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)
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.
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.
In 2009, for every dollar of wealth the average white household had, black households only had two cents.
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.
Half of the Indigenous juveniles in custody were first admitted to custody before they were 13.
Two thirds (66%) of [women in prison] reported having been involved in at least one violent relationship.
Black respondents perceived decreases in anti-Black bias over time and relatively nonexistent anti-White bias, but White respondents perceived anti-Black bias as declining even more quickly and anti-White bias as increasing sharply—particularly in recent years. Indeed, we observed a complete reversal over time in White respondents’ views of racism.
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By the 2000s, some 11% of Whites gave anti-White bias the maximum rating on our scale, in comparison with only 2% of Whites who did so for anti-Black bias.
Norton, M. & Sommers, S. (2011). Whites see racism as a zero-sum game that they are now losing. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 215-218.
An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year.
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
Finally, in January, the Justice Department published its first plausible estimates [of sexual abuse of inmates]. In 2008, it now says, more than 216,600 people were sexually abused in prisons and jails and, in the case of at least 17,100 of them, in juvenile detention. Overall, that’s almost six hundred people a day—twenty-five an hour.
However, only 3.4% of those 216,600 estimated incidents of abuse translated to “official allegations” of sexual abuse. 0.4% (less than one thousand) were later substantiated by authorities. Of those involving corrective officers, 23% of allegations resulted in an arrest, and only three percent of officers with a substantiated allegation of abuse against them were charged, indicted, or convicted.
If the Indigenous Australian population was a country, its life expectancy would rank 178th in the world (compared to Australia’s ranking of 7th), between Cambodia and Botswana.
[unpublished]
American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, 43 years ago. The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.
Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino.
On MLK Day, some thoughts on segregated schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama
The best estimates put the prevalence of sexual abuse of boys at just over 5 per cent of the population and girls at 25 per cent.
Cattleman Mark Baker was never a fan of Labor’s emissions trading scheme, even when agriculture was permanently excluded in the deal struck with Malcolm Turnbull.
So the 52-year-old, who farms 570ha at Gunnedah in northeast NSW, was happy with Tony Abbott’s move yesterday to block the ETS. Mr Baker said Labor’s concession to permanently exclude agricultural emissions was “encouraging”, but he believed an ETS in any form would spell disaster for the bush.
“Abbott is quite right, it’s simply a tax on production. A lot of farmers out here agree with him,” Mr Baker said. “It’s a two-edged sword. I think most farmers feel we are custodians of the land but on the other hand we also need to make a profit.”
Mr Baker said any government policy needed to include changes “farmers could act on” rather than a tax, “which would slow production and might not even help the environment”.
“How am I supposed to tell my cows to stop farting? My farm is always going to emit greenhouse gases.”
National Farmers Federation president David Crombie was pleased Labor had agreed to honour the deal negotiated with Mr Turnbull on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, but also believed the ETS was “fundamentally flawed”. “The CPRS outcome is still in the hands of the politicians. They will make the decision; however, we will be making sure the commitment to the agriculture industry is upheld,” he said.
Mr Crombie, who operates several family properties, breeding cattle and farming in southern Queensland, said the ETS had the potential to “cripple the agriculture industry beyond repair”.
-Cattleman in no mood for compromise on emissions trading scheme
Just two Liberal senators broke ranks with a clear mandate among Coalition MPs to delay an ETS and voted with Labor on an emissions trading scheme
Deputy Senate leader Eric Abetz declared: “The CPRS is dead. And no amount of CPR can revive it”
Family First Senator Steve Fielding said the ETS would make the GST look minor.
“Mums and dads, pensioners, everyone is going to get slugged,” he said.
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon said he could not support the bill because of the design of the scheme.
- Early election trigger after senate rejects Labor’s ETS scheme
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