The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national newspaper, printed this editorial:

"From the opposition outcry over budget cuts to Status of Women Canada, Canadians might think the Conservatives had throttled women's aspirations for equality. That is simply incorrect. Instead, 35 years after the creation of a status-of-women cabinet post and 22 years after the recognition of women's equality rights in the Constitution, Ottawa has decided to close 12 of the agency's 16 regional offices across the country. The closings come as Ottawa pares $5-million from the agency's $23-million annual budget over two years. It's about time."

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"Today, it seems more like a government relic, laden with jargon from old wars."

Story here.

"Now detectives have the accuser, Sherry Mullins, 35, of 318 Walker Road, Morganton, behind bars. Mullins is charged with filing a false police report."

"Detectives invested about 25-30 hours in the case, Huffman says. That time could have been spent on other, real cases, he says. Filing a false police report in North Carolina is a misdemeanor.

Story here.

"Liverpool fan Patricia Miller, 26, had consensual sex with the 19-year-old student Charles Brown hours after the Champions League final on 25 May 2005."

"But she told police she had been raped by Mr Brown at her flat in Acomb, York."

"Jailing her for nine months at York Crown Court, Judge Stephen Ashurst said Miller had told "a pack of lies".

Great news! Read it here. Excerpt:

"Contact: Teri Stoddard of AKidsRight.Org, 925-628-1206 or teri@akidsright.org

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Family rights activist and AKidsRight.Org's founder John Murtari will be released from prison Friday after spending four months incarcerated for "willful" failure to pay child support. Murtari denies the charge, saying support was calculated with a salary he no longer had, and travel expenses to see his son exceed the amount ordered after the courts allowed his ex-wife to move their son across the country.

Inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Murtari embarked on a peaceful protest July 31, the day he reported to serve his 6-month sentence. For 10 days Murtari had no food or water. Medical personnel tried to tempt him with candy, and threatened not to intervene. He lost 27 pounds and suffered dehydration, low blood sugar, low blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat before prison officials gave him a feeding tube."

Story here. Excerpt:

"The teen told police Kalinowicz became pregnant and he thought he was the father, although Kalinowicz told police she'd slept with three other men. Kalinowicz had an abortion when she was five months pregnant, court records state."

Story here.

"A former gym teacher has admitted to improper conduct with a 13-year-old boy at a Middlesex County middle school where she taught for nearly a decade."

"Under the plea bargain, Amy Burke faces up to four years in state prison and agreed to surrender her teaching certificates."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A warrant has been issued for a 30-year-old Bay City woman who is charged with sexual assault of a child, a 16-year-old boy who worked with her at a fast-food restaurant."

"The charges were made following an investigation that started Nov. 20 when the boy's mother went to police to express her concerns about the possible assault."

Article here. Excerpt:

"In October, the United Nations (UN) released its much-anticipated Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Women (SVAW) - a global overview and update on the issue. The SVAW is a lumbering 139-page behemoth of a document that is embarrassingly inaccurate, ideological and biased against men."

"SVAW stresses that psychological neglect or abuse and lack of medical care are forms of violence against women. But, worldwide, men are 3.5 times as likely to commit suicide and their life expectancy is lower than women's"

Story here. So girls can still play on boys' teams, but not vice versa. Excerpt:

"MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.

The District 4 Court of Appeals upheld a judge's dismissal of Keith Michael Bukowski's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, which has a rule prohibiting boys from competing in girls' sports."

The men's rights movement does exist in India. The sheer volume of population can give an idea that India is likely to have more men's rights activists then Australia in spite of the fact that the feminists have started to hit-and-bat at will only from year 2000 onwards.

Only a feminist can make dating allowance seem like a crime the link to this is here.

But unfortunately for her the MRAs were available and the reaction was swift in a day with SIF and Asha-kiran; it made front page news.

The first case of Domestic violence in India and it is proved to have been misused.

"OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government is taking an axe to Status of Women Canada, closing three-quarters of its regional offices and outraging critics in the process.

Heritage Minister Bev Oda revealed Wednesday that 12 of the federal agency's 16 regional offices will be shut down by April 1.

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'We don't need to separate the men from the women in this country. . . This government as a whole is responsible to develop policies and programs that address the needs of both men and women.'"

Story here.

The situation in the UK continues to get worse. Check this story out.

Courts should go easy on women who kill abusive partners, a review of the laws on murder said yesterday.

Women who kill in cold blood can escape the mandatory life sentence imposed for the crime if they prove they were "provoked" by fear of domestic violence.

But the plan, delivered to ministers yesterday by the Government's law reform advisers, says that men who kill wives or girlfriends in anger over betrayal or family break-up should get more severe treatment.

So much for sexual equality.

Notice here.

"70% abused wives in India statistics false" says the UN Agency..."

The Telegraph asks: "Are the courts automatically biased towards mothers, even if they may not be the more suitable parent? What steps can be taken to force mothers to provide fathers with the necessary contact with their children?

Is there too much of a focus on a father's responsibility to make alimony payments, and not enough on his right to visit his child?

How do you think Britain compares to other countries in the way that it handles the rights of separated parents?

Has the adversarial approach to divorce law turned children into the spoils of marriage?"

The response from readers is absolutely overwhemling.

One day, a politician will catch on, offer equal rights to fathers in divorce, and scoop an election.

Found this in the Australian (Sydney) MX News, a daily newspaper given away free to all commuters each day in Sydney. It's the drum I've been banging on about for ages, so really pleased to see it in at least a form of mainstream press.

QUOTE:

TITLE: TV Turns men into monsters, by Matt Sun

The portrayal of men on current affairs television has turned the average Australian male from goofy bloke to evil predator.
University of Western Sydney media researcher Dr Jim Macnamara said years of seeing images of men being shown as evil was influencing young boys, who either abandon men as role models or try to live up to the stereotype.

A six month study revealed 69 percent of reports on men were unfavourable - only 12 percent were favourable.

"Some recurring themes in media content portrayed men as violent, sexually abusive, unable to be trusted with children, deadbeat dads or commitment-phobic, and in need of reconstruction," he said.