NewsRack: 'Harassment' news in 'Sexual Minorities' topic for user lgbt (397-417 of 586)

Dems seize on tea party candidates' social stances (Cached)	12.10.2010	Hindustan Times: News
The conservative tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration's bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government. But some of its candidates are getting tripped up on social issues.
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'How Fair is Britain' report shows that for UK, race is still the issue	11.10.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
Major report finds ethnically diverse Britain facing new challenges – but homosexuality now far more accepted Life's winners and losers were laid bare today in an official report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into how fair Britain has become. The commission's first three-year review, How Fair is Britain, shows that while some inequalities remain entrenched, new challenges are emerging as the country's population becomes older and more ethnically and religiously diverse. The study identifies "five great gateways" to opportunity – revolving around well-being, education, work, security and voice in society – where millions could benefit if barriers are lifted. These should become the basis to assess "fairness" in public policy, the commission says. In health, the report says, the poorest can expect to live seven years less than the richest. In education, boys are falling far behind with girls outperforming them at ages 5, 16 and degree level. Students of Indian and Chinese ...
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Top Chinese restaurant in UK faces flak as waiter quits over 'nipple tweak' (Cached)	27.9.2010	New Kerala: India News

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Play calls shame on South Africa	27.9.2010	The Guardian -- Front Page
Every week in Cape Town, there are 10 cases of lesbians suffering 'corrective' rape. Jo Caird on a chilling one-woman play about the hate crime sweeping South Africa Two weeks ago, four men escaped from the regional magistrate's court in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town. They, along with five other suspects, are accused of the 2006 murder of Zoliswa Nkonyana, a 19-year-old who, it is alleged, was stabbed and beaten to death with golf clubs for being a lesbian. A police sergeant at the jail was arrested for allegedly helping the prisoners escape. On the day this took place, Pam Ngwabeni was on the other side of South Africa, performing Ncasmisa! Kiss the Women, a one-woman play that explores the experience of black lesbian women in townships, drawing on Ngwabeni's own experience of discrimination and violence, including the brutal killing of Nkonyana, who was her friend. The play – which comes to the UK next month as part of the Afrovibes festival of South African ...
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Providence, RI police officer sentenced to 60 years for raping a woman (Cached)	9.9.2010	New Kerala: India News

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Jessica Stern: For the last 20 years, I have studied the causes of evil and violence. Until now, I never questioned why	28.8.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
Terrorism expert Jessica Stern didn't know why she was drawn to danger. Then she got a call from the police. As a teenager, she'd been the victim of a terrible crime she had tried to forget; now they wanted to reopen the case. She describes her quest to find, and understand, the man who raped her I know that I was raped. But here is the odd thing. If my sister had not been not raped, too, if she didn't remember – if I didn't have the police report right in front of me on my desk – I might doubt that it occurred. The memory feels a bit like a dream. It has hazy edges. I can force myself to recall certain details of that day in 1973. Of the hour that a rapist spent with a gun trained on my sister and me, when she was 14 and I a year older. ...
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The new feminists: still fighting	15.8.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
Four decades on since woman began the campaign for equality, we asked seven modern-day activists to tell us why they believe the battle is still not won The feminist movement in the UK and the US did not start with bra burning – brilliant as that act now seems as a piece of political theatre. It started with small groups of women getting together to talk about "the problem that had no name". Sitting in a circle, housewives, students, academics, artists, scientists and activists met in small groups to talk about their personal decisions, their sex lives, their love lives, their ambitions, their work, their children and their men, and discovered that the individual idioms of their lives which felt so personal and particular were, in profound ...
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'Abortion a method of contraception in Argentina' (Cached)	11.8.2010	New Kerala: India News

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Pakistani man charged with raping teen in US (Cached)	3.8.2010	Hindustan Times: News
A Pakistani man visiting the US on a student visa raped a teenage boy who was attending a summer workshop at a Pennsylvania community college, police said.
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Göran Lindberg and Sweden's dark side \| feature	1.8.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
The Sweden of Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson - all shadowy rightwing conspiracies and prostitution rings – might not be so far from the truth If there was ever a real-life policeman who came close in progressive Swedish affections to Kurt Wallander, the bestselling creation of Henning Mankell, it would probably be Göran Lindberg, chief of police of Uppsala, the city north of Stockholm that is home to Sweden's most prestigious university. Although he lacked Wallander's humility and reticence, Lindberg was concerned, like Wallander, with the marginalised and neglected in Swedish society. He was the sponsor of a sanctuary for abused juveniles, for example, and was at the forefront of the campaign to institute a more sympathetic response to ...
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How to counter rape as a weapon of war	30.7.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
Increasing pressure on African men to discuss gender equality could lessen the incentive to use rape as a war weapon, according to new research from Uganda The incentive to use rape as a weapon of war in Africa would be less if more was done to ensure men were involved in discussions about gender equality, claims the director of a human rights project in Uganda. In an interview with Christian Aid , Chris Dolan, director of the Refugee Law Project , based at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, said: "If gender equality were a reality, the incentive to use rape of men and women as a weapon of war would be reduced. Unfortunately much of the gender work done to date has presented 'gender' as essentially a discussion about women's rights, ...
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'Feminism is not finished'	24.7.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
After years of derision, feminism is finding its voice again, from grassroots protests to a flurry of books, websites and even a summer school. But will it lead to real change? If you want to gauge the energy in the current British feminist movement, you have to speak to the young campaigners. Alex Corwin has defined herself as a feminist since she started reading avidly about women's issues a few years ago, aged 19. It made her "SO ANGRY", she had to become an activist. Corwin joined a local grassroots group – Sheffield Fems– and since then she has taken part in campaigns that run the gamut: local, international, political, cultural. She could recently be found in a high-street newsagent, armed with Post-it notes to stick on the half-clad ...
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Hidden reality of sexual governance	17.7.2010	NIE: voices
That the media’s interest in the question of gayness is nothing more than salacious and homophobic and not linked to the question ..
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Letters: Fight continues to defend gay rights	15.7.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
Comments in several papers have attacked the supreme court decision to prevent the deportation of two gay asylum seekers ( Report , 8 July). The Daily Express on 8 July was headlined: " Now Asylum if You're Gay : they must be free to go to Kylie concerts and drink multicoloured cocktails, says judge." The Daily Mail asked: " What planet is he on? "; and the Daily Star warned that "opening the floodgates to gay asylum seekers is absolute madness". In reality, only one in 50 people who claim asylum on the basis of sexual orientation is admitted to the UK. Homosexuality is illegal in over 80 countries and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers are often fleeing attempted murder or rape – only to be told by the UK authorities to ...
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Sun, sweat and harassment \| Eva Wiseman	11.7.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
It's not just men on building sites who intimidate women when the city heats up As the heat rises, in clouds of petrol and melting crisp packets, so do the levels of sexual harassment found on city streets. Long roads hum with cars which pass in a burst of catcalls. Recently, one warm evening, a chubby nine-year-old boy called me closer and asked, dripping Fab lolly in hand, if I'd show him my breasts. While I admired his chutzpah (I liked that he said please) I declined. It's the crowds of lunching men in fluorescent tabards that make me uneasy, though, the groups you have to squeeze through as they share cigarettes on a pavement, and the drive-bys, who loudly name bits of your body as if competing on a midday game-show. On London's City ...
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'Orphanage head indulged in homosexuality'	6.7.2010	NIE: Tamil Nadu
TIRUNELVELI: The arrested Arumai Packiam Maunel Orphanage head Justine had indulged in homosexuality and voyeurism while orphanage..
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Teach your children well	3.7.2010	Business Standard: Life & Leisure
Books for children, reminders for parents.
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Thin blurred line between innocuous flirting and sexual harassment (Cached)	27.6.2010	DNA: Top News
It happens in every office. Suggestive looks, gestures and even propositions are made among co-workers. But the fun can turn messy just as easily.
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Shobha offers Hijras a patient ear (Cached)	23.6.2010	DNA: Top News
Are sex work and begging the only means of livelihood for the Hijra community, even the educated among them? Are slums the only places where they can find shelter? Sadly, yes.
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Mr Gay UK policeman on rape charge	22.6.2010	The Guardian -- Front Page
PC also faces charges of sexual assault and possession of body-building drugs A police officer who won the Mr Gay UK contest four years ago was given conditional bail this morning on charges of raping another man, three sexual assaults and an attempted sexual assault. PC Mark Carter, 27, is also charged with possessing the body-building drug Stanazol, which is in the criminal law's lowest category C. He was bailed unconditionally on that charge. Carter, who is suspended from duty from West Yorkshire police, spoke only to confirm his personal details to magistrates in Leeds. He stood in front of the dock wearing a grey suit, white shirt and striped tie. The brief hearing was told that he had been arrested and charged after an ...
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