The freakin' fundamentalists are at it again. This time, in Somalia, where the stoning of women goes on unabated. On November 18, a 20-year-old divorcee who, because she had a boyfriend, was stoned to death for "adultery".

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Rape in this country is surprisingly easy to get away with. The arrest rate last year was just 25 percent - a fraction of the rate for murder - 79 percent, and aggravated assault - 51 percent.

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There is no firm national count of the number of untested rape kits. But last March, Human Rights Watch found more than 12,500 untested rape kits in the Los Angeles area alone. The Houston Police Department recently found at least 4,000 untested rape kits in storage.

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"Women on pace to become the majority of union workers... no good can come of that... My instincts never fail me.." What about his instincts to eat Oxy's, purchase the Rams, doctor shop, carry pills prescribed to somone else...

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A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that the police were notified repeatedly about violence there, but little was done.

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Crime fiction has become so violently and graphically anti-women that one of the country's leading crime writers and critics is refusing to review new books.

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With more than 330,000 New Mexicans living in poverty (that's some 17 percent of our population), more than 35 million Americans needing food stamps to survive, costly health care crippling family budgets and plunging people into debt, and hard times turning the nation's poli …

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I have been a critic for 16 years, across all arts disciplines and all media. It is simply not true that there are not enough women artists, commentators, writers and critics to achieve parity in arts events, whether they are poetry festivals or radio programmes.

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In its latest moves, the church has only further alienated itself from those who are seeking healthy, life-giving, and honest expressions of their sexuality rather than the harmful, secretive affairs that estrange us from ourselves, from one another, and from God.

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It was a Thursday in March when Monica, 18, disappeared — one of 30 girls to have gone missing in Ciudad Juárez this year.

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Trigger warning. Interesting article on AlterNet about sexual violence and misogyny in the American military.

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When Kathy Cleaves-Milan's boyfriend brandished a gun and promised to end both of their lives is she left him she knew it was time to involve the police, if not for herself for the sake of her daughter.

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If the National Football League is really concerned about the behavior of its owners away from the field, maybe it should take a close at the Miami Dolphins.

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He would rape the women he "liked" before he killed them, according to police, while others were strangled straight away.

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At least one country could face sanctions from the International Olympic Committee for continuing to bar women from competing at the Games, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Friday.

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A jail sentence would be "counterproductive" for a Salmon Arm man and renowned Canadian triathlete who bound and savagely beat his wife repeatedly with a five-pound dumbbell while she begged him for mercy, a provincial court judge has ruled.

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"Recently, Glenn Beck has claimed that his audience has seen an increase in its proportion of women and has promoted the website AsAMom.org -- a "Network of principled mothers, grandmothers, daughters, & guardians of our nation's children dedicated to" the 9 Principles & 12 Value …

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What place does the NRCC think that this accomplished woman — the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history — deserves to be in?

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Young mothers from India, particularly from Punjab, often face intense pressure here to have baby boys, said Baldev Mutta, executive director of Punjabi Community Health Services in Peel Region.

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MAX IS a self-professed "@!$%#" who takes great pride in his alleged exploits debasing the unlucky women he comes in contact with.

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DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I'll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep. COLMES: We'd be a better country if women didn't vote?

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As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.

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Are you afraid you might be a feminist ally? Are you concerned that your interest in liberating humankind has made you acknowledge your privilege and change the way you interact with people who are oppressed by institutional hierarchies? Do you often experience feelings of weakne …

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I've just discovered my newest pet peeve: misogynistic women. That is, those women who believe in and perpetuate gender-related stereotypes... the most common one being that of women's inferiority, and men's superiority (in more than the Islamic sense/ understanding).

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Is this 2009? Or have we time-travelled backwards to some primitive time when women's rights were decades away as a political notion? If we listen to the discussion today - September 25, 2009 - in the Senate Finance Committee as they mark-up their healthcare reform legislation, i …

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