Archive for ‘abuse’

2013/03/08

MEGAPOST: Child Rappers


Pop That: Probing Lil Poopy’s music video

I heard about this story and decided it was a great subject for a megapost.

Published on Feb 26, 2013
“Pop That” is the name of a rap video featuring a blinged out, booty-grabbing rapper. It’s making the rounds on YouTube right now.Nothing new, right? Well, the issue in this case is that the emcee grabbing the mic is not a man with gobs of street cred. He’s 10-years-old.In “Pop That” he says, “Coke ain’t a bad word.”€ Some of his other videos show him swearing and slapping a woman’s bottom.

2013/03/04

Documentary elicits changes in U.S. military

Published on Feb 22, 2013
CNN discusses how the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Invisible War” has helped address sexual abuse in the military.

2013/01/29

Breaking Polygamy

Published by ABCNews on Nov 23, 2012

  • Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints — not mainstream Mormons
  • Warren Jeffs
  • Homeschooling in Utah

Secrets of the Sect

Part 1: ABC News’ Amy Robach goes inside the FLDS, which has been called “the American Taliban.”


The Reeducation of Willie Steed

Part 2: Steed, 18 and starting a new life, found his FLDS education had left him unable to read.


A Haircut Equals Freedom

Part 3: “I want bangs!” Nellie Steed, 6, said, breaking with her strict FLDS upbringing.


Confronting ‘The God Squad’

Part 4: Police harassment of former FLDS led the Department of Justice to file a civil rights suit.


Pulled Back to the Fold

Part 5: Suzette Steed gets some news and must decide between her past and her daughters’ future.

2013/01/19

MEGAPOST: Teen Domestic Violence Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs)


Government campaign targets teenage domestic violence

Teenage boys are being urged not to violently abuse their girlfriends in a new Government campaign.

Abuse in teen relationships (girl)

This powerful Home Office advert, directed by top British director Shane Meadows, aims to challenge the attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse in relationships.


Abuse in teen relationships (boy)

This powerful Home Office advert, directed by top British director Shane Meadows, aims to challenge the attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse in relationships.


Boys Teen Dating Violence 60 sec PSA

“Just because it isn’t physical doesn’t mean it’s not abuse.”

60 second PSA from seeitandstopit.org about teen dating violence. For boys.


“My boyfriend raped me, but because of my illegal status I’m afraid to report it.”

This PSA was created by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) CREATE! and Domestic Violence Prention Program (DVPP). It was conceived, written and acted by students from Belmont and Miguel Contreras High School in Los Angeles California.
The DVPP is the MALDEF component to the Los Angeles Domestic Violence Collaborative in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Los Angeles Urban League.

2013/01/16

Pakistani Family Fights Tradition of ‘Swara’ – women’s rights, honor killings

Published on Dec 6, 2012 by VOAvideo
In recent years Pakistan has passed laws protecting women against having acid thrown on their faces or being killed to satisfy the honor of a family. Despite being legally banned, abuses against women continue. However, there are stories of individuals who stand up when the law fails them. Sharon Behn reports from Peshawar on one family whose father died trying to prevent their daughter from being given away to settle a dispute.

2013/01/12

Stop & Frisk: Ever been frisked by the cops? – criminology, policing, race

Published on Aug 13, 2012 by TotallyBiasedFX
Stop & Frisk: Ever been frisked by the cops? Follow Kamau’s advice and make that unfortunate experience fun! Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell

2013/01/11

Guatemala psychiatric hospital staff accused of abuse

Published on Dec 2, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
Investigations into a psychiatric hospital in the Guatemalan capital have uncovered evidence of sexual and physical abuse by staff. International human rights organisations told Guatemala that it must take steps to protect the patients. Al Jazeera’s David Mercer reports from Guatemala City.

2012/12/16

Sex Trafficking Report Finds Some States Lacking

Published on Nov 29, 2012 by AssociatedPress
Shared Hope International released its annual report card for how different states are dealing with the problem of child sex trafficking. Fifteen states improved their marks this year, but 18 received failing grades.

2012/12/11

Kenyan survey finds 1 in 3 females abused before age 18

Published on Nov 28, 2012 by NTVKenya
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development on Wednesday released grim statistics on Violence against children in Kenya. The statistics indicate that violence against children is a growing vice that is hindering growth and development in the country.

2012/12/08

Growing Up in a Still-Wounded South Africa

Published on Nov 28, 2012 by TheNewYorkTimes
The filmmaker Nadine Cloete explores childhood in a part of South Africa plagued by gang culture and violence.

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2012/12/04

Key & Peele: School Bully

Published on Nov 12, 2012 by comedycentral
School bullies don’t just happen—they’re made.

2012/11/11

Vietnamese Cautiously Stand Up to Police Brutality

Published on Nov 2, 2012 by linktv
Policy brutality has long been a major issue in Vietnam, and has gone unchallenged due to government suppression. Yet as contributor Nguyen Qui Duc reports from Hanoi, advances in technology have allowed Vietnamese citizens to document the worst cases of brutality.

2012/11/07

Nigeria seeks to curb child sorcery claims

Published on Nov 1, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
The Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom has introduced a law that makes it illegal to accuse children of withcraft and sorcery. The state has spent significant amounts of money to aid the hundreds of Nigerian children that had been branded withches in Akwa Ibom for years. But some say churches in the impoverished state where unemployment is rampant, must also be reigned in. Some activists cite the churches as the source of the belief that children are sorcerers or witches. Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reports from Uyo.

2012/11/04

Report Decries Treatment of Mentally Ill in Ghana

Published on Oct 16, 2012 by VOAvideo
In Ghana, mental illness is widely thought to be a spiritual matter — and so-called “prayer camps” fill the vacuum left by inadequate psychiatric health facilities. But an international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, alleges the camps are unfit to deal with patients and are guilty of abuses. Nick Loomis has more from Accra.

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2012/10/28

Peru’s forcibly sterilised seek justice

Published on Mar 10, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
After years of denying any wrongdoing, Peru has reopened investigation into forcible sterilisation of women, what human rights groups say was a crime against humanity.

During the 1990s, more than 300,000 women were pressured into being sterilised by the government.

Doctors and nurses under Alberto Fujimori’s administration, between 1996 and 2000, were assigned monthly quotas and given bonuses based on the number of sterilisations they performed.

Al Jazeera’s Latin America Editor Lucia Newman reports from Anta on the women’s quest for justice.

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