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Marital rape is a form of domestic violence. It makes no difference if the person who rapes you is your spouse. Rape by a spouse is still rape and it is illegal.
Symbol of Unhealed Congo: Male Rape Victims
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: August 4, 2009 GOMA, Congo — It was around 11 p.m. when armed men burst into Kazungu Ziwa’s hut, put a machete to his throat and yanked down his pants. Mr. Ziwa is a tiny man, about four feet, six inches tall.Funds Drying Up for Congo Rape Clinic (public)
By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 24, 2008 edition Bukavu, Democratic Republic Of Congo - As a senior surgeon at a hospital in war-torn eastern Congo, Denis Mukwege expected that his workload would ease when a peace treaty was signed earlier this year. But while the war ended on paper, it continued on the ground. The combatants kept their weapons.Outcry over disowned US rape girl
Offers for help are pouring in for an eight-year-old Liberian girl disowned by her own family in Phoenix, Arizona, after being raped by four boys. The girl is under the care of the Arizona Child Protective Service (CPS) because her parents said she had shamed them, and they did not want her back. Phoenix police said calls had come in from all over the US offering money, or even to adopt the young girl.Iran Virgin Prisoners Raped & then Executed
Public Post ++++++++++++++++++ http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25815969-401,00.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443842931&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Jul 19, 2009 2:32 | Updated Jul 19, 2009 10:23 'I wed Iranian girls before execution' By SABINA AMIDI, SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's religious regime in Iran, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia has told this reporter of his role in suppressing opposition street protests in recent weeks. He has also detailed aspects of his earlier service in the force, including his enforced participation in the rape of young Iranian girls prior to their execution. The interview took place by telephone, and on condition of anonymity.Mayor Karzai signs pro-rape bill in Afghanistan, scapegoats the Shi'a
Mayor Karzai signs pro-rape bill in Afghanistan, scapegoats the Shi'a Tuesday March 31, 2009 Categories: Hirabah Watch, Nation-Building In an explicit bid to appease hard-line Islamists, Afghanistan's "president" 1 Hamid Karzai has signed a bill into law that essentially legalizes rape of a woman by her husband: Critics claim the president helped rush the bill through parliament in a bid to appease Islamic fundamentalists ahead of elections in August. In a massive blow for women's rights, the new Shia Family Law negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman's right to leave the home. ...Tonya Harding was raped at gunpoint by guys who attacked Nancy Kerrigan
37 year-old former US figure skater Tonya Harding was on the Today Show this morning in a somber interview with Meredith Viera to promote her new book. In the book, called “The Tonya Tapes,” she says that she was not involved in the clubbing incident of her rival, American skater Nancy Kerrigan, in 1994, and that her ex husband, Jeff Gillooly, planned it without her knowledge. Viera read an excerpt from Tonya’s book that said that she did plan on going to the FBI once she learned that they attacked Kerrigan, but that her ex and two guys she didn’t know raped her at gunpoint to keep her silent.Brazilian rape and excommunications!
This is from the BBC website....I was shocked when I read this! :jawdrop: Rape row sparks excommunications By Gary Duffy BBC News, Sao Paulo A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape victim secure an abortion are to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The girl, aged nine, who lives in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, became pregnant with twins.“Austin Powers” Star Charged in Gang Rape
TMZ has learned the actor who played Random Task in the first “Austin Powers” movie has been charged with a vicious gang rape. Joe Son’s arrest has been all over newspapers in the O.C., but no one connected the dots — that the suspect is actually Dr. Evil’s henchman — until now.Christina Ricci became an activist for rape victims
Christina Ricci was so disturbed by the marketing campaign for her movie Black Snake Moan, she became an activist for rape victims. The 28-year-old actress starred in the 2006 drama as Rae, a sexually abused girl desperate for male attention. But when she saw herself appearing on film posters posing seductively in a navel-bearing top and revealing shorts, the actress was prompted to step up her involvement in the Tori Amos-founded organization RAINN (The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).
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