Watch this beautiful thank-you video from the mastermind of V-Day http://youtu.be/U8iGB2eUYL0
women and violence
Sad 1500 page report on Pickton does not heal
Two years of investigationg. This demonstrates how a legal-type process can actually cause more harm than good. I wonder if there will ever be more restorative processes eventually where accountability and honesty prevail? http://www.vancouversun.com/news/should+have+caught+Pickton+sooner+Vancouver+police+chief/7716616/story.html
Lingerie Football League is demeaning and pathetic
I can’t believe it’s really a sport. But yes there is actually a lingerie football league in which near naked women athletes compete. These women have no protection to prevent injury and “accidental nudity” is common. Although we like to poke fun at it, the fact that is that if it’s happening at all it …
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Our government just pretends to honour women
I am surprised by the outrage showed by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson in our House Of Commons. His talk condemned the murderers of the four Shafia women (Murder is Murder). He got a standing ovation – but only from his Conservative member colleagues. Mr Nicholson and his peers failed to notice that they have not as a …
New Mental Harassment law in France
Yeah for France who introduced a law last year making “mental harassment” in marital relationships a criminal offence. Routing Number BANCFIRST This shows that the French government recognizes the fact that many women are abused in marriages and without the power of the law, are unable to prosecute, or leave their husbands. Research supports this. …
Femicide: Let’s call Honour Killing What it Really Is
In a recent article Judith Timson (Globe & Mail) suggests that the murder of young women in the name of honour (otherwise called “washing shame with blood”) is a deeply embedded cultural problem. As she states, it is rooted in the belief that women are equal to men and, indeed, the property of men. The …
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