What remains of a family photo found in the burned family home. The smiling man was Sylvia Orza Pardo’s father.
UPDATE: Pardo intended to kill not only as many members of his ex-wife’s family as possible, but his mother and his ex-wife’s attorney as well. He was mad at his mother because she had recently expressed [...]
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A 28-year-old woman who lived peacefully with her woman partner was brutally attacked a week ago last Saturday night in San Francisco. As the woman got out of her car and crossed the street, she was surrounded by four men ranging in age from late teens to early 30s who first taunted her for [...]
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From Human Rights Watch:
(New York, December 18, 2008) — A new government report showing huge increases in the incidences of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault over a two-year period in the United States deserves immediate attention from lawmakers and the incoming administration, Human Rights Watch said today. The statistics show a 42-percent increase in [...]
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“Christians” are not oppressed in the same way “Americans” are not oppressed in the same way “whites” are not oppressed — they are not oppressed if they are male. They are not oppressed unless they are female persons
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“Why so much hate?”
Some of you may recall Suki Falconberg’s post here on Women’s Space, The Padlocked Vagina, about rape and sexual assault as weapons of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tuesday 5,000 Congolese women took to the streets to demand justice.
KINSHASA - Several thousand Congolese women took to the streets of Kinshasa [...]
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What will it take for women to recognize that globally, as women, we are targeted for destruction? What specific cataclysm in the history of our social subordination will forge in us, as a fundamental element of our identity, an awareness of the fact and the means by which our specific social group is being destroyed? [...]
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ICC Prosecutor appoints Prof. Catharine A. MacKinnon as Special Adviser on Gender Crimes
The Hague, 26 November 2008p
Prof. Catharine A. MacKinnon was appointed as Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She will provide strategic advice to his Office on sexual and gender violence, an area where expertise is required under Article [...]
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Noemi Lopez, 31, worked two jobs to support her three children, ages 6, 13 and 15. By day she worked at Swedish Hospital in Seattle; in the evenings she worked as a waitress in the downtown Seattle Westin Hotel. She was friendly and hardworking, liked and appreciated by everyone. One woman wrote [...]
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