21 organizations that are fighting for women’s rights in the US and abroad

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Darcy Schild

Aug 15, 2019, 8:35 PM

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Dress for Success is a global organization that provides women with professional clothes and career confidence. 

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• There are numerous organizations around the world that advocate for women.
• The United Nations and World Health Organization have initiatives dedicated to women’s rights.
• Other organizations focus on inspiring and supporting young girls, such as the Malala Fund and Girls On the Run.
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From ensuring women around the world have a safe, quality 12-year education, to advocating for women who lack access to safe health care or who face discrimination in the workplace, there are numerous charities and initiatives dedicated to serving women and communities in need.

Dress for Success and LeanIn.org are organizations that empower women in the workplace. Other initiatives, such as Girls Not Brides, focus on protecting the lives and rights of young girls in developing regions and countries.

Keep reading to discover 21 organizations that are making an impact in the realm of women’s rights.

Children abused for decades at ‘sadistic’ Catholic school where paedophile priests ‘acted like mafia’, inquiry finds

Indenpendent

• Chris Baynes
• Thursday 24 October 2019

St Benedict’s school’s atmosphere was ‘sadistic and predatory’, the inquiry says ( Getty )

A “sadistic and predatory” atmosphere and a culture of cover-up and denial allowed monks and teachers to abuse children at a Catholic school for decades, a report has found.

Paedophile priests acted “like the mafia” and sexually assaulted pupils with “impunity” at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, said the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

Senior figures at the independent day school and the adjoining Ealing Abbey perpetrated the abuse, leaving staff afraid to speak out and victims with nowhere to turn, according to the damning report.

Altar boys say they were abused by priests at the Vatican

INDENPENDENT

• Andy Gregory
• Saturday 16 November 2019

Victims describe purported assaults at college located steps away from residence of Pope Francis

Pope Francis receives audience participants of the World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law on Friday 15 November 2019 ( EPA/Vatican media handout )

Former altar boys have claimed they were molested by priests inside the Vatican, as a lingering scandal surrounding widespread abuse in the Catholic Church erupts at its headquarters once again.

Several anonymous former altar boys at the Vatican’s youth seminary alleged at least two priests kissed and fondled three of them in the Nineties.

The claims will be aired on Sunday on Le Iene (“The Hyenas”), an Italian investigative TV programme, which first broke allegations in 2017 that the senior seminarian, now a priest, had sexually abused teenagers who served as altar boys at papal masses in St Peter’s Basilica.

Church of England reviews its handling of sexual abuse case

The Guardian

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent

Sat 23 Nov 2019

Matthew Ineson said his claims that a vicar had raped him when he was 16 were ignored

 Trevor Devamanikkam, a vicar, killed himself before he was due in court accused of buggery of Ineson. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo 

The Church of England has ordered an independent review into its handling of a sexual abuse case that resulted in four bishops and an archbishop being accused of failing to respond properly to a victim’s disclosures.

Catholic priests in Argentina sentenced to 45 years for child abuse

The Guardian

Court convicts two priests and former gardener at school for deaf students on counts of sexual abuse and corruption of minors

 Activists celebrate outside a courthouse in Mendoza, Argentina Monday. Photograph: STRINGER/Reuters

Over 10,000 people demonstrate against violence against women in Brussels on Sunday

The Brussels Times

Sunday, 24 November 2019

In 2019, the organisation Stop Féminicide counted 21 women in Belgium who were murdered for no reason other than that they were women. Credit: Flowautelet/Twitter

Over 10,000 people are demonstrating against sexism and violence against women in the centre of Brussels on Sunday afternoon.

The demonstrators want to see more attention for the prevention and assistance for victims, but also perpetrators. At the beginning of the demonstration, the names of women who were murdered in Belgium this year were called.

Espagne, Turquie, Colombie, Suisse: elles et ils ont défilé contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes

Madrid, Istanbul, Mexico, Paris ou encore Genève. Des milliers de femmes et d’hommes à travers le monde ont protesté ce weekend à l’occasion de la mobilisation pour l’élimination des violences sexuelles et sexistes. Retour en images sur ces différents rassemblements

A Medellín, en Colombie, plus d’une centaine de femmes ont défilé contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes. Aujourd’hui 42% des agressions envers les femmes en Colombie seraient commises au sein même du couple, par des anciens partenaires ou par des personnes connues par la victime. Keystone

A Medellín, en Colombie, plus d’une centaine de femmes ont défilé contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes. Aujourd’hui 42% des agressions envers les femmes en Colombie seraient commises au sein même du couple, par des anciens partenaires ou par des personnes connues par la victime.

A Madrid, quelques milliers de femmes ont défilé. Les manifestants ont scandé des slogans forts et arborés des pancartes indiquant: «Combien doivent encore mourir?» ou encore «Terminons-en avec la culture du silence.» Sergio Perez REUTERS

A Madrid, quelques milliers de femmes ont défilé. Les manifestants ont scandé des slogans forts et arborés des pancartes indiquant: «Combien doivent encore mourir?» ou encore «Terminons-en avec la culture du silence.»

Des femmes scandent des slogans à Istanbul, en Turquie. La police turque a empêché la manifestation de défiler dans la célèbre rue Istiklal, et a tiré une petite quantité de gaz lacrymogène pour disperser la manifestation. Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Des femmes scandent des slogans à Istanbul, en Turquie. La police turque a empêché la manifestation de défiler dans la célèbre rue Istiklal, et a tiré une petite quantité de gaz lacrymogène pour disperser la manifestation.

A Mexico, des milliers de femmes sont également descendues dans les rues. «Ni princesse, ni esclave, simplement femme. Ne me regardes pas, ne me touches pas, ne me tues pas», peut se lire sur la pancarte de cette femme.   Ronaldo SCHEMIDT / AFP

A Mexico, des milliers de femmes sont également descendues dans les rues. «Ni princesse, ni esclave, simplement femme. Ne me regardes pas, ne me touches pas, ne me tues pas», peut se lire sur la pancarte de cette femme.  

Au cœur de la capitale paraguayenne, Asuncion, plusieurs centaines de femmes ont aussi défilé.  Norberto DUARTE / AFP

Au cœur de la capitale paraguayenne, Asuncion, plusieurs centaines de femmes ont aussi défilé. 

 

A Genève, un millier de personnes, hommes et femmes toutes générations confondues, ont participé samedi à un cortège féministe. Intitulée «La rue est à nous toutes», cette marche a avancé au son d’une fanfare décalée. A Lausanne, ils étaient tout aussi nombreux. A Fribourg, un rassemblement qui pris la forme d’une marche aux flambeaux a également eu lieu. Ils étaient plus de 300, selon les organisateurs.  KEYSTONE/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

A Genève, un millier de personnes, hommes et femmes toutes générations confondues, ont participé samedi à un cortège féministe. Intitulée «La rue est à nous toutes», cette marche a avancé au son d’une fanfare décalée. A Lausanne, ils étaient tout aussi nombreux. A Fribourg, un rassemblement qui pris la forme d’une marche aux flambeaux a également eu lieu. Ils étaient plus de 300, selon les organisateurs. 

«Ras le viol»: des dizaines de milliers de femmes et d’hommes, selon les organisatrices, sont descendus dans la rue de Paris à l’appel d’un collectif qui avait appelé à un «raz-de-marée féministe» contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles, un an après le début de la vague #MeToo. (Photo by Xavier Agon / AFP)

«Ras le viol»: des dizaines de milliers de femmes et d’hommes, selon les organisatrices, sont descendus dans la rue de Paris à l’appel d’un collectif qui avait appelé à un «raz-de-marée féministe» contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles, un an après le début de la vague #MeToo.

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The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

ORIGINIS

by 

WIETSE DE BOER

Graffiti in Lisbon, Portugal of a priest chasing two children, from 2011.

Editor’s Note:

For more than two decades, the Catholic Church has been reeling from sexual abuse scandals. Stories of predatory priests have emerged around the world. While some have attributed the abuses to problems in contemporary society, this month historian Wietse de Boer takes a much deeper look. He argues that the way the Church has responded to these outrages has its roots 500 years ago when the Catholic Church faced its first major crisis of sexual abuse.

 

Catholic Church spent $10.6 million to lobby against legislation that would benefit victims of child sex abuse

CBS NEWS

BY CHRISTINA CAPATIDES

UPDATED ON: JUNE 6, 2019 / CBS NEWS

A new report released Tuesday reveals that, over the past eight years, the Catholic Church has spent $10.6 million in the northeastern United States to fight legislation that would help victims of clergy sexual abuse seek justice.

“At the most basic level, we were inspired by frustration,” says attorney Gerald Williams, a partner at Williams Cedar, one of four law firms that jointly commissioned the report. “We represent hundreds of people, who have truly been victimized by clergymen in the Catholic Church. We’ve heard a lot about the church’s desire to be accountable and turn over a new leaf. But when we turn to the form where we can most help people and where we can get the most justice — the courts of justice — the church has been there blocking their efforts.”

In New York, for example, the Catholic Church spent $2,912,772 lobbying against the Child Victims Act, which Governor Andrew Cuomo ultimately signed into law on February 14, 2019. The act gives survivors more time to seek justice against their abusers, increasing the age at which victims are able to sue from 23 to 55.

Pope apologises for theft of Amazon statue from Rome church

The Guardian

Incident at end of Francis’s Amazon synod blamed on conservatives and ‘racists’

Pope Francis meeting indigenous Amazonians in Rome during his synod on the region’s ministry and environmental protection. Photograph: EPA

Pope Francis has apologised to Amazonian bishops and tribal leaders after thieves stole indigenous statues from a church close to the Vatican and tossed them into the River Tiber in a show of conservative opposition to the first Latin American pope.