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...bishops and priests under detention or house arrest for maintaining allegiance to the Pope rather than to the Communist Party-approved church. And a Chinese court in December issued death sentences to five leaders of a 50,000-member evangelical Christian group?the South China Church?on charges of rape, although followers say police forced women to testify falsely...
...remind ourselves what love is, and more pressingly what love is not: love is not violence, love is not disrespecting people’s bodies and decisions, and love is not pressuring someone into sex because you bought her flowers. Unfortunately, many times acts of violence such as rape are committed under the guise of “love...
Sachs is also correct that as part of the fight against rape and sexual assault we need to find “real solutions.” CASV advocates changing both Harvard’s sexual assault policy and laws in nations around the world. However, the purpose of our V-day campaign was not to highlight those efforts, but to raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual assault, both on Harvard’s campus and around the world. We also hoped to show that many victims never report their assaults to the police, that many more people...
...sees in the posters is “don’t be a sexual predator”—and that this message is insulting. However, I would argue that raising awareness is the key to ending sexual violence. Ultimately, no law or policy can truly stop rape and sexual assault. For rape to disappear from any society, there needs to be a change in the mindset of individuals who believe that they are “entitled” to women’s (and men’s) bodies. No one has the right to disrespect...
...Nice to Vaginas, You Came From One.” Many responsible organizations have devoted time and effort to finding effective ways to fight violence, but the height of V-Day’s political imagination seems to be the proclamation of San Francisco as a “Rape Free Zone...