April 2012
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Since the turn of the millennium, over 5,000 women have been murdered in Guatemala. To give a better idea of what this figure means, consider that if Guatemala, with its population of 14 million, were the size of the United States, this would add up to 110,000 women murdered in a decade. And conditions are only worsening with the passage of time. In 2000, 213 women met violent deaths in...
March 2012
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More than 80 per cent of [rape victims] said they did not report their assault to the police, while 29 per cent said they told nobody – not even a friend or family member – of their ordeal.
Unreported rapes: The silent shame (via Hannah)
December 2011
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“Here are a few other facts: last year, the N.Y.P.D. recorded more than 600,000...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/sunday/young-black-and-frisked-by-the-nypd.html (via thisisamericadude)
November 2011
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At least 10 times as many girls are now trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported to the New World in the peak years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The face of modern slavery
October 2011
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July 2011
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Twenty-one per cent of Sri Lankan males who were seen at a London torture treatment centre reported sexual abuse while in detention. In El Salvador, 76% of male political prisoners surveyed in the 1980s described at least one incidence of sexual torture. A study of 6,000 concentration-camp inmates in Sarajevo found that 80% of men reported having been raped.
The rape of men
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In 2009, for every dollar of wealth the average white household had, black households only had two cents.
The disappearing black middle class
June 2011
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The committee found the detention rate for indigenous juveniles was 397 per 100,000, which is 28 times higher than the rate for non-indigenous juveniles at 14 per 100,000. Indigenous juveniles account for 59 per cent of the total juvenile population in jail.
The imprisonment rate in the adult indigenous community was just as dire, with a 55 per cent increase in men in prison in the past decade...
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The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
That’s more than NASA’s budget. It’s more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It’s what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.
Among the costs of war: $20B in air conditioning
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In May, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for [six months or more]) increased by 361,000 to 6.2 million; their share of unemployment increased to 45.1 percent.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Employment situation summary, June 3 2011
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Over the past decade, real private-sector wage growth has scraped bottom at 4%, just below the 5% increase from 1929 to 1939, government data show.
10-year real wage gains worse than during the Great Depression
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Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe that there are no jobs available for them. The number of discouraged workers in the U.S. increased sharply during the current recession, rising to 717,000 in the first quarter of 2009, a 70-percent increase from the first quarter of 2008. Relative to their share of the labor force, young people, blacks, and, to a...
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May 2011
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An African-American child raised in a lower-class family is 37% less likely to become a professional basketball player than is an African-American child raised in a middle- or upper-class family.
Dubrow, J. & Adams, J. (2010). Hoop inequalities: Race, class and family structure background and the odds of playing in the National Basketball Association. International Review for the Sociology...
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Forty percent of female juveniles in custody report being victims of sexual abuse.
2009 NSW Inmate Health Survey
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Two thirds (66%) of [women in prison] reported having been involved in at least one violent relationship.
2009 NSW Inmate Health Survey
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Females [in prison] were substantially more likely than males to report that since the age of 16 years, they had been subjected to at least one form of sexual violence (29% versus 2%). Women were also more likely to report that they had been subjected to such sexual violence on more than one occasion (22% versus 2%).
Twenty two percent of women reported having engaged in vaginal or anal sexual...
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Twenty three percent of [people in prison], including 30% of women and 22% of men, reported a history of having “overdosed or become unconscious as a result of taking drugs.”
2009 NSW Inmate Health Survey
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45% of [imprisoned] women reported that a partner or spouse had engaged in at least one form of abuse or control in the year preceding their current incarceration.
2009 NSW Inmate Health Survey
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Forty percent of women [in prison] reported having had at least one miscarriage.
2009 NSW Inmate Health Survey
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Both within each decade and across time, White respondents were more likely to see decreases in bias against Blacks as related to increases in bias against Whites—consistent with a zero-sum view of racism among Whites—whereas Blacks were less likely to see the two as linked.
Norton, M. & Sommers, S. (2011). Whites see racism as a zero-sum game that they are now losing. Perspectives on...
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An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year.
In Oakland, redefining sex trade workers as abuse victims
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The indigenous imprisonment rate surged from 1248 for every 100,000 Australian adults in 2000 to 1892 by 2010, marking a 52 per cent increase, an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report has found.
Indigenous people now make up 26 per cent of the prison population despite making up just 2.5 per cent of the Australian population.
In Western Australia and South Australia, indigenous...
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April 2011
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March 2011
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In some black inner-city communities, four of five black youth can expect to be caught up in the criminal justice system during their lifetimes.
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration of African American men
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More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began.
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration of African American men