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A campaign launched by LevoLeague (now Levo) to provide women the tools, support, and information they need to ask for equal pay.

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Russell Simmons created it to bring attention to the kidnapping of 276 mostly Christian girls in Nigeria by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Some escaped, and 103 were freed, but most remained either in captivity or dead.

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We will keep demanding until our girls are brought BACK & ALIVE You can be part of the movement from anywhere around the world. To join us and help advocate for the rescue of our #ChibokGirls, click the button below. Click to join the Movement The Abduction And Where We Are Today 276 Abducted
57 Escaped
107 Released
112 Still Missing View Our Statement Log Our Chant / Demands What are we demanding?
#BringBackOurGirls Now & Alive
What are we asking?
The truth, nothing but the truth!
What do we want?
Our girls back now and alive!
When shall we stop?
Not until our girls are back and alive! Not without our daughters!
What is our core value?
HUMANITEEDS / HUMANITY A diverse group of citizens advocating for speedy and effective search and rescue of all our abducted girls and for a rapid containment and quelling of insurgency in Nigeria. #BringBackOurGirls 7 Years Of Advocacy! #BringBackOurGirls Marks 7 Years Of Advocacy For The #ChibokGirls And Other Victims Of Abduction. Watch The Video Previous Next

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It is the French version of Me Too.

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It was created to generate attention about the number of femicides that happen in Turkey. In 2019, there were more than 500 femicide deaths reported. The murderers often receive a light punishment compared to the crime. The initiative involved posting monochrome photos on Instagram to emphasize how pictures of murdered women end up in black and white in the pages of newspapers.

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The Global South Coalition started it For Dignified Menstruation to “dismantle institutional, structural, interpersonal and social oppressive systems in place affecting menstruation”.

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Global South Coalition For Dignified Menstruation : 8th December

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Global South Coalition For Dignified Menstruation : 8th December

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The Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalog instances of sexism experienced daily. By sharing your story, you’re showing the world that sexism does exist; it is faced by women every day, and it is a valid problem to discuss.

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The Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced on a day to day basis. They might be serious or minor, outrageously offensive or so niggling and normalised that you don't even feel able to protest. Say as much or as little as you like, use your real name or a pseudonym - it's up to you.

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UN Women, East 42nd Street, New York, NY

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“The Generation Equality campaign demands equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women and girls, health-care services that respond to their needs, and their equal participation in political life and decision-making in all areas of life.”

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Generation Equality is the world's leading initiative to accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. It brings together organizations from every part of society to catalyze progress, advocate for change and take bold actions together.

Convened by UN Women, the initiativeaims to ensure that the bold ambitions of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on women's rights are finally implemented, and that the Sustainable Development Goals are achieved. Generation Equality also aims to expand public support for gender equality, with a particular focus on catalyzing the energy, activism and ideas of young people.

Generation Equality was launched in 2021 at the Generation Equality Forum hosted in Mexico City and Paris. The Forum launched a 5-year action agenda encapsulated in a Global Acceleration Plan for gender equality, which defines the most critical actions necessary to accelerate progress in the next 5 years.

The Forum also launched six Action Coalitions and a Global Compact on Women, Peace, Security and Humanitarian Action, each of which is spear-heading a critical part of the Generation Equality agenda. At the Forum hosted in Paris, diverse trailblazing stakeholders made over 1,000 policy, program and financial commitments, representing an unprecedented aggregate value of $40 Billion.

The 2021 Forum marked the beginning of a multi-year process. Generation Equality leaders and allies will work aggressively over the coming 4 years to ensure accountability for commitments already made, secure transformative new commitments and enlarge and energize global cross-sector movements for equality.

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The Generation Equality Forum is a civil society-centered, global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France.

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The UN started it as an online campaign to end violence against women in Central Asia by creating safe spaces for women to share, listen to, and believe survivors of violence.

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Принимаем анонимные истории от читателей. Рассказываем о случаях насилия, новостях, статистике, пишем советы психологов и делимся знаниями в этой сфере.

Вы можете отправить историю анонимно. Мы не видим ваше имя, контактные данные, профиль.

Ваша история может вдохновить других людей на выход из круга насилия. Кто-то после чтения увидит, что не он один сталкивается с такой ситуацией. Возможно, люди увидят, как можно и нужно действовать, столкнувшись с насилием. Вы можете спросить совета - вдруг кто-то из читателей знает, как вам помочь.

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Принимаем анонимные истории от читателей. Рассказываем о случаях насилия, новостях, статистике, пишем советы психологов и делимся знаниями в этой сфере. Вы можете отправить историю анонимно. Мы не видим ваше имя, контактные данные, профиль. Ваша история может вдохновить других людей на выход из круга насилия. Кто-то после чтения увидит, что не он один сталкивается с такой ситуацией.

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Although based in The Caribbean, it was created by New York City as a campaign to encourage young women to lead. Their mission statement reads, "To inspire, empower, and provide opportunities for young girls to lead and create positive change."

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I Am A Girl NGO - The Caribbean’s #1 Non-Profit for Girls

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We provide Capacity Building, Mentorship, Advocacy and Community Development for girls in Barbados and lead the Caribbean Girls’ Collective.

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In 2017, there was an event of mass molestation of women on New Year’s Eve in Bangalore. Police and politicians blamed the women and their clothing for the event. Individual women and organizations organized a nationwide march using the hashtag to demand women’s right to “fair and equitable access to public spaces.”

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In response to an event in 2014 when a group of men stripped a woman naked and assaulted her because she was “dressed indecently,” this social media campaign argues for women’s right to wear what they want and be safe from physical and sexual assault.

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The 40-year-old Kenyan activist came across HeForShe on social media in November 2014 and signed the campaign’s commitment. It came at a time when Erick was exploring the direction for a project he had been incubating called Spice Chungu. Inspired by HeForShe, he transformed his project to establish a creative hub in western Kenya to empower rural women. Women have always impacted society in their own creative ways. The men, however, have never stood up to realize and recognize these abilities.

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On 9 November 2020, protesters mobilized on the streets of Mexico City to demand justice after a girl had been found dead (Zissis, 2020). In Ciudad Juárez, known for the many women who have gone missing over the years, relatives of the disappeared carried pink crosses with the slogan #NiUnaMenos in protest. In 2018, the #NiUnaMenos movement transitioned into the Green Wave demonstrations, which call for legal and safe access to abortions in Latin America.

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Power of Women (POW) Movement launched it to help others find content from women/women’s perspectives to aggregate all digital media formats, sharing a fresh perspective from women's eyes.

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We are an invitation-only global network of impactful individuals from different fields coming together to be a part of a community that is united by a shared mission for the Peace and well-being of ourselves, our community, and the environment in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A space where we build lifelong connections and partnerships to enable collaborations to lead with impactful initiative that educate, empower, and inspire to reach a global audience using Edutainment; Music, Media, Arts, and Entertainment creating Content, Events, and Experiences.

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It is the Italian version of #MeToo, where women in Italy share tweets about issues they have dealt with when reporting sexual assault to the police.

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After the murder of Özgecan Aslan, the campaign launched on Twitter with the hashtag #sendeanlat for women to tell about the harassment they experienced.

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Kamusal alanda cinsel taciz ve cinsel saldırıya maruz bırakılan veya tanık olanların yaşadıklarını paylaşabilecekleri dijital bir paylaşım ve dayanışma platformu.

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Period: The menstrual movement is a Canadian campaign (turned international) that sought to stop taxation of female hygiene products.

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Alliance for Period Supplies - It's that time. *

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Tampon Tax - Alliance for Period Supplies

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Tampon Tax What is the Tampon Tax? The tampon tax (or tax on period products) refers to the sales tax rate that a state, county, and/or city government collects on the retail purchase of menstrual products. Too often period products are taxed as luxury items and not recognized as basic necessities. Period products are taxed

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“Loitering” is more prevalent among men, while women rarely occupy public spaces like parks and beaches. The hashtag started trending on Twitter, with women posting pictures and stories of reclaiming public spaces, creating the narrative of resisting male domination and patriarchy in the physical and virtual spaces.

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This is part 2 of a fifteen days experience that I am sharing here. This experience was made possible by the crazy, bright and extremely hard working team at Hers is Ours, who had organised an almost-three month long travelling feminist film and art festival called ‘The Outsider’. I was part of their super-ambitious and enthralling plan for a span of fifteen days, where we met and watched films and worked with women, men and children in Jodhpur, Setrawa, Jaisalmer and Moolsagar (I know! Lucky me. )

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3.5-5 million women lined up on National Highway 66 in India over 385 miles to create awareness of gender equality and protest a religious ban that prevented women of menstruating age from entering one of the country’s sacred Hindu temples even after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of their entry in 2018.

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Spanish version of Me Too

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In 2013, Ana Vasileva published a blog about rape culture in fYR Macedonia. She was spurred into action by a trending hashtag on Twitter at the time, #TheyCalledHer (#ЈаВикале), which was packed with sexism and misogyny under the pretext of humor. But, the blog made Ana a target of online abuse. A women’s rights activist and a member of the feminist collective Fight Like a Woman, Ana didn’t back down. Inspired by the global #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns, Vasileva, and other feminist activists kicked off a new social movement in fYR Macedonia against sexual harassment under the hashtag #СегаКажувам (#ISpeakUpNow).

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In 2013, acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal gathered 27,000 signatures through an online petition, ‘StopAcidSale,’ to curb acid sales and took the issue to the Supreme Court.

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Two men threw acid on me when I was 15 years old, this happened because I refused to marry one of them.

It has been eight years since this incident and nothing has changed. In the last three months alone more than 60 acid attack cases on women in India were reported.

After this brutal incident, I decided to fight against the use of acid as a weapon against women. I filed a case with the Supreme Court of India to seek justice and control the sale of acid in India.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court gave the Government of India a final deadline of 7 days to frame a policy to curb the sale of acid in order to prevent acid attack cases.

If the Home Minister acts on this immediately, a lot of acid attacks can be prevented In India. Thats why I started this petition telling the Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde to immediately take measures to regulate sale of acid in retail.

With each passing day, in absence of any regulation on acid sale, innocent women are paying a heavy price.

We need to build enormous pressure on our Home Minister Shinde and let him know that the whole country is watching his actions. We have less than a week to do this!

Join me in telling Home Minister Shinde to immediately regulate and control the sale of acid. Sign my petition and forward it to your friends and family to save the lives of many more women in India.

Thanks in advance for taking action,

Laxmi

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29,323 people signed and won this petition

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Two men threw acid on me when I was 15 years old, this happened because I refused to marry one of them. It has been eight years since this incident and nothing has changed. In the last three months alone more than 60 acid attack cases on women in India were reported.

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The campaign aimed to push for women's rights in Saudi Arabia to drive—the only country in the world where women were forbidden to do so.

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In 2016, Smailova broke her silence by telling her story of sexual violence she experienced in a Facebook post. Women immediately began commenting and sending her private messages about their own experiences with violence. The outpouring of stories from others made Dina realize how important it was to keep the conversation going.

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From where I stand: “The fact that domestic violence is not a criminal offence in Kazakhstan is hurting women during COVID-19 crisis”

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Dina Smailova, a well-known activist from Kazakhstan, recently spoke to UN Women about the rising reports of domestic violence since the introduction of quarantine measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. With 4 billion people around the world sheltering at home, many women are left in isolation with abusive partners, unable to access life-saving resources and support systems. In some countries, helplines have registered an increase in calls by more than 30 per cent.

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It is the Arabic version of Me Too.

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It was created to affirm that women must be "heard, seen, and amplified across genres, professions, and backgrounds 365 days a year."

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Lean In and Girl Scouts created it to encourage young women to use counter words such as "bossy" that were sending the wrong message to girls.

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Founded by Rachel Sklar in 2010, #changetheratio is an ongoing campaign/movement to increase women's visibility, access, and opportunity in all professional lives.

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Started by Rotary International, the initiative promotes a focus on improving the lives of girls by ensuring that their basic needs are met while working to transform the structures and institutions that perpetuate gender discrimination and inequality.

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Created on Twitter to satirize the notion that feminists are unattractive and to allow women of color to speak about cultural privilege and the dominant norms of beauty.

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It is a weekly unfiltered current & social affairs Podcast dedicated to equality, human rights, and inclusion, with diverse guests from around the world who are feminists as f*ck.

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A series where we explore the social, the political, and the media from a feminist and intersectional perspective...and use a lot of F words.

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Multi-national company based in California, United States, but used Canada as a starting point A campaign to protest that women earn less and pay more – fighting against both the gender pay gap and the gender price gap (women’s products are more expensive).

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#FightPinkTax is an innovation designed to democratically address the gender price gap, whereby women pay more for goods and services, using an internationally accessible online petition that conveys the issue.

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Started by the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, it provides services at the country level and advocacy at the global level with a focus on upholding the dignity of girls, women, and children.

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Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on diverse issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through training, outreach programs, and events.

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The mission of Women's March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.

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United Nations Headquarters, East 45th Street, New York, NY

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UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson drew on social media to bring people together for women’s rights and gender equality with the #HeForShe campaign targeting men.

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As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the HeForShe IMPACT report offers a timely reflection

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A movement against sexual violence. Specific aims: to increase survivors’ access to culturally relevant healing resources, invest in the leadership and organizing skills of survivors and allies alike, increase cross-movement connectivity to disrupt harmful conditions that impact survivors, encourage the media, our communities, and ourselves to fund survivor justice work in the manner our advocates and survivors deserve.

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If you're asking yourself: How do I heal from sexual violence? Who do I turn to in a crisis? How can I support survivors? You're not alone. We can help you.

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Created by the Representation Project as an app and movement to draw attention to advertisements that belittle and objectify women.

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#NotBuyingIt Archives - The Representation Project

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FIGHTING SEXISM WITH SOCIAL IMPACT FILMS

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United Nations Headquarters, East 45th Street, New York, NY

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The United Nations campaign has proclaimed the 25th of each month as “Orange Day” to raise awareness and take action to end violence against women and girls. As a bright and optimistic color, orange represents a future free from violence against women and girls.

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The UNiTE campaign has proclaimed the 25th of each month as "Orange Day", a day to raise awareness and take action to end violence against women and girls. As a bright and optimistic colour, orange represents a future free from violence against women and girls.

Orange Day calls upon activists, governments, and UN partners to mobilize people and highlight issues relevant to preventing and ending violence against women and girls, not only once a year on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but every month.

On the 25th day of every month, UNiTE mobilizes people around the world to support the #OrangeDay initiative. It calls on people everywhere to wear the colour orange and take action to end violence against women and girls in communities, at home, in public spaces, in schools and workplaces, during conflict and in times of peace.

Join digital activists globally! Access the Orange the World/UNiTE toolkit and become an activist today!

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It was initiated by digital feminists to counter the discrimination present in online feminist debates, which highlight issues only related to middle-class white women.

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It was a rallying cry for women's reproductive rights while Senator Wendy Davis was filibustering. She was protesting bill SB5, which would have restricted abortions in Texas after two weeks of pregnancy and closed 42 abortion clinics

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#TimesUp movement was born when Monica Ramirez wrote an open letter of solidarity to the brave women in Hollywood who had come forward with their experiences. It came on the heels of #MeToo but with a focus on change that would lead to safety and equity in the workplace.

In January 2023 the organization announced it was ceasing operations.

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Initially created to protest the Website’s temporary suspension of actress Rose McGowan. Women of color later used it instead to call attention to the endemic harassment they faced on the site.

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The campaign became viral on social media in 2016, intending to spread positivity to tackle cancer and cancer awareness. It aimed to empower and encourage women to share black-and-white photographs and selfies on their Instagram accounts.

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Was started after several women were killed in California, US, for rejecting the advances of men, and has since been used to report women’s experiences with sexual violence

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A Seattle-area man was given a 26 ½-year prison term for waging a 17-year campaign of harassment against a former classmate he met in middle school. Prosecutors are calling this the longest sentence for stalking in memory.

Shawn Moul, 31, passively accepted the sentence last week which came about six months after being convicted on two felony counts of stalking and 19 counts of violating anti-harassment orders.

Moul began stalking classmate Tracy Lundeen in 1994, shortly after Lundeen saw him at the school library struggling with his homework and offered to help him. Lundeen said Moul began following her and wrote her more than 100 letters, alternately threatening her and vowing to kill himself. He also contacted Lundeen's family members, demanding that she contact him.
https://www.detectiveservices.com/2012/02/man-gets-26-year-jail-term-for-17-years-of-stalking/

Guan Wen Brian Tan, 33, repeatedly struck Sherry Cheung with the 36-centimetre-long tool without warning before then stabbing her with a knife in his Airbnb rental at Norman Park on May 8, 2017.

The Supreme Court in Brisbane heard the pair had been playing computer games before Mr Tan asked the 20-year-old Hong Kong woman if she thought they "would ever be together" and she allegedly replied, "no, never".
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-28/singaporean-man-allegedly-attacked-former-girlfriend-with-hammer/11262592

Crown prosecutor Mel Wilson said after hitting her with the hammer, he allegedly grabbed her by the arms as he asked her: "How could you be so cruel?"

When I was in high school, there was a boy a year older than me that I would sometimes see around the neighborhood (we lived down the street from one another), at school, and at parties. When he was a senior & I was a junior, I accepted a few rides home from school with him, probably a dozen times or so. We kissed on 3 occasions at the end of the rides home, and again on 2 different occasions at parties. We texted back and forth briefly. Nothing further.

It was very clear that there would never be anything past that. He tried to get in my pants on a few occasions, but I very clearly told him no. He had an on/off relationship with another girl in my grade, and although she and I weren't exactly friends, I still respected her and wasn't interested in things going further with him regardless.

He graduated, and I still saw him around with no issue. My senior year, I became friends with the girl he was on and off with. We spoke at length one evening during a "girls night sleepover" about how sorry I was if I ever intruded on their relationship and things were ok between us. She told me he did some really shitty things to her. I felt so bad.

Everything was fine. Until the summer following my graduation from high school. I went to a party hosted by a friend of his that a few of my friends would be at. When I arrived at the party with one of my girl friends, we took a few shots (3) from the bottle we brought and sat around talking to people. The boy approached me and offered me a beer. I accepted and took a few sips from the beer (I hate beer, and will 'nurse' one until I can discard it without seeming rude), and didn't think anything about it already being opened when he handed it to me.

A friend of mine that I hadn't seen in some time asked me if I wanted to go out on the porch while he smoked a cigarette and catch up. At that point, I had been at the party for maybe 20 minutes max. The last thing I remember is sitting down on the porch with my friend.

The next thing I remember is a very fuzzy, vague memory of being in a closed bedroom, with the boy on top of me. I mostly remember the feeling of pressure. He was inside me. It's a brief memory.

My first real, clear memory is the worst one. I wake up, on a couch at the person's house, it's morning. Someone is on top of me, having sex with my sleeping body. It makes me sick to my stomach thinking of it - it was a different guy, a total scumbag, someone who I would have gagged at the thought of even touching me before this ever happened. At this point I was coherent enough to say "what the fuck do you think you're doing" and shove him off of me, and hit him in the face. I remember his wide eyes, shocked that I had woken up.

Prior to arriving at the party, I had made arrangements to sleep over a close guy friend's house (we had been friends for many years, our families are very close) because he lived nearby the host's home and we had a sports meet early the next morning. I stumbled around looking for my phone, and saw all the missed calls and texts from family and friends. I was 2 hours late for the sports meet.

I stumbled down a main street in random bits of clothing I found in the house, vomiting as I wandered around waiting for my mom to come get me. The sports meet was a bit of a blur, too. Lots of vomiting, loss of consciousness.

Later in the day I started asking questions. Apparently after I went to the porch, I seemed extremely drunk. My friends thought it was strange, since they know me well enough to know that 3 shots would never do me in like that. My girl friend brought me up to a bedroom and tucked me into the host's sister's bed, as I couldn't make it out of the house. I passed out right away. She stayed with me for a while and other people checked on me.

Eventually she had to leave, as did my friend whose place I was to stay at, but I refused to leave when I was roused enough to speak to anyone. They said I just kept demanding "let me sleep, I need to sleep". I weaseled information from a guy who stayed at the house pretty late, who confirmed that the boy had later gone in to "check on me" a few times, and on one occasion he stayed in the room for a while.

When I got home from the sports meet, I was angry. I knew what happened. I called the boy and demanded he come to my house immediately. He refused, saying he didn't feel like walking. I told him to get in his fucking car and and drive down the block then. He did. He pulled up out front of my house.

I walked outside and he rolled down the window, chuckling. I'll never forget his smug fucking look. I asked him if he had sex with me. He laughed and said yes. I told him to get the fuck away from my house and he drove off.

A few months later, at a party, I saw the girl he dated on and off. We talked for a while and I confided in her what had happened. At the time, very few people knew (still to this day, very few people know). She confided in me that he had done the same to her before - given her a beer that was drugged and raped her when they were "off". We cried. She said she'd heard he'd done it to other girls.

I felt dirty and still do. This was in 2013. I still wonder who else had taken advantage of me. Was there anyone else that raped me that night? Just the two I know of? I'll never know. I still feel shame. Contacting the police never even crossed my mind. I'm from a small, conservative town. He was a celebrated athlete, and alcohol was involved, albeit in a small amount in my case. Looking back, I still believe I would have ostracized myself and caused myself even more trauma by reporting it.

This event has haunted me. My life began to go downhill slowly but surely afterwards. Intimacy issues, severe drug addiction, behavioral outbursts. I still feel an ever-growing intense anger. I would do anything to watch him get his ass beat to a pulp.

I confronted him once, a year or two later, at a party, after I saw him and said something rude to him and he made a snide remark about me having a "roast beef pussy" (nice try, not true, but better luck next time!). I don't even remember what I said, I went into a blind rage - this was at the height of my behavioral anger issues and was close to my descent into even more serious substance abuse issues.

I said no, and since I wouldn't give myself up to him, he took me. Used me like a blow-up doll. As a result of his actions that night, I was raped twice, and I don't doubt that they were the only two.

Thanks, boy. I hate you and I hate myself.

Authorities say Domingo Spinney, of Milford, used a bogus profile on the dating website PlentyOfFish to arrange meetings with the women at restaurants last December-but the person the women were expecting never showed up.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/02/23/dating-site-stalker-domingo-spinney-milford-plenty-of-fish-vandalized-cars-houses/

Instead, they say Spinney hit on them at the bar when they thought they were being stood up. They say he used a different name and asked for their phone numbers, and was rejected each time.

Police say he stalked the women who turned him down, slashing tires and throwing a brick through a window of a woman's home.

A Massachusetts handyman pleaded innocent Friday to charges he used a packaged pipe bomb to murder a waitress who refused to date him.

Steven S. Caruso, 44, showed no emotion when he was arraigned in Malden District Court for first-degree murder in the Jan. 20 death of Sandra Berfield, 32, of Everett, Mass.

Berfield died when she opened a package authorities allege Caruso left on her front porch. Authorities said the device was triggered by a battery that activated a switch when the package was opened.
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"My sister was stalked relentlessly for over two years," Darisse said. "Unfortunately, she didn't qualify for a 209A (protective restraining order) because she had no prior relationship. This left her without the protection she needed and deserved, which left police unable to stop her stalker."
https://www.thestate.com/news/state/north-carolina/article228715659.html

Certain states require that a credible threat be made before any action can be taken, Darisse explained.

"How do you prove a credible threat? It's a matter of interpretation," she said. "When you receive dead roses in the mail, like my sister did, how do you interpret that any other way?"
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article231423713.html
A teenager is in the hospital and the 41-year-old man who attacked her with a car before stabbing her is behind bars at a North Carolina jail, the Archdale Police Department reported on Facebook.

The 19-year-old was stabbed multiple times because she refused to date Tyvonne Quantaine Upshur, WXII reported. Upshur knew the teen from church, according to WFMY.

Jilted, the "obsessed" Greensboro man followed the teen and her family from church to a Taco Bell and tried to run them over but missed and crashed into utility poles, WGHP reported. Upshur then got out of the car and stabbed the teenager in the back, according to the TV station.

Amber Kyzer said her marriage to Tim Jones started out well but became increasingly abusive. Tim would regularly beat her, spit on her, and threaten to chop her up and feed her to the pigs. Once he even broke her back teeth out by throwing a phone at her head.

After Amber left in a bid to dispel the toxic tension between them and preserve Tim's relationship with their five children, he routinely sent her short videos of the children crying for her in an attempt to lure her back under his control. His efforts failed. Tim murdered all five children in cold blood and drove their bodies around for nine days before dumping them in rural Alabama. The children were aged between eight and one years old. He expressed no remorse during his trial.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/25/marcos-echartea-fayth-shooting-month-old-fresno/?outputType=amp

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It was supposed to be a family gathering on the northeast side of Fresno, Calif. When reporters arrived at the putty-colored ranch house on Monday, coolers were still sitting in the front yard, and a pink-and-blue banner was tacked to the window. "Happy Birthday!" it said in looping letters.

But according to the Fresno Police Department, the weekend celebration turned tragic when a 23-year-old man couldn't take no for an answer and opened fire after a young woman rejected his advances. One of the bullets hit her 10-month-old daughter in the head, and the child has been hospitalized ever since.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/alissa-blanton-stalker-kills-florida-newlywed-hooters-waitress/story?id=9801964

"We are hoping and praying that baby Fayth is able to survive this injury as well as make a full recovery," Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said at a Sunday news conference hours after the shooting.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gay-couple-beat-up-refusing-kiss-onlookers-153832889.html
As it turned out, Echartea was already wanted in another shooting "over a female," Dyer said. On the night of May 27, he allegedly fired numerous shots into the house where his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend was living. One of the bullets penetrated the wall and nearly struck a 1-year-old who was inside, coming within approximately one foot of the baby.

Court records show that at the time of the shooting, Echartea was out on bond while awaiting sentencing in a domestic violence case.

The Florida woman killed by a man who had allegedly stalked her since her Hooters waitressing days had tried to get an order of protection against him, but a judge refused the request.

Alissa Blanton, 23, of Cocoa, Fla., was shot and killed Monday in the parking lot near her new job at an AT&T call center in Orange County, Fla. Police said her killer, 61-year-old Roger Troy, fatally shot himself immediately afterward.

About a week before she died, Blanton asked a judge for an order of protection against Troy, whom she said had been stalking her for two years. Despite the evidence she presented - her petition contained more than 70 pages of harassing e-mails Troy sent to her - Brevard County Circuit Court Judge Dean Moxley said he didn't have enough information to rule on the petition.

Melania Geymonat and her girlfriend were on a 2:30 a.m. bus returning back home after a date on May 30 when they were approached by four men who demanded that the two women kiss in front of them.

When they refused, both women were verbally abused before being severely beaten. The males ran off the bus before authorities could intervene. A phone and bag were stolen during the assault. Both women were taken to a hospital for treatment to facial injuries.

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Because land is central to power and identity, control over land is fundamental to gender justice. But despite enormous recent progress to ensure women's equal legal rights to land and housing, we are still far from achieving equality in practice.

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Because land is central to power and identity, control over land is fundamental to gender justice. But despite enormous recent progress to ensure women's equal legal rights to land and housing, we are still far from achieving equality in practice.

We cannot achieve gender equality without women's equal rights to and control over the world's most elemental resources: land and property. Women's land rights are fundamental human rights.

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Because land is central to power and identity, control over land is fundamental to gender justice. But despite enormous recent progress to ensure women's equal legal rights to land and housing, we are still far from achieving equality in practice.

We cannot achieve gender equality without women's equal rights to and control over the world's most elemental resources: land and property. Women's land rights are fundamental human rights.

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"When we came across these searches, we were shocked by how negative they were and decided we had to do something with them," says Christopher Hunt, Art Director of the creative team. The idea developed places the text of the Google searches over the mouths of women portraits, as if to silence their voices.

"The ads are shocking because they show just how far we still have to go to achieve gender equality. They are a wake up call, and we hope that the message will travel far," adds Kareem Shuhaibar, copy writer.

For UN Women, the searches confirm the urgent need to continue making the case for women's rights, empowerment and equality, a cause the organization is pursuing around the world. UN Women is heartened by the initial strong reaction to the ads and hopes they will spark constructive dialogue globally.
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Ni una muerta más

Coined by the murdered Mexican poet, psychologist and human rights defender Susana Chávez Castillo, "ni una muerta más" follows "ni una menos" in the slogan evoked to protest the unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juárez. Susana's mutilated body was found on January 6, 2011. In 2015, feminist activists in Latin America created the collective Ni Una Menos on Facebook. #NiUnaMenos spread virally and led to a march in response to the brutal murders of Daiana Garcia and Chiara Perez in Argentina.  Read more https://flacso.edu.ec/accionnoviolenta/ni-una-menos-ni-una-muerte-mas/

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