Department Of Defense Targets Sexual Trauma With New App https://t.co/4xZyZlnxUR via @KPBSnews — Better Blokes (@BetterBlokesNZ) July 1, 2017 Building Hope & Resiliency: Addressing the Effects of Sexual Assault is a self-guided, online, educational program that seeks to help you begin to recover, heal and build resiliency after a sexualContinue Reading
Kabul (AFP) – Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a dancing boy. Jawed was kidnapped by a former jihadi commander in Shomali, north ofContinue Reading
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/18/the-keepers-netflix-nun-murder-baltimore-true-crime-documentary The Keepers starts with an unsolved murder but is really about something bigger. White’s initial contact was Jean Hargadon Wehner, who had attended Archbishop Keough as a teen and had a startling insight into the Cesnik case. In 1969, before the police discovered Sister Cathy’s corpse, she’d been takenContinue Reading
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11845532 In the 12 months ending January 31 this year, 5865 people were subjected to sexual violence. Of those, 4567 – 77.9 per cent – were women and most were aged between 15 and 19. And remember, that’s only the reported incidents, which research suggests is only about 10 perContinue Reading
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=245483 A decade since an inquiry found some officers had behaved disgracefully when handling complaints of sexual assault, police say they have revolutionised their culture. The 2007 Commission of Inquiry into police conduct, led by Dame Margaret Bazley, reviewed 313 complaints of sexual assault against 222 police officers between 1979Continue Reading
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11729263 Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, 66, was charged in April last year with concealing serious child sexual abuse in 1971. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge, which carries a potential two-year prison sentence. New South Wales state Supreme Court Justice Monika Schmidt on Friday rejected Wilson’s bidContinue Reading
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/10/17/calls_to_a_sexual_assault_hotline_have_surged_following_trump_allegations.html According to ABC, RAINN’s online live-chat hotline also saw a 33 percent spike in contacts starting the day after the video dropped. RAINN President Scott Berkowitz told ABC that increases in hotline activity are common after sexual assault allegations make big-time national news. The organization noted similar spikes inContinue Reading
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1608/S00338/an-apology-surely-nz-needs-a-royal-commission-of-inquiry.htm An Apology? Surely NZ needs a Royal Commission of Inquiry Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 10:01 am Press Release: Clan NZ An Apology? Surely NZ needs a Royal Commission of Inquiry first! Labour’s Justice spokesperson, Jacinda Ardern, recently called on the NZ Government to issue an apology for historic abuseContinue Reading
Demand grows for services helping children with ‘inapproriate’ sexual behaviour http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/83793813/demand-grows-for-services-helping-children-with-inapproriate-sexual-behaviourContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/77520152/Ministry-of-Health-investigating-possible-sexual-transmission-of-Zika-virus There is limited evidence to suggest the virus can be sexually transmitted however the local public health service is continuing to investigate how the woman became infected. There is also the possibility she was bitten by an infected mosquito brought into the country in her partner’s luggage. The riskContinue Reading
