Link here. Excerpt:

'The fall of a newborn baby into a toilet pipe in China was accidental and his mother will not be prosecuted, local officials say, adding the boy is healthy.

The mother, 22 and unmarried, had kept her pregnancy secret and gave birth unexpectedly when she went to the lavatory on Saturday.
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"Our investigations showed it was an accident," a local police officer who declined to be named told AFP, and confirmed the mother will not be prosecuted. She refused to give further details.
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The head of the hospital, Wu Xinhong, said the infant was healthy and ready to be released.

"His condition is good but his relatives have not come to pick him up yet," he told AFP.

Police have said the mother was in serious condition due to complications from the delivery, while authorities were still looking for the baby's father.'

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'Hamburg - first he thought the problems with his girlfriend he could overcome. So it wrote Jochen K. * in his diary after she hit him first with his fist in the face. He had held her and tried to calm down. But the attack in the hallway should not be the only one getting his girlfriend became violent in the coming years. You did not get the problem under control. Today K. have to say: "An insane hubris."

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'WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - May 29, 2013) - Following admissions by a star witness that she lied during an Alabama homicide trial -- sending a man to death row -- the Center for Prosecutor Integrity (CPI) is launching a national media campaign. The media effort is designed to engage the public, prosecutors, and other stakeholders in a national conversation about the effectiveness of the criminal justice system and the problem of wrongful convictions.

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'CHICAGO (CBS) — A North Shore family has won a lawsuit against a physician at Northwestern they say botched their son’s circumcision.
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The family’s lawyer Dan Kotin says in 2007, when the boy was 12 hours old, a doctor at Northwestern inadvertently amputated the tip of the boy’s penis.

Kotin says the doctor missed at least three safety procedures that should’ve been followed.

And Kotin says the boy”…suffered the amputation of the top 40 percent of the head of his penis.”

The attorney for the doctor says the procedure was performed correctly and what happened was one of the unfortunate complications of a circumcision.'

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'As my colleague Eliza Kern has reported, Facebook has apologized for the way it handled “hate speech” against women on the social network, after repeated complaints from advocacy groups alleging that it was turning a blind eye to what was clearly offensive behavior. This has been hailed by some as a victory, since Facebook has admitted that its policies around such content are weak. But even if its policies are improved, do we really want Facebook to be the one deciding what qualifies as hate speech and what doesn’t?
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The larger problem in making Facebook take this kind of content down, however, is that it forces the network to take an even more active role in determining which of the comments or photos or videos posted by its billion or so users deserve to be seen and which don’t. In other words, it gives Facebook even more of a licence to practice what amounts to censorship — something the company routinely (and legitimately) gets criticized for doing.'

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'Can men be victims of sexism?

An NPR Morning Edition report this week suggests strongly that the answer is "yes." As Jennifer Ludden reports, after divorce men can face burdensome alimony payments even in situations where their ex-wives are capable of working and earning a substantial income. Even in cases where temporary alimony makes sense—as when a spouse has quit a job to raise the children—it's hard to understand the need for lifetime alimony payments, given women's current levels of workforce participation. As one alimony-paying ex-husband says, "The theory behind this was fine back in the '50s, when everybody was a housewife and stayed home." But today, it looks like an antiquated perpetuation of retrograde gender roles—a perpetuation which, disproportionately, harms men.'

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'Under mounting pressure from activists and advertisers, Facebook is ramping up efforts to stamp out hate speech, particularly depictions of violence against women.
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In Levine's post, Facebook promised to:

-- Update guidelines that its Community Standards team uses to identify hate speech, with help from legal experts and women's groups

-- Update training for team members who police hate speech

-- Increase accountability for Facebook users whose pages don't legally qualify as hate speech but who post content that is "cruel or insensitive"

-- Implement a policy that requires users who create pages with questionable content to publicly attach their personal account to them

-- Encourage groups already working on cyber-hate issues to include the women's coalition.'

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Also on Facebook, among others: Dumping your boyfriend via castration

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'The mother of the newborn baby boy flushed down a toilet in China watched in secret as rescuers dramatically plucked him alive from a sewer pipe.

The 22-year-old woman is believed to have raised the initial alarm but only confessed to police after they searched her rented room and found toys and blood-stained toilet paper, the Chinese state news agency reported.

The two-day-old, 5lb boy has been temporarily named Baby 59 – the number of the incubator in which he lies with a fractured skull and severe bruising.
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Police initially said they were treating the case of as possible attempted homicide, but it was not immediately clear whether the mother would face any criminal charges.

A police officer said she had hidden her pregnancy and claimed the baby fell into the lavatory after she unexpectedly gave birth. ‘The woman was on the scene during the entire rescue process ... and admitted she was the mother when we asked her.’

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'HIGH-profile court cases involving allegations of male teachers committing indecent acts on children have created a steady decline in young men waiting to join the profession.

Last week a Mackay teacher was found not guilty of inappropriately touching an 11-year-old student.

Queensland Teachers Union president Kevin Bates said media attention on these cases meant young men considering becoming teachers were sometimes dissuaded.

"I don't see there's any way a young person couldn't but notice the public perception of men in teaching is one of doubts about the genuineness of the person's intentions," Mr Bates said.

"As a consequence I think there has been, over time, the effect of dissuading some men of choosing teaching as a career."

Mr Bates said over the past two decades, the percentage of female teachers had increased from about 70% to about 75%.'

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'(CNN) -- New York police say they've found no evidence corroborating a claim by actress Amanda Bynes that she was sexually harassed after police were called to her apartment.

"A credible civilian witness who was with the officers throughout told investigators that none touched Ms. Bynes inappropriately or otherwise engaged in misconduct at any time," a NYPD Internal Affairs representative said.

The incident is the latest in a series of run-ins with the law for Bynes, who had a squeaky-clean image as a teen actress.

Officers were called Thursday to her building in Manhattan's theater district after her building manager reported the 27-year-old was smoking an "illegal substance" in the lobby, police said.'

Article here. Via email from the article author:

As you make your summer plans, consider attending SAVE's annual conference in Washington, DC. on June 21 and 22.

Join us as we celebrate the progress we have made over the last year. For instance...

Think back to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) re-authorization. Do you remember the controversy? For the first time ever, there was real discussion about it's shortfalls.

Together, we did that. Our voices were heard. Now, that's something to celebrate! Attend the conference, learn what other progress we've made, and learn what we expect to celebrate next year.

Register: http://celebratingourprogress.eventbrite.com/
More info: http://www.saveservices.org/dvlp/annual-conference-2013/

Get your tickets today - Prices go up on Saturday!

See you soon,

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

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'This week marks the launch of the campaign Lose the Lads’ Mags, spearheaded by feminist organisations UK Feminista and Object. Depending on who you believe, this is either an attempt to free employees and customers from "an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment" that could arise from exposure to sexist pornographic content - or, in the words of Loaded and FHM journalist Piers Hernu in a report by the BBC - "a deeply sinister and disturbing attempt by a group of fundamentalist, fanatical feminists...to bully supermarkets into removing lads’ mags from the shelves".

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'NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to speak with Rutgers officials about a report that the woman hired to clean up the university' scandal-scarred athletic program quit as Tennessee's women's volleyball coach 16 years ago after her players submitted a letter complaining she ruled through humiliation, fear and emotional abuse.

Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak says the governor is aware of the report about Julie Hermann in the Star-Ledger of Newark, but wants to get more details before commenting.
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The Star-Ledger reported that Tennessee players wrote the mentality cruelty they suffered when Hermann was coach was unbearable, adding she called them "whores, alcoholics and learning disabled."