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'Domestic violence against men in Northern Ireland has increased by more than 40% in nine years – and that's just reported incidents.

PSNI figures reveal that the figure reached a record of 2,525 male victims in 2012/13, up 259 cases on the year before.

Police started recording the statistics nine years ago.

They also show that in one year alone (2011/12) the level of reported incidents jumped 25% (from 1,833 to 2,266).

But this may be only a fraction of the true figure due to the reluctance of many men to come forward because of embarrassment and shame – a scenario the police and support groups hope will change.

Northern Ireland's first crisis centre for male abuse victims, Men's Aid NI, was opened earlier this year.'

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'In the next few weeks, Clark Legal Services will be filing suit against New Jersey asking for an injunction to prevent New Jersey from taking custody away from a parent without a prompt and full hearing — which is what is required by the United States Constitution. A "full" hearing means the right to present evidence, cross examine accusers and be represented by counsel if one chooses. The federal courts have not said precisely how soon is "prompt," but essentially it means a soon as possible and certainly a matter of days, not weeks or months.

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'The Teachers' Council's complaints assessment committee charged the teacher with serious misconduct over an inappropriate relationship with a Year 13 student from the unnamed school.

The New Zealand Teacher's Disciplinary Tribunal's agreed statement of facts detailed that after recently separating from her husband, the teacher invited the student to live with her, knowing that he was to be a pupil at the school she taught at.

The teacher also communicated with the students in an inappropriate manner by discussing personal matters with them and making statements to the effect of "oh I love you and care about you and I'll see you after school", the decision said.

She hugged and kissed him and once suggested a threesome with him and another boy while they were in her bedroom.
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The tribunal said she had in effect, been suspended from teaching from May 2010, in excess of three years.

The suspension of her practising certificate ended on October 30 this year.

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'Union County, N.C. — Authorities arrested a Union County Department of Social Services worker and a Monroe man Friday night after an 11-year-old boy was found handcuffed to the front porch of a home with a dead chicken tied around his neck, investigators said.

WBTV of Charlotte reported a deputy was answering an animal services complaint next door to the home on Austin Road, south of Monroe, when he saw a child secured to the front porch at the ankle, by what appeared to be a pair of handcuffs.

The child also had a dead chicken hanging around his neck, and appeared to be shivering, the deputy said.

Moments later, 57-year-old Dorian Lee Harper appeared on the porch along with another child who released several large dogs onto the officer.
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Larson was a supervisor with Union County Department of Social Services.

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'International Men's Day (IMD) is an annual event celebrated on November 19.

Inaugurated in 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago, International Men's Day is celebrated in over 60 countries, including Spain.

Its objectives include focusing on men's and boys' health, improving gender relations, promoting gender equality and highlighting positive male role models.

It is an occasion to highlight discrimination against males and to celebrate their achievements and contributions, in particular to community, family, marriage, and childcare.

The theme for 2013 is ‘Keeping Men and Boys safe’.

Celebrations for International Men’s Day have become intertwined with others for Movember. This is an annual, month-long event involving growing moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer and other male cancer.

Movember aims to increase early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments, and ultimately reduce the number of preventable deaths.'

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'The American Thinker’s always interesting Clarice Feldman has taken two separate incidents to draw our attention to what Feldman calls “the pernicious effects” of feminism today.

The two incidents are…

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'When I started following the research on child well-being about two decades ago, the focus was almost always girls' problems — their low self-esteem, lax ambitions, eating disorders and, most alarming, high rates of teen pregnancy. Now, though, with teen births down more than 50% from their 1991 peak and girls dominating classrooms and graduation ceremonies, boys and men are increasingly the ones under examination. Their high school grades and college attendance rates have remained stalled for decades. Among poor and working-class boys, the chances of climbing out of the low-end labor market — and of becoming reliable husbands and fathers — are looking worse and worse.

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'The University of Fraser Valley [link added] has a problem. Not with violence, since records show that UFV is a rather safe campus. No, the problem is in deciding who, in those brief and isolated punctuations of time when violence occurs, should be safe from violence. Should UFV adopt an approach that does not exclude its students on the basis of sex, race, and so forth? Or should it adopt the position that some groups are more worthy of safety than others?

They have chosen the latter. According to an interview by local radio station Star FM:
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Leonard says security patrols the campuses in Abbotsford and Chilliwack 24/7 and you can call them to walk you to your vehicle. He also says at the Abbotsford campus the lots closest to the main doors of building A are reserved for women only in the evening.

Director of Security Brian Leonard’s email address is brian.leonard-at-ufv.ca. Please direct your dissent toward him.
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A quick trip to the parking page on the university’s website (which I have screenshotted in case they take it down) shows the same same diamond-shaped red and yellow signs, and explicitly states that it has a section for women-only parking:
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'About five years ago, Peg Tyre, a long-time education journalist, wrote a book called The Trouble With Boys which discussed why boys were not being served well in today’s public schools. Christina Hoff Sommers wrote a similar book, entitled The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. Other books have been written on the topic as well. About a year ago the Westchester County Psychological Association had Ms. Tyre give a presentation, along with David Greene, a retired Scarsdale High School teacher, regarding what they have observed as the education system has changed throughout the years. Much of what they said stuck with me, and has influenced my work with youngsters.'

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'Boys are 14 percent more likely than girls to be born prematurely, and preterm boys have a greater risk of disability and death than preterm girls, new research finds.

These disabilities range from learning problems, blindness or deafness, to motor problems such as cerebral palsy, according to the authors of six studies published in the journal Pediatric Research in advance of World Prematurity Day on Nov. 17.

"Baby boys have a higher likelihood of infections, jaundice, birth complications and congenital conditions, but the biggest risk for baby boys is due to preterm birth," research team leader Dr. Joy Lawn, a professor and neonatologist and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in England, said in a journal news release.
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However, the study authors pointed out, preterm girls are more likely than boys to die in the first month of life in some countries where girls receive less nutrition and medical care than boys.'

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'While the campaign refers to all individuals who are victimized, talk of domestic abuse still focuses on adult female victims. That trend is slowly changing as the government, aid agencies and society begin to recognize other victims.

The least discussed group, says men’s rights activists, is men. It is a politically charged topic as adult males are also seen as the main perpetrators of abuse. Toronto social worker Adam McPhee says that doesn’t mean male victims can be ignored.

McPhee is employed at a Toronto AIDS counselling centre and an emergency drop-in shelter. He is also a spokesperson for the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE).

CAFE says its mandate is universal equality, but that it is focused on male well-being at a time when men are suffering from disproportionate rates of suicide, poor educational performance and legal bias.

CAFE has also been accused of being a hate group. Protestors forced it to call off a presentation at the University of Toronto in November 2012.

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'Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (MD, PhD) wrote a well-received book titled “Boys Adrift.” The doctor tried to answer the question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and indifference?

Dr. Sax had heard more and more parents complain that their boys stayed indoors most of the time, spent hours on video games, and in general seemed to lack the confidence and esprit de corps that had characterized boys throughout history.

“Something scary is happening to boys today,” Sax concluded. “From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically.”

The book’s full title is, “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.” Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: “video games, teaching methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation of masculinity.'

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'Navy SEALs may have killed Osama bin Laden, but women led them to their prey.

Women made up the majority of analysts – at one point all the analysts -- in “Alec Station,” the unit charged with finding Bin Laden, managed the ramp-up at the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center after 9-11, and participated in the interrogation, and the waterboarding, of al Qaeda suspects. They were critical to the first capture of a major al Qaeda target, Abu Zubaydah; helped find and kill Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq; ran "black sites," the secret CIA prisons used to interrogate terror suspects; and in the case of two senior analysts, died in an attack by al Qaeda on a CIA compound in Afghanistan.
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Some of Moore’s male colleagues are more effusive. In a speech this January, former CIA Director Michael Hayden said an "incredible band of sisters” led the search for Osama. Michael Scheuer, who ran “Alec Station,” told Newsweek last year that, “If I could have put out a sign on the door that said ‘No men need apply,’ I would have done it.”
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Whatever the intangibles, even two years before 9-11, all the staffers in "Alec Station" except Scheuer were female. After 9-11, women were involved in setting up the earliest "black sites,” and participated in the controversial interrogations themselves. Officials told NBC News that both Zubaydah and ”KSM” -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9-11 mastermind -- were interrogated by women, sometimes with the aid of "enhanced interrogation techniques," including waterboarding, the simulated drowning technique since outlawed.

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'A taxi company in Australia plans to introduce "pink taxis' which will be driven by women and only available to female passengers, saying women feel less safe with male drivers.

The company behind the scheme, Taxi Link, said it was concerned a the series of night-time sexual assaults and believed some women felt uncomfortable in taxis, which are predominantly driven by men. The scheme will allow women to request a female driver when booking a cab.
"From a safety point of view, I think women feel more at ease with women," the company's director, Harry Katsiabanis, told The Herald Sun.

"We are trying to create a more comfortable environment, an environment that will be more readily used than the current one."
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"I think women are more caring and I think that they've got a more gentle demeanour than most men, so I think they'll cope well [with] the stress and pressures of traffic in Melbourne," he said.