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'Following up the reports that Malawi24 released on 25 July that circumcision does not help in the reduction of HIV but exacerbates it, reports have emerged that have agreed with the facts that we had earlier established.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), one of the world's renowned NGOs working on public health, has released statistics showing that HIV infection rate in Malawi has doubled in recent years despite a range of interventions put in place to tackle the spread of the virus that have included relentless campaign on condomisation and circumcision.
According to the statistics by MSF, HIV rates have doubled in Malawi moving from 10% to 20% in 1 year. Strangely, this has been the same period that Malawians have been manipulative forced to go through circumcision in masses with the promise that it reduces the contraction of HIV.'
'Unhappy with a campus judicial proceeding that led to his expulsion following a sexual assault allegation, a former Washington and Lee University student will be allowed to contest the finding in a federal courtroom.
The student’s lawsuit against the school can go forward, a judge ruled this week.
U.S. District Judge Norman Moon wrote in an opinion that the allegations made in the lawsuit, if “taken as true, suggest that W&L’s disciplinary procedures, at least when it comes to charges of sexual misconduct, amount to a practice of railroading accused students.”
Identified in court records only as John Doe, the student cited several grounds for his assertion that an internal judicial process slanted to favor female accusers over male defendants resulted in his being wrongfully found to have had nonconsensual sex with a fellow student.
'There are two rival bills in Congress addressing campus sexual assault. A nominally bipartisan bill spearheaded by Democrats Claire McCaskill and Mark Warner focuses on heaping more requirements on schools to turn their disciplinary systems into witch-hunts. Republicans in the House of Representatives, meanwhile, have introduced a bill that tries to balance protecting women from sexual assault with protecting the rights of those who have been accused of this horrible crime.
Right now, absent the case of a star athlete who the school needs for a championship shot, if a school receives a complaint by someone alleging sexual assault it has every incentive to find the male student guilty, regardless of what actually happened.
On the one hand, if the man is found not responsible – perhaps because he didn’t actually commit a sexual assault – the school can be sued by the woman, investigated by President Obama’s overly aggressive Department of Education, and publicly shamed.
Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Fri, 2015-08-07 11:07
I thought this was an interesting little tidbit. Excerpt:
'One of the strange things about feminism is how this movement, built upon hateful slander, has acquired the power to silence its critics. In 1977, when a few dozen women turned out to hear Andrea Dworkin speak in Amherst, it was still possible to oppose feminism on an American university campus. Today, dissenting voices are almost never heard in academia, where feminists exercise the kind of controlling power wielded by the mullahs in Tehran or by Kim Jung Un in Pyongyang.
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Silencing opposition is necessary to feminism’s success in reducing educational opportunities for males. Females are already 57 percent of college enrollment and in some fields, such as psychology, women outnumber males more than 3-to-1. As the percentage of males on campus dwindles, feminists in academia become ever more vehement in their denunciations of male students as rapists and harassers. Colleges now “teach women that men are the enemy and men are treated as such on campus,” as Helen Smith explains in her book Men on Strike. “Many men have just decided that they don’t belong in college ... more and more men drop out of college or never attend.”
Thanks to your hard work, a strong due process bill has been introduced to address campus sexual assault. SAVE formally endorses it, and we need your help to get it passed.
The bill is called the Safe Campus Act (H.R. 3403) and was introduced last week by Reps. Matt Salmon, Kay Granger, and Pete Sessions. The bill can be read here.
The bill will pass off most investigations to the police and restore many vital due process protections on campus, such as the right to a lawyer and to cross-examine.
Please contact your legislators today and tell them to co-sponsor the bill.
'A report published last week by the Independent Commission on Fees has uncovered a widening gender divide in university admissions. For whilst over a third of 18-year old girls enrol on a higher education course in Britain, only one quarter of boys follow suit.
So why are fewer male students applying for university courses?
Mary Curnock Cook, the chief executive of UCAS, believes the "potential of young men is somehow being let down by the school system". This suggests that the methods and techniques used to prepare pupils for their GCSEs and A-levels are angled more towards female students, and that schools and sixth forms may not be preparing boys adequately enough for these academic hurdles.'
'During President Obama's recent visit to Africa, he urged Kenyans to reconsider their treatment of females as "second-class citizens," who are routinely subjected to violence, sexual assault and forced marriages while being prohibited from obtaining an education or owning property. What caught my attention, however, is Obama's calling for an end to female genital mutilation, in which he stated, "These traditions may date back centuries. They have no place in the 21st century."
'It’s been a big week in rape-related news, inasmuch as that counts as a category of news. Donald Trump and his lawyer. Bill Cosby. Now, three men are suing Rolling Stone magazine, claiming that the later-retracted article “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” defamed them.
The plaintiffs are members of Phi Kappa Psi, a fraternity the identified in the article. According to the article’s pseudonymous “Jackie,” seven young men gang-raped her at a Phi Kappa Psi party. The article follows Jackie’s alleged attempt to get alleged justice for the alleged crime from UVA administrators.
It turned out that all of those ‘alleged’s are pretty important. Shortly after Rolling Stone published the piece, skeptics nosing around in the facts discovered that Jackie’s story wasn’t adding up. (If you need to further get up to speed on the background events, Margaret Hartmann’s thorough timeline of the UVA rape case should do the trick.) Soon Rolling Stone retracted the piece.'
Article here. Most people trafficked and enslaved today are men. But you wouldn't know that by reading most MSM articles. This one is a rare exception. Excerpt:
'Lang Long’s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family’s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker’s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job.
It was his chance to start over. But when he arrived, Mr. Long was kept for days by armed men in a room near the port at Samut Prakan, more than a dozen miles southeast of Bangkok. He was then herded with six other migrants up a gangway onto a shoddy wooden ship. It was the start of three brutal years in captivity at sea.
“I cried,” said Mr. Long, 30, recounting how he was resold twice between fishing boats. After repeated escape attempts, one captain shackled him by the neck whenever other boats neared.
'Oh silly season, how I love you. The newspapers are filled with absolute crap, our politicians are ignoring major national issues, because all the decent journalists are on holiday, and our 24-hour news channels have to rely on second string hosts and guests to fill time.
I can only imagine this is how someone like Radhika Sanghani manages to get a spot on Sky News to talk about how air conditioning is… wait for it… sexist.
Oh it was such a beautifully infuriating interview. I laughed, I cried, I vomited a little bit in my mouth. And I hope you will too. Not in my mouth, mind you. In your own.
There is nothing better than watching a trumped up, 14-year-old looking, RadFem make a total prat out of herself on live television.'
'A former Clark University student who was allegedly kicked off campus this past spring after being accused of rape is suing the school and several of its administrators, court records show.
The plaintiff, John Doe, claims in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Worcester on Tuesday that Clark led a biased inquiry into the charges against him, denying him rights promised in the university’s own student handbook and dismissing key phone records that supported his innocence.
Mr. Doe is a Connecticut resident and was a freshman at Clark last year. In a 29-page lawsuit he said he and his accuser had had a consensual sexual encounter in January that the female student reported as a rape to the university three months afterwards. The charge came at a time when an anti-sexual assault campaign on campus “was at its peak,” which Mr. Doe claims created an environment prejudiced against males accused of rape.'
'The American Bar Association must see a potential goldmine in campus sexual assault adjudication, as it has recently adopted three resolutions guaranteed to bring in future clients.
At the ABA's annual meeting on Tuesday, delegates passed three resolutions addressing sexual assault. And despite the organization being full of lawyers, due process was only added to one of those resolutions after George Washington University Law School professor Stephen Saltzburg requested it. And even then, it was given only passing reference in the last sentence.
'If we're serious about ending violence against women, we must trial women-only police stations.
That is the belief of QUT criminologist Professor Kerry Carrington, who is calling for at trial of women-only police stations in Australia to help end violence against women.
Professor Carrington is head of QUT's School of Justice and investigated the key features and different models of women-only police stations in South America earlier this year and said once a woman gets through the doors, she is safe.
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"Women-only police stations deal exclusively with female victims of domestic violence," Professor Carrington said.
"They do employ male police officers but not on the front desk.
"They are one-stop shops for these women as they are staffed by specially trained female police officers, psychologists, lawyers and social workers."
Professor Carrington said the stations offered women protection, and they did not need to go outside to access other vital services.
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