Against Me!

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a singer and songwriter from Saint Michael Parish, Barbados. Rihanna and singer Chris Brown began a friendship around 2006 which slowly turned into a relationship by June 2008. Rihanna and Chris were constantly seen together and they finally brought their relationship to the public. Rihanna and Chris Brown were happy and in love until 2009 when Rihanna and Chris Brown attended a pre-Grammy party to honor Clive Davis. Rihanna and Chris Brown were happy the night of the…

Many women suffer from domestic violence. Most of the time women don’t know what to do in this type of situation. Domestic violence can be a tough thing to deal with. Identifying the early signs can be as hard as getting out of it. Anybody who lives in the same household as the domestic violence victims are affected. Even people who know someone close to them are victims of domestic violence don’t always know how to help them. Some solutions to stop and prevent domestic violence is to…

defines the similar role of the Beijing platform for Activism” and the necessity of mobilizing women to understand the impact of domestic violence as part of local Asian communities. More so, the extension of gender education into the forum of violence against women identifies the underlying activist principles of UN Women to provide a means of education for children, adolescents, and adult women on the cause and effect of male-based violence in Asian…

condoned, it is time for this injustice to cease and only the people of this nation have a choice to deny the prevalence of this intolerable behavior. Intentional assault against any one person may have many lasting effects; physical, sexual, psychological and economic. Based on statistics at the state and local level, violence against women is going up and continues to be an important issue that needs addressing. Sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking are major health problems…

1994, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that about 92 percent of domestic violence cases involve female victims.” This says a lot about our society and how males are the dominant gender in mostly every situation. Violence and discrimination against women violates their human rights.…

feel more safe. Or maybe it is because that men were taught to not hit women or for women not to hit men. To be honest, I wish they would simply just do the same thing in the United States. Yet, it hurts me that we act this way but we are to be the land of the free and home of the brave. It makes me want to fly away and maybe move to Denmark and live…

campuses, 91 percent disclosed zero reports of rape in 2014. This appears as a wonderful statistic however it fails to match with research, campus surveys, or experiences reported by college students. In 2013, the Congress authorized the act Violence Against Women Act to address domestic and dating violence, as well as stalking. This act collected reports of sexual violence from schools only to find these schools failed to rise to the purpose of the act (Becker). For many survivors, school…

With human trafficking being an already severe crime in the United States, the sex trade industry is what has so many young womens lives turned upside down. With the single largest demographic age for targets and victims being between the age of 12 and 15, the long term-impacts are more horrendous than any other (Chaffee & English, 2015). Although the age of 12 thru 15 is when a vast majority of girls are first exploited, the age can range tremendously. However, it is supported that a great deal…

Research Question The Center of Child and Family Services (CCFS) has three treatment options for Domestic Violent Offenders (DVO). These treatments meet Virginia’s requirements for batterer treatment programs, effectively saying they are sanctioned by the state as “best-practice”. These treatments include Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) using a group format with two facilitators, a substance abuse group for offenders who struggle with addiction, and individualized therapy…

abuse, negligence, and murder, simply because they are girls. Similarly, to genocide where a specific group is deliberately exterminated, gendercide is a sex-selective killing where men or women are victims disproportionately (Carpenter). The war against women in India goes back centuries with the deeply rooted, sexist cultural dynamics as well as the ineffective and unfair government policies that have led to the increase rates of gendercide. Girls become victims of female infanticide due to…