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Shedding our tolerance for rape| Sady Doyle

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Karāchi : Pakistan | 2 months ago  
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Shedding our tolerance for rape Reported rapes in the US have hit a 20-year low. It's a crime that, while still too prevalent, can no longer be brushed aside For those who write about rape , it's rare to be called upon to cover good news. However, a new report in USA Today would seem to be precisely that: the...
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    In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and "warned her that if she left Iraq for...
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    Yet thirty GOP senators decided just that when they voted no on the amendment. I'm stunned that the GOP would sink so low in partisan politics that they would defend gang rape. Just when you think the bastards can't sink any lower, ...
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