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Intermedia proudly offers the new title, Use Your Strength: Mobilizing Young Men to Prevent Sexual and Dating Violence. This film introduces Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR), an award-winning pioneer in youth development programs. In this film, MCSR presents a fresh approach to the problem of sexual violence and date rape. In contrast to traditional efforts, [...]
We’re back after our hiatus. As we move towards autumn, we hope to post more frequently. Here are some items in the news we are watching:. As the recession continues to hurt the social services sector, the state of California has come up with a creative way to fill some of the funding gaps. From [...]
We found this story via Care2.Com about a Washington , DC sexual assault survivor who was denied use of a rape kit by both the hospital and police. For years women who have been sexually assaulted have had to deal with people who believe that is they didn’t say no, then a rape did not [...]
Click the image to visit the website of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for more information about Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
We have previously posted about the inadequacies of many college and university justice systems when it comes to the issue of sexual assault. We found this very interesting article by Jaclyn Friedman, who talks about the issue and recounts her personal experience as a sexual assault survivor: I’d heard horror stories about victims being grilled [...]
Here’s an update from a December post we did about Sexual Assault on Campus The Center for Public Integrity has added some new articles to their report about college sexual assault. Here’s a sampling of some of the interesting articles: ‘Undetected Rapists’ on Campus: A Troubling Plague of Repeat Offenders An Uncommon Outcome at Holy [...]
Found Via USA Today: The report says the “date-rape drug” phenomenon “is evolving rapidly, as sexual abusers attempt to circumvent more rigorous drug controls by using substances not restricted by the international drug conventions.” Link to the complete UN Report
Related to a previous post about Michelle Obama’s effort to combat childhood obesity, we found this interesting article published by Time that discusses the links between childhood sexual abuse and trauma to eating disorders and obesity In recent years, studies by both Felitti and others have largely confirmed the association between sexual abuse — as [...]
Here’s an interesting story we found at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website about a Norwegian study of rape survivors and childbirth: Women who have been raped have much more difficulty in childbirth than their peers who have never suffered sexual abuse or violence, a new study shows. “The challenging part seems to be [...]
We previously had some entries about backlogs of untested rape kits. It turns out that Senator Patrick Leahey, (D) Vermont, recently held a hearing on this issue: The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing yesterday on the national rape kit backlog, the reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act, and current legislation introduced in [...]
