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View Post: Amnesty Blogs: Press release me, let me go : Policing rape
2 Dec 2009
Given the prevalence of the crime of rape and the disastrously low conviction rape (only about 6.5% of reported rapes currently lead to a rapist getting jailed), the creation of a special unit within the Metropolitan Police to ...
View Blog: Amnesty Blogs - http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3723

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View Post: Shakesville: Today in Rape Culture
21 hours ago by Melissa McEwan  
Dear Amy: Rape culture is refusing to acknowledge that the only thing that the victim of every rapist shares in common is bad fucking luck. Rape culture is refusing to acknowledge that the only thing a person can do to avoid being raped ...
View Blog: Shakesville - http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/

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View Post: Don't "Ask Amy": She's a Rape Victim Blamer
Women's Rights ...
7 minutes ago by Ruth Fertig   ...
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View Post: Biological Essentialism, Sex and Rape - The Pursuit of Harpyness
1 hour ago by Pilgrim Soul  
It's funny, but one of the easiest things to forget when one is in the heat of a feminist argument about rape or sex work or porn or abortion or pregnancy is that we are actually talking about women's bodies. The annoying legacy of Roe ...
View Blog: The Pursuit of Harpyness - http://www.harpyness.com/

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View Post: The Political Carnival: Al Franken anti-rape amendment fallout has ...
17 hours ago by noreply@blogger.com (Paddy)  
“Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape —and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don't think it's a very constructive thing,” Sen. ...
View Blog: The Political Carnival - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/

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View Post: Sindh Today – Online News » Two Haryana policewomen allege rape
8 hours ago by SindhToday  
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Surinder Singh said two cases of rape have been registered by police at the Civil Lines and Sadar police stations. The HAP campus is in Madhuban near Karnal, 125 km from Chandigarh. ...
View Blog: Sindh Today - Online News - http://www.sindhtoday.net/

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View Post: Man accused of rape is not guilty
10 hours ago
XENIA (WDTN) - A Xenia man is happy to have his life back, after a jury found him not guilty of raping two teenagers. On Tuesday, December 2, William Magnuson was acquitted of all charges. The 41-year old was facing 85 years behind bars ...
View Blog: WDTN TV - http://www.wdtn.com/

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View Post: GOPers want Franken to defend them in opposing anti-rape amendment ...
12 hours ago by Daniel Tencer  
frankenhand GOPers want Franken to defend them in opposing anti rape amendment Some Republican senators are taking heat for voting against an amendment that would allow employees of military contractors to sue their employers if they ...
View Blog: Raw Story - http://rawstory.com/2009/

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View Post: Grand jury indicts Mays for rape, assault charges
Inside Charm ...
3 hours ago by Stan Moore   ...
View Blog: http://insidecharmcity.com/

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