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...hour-long workshops cover various aspects of sexual assault prevention at Harvard, including rape myths and facts, support resources, scenarios in which sexual assault can happen, as well as College policy, OSAPR Director Susan B. Marine wrote in an e-mail...
...Class of 2007 showed improved attitudes toward rape myths and responsibility compared to the control group, principal investigator Jay G. Silverman said, adding that this result was an indication of the efficacy of the program...
...goal through this education that we reduce adherence to rape myths, that students increase use of bystander intervention and risk reduction, and that we ultimately reduce victimization,” she wrote in an e-mail...
...remote desert villages of Pakistan beyond the reach of government courts, tribal law is often the only adjudicator of local disputes?and the use of rape to settle scores is common. In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was publicly raped by four volunteers in the hamlet of Meerwala in central Pakistan on the orders of village elders. She had committed no crime: her 12-year-old brother had been accused of walking with a girl from the higher Mastoi caste, and Mai was chosen to bear the punishment for her family...
...pressed charges against her alleged assailants, becoming an icon in the fight to eliminate such barbaric tribal customs. (TIME named her one of Asia's Heroes last year for her defiance.) A conventional court sentenced six men to death in August 2002 for ordering and carrying out the gang rape, and Mai used the $8,300 awarded to her by the government to open a village school...