xtremeroswellia: (Text: Need to say but can't explain)
Did you know that every day, at least 8000 girls and women in the world are suffering because they have been subjected to an age-old practice called female genital mutilation? That’s five girls every minute.

I have read and signed a petition demanding for a European Union strategy to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and protect women and girls affected by this dangerous practice in Europe and elsewhere.

If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing this petition yourself. Your support could help in ending FGM and saving future girls from this practice.

Take action here: http://www.endfgm.eu

Ugh.

Apr. 8th, 2007 06:31 pm
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So it's April which means it's sexual assault awareness and child abuse prevention month, and it's nearly the middle of the month and everything is hectic and I'm frustrated that I haven't made ANY posts regarding these issues until now.

Something I found on RAINN's website (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network): http://www.rainn.org/statistics/punishing-rapists.html

61% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Those rapists, of course, never serve a day in prison according to a statistical average of the past five years.

*If the rape is reported to police, there is a 50.8% chance that an arrest will be made.

*If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution.

*If there is a prosecution, there is a 58% chance of a felony conviction.

*If there is a felony conviction, there is a 69% chance the convict will spend time in jail.

*So, even in the 39% of attacks that are reported to police, there is only a 16.3% chance the rapist will end up in prison.

*Factoring in unreported rapes, about 6% of rapists — 1 out of 16 — will ever spend a day in jail. 15 out of 16 will walk free.


That's just infuriating.

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