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'Men enjoy power, privilege and status at the expense of women, a fact that contributes to persistent and widespread gender-based violence.

Stephen Fisher, an Australian trainer on masculinities at the Chisholm Institute [hyperlink added], Melbourne, was speaking at the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre’s (FWCC) Pacific Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women at the Naviti Resort on the Coral Coast in Fiji.

Fisher said the concept of masculinities was a major factor that reinforced male behaviour normalising demeaning and violent treatment of women.

Many men enjoy maintaining their dominance role in their personal relationships and in and this is expressed through their masculinity, Fisher said.'

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'Kim Gandy, a savvy former prosecutor, is stepping down as NOW president after eight years leading the battle against many Bush-era policies.

The election to succeed her, set for NOW's three-day national conference starting Friday in Indianapolis, is both an unusual clash of generations and an opportunity for activists to confront some of the challenges facing the feminist movement.

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'HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman accused of hiding the body of her 2-year-old son in the trunk of her car for most of last summer pleaded guilty Friday to negligent homicide and evidence tampering.

Summer ManyWhiteHorses told detectives that her son, James, fell from a high chair on the night of May 28 while she was watching television in another room.

She put his body in the trunk of her car and drove around the state with her 11-year-old daughter for nearly two months, paying for food, gas, hotel rooms and alcohol with government checks meant to take care of the boy, who was autistic.

ManyWhiteHorses appeared before a judge in Great Falls on Friday, three days before her trial was scheduled to start. The 31-year-old woman could be punished with up to 100 years in prison when she is sentenced next month in Cascade County District Court.'

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'A Millcreek woman is free Monday night, just hours after a jury was selected to hear the case against her.

Catherine Cates faced 4 charges of rape of a child, and was arrested back in March.

Prosecutors alleged Cates had sex with a 13-year-old boy, whom she tutored.

Monday afternoon, the Prosecution filed a motion to dismiss all charges. Cates' roommate, who was going to testify for the prosecution, told them she remembered more details, and it hurt their case.

"She said she had been in the house every time they were together, and she didn't walk in on them and she didn't believe they had any kind of sexual encounter," said John Walsh, Cates' attorney.'

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'Valerie Lianne Carlton, 40, of Joppa, Maryland, was indicted by the Grand Jury for Harford County on June 2, 2009 on 28 counts ranging from the Sexual Child Abuse of two young girls, ages five and six, to Attempted Child Kidnapping and Extortion. These offenses began on or about January 2008 and continued through April 2009. Carlton has been a resident of Joppa for the past fifteen years.

The case is being investigated by the Harford County Child Advocacy Center and anyone with any information concerning this case is urged to contact the Center at 410.638.3294. Please contact Joseph Cassilly, State’s Attorney for Harford County, at 410.638.3500 for further information regarding this release.'

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'NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — It was a globe-trotting romance: a handsome American working as a model in Italy falls in love with a Brazilian beauty studying fashion design in Milan. They marry in 1999, settle in the tony New Jersey shore town of Red Bank, and have a son.

Four years later, the couple's relationship begins to change from an international love affair into a diplomatic nightmare.

The woman, Bruna Bianchi, took the couple's son to visit her relatives in Brazil in 2004 but never returned. The boy's father, David Goldman of Tinton Falls, N.J., has been battling to get his son back ever since.'

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'WASHINGTON TWP. -- A township man nearly bled to death Monday night in the mobile home he was living in after being stabbed by his estranged wife.

Police were tipped off to the incident by a neighbor of Joseph Hill, 46, of the 900 block of Tuckahoe Road around 9:05 p.m. Hill banged on the neighbor's window saying he had been stabbed.

According to police, Lana Hill, 47, who was last residing in South Harrison Township with a Mullica Hill mailing address stabbed her husband in the left leg with a kitchen knife, causing a single puncture wound during what authorities are calling a domestic dispute.

Joseph Hill was taken by ambulance to Cooper Medical Center in Camden. On arrival he was unconscious after losing a considerable amount of blood. He eventually came-to.

His wife is charged with aggravated assault, as well as possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and tampering with evidence. The tampering charge is connected to her attempted to conceal the weapon she allegedly performed the stabbing with.'

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'A women [sic] fatally beat her husband and stepson to death with the help of her friends after the man returned to his first wife, on Monday morning in the Pandesara area of Surat.

Rambabu Paswan was killed on the spot while his son Krunal died during treatment at the New Civil Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

The assault took place near the Akashbhumi Complex at Pandesara GIDC, when Rambabu was on his way to drop Krunal to the nearby tuition class on his motorcycle. His second wife Rekha alias Asha Tiwari (35) arrived in an autorickshaw along with her friends and assaulted the two with wooden sticks and baseball bats.'

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'As Vickie L. Kubin left a Washington County magistrate's office in chains Thursday before her expected release later in the day, her husband, Mark, said, "See you in a bit."

It was a calm contrast to June 3, the last time they were together.

At that time, they were involved in an argument at their home at 105 Fox Stop Road in Fallowfield Township, and Vickie Kubin 35, shot her husband in the side of the head, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Minutes before she was to face a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Larry Hopkins in Charleroi yesterday, attorneys for both sides reached a tentative agreement that likely will involve 12 to 23 months of probation, but no prison time. The agreement requires Common Pleas Court approval.

Charges of criminal attempt to commit homicide and aggravated assault filed last week were dropped. Kubin waived her right to a preliminary hearing on charges of recklessly endangering another person and simple assault.'

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'Labour MP Caroline Flint has been criticised for her attack on Gordon Brown's style of government and his treatment of female ministers.

Ms Flint resigned as Europe minister on Friday, claiming he operated a "two-tier" government via an "inner" circle.

Senior female figures were regarded as "little more than window dressing" by the prime minister, Ms Flint argued.

Fellow MP Geraldine Smith said Ms Flint would "regret" her comments, saying she should have thought twice about them.'

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'A pair of Indiana brothers, Joel and Aaron Longanecker, have convinced more than a quarter-million males to promise to "stand up and do manly things" on June 15 in observance of their proposed new holiday -- National Man Day.

Their National Man Day page on Facebook urges men across the country to take time to get in touch with their masculine sides on Monday. Suggested activities include playing football, camping, hunting, eating 18-ounce steaks, blowing things up, shooting guns, punching each other for no reason, pumping some iron or "watching every Rambo movie from beginning to end. Straight through!"

The purpose of the proposed holiday, according to the National Man Day page, is to acknowledge that the time has arrived "to take back the crown of masculinity."

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'A Lake Arthur woman who admitted to filing a false report about being raped in the Jennings VFW parking lot – and also admittedly filed a false report for an armed robbery in Lake Arthur – will now face charges from the Jeff Davis Parish District Attorney’s Office.

Cassidy said Jenny Thibodeaux, 42, of Lake Arthur, will face two charges of filing a false report and an additional charge of theft. On Nov. 18, 2008, Thibodeaux claimed she was raped in the field alongside the VFW on U.S. 90 by an unidentified assailant wearing dark clothes, gloves and a ski mask. She claimed she was attacked as she exited her vehicle to play bingo at the hall. She told police that the attacker fled in a white van. A woman on a cigarette break allegedly found Thibodeaux partially clothed and screaming for help, according to Jennings police.'

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'LAPEER -- A young woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a police impostor was arrested and charged with fabricating the rape.

Bethany Anne Montgomery, 22, of North Branch, was arraigned Thursday by District Court Magistrate Mike Delling on two counts of false reports of a felony, one for allegedly inventing the attack, and the other for a home burglary she reported. Montgomery is also facing unrelated charges for writing bad checks.

"We made an arrest, but it wasn't a rouge cop," said Lapeer County Sheriff's Sgt. Jason Parks. "Miss Montgomery owes this entire community an apology. What she did was wrong. She frightened many people and victimized our community. This is very disturbing."'

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'When Steve Saltarelli started a student group called Men in Power at the University of Chicago, he intended it to "spread awareness and promote understanding of issues and challenges facing men today." But from the explosive reactions to its formation, you would have thought he was suggesting women return to greeting their master at the door with slippers in hand.

The Chicago Tribune's feature story on the group was quickly blogged across the Internet, with many echoes of the female student who said, "It's like starting 'White Men in Business' -- there's not really any purpose." Or, more derisively, the blogger who told men, "You've ruled the world for far too long, now you cry fowl! Booo, hooey!"
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