The article reports, “Hawa Aden Mohamed won the United Nations refugee agency’s Nansen Refugee Award on Tuesday for her work in helping thousands of Somali women and girls, many of them rape victims, start new lives in their battered homeland.”
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The article reports, “A recent photo on the cover of Vogue Hommes International magazine has women’s rights and domestic violence advocacy groups upset. The cover features Stephanie Seymour being choked by model Marlon Teixeira.”
The article reports, “Violence against women and girls and the indiscriminate extraction of natural resources are among the most pressing issues that indigenous peoples face today, a United Nations human rights expert said today.”
The article reports, “Jerry Sandusky built a sophisticated grooming operation, outsourcing to child-care professionals the task of locating vulnerable children — all the while playing the role of lovable goofball.”
The article reports, “The Boy Scouts of America could face a wave of bad publicity as decades of records of confirmed or alleged child molesters within the U.S. organization are expected to be released in coming weeks.”
The article reports, “The District of Columbia government Thursday will launch a campaign that advocates say is a first of its kind: A series of ads ‘promoting respect for the District’s transgender and gender-non-conforming communities.'”