Article here. Excerpt:

'Concerned that police departments nationwide fail to fully investigate rapes, a congressional committee will examine the issue next week at a hearing spurred partly by a Baltimore Sun examination of the systemic underreporting of sex crimes.

The Senate Crime and Drugs subcommittee has asked representatives of the Office of Violence Against Women to appear in Washington to discuss the problem, as well as a Pennsylvania woman jailed by police who erroneously accused her of making a false rape report.

The Sun reported in July that Baltimore for years led the nation in the percentage of rape cases in which police concluded that the victim was lying, with more than 3 in 10 cases determined to be "unfounded." Other cities have seen disturbingly high percentages of uninvestigated or dropped race cases in years past, and a women's advocate in Philadelphia pushed for the congressional hearing after the Sun's investigation reignited concerns.'

Story here.

'HUGHSONVILLE — A 22-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday for falsely reporting that she was raped in her ground floor apartment last week, according to State Police.

The woman contacted police on Sept. 2., claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a masked man, dressed all in black, who broke into her apartment on Route 9D in the early hours that day, said police.

The woman provided police with a detailed description of her alleged attacker. A brief on the attack appeared in the Journal on Sept. 3.

Police said within days of reporting the incident, the woman admitted that she fabricated the story.

The Hughsonville woman was charged with third degree false reporting of an incident and making a punishable false written statement, both misdemeanors. She was issued a ticket to appear in Town of Wappinger Court at a later date.

The Journal does typically print the names of individuals charged with misdemeanors.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Elizabeth Wilkinson was jailed for 12 months for wrongly claiming David Lord raped her four times, as revenge for him spurning her advances.

After he refused to take a one-night stand further, Wilkinson bombarded him with more than 80 threatening text messages before telling police that he raped her four times.

Mr Lord, a 23-year-old father-of-two, last night spoke of his relief as Wilkinson began her jail term.

He revealed he twice tried to kill himself, once by hanging, as he struggled with the stigma of being an alleged rapist.

‘I just couldn’t handle it. Mud sticks,’ he said. ‘All I want now is closure and to rebuild my life.

‘I think she thoroughly deserved to go to prison for what she put my children through.’

Wilkinson, a 21-year-old from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, pleaded guilty at Burnley crown court of perverting the course of justice. She had sent Mr Lord a Facebook message in September, telling him he looked ‘sexy’, after he had been into her shop.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Madrid (dpa) - Women's rights need to be defended, most Spaniards agree - but do men need their own liberation movement as well?

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's progressive women's rights policies have sparked a debate on whether his campaign for the equality of the sexes has gone too far.

Spain's gender legislation 'discriminates against men,' who are not protected adequately from female violence against them, men's rights activist Domingo Gonzalez Alonso claims.
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Zapatero, a self-confessed feminist, took a strong stance in favour of gender equality by appointing Spain's first half-female cabinet after his election victory in 2004.

After winning a second term in 2008, Zapatero created Spain's first Equality Ministry.

Legislation adopted in 2004 turned Spain into one of the most progressive European countries regarding women's rights, the government says.

Story here. Excerpt:

'UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- During the upcoming UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon will announce a new plan for improving the health of women and children in developing countries, he told reporters here Monday.

Ban will launch a new Global Strategy for Women's and Children' s Health on Sept. 22 at a special event featuring leaders from both private and public sectors.

Ban said that the UN has chosen to focus on women's and children's health because it is important to "put our resources where they will have the greatest impact."
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The UN estimates that the new plan could save 16 million lives by 2015.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Judges have been told to treat female criminals more leniently than men when deciding sentences.

New guidelines declare that women suffer disadvantages and courts should ‘bear these matters in mind’.

The rules say women criminals often have poor mental health or are poorly educated, have not committed violence and have children to look after.

‘Women’s experiences as victims, witnesses and offenders are in many respects different to those of men,’ according to the Equal Treatment Bench Book.

‘These differences highlight the importance of the need for sentencers to bear these matters in mind when sentencing.’'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Mario Viera is just four weeks old. When he was born, his mom says she told doctors at South Miami Hospital several times that she did not want Mario circumcised.

"It's a big hospital," said Vera Delgado, Mario's mother. "It's a good hospital, and I thought he's safe, he's good there."

But eight days after his birth, without his mother even present, doctors performed the surgery.

"I was crying. I spent that day and the next day crying," Delgado told CBS4's Gio Benitez exclusively.

It turns out every man in Mario's family is uncircumcised. It's a family tradition.'"

Also covered here. Excerpt:

Article here. So, she knew she had anxiety issues and flew in a plane without medicating herself anyway. She forgot to. Well, no matter, she almost brought the plane down while trying to 'stabilize herself', presumably on the emergency door handle? And guess what? No charges. Fellas, don't YOU try this. Now as for the (male) flight attendant who, while the plane was on the ground, merely harangued the passengers then jumped down the escape chute-- he is facing felony charges. Is there a double-standard at work here? You betchya! Excerpt:

'A Playboy model was detained after claims she tried to open a plane door mid flight after she suffered an anxiety attack.
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Tiffany Livingston, 21, reportedly suffered the attack as she was aboard the JetBlue Flight 522 from Orlando to Newark when passengers claim she tried to open the door at 10,000ft.

Link to story here Excerpt:

'UNIM project coordinator Dr June Odoyo said the new initiative is being piloted at New Nyanza General hospital, Kisumu, Siaya and Kombewa district hospitals.

Dr Odoyo said already they have trained health workers, mostly nurses, in the selected hospitals on how to circumcise the infants.

He explained that the nurses will use special gadgets known as a Mogen clamp to perform the circumcision at birth.

He says the new initiative is cheaper and heals faster and should be embraced by parents.

Speaking during a media training on male circumcision in Kisumu, Dr Odoyo said acceptance is low among the mothers besides resistance from the Luo Council of Elders.'

Another great video was just made by ManWomanMyth, this one entitled Misandry -- Rape. Check it out.

Web site here. Not just for Canadians! Excerpt from the About page:

'On behalf of The Canadian Symposium For Parental Alienation Syndrome and the Organizing Committee, Welcome to our website!

The Canadian Symposium For Parental Alienation Syndrome (C.S.P.A.S.), is an educational organization. We host international conferences for Mental Health Professionals, Family Law Lawyer's and numerous other professionals who are dedicated and assisting children in the prevention and treatment of Parental Alienation & Parental Alienation Syndrome.
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This is a valuable opportunity to obtain an updated educational understanding on Parental Alienation at The Mount Sinai Hospital, School of Medicine and a chance to meet with your colleagues, in one of the greatest cities in the world -NYC.

All of the speakers at our symposium are experts in Parental Alienation - from the field's of Psychology, Psychiatry and Family Law.'

From Abusegate Bob:

Each year two million Americans are falsely accused of domestic violence. And many of these persons are arrested for a “crime” they never committed!

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – SAVE – has just published a series of resources to help the falsely accused:

1. Yahoo discussion group to share information and ideas
2. Facebook page to receive announcements and Alerts
3. Practical advice on:
   
   1. how to recognize the warning signs
   2. how to deal with a restraining order
   3. how to defend against the allegation
   4. whether to file a counter-suit

Plus, it’s all free!

Come to http://www.saveservices.org/falsely-accused/ -- you don’t have to face a false allegation alone!!

Article here. It's not a DV shelter for men, but rather a shelter for men who have essentially been evicted from their homes by their wives (and probably also by the State). It's also not free ($166 USD per week), but they make it a point to foster camaraderie between the male residents by limiting the numbers of residents living in a given facility, and they also provide rooms for the children of fathers to stay in order to foster an uninterrupted relationship. What impresses me is that they are recognizing that male pain exists and are also identifying the cause of that pain -- family breakup, an outcome sought by wives 80 percent of the time according to this article. Excerpt:

'GENEVA (Reuters) – A trickle of newly separated Swiss fathers looking for shelter and help after marital breakdown have been finding a warm bed and a sympathetic ear from a pilot project on the shores of Lake Zurich.

Protestant pastor Andreas Cabalzar has founded Switzerland's first shelter for newly separated fathers in the Swiss village of Erlenbach, not far from Geneva.

Story here. Excerpt:

'PHILADELPHIA — Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods plant and escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.

The woman in custody is Yvonne Hiller of Philadelphia, a local police official said Friday on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly before a scheduled news conference. No charges have been announced.'