Article here. Excerpt:

'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

Link here. Excerpt:

'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.’

Article here. Excerpt:

'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%.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'(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

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'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".

Article here. Excerpt:

'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."

Video interview at Israeli DV conference on YouTube here. Dr. Strauss' web site is here. Some from his Biographical Summary:

'Professor of Sociology and founder and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire (since 1968).

Previously taught at the Univ of Minnesota, Cornell, Wisconsin, Washington State, U of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Visiting Professor: U. of Kentucky, U. Bombay (India), U. of York (England), Columbia Univ, U. of Leuven Belgium

EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1956.

Story here. A Minnesota college football coach tells his story of being fired for allegations of child pornography, based on home videos of his own children. He has been totally exonerated by the courts and social services, yet he has still been fired by Minnesota State Mankato. Excerpt:

'IT TOOK FOUR hours in jail before Hoffner was told that the charges against him related to videos of his children on his cellphone. It took a night behind bars and then another day for police to allow him to watch those videos with his lawyer. A police officer sat in the room with them to provide supervision. The lawyer took notes. Hoffner tried to pretend the children on the screen were strangers, hoping it would help him critique the videos more harshly.

They watched in silence. The police officer fidgeted in his seat.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Virginia high school teacher who slept with a student will only spent four months of her 11-year sentence behind bars after she was diagnosed with hypersexuality.

Kathleen Cawthorne, 33, will be freed more than a decade early after a judge ruled she could not control the sudden sexual urges that took over her body.

A court heard how the bipolar educator seduced a 17-year-old boy at William Campbell Combined School in Rustburg in March 2012.'

Book here. From the intro:

Link here. Excerpt:

'On May 28 – 30, leaders and advocates from 160 countries are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for Women Deliver 2013, one of the decades' largest conferences on girls' and women's health and rights. USAID is proud to be a sponsor of Women Deliver 2013. A number of our technical experts will present at the conference on the latest progress and challenges around family planning, maternal and child health, and other programming that addresses the needs of girls and women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The most comprehensive review of the scholarly domestic violence research literature ever conducted concludes, among other things, that women perpetrate physical and emotional abuse, as well as engage in control behaviors, at comparable rates to men. The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge project, or PASK, whose final installment was just published in the journal Partner Abuse, is an unparalleled three-year research project, conducted by 42 scholars at 20 universities and research centers, and including information on 17 areas of domestic violence research.