Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box office hits as "Armageddon," "Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda," is dead at age 54.

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, ( Read more... )

One in three women in the U.S. military will experience sexual assault while on active duty. That means that the very women who pledge to serve their country have a greater chance of being raped simply by joining the military. Men are not immune to these attacks. The Guardian shares the stories of two such women and one man who were raped while in ( Read more... )

In a horrific practice of justice, Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem
Nasser, a Saudi Arabian wpoman, was executed on Monday, convicted of practising sorcery


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On the day after Thanksgiving, I came across a horrendous story about a young woman in Afghanistan. Posted by author/journalist Nicholas Kristof, the story was about Gulnaz, a 19-year-old girl who, after being raped in 2009 and impregnated by her rapist, was sentenced to 12 years in jail and accused of adultery. The accounts vary slightly, but it ( Read more... )

A major scandal has hit Turkey over the Supreme Court ruling last week that a 13-year-old girl raped by 26 men over a seven month period had given her consent to her sexual abuse.

They upheld an earlier decision by a local court in Mardin Province, South-Eastern Turkey, to reduce the sentences, and her rapists were either acquitted or given between ( Read more... )

This poor, poor baby. The people who did this deserve to have the EXACT same thing happen to them.
I can't, I just can't. I'm crying. How can you not?! Look what they did to him... fuck.
Justice for Dog Whose Face Was Blown Off By Fireworks


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Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Los Angeles jury in the singer's 2009 death.

Verdict reached in Conrad Murray trial

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""A bill was just passed to allow bullying of any kind in Michigan. The bill just passed states that bullying is non punishable by law if it is shown that the bully has a strong moral conviction. This exempts bullying on basis of ANYTHING, at all, race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, ANYTHING at all, is not only allowed but basically ( Read more... )