UN: 'Reasonable grounds' to believe rape was committed in the October 7 terror attacks

A new report by the United Nations has established that there are 'reasonable grounds' to believe that rape and gang rape occurred during the October 7th terror attacks led by Hamas against Israel. The UN mission interviewed survivors and witnesses of the attack, and examined 50 hours of video footage and thousands of photographs to arrive at this conclusion.

The video that shattered the silence around Manipur

 

Internet blackouts, media silence and political neglect – the case of the Indian state of Manipur. Plus, reporting conflict using satellite imagery.

A viral video revealing a shocking case of sexual assault has put the northeastern Indian state of Manipur on the radar and shed light on a place that the mainstream media has paid scant attention to.

Outrage In South Korea: It's Not About The Coronavirus

Once again the large amount of misogyny, sexual assault and abuse  has once more been brought into the light.  Like the scandal involving male K-pop stars who illegally upload video of sexual encounters without the women's knowledge or consent.    This time it involves the abuse of not only women but of junior high school girls whom their abusers treated like sex slaves.

 

Outrage in South Korea over Telegram sexual abuse ring blackmailing women and girls

 Alleged ringleader forced victims to carve ‘slave’ into their bodies and send him degrading images that were shared with scores of others

A sexual blackmail ring that operated on the app Telegram and targeted dozens of women, including underage girls, has rocked South Korea and triggered demands for authorities to crack down on the rising number of sexual offences online.

Police on Wednesday took the unusual step of naming the man who allegedly ran an online network that lured at least 58 women and 16 girls into what authorities called “virtual enslavement” by blackmailing them into sending degrading and, in come cases, violent sexual images of themselves.

Cho Ju-bin faces charges of violating the child protection act, the privacy act and the sexual abuse act, as well as abuse, threats, and coercion, after he was identified as the blackmail ring’s leader.

In South Korea Sexism Is Doing Just Fine

South Korea is so male dominated that's almost impossible to realize they elected Park Geun hye President.  But, not worry then men are fighting back. For last several months thousands of women have gathered in central Seoul to protest against all types of sexual abuse they must endure. Somehow the tone deaf, ignorant and misogynistic assholes heading the National Police Agency and the Seoul Public Prosecutors office seem unable or unwilling to extricate their  collective heads from their collective asses.

Thousands of women protesting over an epidemic of  illegal spy cam videos being uploaded to the internet and what do these fools focus on? Why the one woman who surreptitiously photographed a nude male model from art school who then posted the photograph online.   

A South Korean court has taken the rare step of jailing a woman for secretly photographing a male nude model, in a case that has sparked accusations of sexism and double standards.

The 25-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Ahn, was sentenced to 10 months in prison by the Seoul western district court and ordered to undergo 40 hours of counselling on sexual violence.

South Korea is in the midst of an epidemic of spycam pornography, where victims are secretly filmed in places such as toilet stalls and changing rooms. A series of monthly protests in Seoul have drawn tens of thousands of people.

The number of spycam crimes reported to police surged from around 1,100 in 2010 to more than 6,500 last year. It is thought many crimes go unreported.

Of the 16,201 people arrested between 2012 and 2017 for making illegal recordings, 98% were men, including school teachers, college professors, church pastors and police officers. Of the 26,000 recorded victims over that period, 84% were women.

Brides and Brothels: The Rohingya Trade

Thousands of Rohingya girls continue to face sexual exploitation, forced marriage and trafficking in refugee camps.

They have survived rape and the slaughter of their families. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya girls and women fled Myanmar to escape a military crackdown.

In Bangladesh's refugee camps they thought they would be safe. But inside the tents that house almost a million Rohingya refugees, women and girls are being bought, sold and given away.

Girls are being forced into marriage because relatives can't afford to feed them, or are being lured to brothels with the promise of good jobs.

New study ranks most notorious Japanese train stations for perverts

In Japan, the word fushinsha literally translates to “suspicious person“, and is commonly used by police as a catch-all term to describe voyeurs, flashers and chikan gropers who usually commit acts of sexual harassment in public, often on public transport.

According to JASPIC, 11,607 incidents were officially recorded from March to October this year, with 4,487 reports occurring in the proximity of train stations. The following 25 stations were identified as being the most notorious for suspicious persons, with nine cases recorded at each one.

• Shin-Sapporo (Hokkaido Prefecture)
• Nagamachi-Minami (Miyagi Prefecture)
• Maebashi (Gunma Prefecture)
• Higashi-Omiya (Saitama Prefecture)
• Miyahara (Saitama Prefecture)
• Kami-Fukuoka (Saitama Prefecture)
• Kita-Toda (Saitama Prefecture)
• Kasukabe (Saitama Prefecture)
• Tokorozawa (Saitama Prefecture)
• Shiki (Saitama Prefecture)
• Tozuka-Angyo (Saitama Prefecture)
• Nishi-Kawaguchi (Saitama Prefecture)
• Honjo (Saitama Prefecture)
• Ikuta (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Noborito (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Mukogaoka-Yuen (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Shizuoka (Shizuoka Prefecture)
• Hamamatsu (Shizuoka Prefecture)
• Komyoike (Osaka Prefecture)
• Yamato-Saidaiji (Nara Prefecture)
• Kobe-Sannomiya (Hyogo Prefecture)
• HyogoHimeji ( Prefecture)
• Okayama (Okayama Prefecture)
• Hiroshima (Hiroshima Prefecture)
• Meinohama (Fukuoka Prefecture)

Prefectural Ranking

Looking at the wider picture, taking into account the total reports of suspicious persons from each prefecture, reveals the following results.

1. Saitama (1,711)
2. Osaka (1,227)
3. Aichi (989)
4. Tokyo (969)
5. Hyogo (923)
6. Hokkaido (717)
7. Shizuoka (687)
8. Kanagawa (537)
9. Fukuoka (508)
10. Miyagi (426)
11. Hiroshima (382)
12. Kyoto (362)
13. Chiba (241)
14. Okayama (149)

Tokyo’s Most Notorious Stations

• Akitsu, Higashimurayma City (8 reports)
• Kita-Senju, Adachi Ward (7 reports)
• Hachioji, Hachioji City (6 reports)
• Araiyakushi-Mae, Nakano Ward (6 reports)
• Higashi-Jujo, Kita Ward (6 reports)
• Jujo, Kita Ward (6 reports)
• Umejima, Adachi Ward (6 reports)
• Mizue, Edogawa Ward (6 reports)
• Ogikubo, Suginami Ward (6 reports)
• Nishi-Kasai, Edogawa Ward (6 reports)

Why this elbow is a TIME person of the year

Time magazine named "the Silence Breakers" its Person of the Year for 2017. These are the women and men who shared their stories of assault, harassment, and hostility and publicly named their alleged abusers. But the story goes beyond the magazine’s cover. That elbow in the lower right-hand corner is attached to a young hospital worker from Texas, who anonymously reported her harassment for fear of the negative impact it could have on her and her family. It represents a much larger contingent than the women on the cover: the silence keepers. Sexual harassment and sexual assault are both underreported. A government study by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that about 70 percent of harassment is never reported. The same report aggregated a study that found when people did report harassment, about 75 percent of faced some sort of retaliation for doing so.

What can be done to stop sexual harassment?

Sexual harassment scandals in Hollywood have triggered a flood of similar claims and protests around the world.

Sexual harassment scandals in Hollywood have triggered a flood of similar claims and protests around the world.

Never before have we been made so aware of sexual harassment. The bombshell claims against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in early October have unleashed a flood of similar accusations against men worldwide.

And this week Britain's foreign secretary was forced to resign. Sexual harassment is everywhere, on the streets, in the office. From Australia to Zimbabwe.