Aziza’s story reflects the growing number of violent public assaults on women deemed to be in breach of sharia law in Afghanistan
Category: Violence
Nusrat Rafi burned to death for reporting sexual abuse
A schoolgirl was burned to death in Bangladesh on the orders of her headteacher after she reported him for sexually harassing her, police said on Friday.
The death of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi last week sparked protests across the south Asian nation, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promising to prosecute all those involved.
Rafi was lured to the rooftop of the religious school she attended where her attackers asked her to withdraw the sexual harassment complaint she had filed with police.
When she refused, she was doused in kerosene and set on fire. On April 10, she died from the burns, which covered 80 percent of her body.
Source: Nusrat Rafi burned to death for reporting sexual abuse: Police | News | Al Jazeera
Man angry about virginity pleads guilty to threatening women
A man has pleaded guilty to a felony terroristic threat charge after authorities said he threating to target women in a mass shooting because he couldn’t get a girlfriend.
Police said Cleary wrote on Facebook he was planning to become a mass shooter because he was still a virgin and wanted to kill as many women as possible.
He was arrested during a trip to Provo, Utah, on January 19, the same day women’s marches were held around the country. Colorado authorities have said he was on probation after stalking and threatening women there.
Source: Man angry about virginity pleads guilty to threatening women
US woman kidnapped in Afghanistan says husband’s abuse was just like captors’
Caitlan Coleman says her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, was violent towards her before, during and after their kidnapping
PM ‘appalled’, unmoved on One Nation preferences after pro-gun footage
The Prime Minister said he was “appalled” by revelations that Pauline Hanson’s key lieutenants were caught on tape with pro-gun lobbyists in the US seeking to secure millions of dollars in donations.
The documentary shows footage from a meeting in Washington DC with the powerful National Rifle Association, where Mr Dickson discusses his hopes to change Australia’s gun laws.
“We get the balance of power, very simply that means that we have the testicles of the government in our hand at every given stage,” he said.
Source: PM ‘appalled’, unmoved on One Nation preferences after pro-gun footage
Christchurch attacks: New Zealand brings in sweeping gun-law changes
Bans on assault rifles and military-style semi-automatics introduced as well as a buyback scheme
Source: Christchurch attacks: New Zealand brings in sweeping gun-law changes | World news | The Guardian
NSW State Election 2019 : The GCA Position – Gun Control Australia
Our world-leading gun control laws are being undermined as a result of decades of pressure from the well-funded and powerful gun lobby. Nowhere is this more evident than in New South Wales, where the total number of registered firearms has just broken through the 1 million mark – meaning there is now one gun for every eight NSW citizens.
NSW laws breach the National Firearms Agreement – the landmark pact all states and territories signed up for after the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre – 11 times.
Source: NSW State Election 2019 : The GCA Position – Gun Control Australia
‘We are now free’: Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune
In Jinwar, north-eastern Syria, a pioneering group of women are rebuilding their lives away from the constraints of patriarchy
The women’s revolution, as it is known, is a significant part of Rojava’s philosophy. Angered by the atrocities committed by Isis, Kurdish women formed their own fighting units. Later, Arab and Yazidi recruits joined them on the front lines to liberate their sisters.
Brazil: four women killed every day in 2019, human rights body says
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on country to implement strategies to prevent and prosecute femicides.
With a population of more than 200 million, Brazil has only 74 shelters for victims of domestic violence, according to Human Rights Watch.
In Brazil, those women killed are often shot dead in their own homes at the hands of current or former boyfriends who have a history of domestic abuse, the IACHR said.
“The commission notes with concern that in most cases, the murdered women had previously denounced their aggressors, faced serious acts of domestic violence or suffered previous attacks or attempted homicides,” the IACHR said.
Femicides are not an “isolated problem” but reflect “sexist values deeply rooted in Brazilian society”, the IACHR said.
Source: Brazil: four women killed every day in 2019, human rights body says | World news | The Guardian
Why incels are a ‘real and present threat’ for Canadians
Criminologists and sociologists are sounding the alarm over extreme and violent internet subcultures that include incels, saying the threat they pose isn’t being taken seriously enough.
“It’s about their proprietary violence, that they think they have some sort of inborn inherent right and privilege to access women and women’s bodies and so that is the bit that animates them,” Barbara Perry, a criminologist specializing in hate crime at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, told The Fifth Estate.
And while Perry said she’s tracked 120 instances of alt-right violence in the last 30 years in Canada, during the same period there were seven incidents of Islamist-inspired extremism.
“I think that really puts in context what the risk is.”
Source: Why incels are a ‘real and present threat’ for Canadians | CBC News