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...community unaware? The U.S. government isn't doing more because they aren't hearing from Americans. We need to ask questions about the way we relate to Africa and what we consider baseline violence. People tend to hear about situations like Congo and say things like "it's tribal, rape is cultural in Africa." That I find fundamentally offensive and categorically inaccurate. If you talk to any Congolese person they would say that before 1996, these were not issues...
Harvard’s activities this month—organized by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Harvard Men Against Rape, and the peer counseling group Response—will feature a series of events on topics ranging from date rape to the media’s construction of masculinity and ending with a candlelight vigil where sexual assault survivors can share their stories and find support from the community...
...want to let people know that the lifestyle all about getting with girls and putting another notch on the belt is not acceptable,” said Holuba, who is also a member of Harvard Men Against Rape and volunteers in the OSAPR office. He added that a major objective of Sexual Assault Awareness Month is not only to raise awareness for victims and people at risk, but to create sensitivity around issues of sexual assault...
...current pedophile-priest scandal - what the Catholic writer and papal critic Andrew Sullivan pointedly refers to as "child rape" by clergy - has transfixed Catholics around the world, particularly with the allegations out of Germany that Benedict XVI, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger of Munich, may have allowed a transferred priest accused of sexual abuse to work again with children. The scandal has had a telling effect on the tradition-bound Holy See. High-ranking clerics have complained of media bias and a conspiracy against the Pope. One well-placed Vatican official who worked closely with the Pope when...
...three years running, OSAPR provides the “The Vagina Monologues” student staff with funding, publicity, and a supportive organizational structure. Rankin acknowledged that “The Vagina Monologues”—the proceeds from which were donated to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Haiti relief—is sexually graphic. “[But] the intent of the show is to give women a voice,” she said...