News for Today

Contributed by Charmaine Peart

Women: UConn failed to take sex assaults seriously

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Women-UConn-failed-to-take-sex-assaults-seriously-4914662.php

Cultural commitments and rape

http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/10/21/cultural-commitments-and-rape

Combating Domestic Violence: One Size Doesn't Fit All

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/21/239129010/domestic-violence-often-gets-distorted-in-court

Another Month, Another 50 Women Dead

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-burk/domestic-violence-awareness-month_b_4133288.html

EXCLUSIVE: Domestic Violence victim, Alyssa Dudley, shot three times, released from hospital 

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/local_news/EXCLUSIVE-Domestic-Violence-victim-Alyssas-Dudley-shot-three-times-released-from-hospital

Domestic Violence Awareness Month: The fight against black women’s higher rates of intimate partner violence

http://thegrio.com/2013/10/20/domestic-violence-awareness-month-black-women-homocide-intimate-partner-violence/

Baltimore County Commission for Women to hold domestic violence information fair

http://www.baltimorenewsjournal.com/2013/10/21/baltimore-county-commission-for-women-to-hold-domestic-violence-information-fair/

Dangerous times: Programs for domestic violence victims

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/dangerous-times/Content?oid=2267365

Counselors to talk Oct. 23 on domestic violence

http://www.niutoday.info/2013/10/21/counselors-to-talk-oct-23-on-domestic-violence/

Local businesses raise funds for Citizens Against Domestic Violence

http://lakeexpo.com/news/lake_news/article_ab50114a-3a6b-11e3-928b-001a4bcf887a.html

Protecting women: Honda, Boxer sponsor bills to help prevent violence against women around the world

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_24325172/protecting-women-honda-boxer-sponsor-bills-help-prevent

Breaking domestic violence silence key to recovery

http://azdailysun.com/news/local/breaking-domestic-violence-silence-key-to-recovery/article_d019f0fc-3955-11e3-af80-0019bb2963f4.html

Contributed by Bree Windham

http://www.dw.de/thai-anti-trafficking-measures-prove-controversial/a-17171996

Contributed Ana Maria GuerraWhy gender equality at work must be top development priority

http://www.trust.org/item/20131021230842-c3y19/

Procuraduría de Guanajuato: urge encontrar a Ivana Geraldín! (Mexico)

http://periodicodepuebla.com.mx/nacional/22-nacional/20159-procuraduria-de-guanajuato-urge-encontrar-a-ivana-geraldin

Teen Found With Dead Fetus in Bag Faces Speculation and Scrutiny (US)

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/10/22/teen-found-with-dead-fetus-in-bag-faces-speculation-and-scrutiny/

Women Battle Online Anti-Women Hate From the 'Manosphere'

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/women-battle-online-anti-women-hate-manosphere/story?id=20579038

Pakistan's women police fight criminals, militants and scorn

http://www.trust.org/item/20131020204934-7m1qd/

Police say sex offender who fled Canada has been arrested in Seattle for harassment

http://www.timescolonist.com/police-say-sex-offender-who-fled-canada-has-been-arrested-in-seattle-for-harassment-1.667892

Uganda: Unsafe Abortions Kill 1,500 Women a Year

http://allafrica.com/stories/201310221266.html

L’ONU dénonce le sexisme via des suggestions Google

http://www.madmoizelle.com/onu-google-campagne-sexisme-207479

Saudi clerics protest, blaming the US for a campaign pushing women’s right to drive

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/around-150-saudi-clerics-protest-blaming-the-us-for-a-campaign-pushing-womens-right-to-drive/2013/10/22/e6b6e9ac-3b38-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html

Marissa Alexander Illustrates How the Legal System Can Abuse Domestic Violence Survivors (US)

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/marissa-alexander-illustrates-how-abuse-survivors-get-further-abused-by-the-legal-system

Contributed by Megan Bird

 Madeleine Albright at the U.N.: World's Women on Right Path

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/10/22/madeleine-albright-at-the-u-n-world-s-women-are-on-the-right-path.html

U.S. Government Shutdown Silenced a Call for Women's Safety

http://womensenews.org/story/domestic-violence/131021/shutdown-silenced-call-womens-safety#.Umbkb1OVOho