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To Polanski Petition Signers: RAPE is RAPE
By CWLC, CWLC News, Violence Against Women, May 14th, 2010
UPDATE:
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors have met with a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was 16 in Paris.
Forty-two-year-old Charlotte Lewis, speaking at a news conference Friday in Los Angeles, says Polanski abused her in 1982, four years before she appeared in Polanski’s “Pirates” film.
District attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons acknowledges Lewis met with a prosecutor handling Polanski’s 33-year-old sex case involving another girl. Gibbons would not comment further.
As Steven Zeitchik reported for the LA Times yesterday, there is another petition currently circulating around Cannes this year to free Roman Polanski. The petitioners are asking the Swiss government to refuse an extradition request from California. A few days ago, a California judge denied Polanski’s request to unseal testimony in…
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Dating Violence is an Epidemic
By CWLC, CWLC News, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women, Women's Health, May 6th, 2010
“George Huguely has been officially charged with the murder of 22-year-old University of Virginia student Yeardley Love. Love was killed early Monday morning. The Daily Progress reported Huguely admitted to police that, during an argument with Yeardley Love, he “shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall,” according to an affidavit requesting a search warrant.
It was reported that Love was found face down on her pillow in her bedroom. Her right eye was swollen shut, there was a pool of blood on the pillow, and her face was bruised, according to the affidavits. The door to the room had been forced open and had a hole in it, according to the documents. The two had dated for over a year and recently split.
For roughly the…
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American Idol meets World Feminism
By CWLC, CWLC News, Domestic Violence, Gender Discrimination, Violence Against Women, April 1st, 2010It’s now a rare event where a television franchise such as American Idol inspires the courage to question and challenge cultural ‘norms’. We thought it was important to bring you this great article from today’s New York Post.
Bravery of Arab TV ‘Idol’
Veiled poetess hits ‘vicious, barbaric clerics’
By LUKAS I. ALPERT
A burqa-clad contestant on the Arabic version of “American Idol” landed in the finals after bravely blasting hard-line Muslim clerics on live television, sparking outrage among religious conservatives in the Middle East. Unlike the wildly popular Fox show, contestants in the Middle Eastern version recite traditional and original poetry rather than sing.
While most regale the audience with odes to the beauty of Bedouin life and glory of their rulers, Hissa Hilal stunned audiences last week…
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The Buying and Selling of Human Beings for Sex and Labor
By cacilia, Violence Against Women, June 17th, 2009The State Department’s annual report on human trafficking (“Trafficking in Persons Report”) found that the current economic crisis has increased the worldwide trade in human beings — including young children — for sex and labor. The report, released this week, estimates that at least 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced sex and labor every single year. This number is almost certainly too low as most victims live and work out of sight — in the outskirts of society and humanity. More than half of all victims are women and girls.
In today’s Washington Post, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrote about the devastating effects of trafficking and of her experiences holding “12-year-olds who had been trafficked and were dying of AIDS.” To many of…
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