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...exposure to rural life had come entirely through train windows, believed she was making real progress toward improving the lives of Indian women--until a brutal act demonstrated how powerful the repressive force of misogyny can be. Bhanwari Devi, a local woman who was working with Srivastava, was gang-raped by upper-caste men after she tried to stop a Brahman child wedding. Though the rape was witnessed by Bhanwari's husband, the police refused to investigate, and Bhanwari was ostracized. Bhanwari eventually managed to file a police report, but the high court acquitted the alleged rapists. One judge said...
...Diallo America, police forces nationwide face heightened scrutiny over their sensitivity toward minorities. So it's a safe bet that the nation's police chiefs will be following closely the reaction to a Philadelphia Police Department policy unveiled Tuesday that provides women's groups, such as Women Organized Against Rape and the Women's Law Project, with input and oversight pertaining to departmental policies for investigating rape cases. This may not exactly be akin to handing the reins of the NYPD over the NAACP, but law enforcement experts cite it as a revolutionary step in including a disaffected group...
They have no food in this village of Padiai in the Oecussi district, 110 miles west of Dili, the capital. Most of their homes are still charred remnants of the militia's rampage six months ago. Virtually everybody has a tale of torture, rape or murder. But Gusmao has come to them as savior and healer. After 500 years of Portuguese colonization and 24 more of Indonesian occupation, the people of East Timor now revel in one man's promise of freedom from fear...
...extra furniture does not clutter up the simple romance plot. After an absence of 18 years, Tory (for Victoria) Bodeen returns to Progress, S.C., the small town that she and her parents left in questionable circumstances when she was eight. The event that led to their departure was the rape-murder of Tory's best friend, Hope Lavelle. Thanks to her psychic gift, Tory told Hope's parents, the wealthy owners of Beaux Reves estate, that their daughter was dead and where the body could be found...
Among the stories he tells are those of an obstetrician whose marriage is bitterly unraveling as he attempts to prevent a rape victim and her husband from aborting a child, and of a feckless youth who falls asleep on a palette of relief supplies and, dropped into a war zone, discovers his purpose. It is Dizdar's cool objectivity --his refusal to dwell on anyone's troubles (or triumphs)--that makes his portrait of good hearts overcoming emotional Balkanization the best movie of this very young millennium...