Updated: 12:19 PM PDT, April 19, 2021
Hollie Peters, 23, started a Facebook page for survivors in hopes she d start a conversation around what many have been silent about, sexual assault.
When Hollie Peters started a Facebook page a few years ago, she was looking to start conversations surrounding sexual trauma. It was a discussion she’d been missing in her own life as a sexual assault survivor.
“Nobody wanted to talk about it,” Peters told Inside Edition Digital. “Everybody was really uncomfortable when I brought it up, so I wanted to create a space where I could have those conversations and other people who cared about those conversations could come and have them with me.”
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) embodies a political trend that cripples human rights in the guise of crusading for them. This trend is the balkanization, or fragmentation, of rights. Recently passed by the House, VAWA has moved to the Senate, where the trend it represents may well be translated into more law.
Identity politics and its activist branch, social justice, claim to champion oppressed groups. Yet both reverse the process by which oppressed groups have historically claimed their freedom: the universalization of rights. The term “universal rights” means that every human being, simply by being human, possesses the same rights and to the same degree as everyone else. Freedom means every person has an identical and enforceable claim to his or her own body and to peacefully acquired property. Justice occurs whenever this claim
Ellwood City Ledger
ELLWOOD CITY Though April 1 is a dedicated day for tricksters, pranksters and fools, it also marks the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and borough officials want residents to know that violence is no joke.
Leaders of the Lawrence County Crisis Shelter partnered with Ellwood City officials to raise awareness for the prevalence and prevention of sexual assault by putting up teal bows and yard signs on Lawrence Avenue Tuesday. I feel like we always hit New Castle with outreach and awareness and we wanted to start getting into more boroughs, just so more people know that we re here and that we re a support if they re struggling with domestic violence or sexual assault, said Rachel Pearce, an advocate and prevention education specialist at Lawrence County Crisis Shelter.
K Street Group Announces Refuse To Be A Victim Training for Women
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K Street s Watch Your Drink training is designed for women everywhere to stay one-step ahead of threats and evade victimization by means of personal safety strategy plans
Protecting your most important assets around the globe, 24/7 LEBANON, N.J. (PRWEB) April 01, 2021 Arguably the most critical measure taken toward ensuring one’s safety and well-being is the creation of a personal safety strategy plan, devised in advance of possible threats. The K Street Group is eager to announce its new training curriculum, specifically designed for women, as part of its larger “Refuse To Be A Victim” program.