Category Archives: Acts of Violence

Two New Posts By Riverbend at “Baghdad Burning”

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The Rape of Sabrine… Here is an excerpt: … As I write this, Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we get on Nilesat), showing Americans how to get out of debt. Her guest speaker is telling … Continue reading →

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“Sexually harassed Florida farmworkers get justice”

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From the Southern Poverty Law Center: One of Florida’s largest fruit and vegetable wholesalers has agreed to pay $215,000 to settle allegations of sexual harassment in one of the few such lawsuits ever brought on behalf of farmworker women in … Continue reading →

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That Tricky First Amendment

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From Romenesko: The article in the Central Connecticut State University Recorder describes rape as a “magical experience” that has been a blessing to “ugly women.” “If it weren’t for rape, how would they ever know the joy of intercourse with … Continue reading →

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Time Magazine on Rape and Consent

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Recently the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled in a rape case addressing the legal issue of whether consent could be withdrawn after penetration, that no, it probably couldn’t be. The written opinion in the case, Maouloud Baby v. State … Continue reading →

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Ambriz v. Kelegian: In Which Justice Might Finally Be Coming To a Rape Victim

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here is an excerpt from the facts recitation in a successful appeal from SJ: At the time of Ambriz’s rape, three of the four entrances to Ambriz’s building did not close and lock properly because the mechanisms on the entrance … Continue reading →

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Horrifying Maltreatment of Rape Victim in Florida Reported

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Ann Bartow

TAMPA – First, police say, a 21-year-old woman was raped at Gasparilla. Then, she was handcuffed and jailed – for two nights and two days. A jail worker with religious objections blocked her from ingesting a morning-after pill to prevent … Continue reading →

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“Not Innocent”

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The disconnect between legal culpability and social responsibility simmers just below the surface of reporting on the Duke sex scandal. In The Duke Assault Case: A Question of Race, CNN’s January 16 special on Duke, co-hosts Paula Zahn and Howard … Continue reading →

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Conference on Judicial Language: “The Troubling Language of Rape: How Eroticism, Gender Myths, and Victim Blaming Affect Social and Legal Discourse”

Posted on January 27, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From the Conference webpage: The Judicial Language Project, which is the only organization in the country that reviews the language in judicial opinions to assess its impact on victims and society, will sponsor its first conference, “The Troubling Language of … Continue reading →

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Raising awareness of breast cancer research by putting a violent message on a headless female torso.

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Photo by techne, from here. Additional impassioned commentary at I Blame The Patriarchy.

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Alcohol, Testosterone and Violence

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Three members of the football team at Guilford College, a Quaker institution in Greensboro, North Carolina, have been charged with assault and ethnic intimidation of three Palestinian students.   National Public Radio interviewed Guilford’s Dean for Campus Life, Aaron Fetrow. … Continue reading →

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UK Judges Try to Block Rape Trial Reforms

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The British newspaper The Guardian reports: Government plans for changes in the law to boost rape conviction rates are in disarray after the judges who would have to put them into practice told ministers they oppose them. The Council of … Continue reading →

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Why Is It So Difficult To Talk About The Nexus Between Alcohol Consumption, and Sex That Is Uncomfortable, Unwanted, or Worse?

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

A while back a college student named Liz Funk posted an op-ed at Women’s e-news that drew a lot of criticism because it was rather appallingly framed in a way that made rape victims seem at least partly responsible for … Continue reading →

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A Rape Story

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The Miami Herald posted a story about a man accused of raping and torturing his wife to make porn video. Another account, from CNN, is here. It reports: A man kidnapped his wife, raped and tortured her and then hung … Continue reading →

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“Vancouver’s 69 Missing Women: Murdered by Men, Remembered by Women”

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Read Heart’s post here. It features portaits…: …created by a group of artists troubled over the fact that photos of the missing women which appeared in newspapers were stark, dehumanizing mugshots, the women characterized as”prostitutes”or”hookers”   or”drug addicts,”as though any … Continue reading →

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Global Violence Against Women: The Secretary-General’s Study

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Forum Brooklyn Law School Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:00-6:00 p.m. Reception to Follow About the Program: In December 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations requested the Secretary-General to prepare an in-depth study … Continue reading →

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New DOJ Statistics Re: Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S.

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Available here. Via Feministing.

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Holiday Porn Spam Analyzed

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Ann Bartow

By A Stormy Blog, here. Stormy writes: …as a marketing type person, and a radfem, I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the content of pornie-spam. Looking at this spam (or anything promoted) through advertising eyes almost always reveals … Continue reading →

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Justice and Truth

Posted on December 23, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Today’s NYT has a story called: “For Young, Justice as Impoverished as Africa.” The premise of the piece is pretty much encapsulated in the fourth paragraph, which reads: Juvenile justice here [in sub-Saharan Africa] is, in almost every sense, an … Continue reading →

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Not A Very Nice Tee Shirt

Posted on December 23, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Manufactured by the Route 66 clothing company and for sale at KMart. Whoa, stunning commentary remix by Chris Clarke here.

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This Week in The Women’s Media Center ‘s Iraq Series: The Military and the Death Penalty

Posted on December 23, 2006 by Ann Bartow

From an e-mail sent by WMC: It’s been 45 years since the U.S. military put one of its own to death. What’s the likely penalty for the defendants in the rape, torture and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Al-Janabi and her … Continue reading →

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Difference and Sameness

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Below are newspaper articles I have re-typed exactly from stories that appear in today’s issue of “The Hindu”: Woman drinks acid, dies HYDERABAD: A woman, T. Vidya, 45 years, committed suicide at Malkajgiri on Monday allegedly unable to cope with … Continue reading →

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Rape Threats As Silencers: Not Working

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Ann Bartow

If you have somehow forgotten how much misogyny there is here on the internet, read “Giving Boneheads a Bad Name” by Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon. Amanda discussed this post by Twisty about what happened when a UNH student wrote a … Continue reading →

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The Plight of Soldier Suzanne Swift

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Army Spec. Suzanne Swift went AWOL and refused a second deployment to Iraq last June after a seargent in her chain of command coerced her into having sex with him. Swift says several of his colleagues also sexually harrassed her. … Continue reading →

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Kimberly Raffo, Barbara V. Breidor, Tracy Ann Roberts, Molly Jean Dilts

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Ann Bartow

All of the above are murder victims named in this NYT article, which reports: … In the 25 years since legalized gambling helped transform Atlantic City from a faded resort to a popular destination for weekend slots players, casino companies … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women in Violent Conflict”

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Call for Papers June 17-19, 2007 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands The Netherlands Defense Academy and Emory University Law School’s Feminism & Legal Theory Project have joined together to sponsor a symposium regarding the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and … Continue reading →

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Nobel Winner Shirin Ebadi on Bombs and Exploitive Sex Work

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Ann Bartow

From Reuters via the WaPo: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said on Saturday nations with nuclear capabilities should spend money to stop exploitation of women instead of making bombs. The lawyer, in India to promote women’s rights, said … Continue reading →

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When Will It Stop?

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Bridget Crawford

Today’s New York Times reports that the bodies of four women were found in a ditch outside Atlantic City: None of them were wearing shoes or socks. Each was discovered face down in several inches of water, head tilted slightly … Continue reading →

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O.J. Simpson Book Cancelled

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Ann Bartow

NYT story here which notes: Faced with a growing uproar, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman the News Corporation, announced this afternoon that his company had canceled publication of the pseudo-memoir/confessional by O.J. Simpson,”If I Did It,”as well as a related television … Continue reading →

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“The Myth of Black Women’s Progress: A Conversation with Activist and Filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons”

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The online version of the Black Agenda Report is featuring an interview by Tamara K. Nopper with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who made the rape documentary NO! The interview is accessible here. Below is the opening paragraph: Aishah Shahidah Simmons is … Continue reading →

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Sex Trafficking in Iraq and Syria

Posted on November 4, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to this Guardian Unlimited article: Um Ahmad, as she was known to the girls, had it all planned out. From Baghdad to the border and on to Damascus and a new life, Mona and her three Iraqi friends didn’t … Continue reading →

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Bob Herbert Gets It

Posted on November 4, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Read his recent NYT column, “War on Women,” here if you haven’t yet. [Ed: The title of the column is actually “Punished for Being Female.”] The United Nations report he references is available here and here. Related U.N. complied information … Continue reading →

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A Nightmare

Posted on October 31, 2006 by Ann Bartow

DNA clears man of 1981 rape conviction. Unbelievably awful for the wrongly imprisoned man, and fairly horrible for the woman who was raped and cut with a knife as well. Her side of the story is not reported in the … Continue reading →

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“An appellate court said Maryland’s rape law is clear — no doesn’t mean no when it follows a yes and intercourse has begun.”

Posted on October 31, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Short news story here, via Sinister Girl. The lenthy court opinion in the case, Maouloud Baby v. State of Maryland, is accessible here. It is not pleasant to read, to put it mildly. Update: Analysis at Sex Crimes.

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Her Rapist

Posted on October 29, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Author Maureen Gibbon has an essay called “My Rapist” in today’s NYT Magazine. The courage she showed by writing this, and by publishing it in such a public venue, is incredible. Though the prose is fairly pared down, her pain … Continue reading →

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She Wasn’t Human To Them

Posted on October 29, 2006 by Ann Bartow

At Women’s Space/The Margins, Heart has been blogging about acts of violence against women. It can’t be easy for her to write these posts, and they are very difficult to read, but it is important that people pay attention to … Continue reading →

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Court to “Toto” Constant: Pay $19M in damages to women raped and otherwise tortured by death squad under your command

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Center for Justice and Accountability (www.cja.org), on whose founding Board of Directors I served, has just announced a significant victory for justice. The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered Emmanuel”Toto”Constant to pay $19 … Continue reading →

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Flaming the Messenger

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Ann Bartow

At the Blogher blog, Kim Pearson reported: When Alternet editor Laura Barcella used the word “femicide” in a blog item about a report from the Violence Policy Center that analyzed state-by-state statistics on the killing of women by men, she … Continue reading →

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NYT Columnist Bob Herbert Asks: “Why Aren’t We Shocked?”

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Here is his recent NYT column: “Who needs a brain when you have these?” : message on an Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt for young women In the recent shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania and a large public … Continue reading →

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“Violence against women is ‘severe and pervasive’ worldwide with one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse during her lifetime, according to a UN report.”

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The U.N. recently completed an “In-depth study of all forms of violence against women.” This News24 article reports: Violence against women is “severe and pervasive” around the world, with at least one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse … Continue reading →

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The San Francisco Chronicle’s Series on Sex Trafficking

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Part one Part two Part three Part four How the paper reported the series And…finding help: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Global Fund for Women, The Protection Project, Human Rights Watch Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls, Global … Continue reading →

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U.S. Military: “a system where there’s no intervention or punishment for sexual assault”

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Commentary by Marie Tessier, via the Women’s Media Center: … Until late last week, Brakey was the only woman to see her sexual assault allegations proceed to a court-martial from widely reported Air Force Academy revelations in 2003, though more … Continue reading →

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“Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq’s women”

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Observer (via the U.K. Guardian Unlimited) reported yesterday: …Iraqis do not like to talk about it much, but there is an understanding of what is going on these days. If a young woman is abducted and murdered without a … Continue reading →

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Anna Politkovskaya Has Been Murdered

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to this NYT story: Anna Politkovskaya, the veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday in her apartment building, shot in … Continue reading →

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Part Two in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Series on Sex Trafficking: “A Youthful Mistake”

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Read it here. Below is an excerpt: The man was athletic, muscular. After showering, he led her to the bed and stretched out on his stomach. You Mi began massaging his shoulders. Suddenly, he jumped off the bed, declared he … Continue reading →

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The San Francisco Chronicle is publishing a series of investigative reports about sex trafficking

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Part One is here. Below is an excerpt: Many of San Francisco’s Asian massage parlors — long an established part of the city’s sexually permissive culture — have degenerated into something much more sinister: international sex slave shops. Once limited … Continue reading →

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“Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters”

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Did that post title get your attention? It got mine too. The original post it graces is here. Blogger Ali Eteraz writes: “This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the assistance of the … Continue reading →

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