Eine außerordentlich spannende und herausfordernde Stelle ist frisch (neu) ausgeschrieben: Die zukünftige Leitung der Verbundzentrale Göttingen des Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbundes.
In Taiwan, home to to draconian libel and slander laws, well-known figures choose to sue their accusers and demand substantial compensation in an attempt to suppress controversy through litigation.
In late July, two months after the wave of #MeToo cases began in late May, Taiwan passed amendments to three Gender Equality Laws: the Gender Equity Education Act, the Act of Gender Equality in Employment and the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act.
Women are a particular target of AI tools and apps — widely available for free and requiring no technical expertise — that allow users to digitally strip off clothing from their pictures, or insert their faces into sexually explicit videos. #GBV
"A group of investigative journalists, femicide survivors &experts on gender-based violence has now published a guide for German media & journalists to help them improve the way they cover the issue of femicide."
After a decade of inattention, if not deliberate ignorance on the part of Chinese authorities, North Korean women & girls remain easy targets of human traffickers resulting in them frequently becoming victims of various crimes including sexual extortion.
"The (Chinese) government must acknowledge the causal links between its refoulement policy & human trafficking," said Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) and Transitional Justice Working Group.
Women in India's northeastern state of Manipur attacked the house of the main suspect in a sexual assault case that has enraged the nation, state police said.
The person had allegedly dragged two tribal women onto the streets in May and incited a mob to rape and parade them naked.
“Local women pelted stones and burnt some parts of the house belonging to the prime accused in a village,” said Hemant Pandey, a senior police official in the state capital Imphal.
Outrage in India over video of two women paraded naked, raped in Manipur state
The incident happened on May 4, a day after deadly ethnic riots broke out between the mainly Hindu Meitei and predominantly Christian Kuki-Zo tribes in Manipur state, , governed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The video emerged after more than two months due to an internet ban in Manipur since May 3.
Indonesian student journalists say they are being targeted with expulsion, physical assault and death threats after reporting on the prevalence of sexual harassment on their campus.
US lawyers are fighting for court reform on behalf of many mothers because what’s happening violates federal civil rights law: Family courts routinely deny women’s constitutional right to due process and some have lost their children because of it.
Many women, and family court reform advocates, call this an abuser’s modus operandi: They obtain an emergency protection order and often custody of children—then that “temporary” order becomes permanent.
Are South Korea’s New Policies Silencing Rape Survivors?
Seoul’s crackdown on false accusations is having unintended consequences.
South Korean women’s rights activists say politicians and much of the media have focused on false allegations of rape, fomenting a hostile environment that silences genuine rape survivors.
The controversial drama sheds light on bogus marriage contracts and social problems usually kept in the dark.
It is offering new language to depict and describe long-hidden social ills in the region eg sex-trafficking rings and child abuse. It also humanizes the trafficked women who are often blamed for allegedly putting themselves in sexually exploitative situations.
Ever wanted to get into Guided by Voices but didn't know where to start? I made a playlist a while back of my favorite songs of their songs of theirs (and from Bob Pollard's solo stuff), from across the years.