Content warning: this article contains mention of rape, rape culture and legal proceedings involving the two Jaws drop in living rooms across the city. Commuters, reading newspapers and getting their news on smart phones, shake their heads in disgust: How did he get away with it? What was the jury thinking? Why did the judge…
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Victorian Police have apologised for the use of a crime scene photograph of Jill Meagher semi-naked in a shallow grave. The photograph was used at a Bendigo fundraiser for prostate cancer with 400 attendees last Friday. Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles was using the image as part of a talk on homicide investigations. Victoria Police’s…
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Feminists ‘storm wikipedia’ to end gender imbalance Feminist organisation FemTechNet has designed a project that addresses the gender-imbalance on Wikipedia. 87% of the site’s editors are men, and various pages have been affected as a result of the imbalance. Police accused of filming women naked in cell Eleven US women and a man who were…
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Less than half of Australian women who suffer violence at the hands of men report the assaults to police, a new study suggests. University of Western Australia Professor of Social Work Donna Chung says most statistics underestimate the real extent of male violence against women. Her survey of statistics on violence was released on Tuesday…
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Many female police officers in Afghanistan have no female-dedicated facilities, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Despite a series of ad campaigns targeting women, as well as Western-funded training programs, there is no place for women to change clothes privately. The HRW report indicates that women are yet to be truly accepted…
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