The day after Obama won the Presidential election, The New York Times wrote that Obama won a decisive victory because “he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens”. At the time, I wrote that protection was the wrong goal, that from India to Haiti to Zimbabwe [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sexual violence’
Haunts: regrets
Regret is in the air this week. You might say, regret is the name of the game and, even more, the game of the name. From Geneva to the Gushungo Dairy Estate, in Zimbabwe, to Guinea, it’s been a week of declarations of regret.
On Monday, in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, thousands gathered in peaceful, [...]
Security of Sex: Going gay for porn and other disasters
Like a lot of people growing up, I got nervous speaking in public and got the obligatory suggestion from some adult that I picture the audience in their underwear. The idea was that if I was standing in front of naked or mostly naked people, I couldn’t possibly be the most self-conscious person in the [...]
ACAS Bulletin 83: Sexual and gender based violence in Africa
Sexual and gender based violence in Africa
A New ACAS Bulletin edited by Daniel Moshenberg
This Bulletin began in response to news reports of “corrective” and “curative” gang rapes of lesbians in South Africa. These were then followed by news reports of a study in South Africa that found that one in four men in South Africa [...]