Sexuality

Articles

• Hungary exploits emergency powers to ban trans people from legally changing gender
  10 April 2020, by siawi3

  ’Given that completely changing one’s biological gender is impossible, it is necessary to lay it down in law that it cannot be changed in the civil registry either.’

• In Pakistan, Muslim Clerics Rape Kids. Almost All Get Away With It.
  16 April 2020, by siawi3

  ’They have been able to hide the widespread abuse by accusing victims of blasphemy or defamation of Islam.’

• Kenya: Young, gifted, and pregnant
  14 June 2020, by siawi3

  One in every five Kenyan girls aged between 15-19 has had a live birth or is pregnant. It’s a mind-blowing statistic that speaks to the teenage pregnancy crisis in the country—the United Nations Population Fund estimates that there were about 380,000 cases in 2019 alone. A series of social and political interventions are required to bring down Kenya’s startling teenage pregnancy statistics. The legislature must review the issue of bride price, particularly, where teenage girls are concerned to de-incentives teenage marriages.

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  16 juin 2020, par siawi3
• Trans-controversy: what is it to be a woman
  16 June 2020, by siawi3

  “The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women — i.e. to male violence — ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences — is a nonsense.”

• Class, Race, Sex, etc...
  25 June 2020, by siawi3

  Neoliberalism as Water Balloon

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• India: Whatever happened to ‘zero tolerance’ for child abuse by ’godmen’ and priests?
  10 September 2020, by siawi3

  The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012’. The Act, reffered to as POCSO, is a comprehensive law to provide for the “protection of children from the offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography, while safeguarding the interests of the child at every stage.” It covers any form of sexual abuse committed by “a person in a position of trust or authority vis-à-vis the child, like a family member, police officer, teacher, or doctor.” A religious teacher, maulvi, priest, or guru is also seen as a teacher, and to the child they have the same level of authority and command similar levels of respect, and often generate the same levels of fear of punishment. The act also makes it mandatory to report sexual offences committed against children. It is the “legal duty upon a person who has knowledge that a child has been sexually abused to report the offence; if he fails to do so, he may be punished with six months imprisonment and/ or a fine,” it states. Something that religious heads and establishments should always be aware of, and immediately report when one of their own priests, maulvis, babas, gurus etc are suspected of being child abusers.

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