Revenge porn is domestic abuse. It should be a crime. Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images What would it take to end the scourge of revenge porn? Erica Goode at the New York Times writes about efforts by activists—most of whom are victims themselves—to find legal remedies for the problem of men who decide to get "revenge" on ex-girlfriends by posting private nude images online. Right now, there aren't really any criminal penalties for jerks who feel entitled to shame and harass women for the sin of choosing not to date them any longer. California, however, is finally taking steps to close this legal loophole, passing a law criminalizing revenge porn. And even California’s law, which on Monday was awaiting Gov. The problem with this law is that it doesn't address nude selfies, which can be extracted by controlling boyfriends with emotional manipulation.
Shooting of Trayvon Martin. On the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student. George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed-race Hispanic,[Note 1] was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily staying and where the shooting took place.[4][5][6] According to Zimmerman's subsequent testimony, Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an altercation between the two. Responding to an earlier call from Zimmerman, police arrived on the scene within two minutes of the shooting. Zimmerman was taken into custody, treated for head injuries, then questioned for five hours. Zimmerman's trial began on June 10, 2013, in Sanford.
On July 13, 2013, a jury acquitted him of second-degree murder and of manslaughter charges.[14] Parties involved Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman Zimmerman and his wife moved to The Retreat at Twin Lakes in 2009.[25][35] Sanford Police Department. Welcome to the Age of Denial.
Human rights. Yousef M. Aljamal | He who is brave is free. Yousef Aljamal: “Colonization, Occupation & Apartheid” Yousef Aljamal speaks about the importance of the global BDS campaign and how it can relate to struggles on the ground in Palestine. Native Affairs – The general’s son and the refugee An interview on the situation in Palestine made with Miko Peled and I, Native Affairs Show, Maori T.V, Auckland New Zealand. Native Affairs – The general’s son and the refugee How Israel’s Siege on Gaza Killed My Sister: Press T.V Report In May, June, 2007, Israel denied my eldest sister Zainab a permit to travel to the West Bank for medical purposes. Why Gaza Writes Back Why Gaza Writes Back By Yousef M. Visiting Malaysia and Aotearoa: Palestine, Beauty and Struggle I wrote this article in July, yet the problems I had gone through kept me busy.
Waiting in Gaza, where nothing makes sense Yousef M. Deported by Egypt for being Palestinian Why I have two brothers called Omar. Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide. Asylum by boat? Not in Australia. How to break the people smugglers’ real business model. No solution: Kevin Rudd arriving in Port Moresby on 14 July. Photo: Gary Ramage/ AAP Image/ News Ltd Pool THE federal government claims that its new asylum seeker policy – the PNG solution – breaks the people smugglers’ business model. Anyone smuggled by boat to Australia will be removed to Papua New Guinea for processing and won’t be resettled in Australia.
People smugglers will no longer be able to sell their product – the prospect of living in Australia – to prospective customers. Without a product to sell, the smuggling will stop, and so will the tragic deaths at sea. Many commentators have accepted this logic, even if they differ on the rights and wrongs of leaving asylum seekers stranded in Papua New Guinea. But is the logic sound? The policy rests on a misunderstanding of the product being sold. If the majority of people embarking on perilous sea voyages were economic migrants – as foreign minister Bob Carr suggests – then the government’s logic would hold.
Related articles. You've been misled on boat people: Julian Burnside. Could not load plugins: File not found Burnside: facts missing on asylum Barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside says foreign minister Bob Carr is misrepresenting the facts on asylum seekers. The etiquette of the checkout at Coles is not how it works when you are running for your life. Asylum seekers do not commit any offence by coming here, says Julian Burnside. Australia's asylum debate viewed from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp | Rafiq Copeland. Abdirashid Sheik Mohamed fled Somalia with his two younger sisters in 1991. His parents and the rest of his siblings were killed, and he escaped only with the help of his neighbours. He was five. About 10 years later, living in the Dadaab refugee camp just across the border with Kenya, Rashid and his sisters were provisionally approved for resettlement to the United States.
At the final step – a DNA test – a problem emerged. Rashid’s youngest sister was not his real sister. The neighbours who helped them to escape explained that she was a first cousin; they had been raised as siblings for the sake of simplicity. The family was devastated. As far as life in Dadaab goes, Rashid is making a pretty good go of it. Recently I noticed that Rashid had shared a news story on Facebook about the pictures published by the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship, depicting sobbing asylum seekers who had just been informed they would not be resettled in Australia. "I was shocked. The UN Refugee Agency. The report. Freedom from Torture has published a new report documenting evidence of torture ongoing in Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war. Key findings include: Torture perpetrated by state actors within both the military and police has continued in Sri Lanka after the conflict ended in May 2009 and is still occurring in 2011Those at particular risk of torture include Tamils who have an actual or perceived association with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)A variety of different types of torture have been perpetrated in a significant number of locations around Sri Lanka during the post-conflict periodA wide range of different forms of torture have been used, often in combination, to inflict severe suffering on victims of torture with devastating psychological and physical consequencesMany Sri Lankan torture victims are left with visible scarring attributable to both blunt force trauma and burns which suggests impunity for perpetrators of torture in Sri Lanka.
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