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'Battle-hardened militants were far from the most terrifying thing for many women living under their harsh rule in the ISIS-conquered city of Mosul.

"I was much more afraid of women," said Umm Fatma, referring to female members of the terror organization's morality police, known as the Hisbah.

"The women would beat you for the smallest thing — how you looked or how you wore your headscarf, " the 28-year-old mother of three who arrived at the Khazer Camp last week told NBC News. "They used whips and metal sticks."

Restricted in where they could go and what they could wear while in Mosul, refugees described living in fear of the Khansaa Brigade, the all-female ISIS Hisbah units who patrolled the streets tasked with enforcing an extreme version of Shariah law.'

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'A former middle school teacher in Texas pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student before becoming pregnant as a result.

Police say 24-year-old Alexandria Vera, 24, allegedly sexually assaulted the child “on almost a daily basis”, according to KTRK. She faced federal charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child.

Vera taught eighth grade English at Stovall Middle School in Houston before surrendering herself to authorities for the alleged sexual assault in May.
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The teacher became pregnant in January 2016, but said she had an abortion after Texas Child Protective Services showed up to the school in February to question her about the relationship.

Investigators found evidence of the relationship on her cell phone, despite her initial denial of any wrongdoing.'

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'“Gender equal snow-cleaning is not to blame here,” Daniel Helldén, the city’s Green Party transport head told the Expressen newspaper, stressing that the policy, which prioritises cleaning pavements and cycle lanes over roads, did not even appear to have even been followed.

“There is a lack of gender equal snow-clearing now, according to the reports I’m getting,” he said. “It’s still difficult to walk on the pavements — and it is important that snow-clearing prioritises walkways, public transport and cycle paths.”

Stockholm’s municipal government, a coalition of the Social Democrats and the Green Party, brought in gender equal snow cleaning last year, pledging to make moving around the city on icy winter days just as safe for women as it is for men.
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But on Thursday and Friday, the policy came under renewed criticism after the city was thrown into chaos by the unusually heavy snow dump, with buses and trains cancelled, and major motorways blocked.

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'Derrick Rose is demanding tens of thousands of dollars in damages from the woman who accused him of rape after he was cleared in his civil trial.

In a papers filed to a California court, the New York Knicks star claims that he and his fellow defendants are 'entitled' to 'expenses they necessarily incurred in defending themselves against…false claims' brought by the woman.

In 2013 she accused Rose, his manager Randall Hampton and childhood friend Ryan Allen of drugging and raping her.

She claims the three defendants gang raped her without her consent, but while they three men admitted to having sex with the woman, they maintain the act was consensual.'

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'An 18-year-old University of Alabama student has been charged for falsely reporting she was raped in a parking lot near campus on Sunday, Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide investigators announced on Friday.

The student, Emma Katherine Mannion, is charged with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor, Captain Gary Hood said.

The student told police she was forced into a red Jeep Cherokee and sexually assaulted around 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 13. She said it happened in Solomon's parking lot near 6th Street and Wade Wallace Boulevard, near the northwest corner of Bryant-Denny Stadium.'

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'A woman who said she had been sexually assault told police that she made up the claim because she was upset over the election.

Police heard about the claim on Nov. 11. The department got an email from someone who had seen a Facebook post in which a woman said she had been assaulted in Kirkland. The post also said Kirkland police responded, but didn't investigate or file a report.

Police began investigating but couldn't find any sort of call matching the woman's claim in the dispatch center.

The identifying information on the Facebook post had been marked out on the email, so investigators couldn't identify the woman.'

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'Yesterday the students, frustrated by the perceived lack of action from Wits University management to the alleged rape, accused it on social media of protecting the "perpetrator", who is also a student, and posted pictures of the man.

Gender-based violence researcher Lisa Vetten warned the students of a potential defamation lawsuit.

"Our law protects the identity of both parties. If the case is still pending and no criminal charges have been laid, the students who posted those pictures could be sued for defamation of character.

"I know they might feel frustrated. In most cases when people name and shame it is because they feel that justice was denied."

Criminal lawyer Ulrich Roux said even if the person had not been charged one could not reveal his identity until he was given a fair chance in a court of law.

"Society cannot pass judgment or try him on social media."'

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'The question shouldn’t be whether we need an International Men's Day but how we can respect the issues and challenges faced by men, so that they in turn show the same respect for their female counterparts. How we can lead and fight by example, not alienate a whole sex.

International Men’s Day doesn’t take away from the issues facing women; we don’t have a monopoly on suffering.

Feminists cannot insist that society listen to the problems women face and take them seriously if they are then going to go out of their way to sneer at a day that is discussing how to combat male suicide. It is contradictory, and just downright unfair on the relatives and friends of those who have lost a son, father, husband or a brother to suicide.'

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'I for one will wait not a moment longer to fight mansplaining on my own doorstep. Today I launch the Australian Mansplaining Hotline, and I am ready to take your calls.

What sort of services will I be providing on the AMH?

Well, first of all I will listen. You can be certain that in me you will find a sympathetic and patient ear.
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Has a colleague given you a detailed explanation of why your work-life balance problems are overstated? Pour your heart out to me.

Did your barista just explain why the wage gap is illusory? Pick up that phone!

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'It is the bane of women across the country - men 'mansplaining' things to them or talking over them in a patronising manner.

And it appears that even senior politicians aren't immune, as civil servants are reportedly now watching their step around Theresa May.

Whitehall is said to be concerned of committing the faux pas when dealing with Britain's second ever female prime minister and her colleagues, after one of Britain's senior security officials, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, was said to have displeased the Prime Minister with his conduct during a meeting, according to The Times.

Sources have apparently said that male officials are now "hyper-aware" of the need to behave appropriately around senior female politicians.

One said of his meetings with Theresa May's largely female team: "I maintain eye contact, ensure I offer only what's wanted and definitely do not talk over them to avoid causing offence."'

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'Reverse Title IX discrimination got a boost when the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights – not known for caring about the rights of accused males – found that Delaware’s Wesley College had given the kangaroo-court treatment to males accused of sexual misconduct.

Cornell may be the next on the department’s list, at least under a Trump administration.

The Cornell Daily Sun reports that a male student has sued the school because it allegedly refused to investigate his complaint that a female sex partner had sexually assaulted him.'

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'Amongst all of the talk about forcing Muslim immigrants to register in a national database, it seems we’ve forgotten who the actual threat to our safety really is: white men.

That’s right. Unlike Muslims in the U.S., white men are demonstrably more likely to commit a mass shooting than any other group and they are the majority of rape perpetrators. So in the spirit of registries, one Brooklyn-based woman, Candace Thompson, created a tongue-in-cheek registration form for members of this most dangerous demographic.

“Forget the nation of Islam, our most immediate threat to domestic security is and always has been white, straight men,” she wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. “That is why I have decided to do my part as a Red Blooded Patriot by creating The White Male Registry. It is a simple google form complete with questions that will help identify just how much of a threat to American security any individual white male may pose to the general public.”'

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'A Tory has been accused of “mansplaining” in the UK after he became embroiled in a row with a female MP during a controversial Commons debate to mark International Men’s Day.

Philip Davies accused the SNP’s justice spokeswoman Joanna Cherry of failing to prepare for the debate after she questioned his claims that fathers were wrongly being denied access to their children.

It came after Davies accused “politically motivated people” of wanting to conduct “a war on gender”.

During the debate Cherry, a QC who has taught law at the University of Edinburgh, challenged Davies over if he was aware of any “empirical research which shows that the legal system in either Scotland or England is biased against fathers, because I’m not”.'

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'Two decades ago, a Placitas woman left her husband and took their three children with her to England.

Eileen Clark faced a judge and the man she left on Wednesday, pleading guilty in the kidnapping case. In exchange for the plea, she will not face jail time and will be allowed to return to England to her children, who are now adults.

"What she did to me was deny me my parental rights to have an opportunity to grow up and be in their life, to build memories with them. She took all that away from me,” said John Clark.

Eileen Clark’s attorneys said she regrets leaving the way she did, but took off to get out of an unhappy marriage.'

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'AMSTERDAM—Sorry guys—this time it’s women only. That’s the message the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) here has for male researchers during two special elections. In order to reduce its perpetual gender imbalance—87% of its 556 members are men—the academy seeks to recruit 10 new members in 2017 and six more in 2018, all with two X chromosomes.