I’m back with a whole month’s worth of news links.
Lots of news about arrests of five teens and two adults for sexually assaulting and pimping out teen girls in Fort Worth Texas.
A man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in Missouri for forcing teen girls into prostitution and to pay over a [...]
Here’s the weekly news round-up.
Recent survey in Canada suggests two-thirds of young women 16-24 aren’t using condoms with sex and forgetting to take the pill accurately too.
This past Saturday was World AIDS Day. This article talks about how racism and government inaction has led to the reality that African Americans who are 13 percent of [...]
For this week’s news links…
If you remember almost a couple of weeks ago I posted about an amazing new booklet on police brutality against women of color and trans people of color here. To follow up on that check out the Nov/Dec issue of ColorLines. A series of articles detail an investigation into fatal police [...]
A couple of positive news items to start out with:
In Washington State, a new effort called Teen Closet will offer stylish clothing for free to teens in foster care. And a statewide meeting happened in Seattle for foster care youth seeking to make a difference on policies that affect them (they already got a few [...]
Here’s the news that caught my eye this week.
While a major trial is happening in Vancouver for one serial killer, Winnipeg is coming to the conclusion they have more than one serial killer still targeting women and youth on the streets.
A seventeen-year-old young woman Fonasa Lynn Bruyere, who went missing in August, was just identified [...]
The Young Women’s Empowerment Project worked together with the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment to develop a booklet for youth on the issue of Gardasil.
A little while back Gardasil hit the market, newly approved by the FDA, as a vaccine against some types of the human papillomavirus (HPV). A few types of HPV [...]
This week marks the one year anniversary of adults being able to get emergency contraception, also called Plan B, over the counter without a prescription. Now we just need to make it possible for minors to be able to have the same access.
Here are the updates in recent news this week.
A 13 year old girl who is alleged to have killed her father will be charged as a minor. The media has focused on the dirty house and mentioning as an afterthought her statement that he sexually abused her.
I noted a few weeks ago that physical evidence [...]
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