American Bar Association jumps on campus sexual assault bandwagon

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-08-05 18:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.

"Further resolved, that the American Bar Association urges federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments to adopt meaningful remedies and vigorous enforcement mechanisms, including civil remedies, for sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking, gender-based violence and intimate partner violence, while assuring that the rights of those accused of such acts are recognized, respected and protected; and to fully fund implementation of such remedies and enforcement," the resolution stated. (Emphasis added.)'

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I see this term a lot but I find the context it's usually used in to be quite fallacious, seeing that IPV and sexual assault are committed by women and men at about equal rates.

To me, gender-based violence is male circumcision, and the selective service. These are the only two versions of literal gender-based violence I am aware of that actually still exist in western society. I guess the next time I encounter anyone who uses that term, I'll be sure to inform them of what they are actually referring to.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2015-08-10 02:45