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Rates of Sexual Abuse of India's Children Shockingly High

By Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia

October 12, 2009 - 6:00am

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With over 35 million homeless children in India, and shelters for only 36,000 of them, children's lives can be precariously balanced and sexual abuse is widespread. But even those living at home are not always safe.

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Invisible Girls Demand To Be Seen

By Brittany Shoot

September 16, 2009 - 8:00pm

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In a revised second edition of her groundbreaking book Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse, Dr. Patti Feuereisen explains the intricacies of mentor abuse among the other variants of sexual abuse and assault that many young women face. In the United States alone, at least one in four young women will survive some sort of abuse before she turns eighteen.

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Abortion Is Too Health Care And Killing Your Wife Is Too Domestic Violence

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 31, 2009 - 4:36pm

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Dr. Patti Feuereisen speaks on teenage girls recovering from sexual abuse. Also, the Jasmine Fiore murder is sadly not unusual, and why abortion is legitimate health care.


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The Common Ground Honor Code

By Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights

July 3, 2009 - 7:00am

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Despite its worthy mission, the White House common ground agenda needs some serious tweaking. There is a need to reframe the agenda in a larger discourse of honoring motherhood and honoring the sacredness of women and girls’ lives.

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Get Real! Healing and Dealing with Triggers as a Male Survivor

By Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com

January 9, 2009 - 8:00am

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Rape isn't about "letting" something happen. It's about a profound violence someone else does to us, and it's something that happens to men and women, boys and girls.

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Against Backdrop of Sexual Violence, Ads, Too, Exploit Young Teens

By Danielle Toppin, RH Reality Check, Caribbean

October 14, 2008 - 7:00am

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Against a wider backdrop of sexual violence being committed against, and perpetrated by, children and adolescents, the sexualization of under-aged teenagers in Jamaica is extremely problematic.

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Roundup: NOW Endorses Obama, Biden's Fight for the Violence Against Women Act

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 17, 2008 - 11:04am

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Reproductive health bill to be debated in Philippines; National Organization of Women endorses Obama; The story of Joe Biden and the Violence Against Women Act; Palin says she fired Monegan for going above her head to secure funds to fight sexual abuse; More funding needed to fight HIV in Cleveland; Family planning and global population.

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Planned Parenthood Retaliates Over McCain Attack Ad

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

September 17, 2008 - 7:00am

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Planned Parenthood Action Center on Friday released a TV ad set to air in Denver and other markets where the McCain campaign has been advertising a claim that Barack Obama favored teaching kindergartners about sex.

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India's Insensitivity Towards Victims of Violence

By Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia

July 21, 2008 - 7:00am

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Violence gets insidiously soaked in to everyday life in India. But sensitivity towards victims of such crimes remains abysmally low.

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Shattered and Strengthened: Postville Church Cares For Immigrant Families

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

June 13, 2008 - 7:00am

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In the four weeks since the May 12 federal immigration raids at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, St. Bridget's Church has been a refuge for the plant's undocumented workers.

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