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  johnpi 12:29 pm on October 31, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: child sexual abuse (11), gang-rape (4), rape (36), sexual abuse (7), sexual assault

  Israeli study: Rape more traumatic than terrorism.

  Victims of rape suffer from higher levels of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than victims of war or terror, a new study reveals.

  The research could bring about new approaches to the way rape victims in Israel are treated.

  The study was carried out by Dr. Avigal Mor and Dr. Moshe Farchi from the Social Work department at the Tel Hai Academic College in northern Israel.

  PTSD levels in different types of trauma victims were compared, including victims of rape, victims of war and terror, people hurt in traffic accidents, people diagnosed with severe diseases and people who lost someone dear to them.

  The study found that victims of rape and sexual assault developed much higher levels of PTSD than other types of trauma.

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  johnpi 5:28 am on September 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afghan army (3), Afghan police, child abuse (31), child sexual abuse (11), NATO (40), sexual assault

  NATO forces suppress reports of Afghan soldiers raping young boys.

  Army staff and National Defence headquarters officials were told in 2007 that young boys had allegedly been sexually abused by Afghan security forces at a Canadian base in Afghanistan, but the concern at the time was that the incident might be reported in the news media, according to military records obtained by the Citizen.

  In addition, last year Brig.-Gen. J.C. Collin, commander of Land Force Central Area, passed on to the senior army leadership the concerns raised by military police who said they had been told by their commanders not to interfere in incidents in which Afghan forces were having sex with children.

   
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  johnpi 6:36 pm on September 10, 2009 | 6 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bangladesh (42), eve teasing, India (174), Pakistan (570), sexual assault, sexual harassment (8), south asia (7), South Asians (8)

  Global Voices has a post on The Blank Noise Project, which seeks to confront “eve teasing” in India.

  “Eve-teasing” is a term that is used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for sexual harassment or molestation in the street. The Blank Noise Project, which was first started by an art student six years ago, aims to confront street harassment and change public perceptions of it.

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  Blank Noise started as a final year student project by art student Jasmeen Patheja in 2003, and was a personal response to street sexual harassment, which many Indians, male and female, accept as normal or try to ignore. The project initially focused on small workshops, but has since developed into a network of groups around India, who use street interventions, public art and blogging to explore the issue of harassment.

  Earlier this year Blank Noise set up a blog for men called Blank Noise Guy:

  Blank Noise is terribly interested in men!
  The Blank Noise Guy blog is in its first phase, asking men/boys to respond to street sexual harassment. send us your thoughts on street sexual harassment. write to us if you’ve seen it and are feeling thoughtful about how you responded, or even if you engaged with it or caused it (knowingly or unknowingly).

  One of the blog posts up at bnguy is of this Bollywood outtake that basically glorifies ‘eve teasing’: “She has come to the college to study…See friends, what does she think of herself…I have taken an oath that I will break her pride,” sings the leader of a male gang who is following and harassing the female lead.

   
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  thabet 5:08 am on August 3, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Crime (54), exploitation (5), human rights (381), labour rights, law (91), saudi arabia (135), sexual assault

  The Indonesian Embassy in Saudi Arabia says it has logged 102 reported sexual assaults of Indonesian maids in the first half of 2008.