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A Temecula mother has complained that her 15-year-old daughter was made to read a sexually explicit play in drama class and is calling for a policy to prevent such instances in the future.Tracy Nolasco said her daughter, a Temecula Valley High School sophomore, had to read Angels in America, a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner.

The Duchess of Edinburgh has made a surprise visit to Iraq as part of her work championing the survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.Sophie has spent two days in the capital Baghdad, where she heard about the challenges facing Iraqi women and girls, and the ongoing work to protect and promote their rights, Buckingham Palace announced.

Acts of sexual violence commonly found in pornography were referenced in half of police interview transcripts of child-on-child sex abuse cases examined by the Children's Commissioner for England.Dame Rachel de Souza described the finding as incredibly concerning and said further review of some of the cases found children suggesting direct links between exposure to pornography and harmful sexual behaviour.

Queen Camilla has completed her transformation from Queen Consort to Queen as her coronation day arrived.The former Mrs Parker Bowles will be anointed and crowned in Westminster Abbey during a historic ceremony steeped in history and celebrated with great pageantry.The official invitation to the day, the order of service, the Church of England's prayers and Royal Collection souvenirs all hailed Camilla as the Queen or Queen Camilla.

The European Union is getting closer to ratifying a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence.Lawmakers gathered in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday approved by a large majority the EU's endorsement of the Istanbul Convention.The human rights treaty of the Council of Europe states that men and women have equal rights, and obliges state authorities to take steps to prevent gender-based violence against women, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators.

The European flag, left, flies Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France.(AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)Comment Gift Article BRUSSELS - The European Union is getting closer to ratifying a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence.Lawmakers gathered in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday approved by a large majority the EU's endorsement of the Istanbul Convention.

GENEVA - U.N.-backed human rights experts said Monday there is evidence that crimes against humanity have been committed against Libyans and migrants in Libya, including women being forced into sexual slavery.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Afghan women stage a protest for their rights to mark International Women's Day in Kabul on March 8, 2023.Global freedoms declined for a 17th consecutive year in 2022 as the struggle for democracy approaches a turning point amid a curtailment of freedom of expression in countries such as Russia and Iran.

At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured when militants with an extremist group attacked a secondary school in western Uganda, the authorities said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks to hit the East African nation in years.The armed outfit, known as the Allied Democratic Forces, attacked a school in Mpondwe, a town close to the border with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday night, a police spokesman, Fred Enanga, said in a post on Twitter.

They beat prisoners relentlessly and tortured them with electric shocks, waterboarding and mock executions.Three people died in their custody.Yet such was their sense of impunity, the Russians who seized control of a detention center in southern Ukraine last year and filled it with 200 detainees were careless about concealing their identities.

The gorgeous and empty Chinese espionage thriller "Hidden Blade" follows a series of chaotic vignettes about war, which remains hellish.Studiously aloof Communist spies either work with or wear down their fair-weather Japanese allies during ham-handed, quasi-impressionistic conversations, which are sometimes interrupted by graphic and perfunctory bloodshed.

The threat of a Russian missile attack remains high, Ukraine's military said early Friday, less than 24 hours after the Kremlin launched more than 90 missiles across Ukraine, including hypersonic weapons.The attack left at least nine dead and hit critical infrastructure and residential areas.Freedom House, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, said that"Moscow's war of aggression led to devastating human rights atrocities in Ukraine."

Action must be taken against pornography to help end the epidemic of male violence against women and girls, according to a cross-party group of MPs.A substantial proportion of mainstream pornography features physically aggressive behaviour by men against women, says a report by the group.The MPs say there is extensive evidence that consuming pornography fuels sexual violence and influences viewers' behaviour, or sexual scripts, as well as perpetuating racist stereotypes.

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Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is facing new allegations of sexual assault, this time from an Arizona woman who in a lawsuit accused him of choking her until she lost consciousness, raping her, impregnating her and holding a knife to her throat.Bauer, whom the Dodgers released this offseason after he received the longest suspension ever administered under Major League Baseball's sexual assault and domestic abuse policy, denied the claims in a countersuit against the woman and accused her of fraud, extortion and fabricating her pregnancy.

Noel Le Graet no longer has legitimacy to remain as French soccer federation president because his management style and behavior toward women are "incompatible with the exercise of his functions," a government audit released Wednesday found.The 81-year-old Le Graet is currently under judicial investigation for alleged sexual and moral harassment as part of a probe being carried out by a special police unit dedicated to crimes against individuals.

GOA, India My niece was just 4 years old when she turned to my sister-in-law in a packed movie theater in Mumbai and asked about gang rape for the first time.We were watching the latest Bollywood blockbuster about vigilante justice, nationalistic fervor and, of course, gang rape.Four male characters seized the hero's sister and dragged her away.

If you studied art history or another of the humanities in the 1990s or 2000s say, if you are around the age of the Australian comic Hannah Gadsby, 45 you may remember the word problematic from your long-ago seminar days.Back then it was a voguish noun, borrowed from French, that described the unconscious structure of an ideology or a text.

Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her.In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with "excessive use of legitimate defense."

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to halve violence against women and girls if Labour wins office at the next general election.In a speech, the Labour leader said he would put domestic abuse specialists in police control rooms, and set up dedicated courts for rape trials.He also pledged to halve knife and serious violent crime, as part of his five "missions" for government.

Murderers with a history of coercive behaviour towards their victims or who use excessive violence could face tougher sentences under new proposals.Judges will be able to consider these aggravating factors when sentencing killers, the Ministry of Justice said.Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said this would mean "longer jail sentences for those who kill women in the home".

12:41 THE INTERVIEW FRANCE 24 FRANCE 24 spoke to Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition activist who was recently sentenced to 25 years in jail by a Moscow court for "high treason" because of his outspoken criticism of the war in Ukraine.Kara-Murza sent a message to her jailed husband: she will "never stop fighting" for him.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova for an alleged scheme to deport Ukrainian children to Russia.The court said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the alleged crimes, for having committed them directly alongside others, and for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered "the most massive violations of human rights" in the world today, the head of the United Nations has said as the war pushed into its second year with no end in sight.
he Russian invasion "has unleashed widespread death, destruction and displacement", UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said in a speech to the UN-backed Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Seven survivors made it back to the Libyan shores in extremely dire conditions', according to the UN migration agency.At least 73 Europe-bound migrants and refugees are missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the United Nations migration agency has said.The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Twitter on Wednesday that Libyan authorities retrieved at least 11 bodies from the wreck, which happened on Tuesday.

Hello, and welcome to this week's selection of top stories in pictures by Los Angeles Times photographers.:: His future coach found Dennis Kasumba working in a slaughterhouse.The teen was orphaned at a young age and living in poverty and despair.Now, a young man, he has now found purpose in pursuing his dream to become Uganda's first Major League Baseball player.

A high-flying Scotland Yard officer who was allowed to keep his job despite using prostitutes has a key role helping recruit women to the force, the Standard can reveal.Payments of hundreds of pounds to sex workers were uncovered when anti-corruption officers from the Met's Professional Standards unit seized his phone over an unrelated matter, which was later dropped.

Marcelle DaCosta was jailed for six years at Wood Green Crown Court yesterday (March 29) (Image: Metropolitan Police) An extremely dangerous rapist has been jailed after he attacked a woman while she slept at a party in Enfield.Marcelle DaCosta, 36, of West End Avenue, Leyton, was found guilty of rape at Wood Green Crown Court on January 16.

The Metropolitan Police have nowhere to hide after a rats' nest of institutional misogyny was exposed by a damning report, women's organisations have said.Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ), Rape Crisis and the End Violence Against Women Coalition have called for urgent changes to the UK's largest police service after a scathing review was published on Tuesday.

A London paramedic who was sexually assaulted by a patient has spoken out in the hope it will encourage others to seek justice.Naveed Ahmed, 35, was jailed in November last year for nine months after he groped paramedic Charlotte Miller and exposed himself.Ms Miller has waived her right to anonymity, which is automatically granted to victims of sexual offences, to encourage others to report similar crimes.

E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who has accused Donald J. Trump of raping her in the 1990s, spent the day in Federal District Court undergoing a tense cross-examination focused on her memory lapses and inconsistencies in her account.The cross-examination was punctuated by flashes of impatience from the presiding judge toward Mr. Trump's lawyer.

About 1 in 5 high school students in the United States has seen violence first-hand among people who are not related, including homicides involving guns.That's according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls community violence a significant public health concern.

LGBQ+ youth - teen girls in particular - are experiencing high levels of violence and mental distress, according to the most recent data from the biannual Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The survey, which examines health experiences among U.S. high school students, found that in 2021, 52 percent of LGBQ+ students experienced poor mental health, and 22 percent had attempted suicide or had experienced sexual violence.

In this June 26, 2016, file photo, a woman holds a rainbow flag during the NYC Pride Parade in New York.Seth Wenig/AP Young people who identify as LGBTQ+ were less likely to report symptoms of depression when they had general support from their parents, according to a study published Tuesday.Previous research has examined parental support directly tied to a person's LGBTQ+ identity, but the study, which was published by the University of Texas at Austin researchers in the Child Development journal, asked LGBTQ+ youth to answer how often their parents did things like say how proud they were of them or assisted them with activities.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Killers with a history of coercive or controlling behaviour against their victims will face tougher sentences under new Government plans.The use of excessive or gratuitous violence will also be made an aggravating factor in sentencing decisions for murder, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Police have shared a warning ahead of Valentine's Day, encouraging dating site or app users to take measures to say safe when meeting on a first date.The Police Service of Northern Ireland said on Friday it would be on the lookout for predatory behaviours in the run up to February 14.

Speaking on Friday, Sir Mark reiterated his desire to restore trust between the UK's largest police force and Londoners amid a series of controversies which have eminated from the force.While admitting that no large organisation the size of the Met will ever be perfect, Sir Mark said he remained confident he will root out corrupt officers and restore public confidence in the police.

Lily McInerny, left, and Jonathan Tucker in "Palm Trees and Power Lines." (Momentum)(3.5 stars) If 2022 was a banner year for first-time features - and it was - "Palm Trees and Power Lines" was an early high point, with Jamie Dack taking a deserved directing prize at Sundance for an impressively assured debut.

Afghan women stage a protest for their rights to mark International Women's Day in Kabul on March 8, 2023.Global freedoms declined for a 17th consecutive year in 2022 as the struggle for democracy approaches a turning point amid a curtailment of freedom of expression in countries such as Russia and Iran.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The sentence of rapist Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick will not be referred to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentencing (ULS) scheme, the Solicitor General has said.

A man has been spotted repeatedly exposing himself and touching himself in Studio City and on hiking paths in nearby Fryman Canyon, residents said.The man has not been arrested and his identity is unknown, though the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the case.His lewd behavior has disturbed hikers who previously found Fryman Canyon a peaceful natural getaway and has raised fears of sexual violence.

The Home Office has been accused of lying about arrangements to house asylum seekers in a hotel in Kent despite repeated warnings that doing so would put people at risk.Asylum seekers were due to start arriving at the hotel in Gravesham on Tuesday despite significant opposition to the plans from local councillors.

A former Metropolitan Police officer suggested in a WhatsApp group with other officers that he name his dog Fred or Ian after his two favourite child sex killers, a misconduct hearing has heard.It is alleged that eight serving and former officers attached to the South East Command Unit used a WhatsApp group, entitled Secret Squirrel S***, between May 2016 and June 2018 to post comments that were sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and applauded sexual violence against women.

No trans women in Scotland's female prison estate have been convicted of violence against women, Justice Secretary Keith Brown has said.The Scottish Government announced on Sunday a pause to placing trans prisoners who have a history of abusing women including sexual violence in female jails.The announcement came after double rapist Isla Bryson, 31, was housed in segregation in Cornton Vale prison near Stirling following conviction before being moved to the male estate.

Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university's counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University's Center for Collegiate Mental Health.