I love this idea. Create an App that women can use to report street harassment. Finally a way to give women back some power against random and not-so- random sexist attacks. Its now in 71 cities and 24 countries. And its run by volunteers! Wow. here is a quote from ts website: “Our site is […]
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When I was in Italy years ago I was constantly pinched and touched on the crowed buses. I never thought to complain. See what a few human beings can do with a simple idea? We must all try to find ways to bring forth the voices of those who are silent and silenced. This is amazing and powerful work. http://translinkharassment.wordpress.com/
Two amazing women shine a light on harassment on translink Read More »
We all know about the 100 plus women who are suing Canada’s national police force ( the RCMP) for systemic sexual harassment. Well, I just found out about an April report written by an internal RCMP diversity expert. Sadly it says what we women know all too well. In this particularly military-style lead organization both women and men were too
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Great story. Here is an excerpt: “One day, during a typical 15-minute walk from her office to her apartment in the center of Brussels, 25-year-old graduate film student Sofie Peeters was harassed 11 times.To channel her frustration with her inability to commute in peace, she produced a short documentary for her final school project called Femme de la Rue
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A good article on gaming – here is an excerpt: “There’s so much to learn about harassment in video game culture…Sexual harassment is an under-reported abuse in the videogame world for an important reason: Victims don’t want to bother. In order to report abuse, victims have to stop playing, find the form to fill out, actually
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As a recovering lawyer, the RCMP legal case (Galliford case) makes me embarrassed and sick. The RCMP recently filed a Statement of Defence denying almost all the allegations of harassment. In other words, they deny that anything wrong occurred. Although we all know that something happened, the RCMP and the victims are trapped in a
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Have you heard of window dressing? As you may know the RCMP are being sued by about 100 female officers for systemic discrimination. So what did the federal governmentt just do? It introduced a new law that gives senior RCMP managers even MORE power to discipline officers. Increase the power at the top. As an expert in bullying,
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Recent research shows that female farm workers are so often sexually harassed that they see it as an unavoidable condition of agricultural work. As stated by Grace Meng, of Human Rights Watch, “It’s easiest for abusers to get away with sexual harassment where there is an imbalance of power, and the of power is particularly stark on farms. [Source:
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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.
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Apparently women at the RCMP have had enough. First it was Corporal Galliford who blew the whistle and now several others. These police officers are now threatening a class action suit suggesting that the harassment is a systemic problem in the RCMP that senior officials have ignored for decades. In fact I read that Alexander
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