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Shifting the Blame onto Victims

Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia on April 18, 2008 - 9:51am
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Latest reports by India's National Crime Records Bureau found a seven-fold increase in rape cases between 1971 and 2006. But the agencies that should ensure safe environments for women make excuses for perpetrators and resort to moral policing rather than finding ways to make women safer.


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Get Real! Healing from Rape

Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com on April 11, 2008 - 9:49am
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Heather Corinna brings Scarleteen's popular sexual health advice column to RH Reality Check! This week, in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she talks to a young women who was forced to have sex.


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Take Back the Screen

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on April 10, 2008 - 9:45am
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In order to raise awareness of sexual assault, we have to look at the images of violent sexuality embedded in our popular visual culture, images that trivialize and misrepresent reality.


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War With Ourselves: Sexual Violence In The Military

Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check on April 8, 2008 - 9:47am
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U.S. servicewomen today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Sexual violence against female contractors, soldiers and Iraqi girls and women continues to raise the question: what will we do to stop it?


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To Have and To Hold…Rape within Marriage

Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America on October 29, 2007 - 8:02am
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Sex within marriage is not a right -- it is something that is consented to even though vows have been taken.


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