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Jeffrey Epstein was a very wealthy rapist. There were over 20 women who spoke out about their abuse. Yet, after he committed suicide in prison, the whole case has been dismissed without concluding anything, simply because he died.

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US District Judge Richard Berman approved a motion from federal prosecutors formally ending criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein died by suicide on August 10 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.

Earlier this week, Berman allowed dozens of his victims to testify about their experiences in court.

Attorney General Bill Barr vowed to go after Epstein's alleged co-conspirators in the wake of his death.

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The federal sex-trafficking court case against Jeffrey Epstein has been dismissed.

In a court document filed Thursday in New York, US District Judge Richard Berman approved a "nolle prosequi" motion from federal prosecutors, meaning they will no longer pursue criminal charges against Epstein.

Epstein died by suicide on August 10 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.

"Because Jeffrey Epstein, the defendant, died while this case was pending, and therefore before a final judgment was issued, the Indictment must be dismissed," the filing said.

Epstein was arrested on July 6 and pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges involving dozens of underage girls, in allegations dating back to the early 2000s.
Read more: A growing number of Americans doubt that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide. Here's a guide to the conspiracy theories about his death, and why they're not backed by evidence.
The decision to dismiss the case against Epstein comes after more than 20 of his accusers attended a hearing in a Southern District of New York courtroom on Tuesday.

Sixteen women testified, recounting their experiences and allegations against Epstein, including some who said they were raped by the disgraced financier when they were underage girls.

The women said Epstein used his financial power and connections to famous people to sexually abuse them for years. Epstein has been linked to a long list of famous and powerful people, including President Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and former President Bill Clinton.

Attorney General William Barr has promised that the Justice Department will pursue charges against those who enabled Epstein, the Associated Press reported.

You can read Judge Richard Berman's ruling below:
This article has been updated.

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US District Judge Richard Berman approved a motion from federal prosecutors formally ending criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died by suicide on August 10 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges. Earlier this week, Berman allowed dozens of his victims to testify about their experiences in court.

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This article is about how giving advice to women on how to avoid rape is not worth it. Those giving advice to women should focus more on stopping and punishing rapists.

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Women have been urged not to wear headphones or use mobile phones following a string of sexual assaults in north-west London. Is this a form of victim blaming or necessary advice in an imperfect world?

There have been 10 sex attacks on lone women in Cricklewood since February. Police revealed more details about the assaults on Tuesday, including the attacker's modus operandi.

In most cases, which have taken place near Willesden Green Tube station, the man approached a lone woman, tried to chat to her, asked for a kiss or a hug and then sexually abused her.

The Metropolitan Police arrested a man and later released him under investigation. But their safety advice to women provoked criticism.

"I would appeal to women in the local area to take care when they are walking, especially if they are alone," said Det Con Laura Avery.

"Always stick to well-lit streets. If possible, let someone know when you are coming home and the route you are taking and always be alert in your surroundings, so don't use earphones or handheld devices."

Practical, universal safety tips?

Or an unfair onus on women to change their day-to-day, law-abiding, behaviour?

Jessica Eaton, who campaigns on behalf of the victims of sexual violence, called the advice "ridiculous" and "useless".

"No-one will talk about the most common denominator here," she said.

"Headphones don't rape women, nor do skirts, or dark streets, or clubs, or alcohol, or parties, or sleepovers, or school uniforms.

"Name the perpetrators. Name the problem. We can't help if we can't even name it."

She added there was a hypocrisy to the police's sexual assault message and that given out following other types of crime.

"When there is a terrorist attack, government, police and public figures say 'we will not change our way of life, we will not change our behaviours... we will carry on as normal because we deserve a safe society'.

"But when women are being raped and assaulted, government, police and public figures say 'women, change your behaviours... do something different'. Why are women supposed to change their lives and their behaviours for sex offenders?"

Her sentiments were mirrored online in response to the BBC's story.

Charlotte James, a 28-year-old marketing manager, tweeted:

"While I'm sure the advice is well intended, it's very problematic," she added.

"The narrative puts the victim at fault, rather than the criminal. We so frequently hear reports of attacks which detail the behaviour of the victim: what they were wearing, where they were, what time of day, if they were alone, if they had consumed alcohol.

"All of these things suggest that those choices were naive, foolish, dangerous, or incorrect in some way."

She added that such advice "creates a culture of fear - and not just for women".

"It means people fear going out alone in the dark, or wearing outfits society might deem 'provocative', or enjoying a drink on a night out," she said.

"I'm a grown woman, I shouldn't need a chaperone. Advice such as this polices the behaviour of innocent people, rather than the actions of criminals."

Siobhan Tatum, a legal professional, tweeted that women often wore headphones precisely to deter male attention.

However, the Met told the BBC it was offering "personal safety advice that applies to everyone" and urged people to look at its website for further information.

Many also pointed out people's personal responsibility in keeping themselves safe.

Mary Thro said on Facebook: "We are all responsible for our personal safety, everyone should take steps to prevent becoming a victim. A good place to start is to cut out distracting behaviour such as mobiles and earphones so that you are more aware of your surroundings.

"In a non-existent utopia people wouldn't have to take these measures but we aren't living in utopia."

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Anti-rape video "A Needed Response" goes viral

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Lauren Southern, a Canadian YouTuber and Libertarian spoke out at a SlutWalk march saying "There is no rape culture in the West".

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21 Savage joined Amber Rose on the annual Slutwalk march held in Los Angeles.

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Rape Protests Are Sparking In Mexico City

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A teenage girl was abducted and sexually abused by four police officers. She was called in four days later to get checked, however, the signs of rape were already gone and eventually the police dismissed her story. However, her story was heard and citizens protested in Mexico City.

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Late on the night of Aug. 3, a 17-year-old found herself disoriented, walking the streets of Azcapotzalco in northern Mexico City after a party. Surveillance cameras show her getting out of a car and stopping in front of a house, where she rang the doorbell for help. Instead of opening the door for the scared young woman, people inside called 911. The teenager was next seen waiting on the sidewalk. After a few minutes, a couple of patrol cars arrived, followed by a police SUV that parked in the middle of the desolate street. She likely thought that would be the end of her ordeal. In fact, it was just the beginning. She would claim four police officers approached her and, after asking why she had been walking alone, abducted her, forced her into the larger vehicle, and sexually assaulted her.

What followed would make things even worse. It would also ignite a historic reaction against the scourge of gender-based violence in Mexico.

The young woman eventually made it home. The next morning, accompanied by both her mother and grandfather, she tried to report the rape. Exhausted by the ordeal and after waiting for hours for medical authorities, the victim and her family left before the required tests could be performed. They were called in again almost four days after the alleged attack. By then, signs of sexual assault were no longer detectable. She also provided detailed testimony and was subjected to a psychological exam. The officers allegedly responsible for the assault were placed on administrative leave. Authorities made clear the punishment would not last long. Even after acknowledging the grave mistakes made by Azcapotzalco investigators, Mexico City officials seemed to dismiss the young victim's story. "Without a proper case file to make a clear claim [of rape], we will not be manufacturing culprits," said city Attorney General Ernestina Godoy.

Mexican women have every right to beangry.

The government's reaction led to a rowdy protest on the streets of downtown Mexico City on Monday the 12 th, almost 10 days after the attack in Azcapotzalco. A group chanted for "Justice!" Activists threw pink glitter on Jesus Orta, the city's security minister. A small group made their way into the attorney general's office building and demanded an end to impunity. A few protestors vandalized the lobby. Enraged, one woman threw a stanchion over a desk. "We are not here to ask for your permission!" she yelled. "Take this, you fucking rapists!" Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City's supposedly progressive new mayor, responded with unexpected aloofness, describing the protests as a "provocation." She echoed her attorney general's comments: "We will not fabricate guilty parties."

Sheinbaum's apparent dismissal of the protest and the overall lack of progress in the investigation led to an even larger rally on Friday against police sexual abuse and gender-based violence in Mexico. Under the banner " No me cuidan, me violan" ("They don't protect me; they rape me"), hundreds of women gathered around one of the city's busiest intersections, Glorieta de los Insurgentes, and then marched on Avenida Reforma. For most of the participants, last Friday's march offered an opportunity to feel safe and empowered while voicing much-justified outrage. "We didn't know each other, but it didn't matter," writer Sandra Barba would later recall in a widely read chronicle. "Not a single one will be left behind. We won't let each other go." Some of the protestors spray-painted graffiti on the base of the Angel de la Independencia, the capital's landmark monument. And yet, fittingly, by far the worst episode of violence was committed by a man who brutally knocked out a local reporter who was broadcasting the protest live.

After the rally, Mexico City's mayor once again questioned the motives behind the demonstrations. "We will not fall into the provocation of using public force on the protestors because that's what they are looking for," Sheinbaum said in a statement. The mayor did not explain who "they" were or why exactly "they" would want to provoke her administration into repression. For Mexican feminists like Sandra Barba, Sheinbaum's reaction seemed tone-deaf: It was only a matter of time before women in Mexico had had enough. "Women of my generation grew up hearing of the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez. We grew up hearing that women were getting killed. Our outrage could only grow," Barba wrote. "This is what Sheinbaum and [Mexican President Andrés Manuel] López Obrador are up against."

Barba is right. Mexican women have every right to be angry. In Mexico City, for example, the Azcapotzalco case is not exceptional. In recent months, there have been at least two other instances in which police officers have allegedly assaulted young women in the capital. As for Mexico, violence against women has reached epidemic proportions. According to the U.N., nine women are killed every day in the country. More than 3,000 have been murdered since 2015, and of those, more than 300 were killed in 2019 alone. Since impunity for perpetrators is rampant, 82 percent of Mexican women say they routinely feel unsafe. Over 66 percent of them have endured violent incidents, including domestic or sexual violence.

Ideally, the recent protests should be a turning point in the fight against gender-based violence in Mexico. After her initial blunder in responding to the crisis, Sheinbaum has now pledged to work alongside different organizations on a plan to protect women in Mexico's enormous capital. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who on the day of the protests chose to tweet a cheeky video praising the landscape in the state of Oaxaca instead of referring to the painful protests in Mexico City, should follow suit. He could begin, for example, by reconsidering his egregious decisions to cut aid to independent organizations who shelter victims of violence.

I recently asked Barba what she would like to see happen after the recent marches. "We don't want any more files misplaced or doctors who don't perform the pertinent tests until the fourth day," she told me. "We want to see some of these cases resolved. We need success stories, where justice is done. We want to know who killed these women. We want closure."

Update, Aug. 23, 2019: This article has been updated to clarify the language regarding the tests the victim was subjected to by medical authorities.

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BBC publishes a story about the anti-rape protesters, mostly female but some males of all ages, in South Africa.

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Hundreds of protesters, mainly female, in South Africa, have tried to storm a conference centre in the coastal city of Cape Town where the World Economic Forum (WEF) event is being held.

They were calling for protection of women against sexual abuse and also justice for victims.

The march comes amidst national anger over the killing of a 19-year-old student.

Femicide in South Africa is five times higher than the global average.

More than 20,300 murders were recorded last year alone.

One of the latest victims, Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, a student at the University of Cape Town, was allegedly bludgeoned to death after going to pick up a parcel from a post office in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont.

The first-year film and media studies student had been missing since 24 August and her body was found a week later dumped in Khayelitsha township.

The confirmation of her identity triggered a national outrage about the safety of women.

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A suspect in the killing of Ms Mrwetyana, who cannot be named yet for legal reasons, appeared in court on Monday and, according to the prosecuting authority, confessed to the killing. He is expected back in court in November.

Gender violence in South Africa

One in five women are assaulted by their partner

More than 40,000 cases of rape are reported every year, most of the victims are female

Femicide in South Africa is five times higher than the global average

Source: Medical Research Council 2009 study; Stats SA Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Women have been using hashtags #RIPUyinene and #AmINext to share their stories and call for action to be taken to end abuse against them.

President Cyril Ramaphosa called violence against women a "stain" on the country:

"This is a very dark period for us as a country. The assaults, rapes and murders of South African women are a stain on our national conscience," he said in a statement.

Outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where the two-day WEF event opened today, protesters chanted "we want a state of emergency", urging President Ramaphosa to take immediate actions on the situation.

"People feel that they are entitled to our bodies and they aren't... I'm here to fight for the people who never had a chance to fight for themselves," a protester told the BBC's Vumani Mkhize.

The presidential special adviser on gender-based violence, Dr Olive Shisana, told the protesters that the government had a plan to address their concerns:

"Our team is still going around the country where we are consulting women on the strategy to fight gender-based violence. We cannot develop it within the Presidency without involving women all around the country."

The protesters were not however convinced by her comments, EWN news site reports.

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Hundreds of protesters, mainly female, in South Africa, have tried to storm a conference centre in the coastal city of Cape Town where the World Economic Forum (WEF) event is being held. They were calling for protection of women against sexual abuse and also justice for victims. The march comes amidst national anger over the killing of a 19-year-old student.

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India's capital witnessed demonstrations on Tuesday after a car crash in northern Uttar Pradesh state on Sunday badly injured a 19-year-old teenager who reported that a ruling party lawmaker had raped her.

The girl, who sustained massive injuries, has been admitted to a hospital in Lucknow city and is reported to be in a critical condition. Two of her aunts were killed in the accident. Her lawyer was also injured, and is undergoing treatment.

"My daughter is critical, there is no improvement in her condition," her mother said on Tuesday.

Read more: Is India the worst place in the world to be a woman?

The girl's family alleged that Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a legislator from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had engineered the accident.

The teen had claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Sengar when she went to his home in Unnao to seek a job in 2017. But authorities initially refused to take action.

To demand justice, the teenager even tried to set herself on fire outside the home of the state's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Her father was detained by police and severely beaten in custody - allegedly by Sengar's brother - and later died from his injuries.

Sengar, a four-term lawmaker, has been in jail since last year and could not be reached for comment. He has previously denied the rape accusation.

The case has put the spotlight on the crime situation in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state
Spotlight on sex crimes
The case has put the spotlight on the crime situation in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with over 200 million people.

Opposition groups say the BJP is shielding Sengar and accuse the police of delaying his prosecution. "Why do we give people like Kuldeep Sengar the strength and protection of political power and abandon their victims to battle for their lives alone?" Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of the main opposition Congress party, asked on Twitter. She called on Modi to immediately sack Sengar.

Dozens of opposition lawmakers also protested outside India's parliament, holding placards with slogans such as "India Ashamed #Unnao," referring to the site of the crime. Elsewhere in the Indian capital, women and students' groups also held protests.

The government said the incident will be probed by federal investigators amid speculation that local police could favor her alleged rapist.

The current protests were reminiscent of those that followed the fatal gang rape of a Delhi student on a bus in 2012 that made headlines around the world.

That case drew global attention to rampant sexual violence against women in India, and led to the introduction of new laws to punish sex offenders.

But there has been no let-up in the number of assaults, with 40,000 rape cases reported every year.

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India's capital witnessed demonstrations on Tuesday after a car crash in northern Uttar Pradesh state on Sunday badly injured a 19-year-old teenager who reported that a ruling party lawmaker had raped her. The girl, who sustained massive injuries, has been admitted to a hospital in Lucknow city and is reported to be in a critical condition.

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This article goes into how African American marchers protested outside the parliament in America. The women "express their fear, rage, and pain" as they continue to hear the news of women being raped.

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The president, ministers, politicians, public representatives as well as the SAPS have seriously misread the seething rage of the women of South Africa. Protecting Parliament and the political elite attending the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, they turned on mourners and protesters, arresting at least eight and using stun guns and a water cannon to disperse them.

Everything that is wrong with the official response (or rather non-response) to the war on South African women was visible at two protest marches that took place in Cape Town on Wednesday 4 September 2019.

Both marches, and those that will take place on Thursday 5 September, have enabled women (and our allies) to once again express our fear, rage and pain in the wake of the rape and murder of several young women, a daily occurrence.

The raped, murdered, butchered, and battered include UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, UWC student Jesse Hess, boxing champion Leighandre Jegels, 14-year-old Janika Mallo, Lynette Volschenk, and Meghan Cremer.

First, the line of SAPS officers, dressed in protective clothing and carrying plastic riot shields, chose specifically to position themselves, in a grim line, outside the gates of the "people's" Parliament. It was here where thousands - mostly young women dressed in black or their school uniforms - had gathered to mourn and protest against the rapes and deaths.

The SAPS mission was clear; stop the protesters from getting in, which it was patently obvious was never the intention. The mood was one of deep sadness and anger, but there was no threat of violence or disruption.

These are the same SAPS members who turned away businesswoman Thandi Ndlovu, who died in a car crash on 24 August, when she tried to report domestic abuse.

These are the same SAPS members who occupy a police station next door to the Clareinch Post Office in Claremont where UCT student Uy inen e Mrwetyana was abducted, raped and where she met her brutal death, bludgeoned with a scale.

So here we are today,
To claim ourselves,
To claim back our bodies,
Claim it from knives,
fom jack hammers,
fom axes,
from guns
from bullets
and to rage.

To rage against muteness,
against stupidity,
Against the corrupt thoughts of men.
We rage against their yells,
their cries,
against their misplaced desires for power.

We rage against what you think a man is
against your inward festering of destruction.

Among the crowds of women who gathered in Cape Town were several generations of South women, all of whom, so far, have survived the toxic masculinity in this country which threatens more than half of the population.

It was in the streets of Cape Town that older women passed on Struggle songs to a younger generation who are far from being free. But the enemy today is far more fearsome, for he walks among us, he is in our homes, our schools, our churches, our beds. We dare not give up. DM

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ANALYSIS: Women protest against rape and femicide - SAPS arrest marchers, use stun grenades and turn water cannon on crowd

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The president, ministers, politicians, public representatives as well as the SAPS have seriously misread the seething rage of the women of South Africa. Protecting Parliament and the political elite attending the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, they turned on mourners and protesters, arresting at least eight and using stun guns and a water cannon to disperse them.

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