List of the most popular hashtags for theme #SEXUALVIOLENCE

Terry Wisdom

Pakistan’s top judge has announced that the country is setting up more than 1,000 courts dedicated to violence against women. “The atmosphere of these courts will be different from other courts so that complainants can speak their heart without their fear,” the country’s chief justice said in his announcement. Domestic violence is often seen as a taboo topic in the conservative Muslim country, which sees thousands of cases of violence against women every year, from sexual assaults, kidnappings and “honor killings,” according to the Guardian. There were at least 845 incidents of sexual violence against women in the country in 2018, according to the Human Rights of Pakistan, which said that violence against women often goes unreported especially in rural areas, where poverty and stigma prevents victims from speaking out. The new courts will operate within existing courthouses, but the domestic violence hearings will be held separately from other cases to allow victims to speak out without fear of retaliation. (: Getty, : @kassy) - #woman #women #girl #girls #justice #court #courts #violence #femicide #sexualviolence #violenceagainstwomen #genderviolence #feminism #womensrights #equality #victim #victims #consent #metoo #timesup #honorkilling #gender #genderequality #equality #equalrights #pakistan #pakistani

Two men have been arrested in India’s Bihar state after shaving the heads of two women as “punishment” for resisting rape, the BBC reports, with police reportedly searching for five others involved in the crime. • Several men, including a local government official, had burst into the home of the mother and her teenage daughter, intending to rape the daughter, according to The Independent, but the two women fought back. The men then assaulted them, shaved their heads, and publicly paraded them through the village. • “We were beaten with sticks very badly. I have injuries all over my body, and my daughter also has some injuries,” the mother said. • The incident is the latest in a string of audacious crimes against women in Bihar state, the BBC reports. In April, a teenage girl was attacked with acid when she resisted an attempted gang rape. A few months earlier, a woman was assaulted, stripped, and paraded naked through a village market. • In 2014, village elders in Bihar shaved the head of an orphan girl, smeared her face with black ash, and paraded her through the neighborhood to shame her for talking to her boyfriend in a public place, according to The Independent. • This month in the state of Uttar Pradesh, a man ran over and killed two women with his car, according to The Independent, after the women protested his attempt to molest one of their daughters. • Public outrage over sexual violence in India spiked after the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus, but extreme incidents of rape and violence against women continue to be reported across the country. • Nearly 40,000 rapes were registered in India in 2016, The Independent reports, citing the latest government data. Many rapes are not reported, however, due to fear of reprisal. • Photo: Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images

Language is essential to dismantling a system that’s long overlooked survivors of sexual assault. Let’s call rape for what it is and stop trivializing it as something that just “happens.” Use your words and use them accurately.

NJ Judge James Troiano is the Aaron Persky of the East Coast: he victim blamed & shamed, "boys will be boys" excuses, favoritism based on family status. Another example of a judge prioritizing a privileged white male rapist’s future over the victim’s

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Sexual assault isn’t a political issue, it’s a human one

Repost ✨ This weekend, the Monument Quilt blanketed the National Mall with 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. Thousands of people attended to bear witness to our stories. Our community joined together in learning, healing, communing, connecting, to end rape culture and white supremacy. We mourned, we celebrated our resilience, we planted seeds of hope for our future resistance. This weekend, we truly experienced that we are not alone.

Hmmm, it’s almost like people are more preoccupied with punishing the 3% of false accusers than the 97% of actual rapists who go largely unpunished