| China: Detained Rights Lawyer Interrogated about Sex Life  After three months in detention, Chinese lawyer Li Tiantian described on Twitter how her interrogators used intimate details of her personal life to harass her. In the past months, more than a hundred human right lawyers, activists, writers and artists have been arrested or prosecuted in China as a result of the crackdown on the Jasmine protests. read>> |
| Mexico: Blood Fountains  "Paremos las balas, pintemos las fuentes" (in English: "Let's stop the bullets, let's paint the fountains") is a social movement that calls for justice and recalls the Mexican government 's actions on several crimes that have not had a clear judicial procedure. To the amazement of pedestrians that circulated around the capital, during the last weekend of May, activists stained the water of the famous statue of "Diana la Cazadora" (Diana the Huntress) in the Paseo de la Reforma -one of the most important avenues in Mexico City- red. read>> |
| Australia: SlutWalks Spread the Word  Following Toronto's lead, Australians have started a series of SlutWalks with Melbourne's first march on Saturday 28 May. The catchcry: Make it known that those who experience sexual assault are never the ones at fault. read>> |
| Africa, France: Who is Nafissatou Diallo? Victim or conspirator?  In the debate over the alleged sexual assault by former International Monetary Fund managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) of a hotel chambermaid in New York on May 14, 2011, attention is now shifting from his guilt or innocence, to the identity of the alleged victim. Nafissatou Diallo is a Guinean woman who received political asylum in the United States, and worked at the hotel for three years. read>> |
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