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Sources:
https://www.japlusu.com/news/new-approaches-apartment-living-japan
http://www.gizmag.com/motorcycle-apartments-tokyo/23008/pictures#4
I have, in my earlier posts , indicates that the definition of ‘Rape’ is very sensitive and highly complicated.
Is Rape Actual penetration?
Fondling?
Kissing any part?
Or Groping?
Making Lewd comments?
Or looking at a woman lecherously?
Is Rape restricted to the rape women onyl?
What if a woman, in a change of mind accuses one of Rape to frame him?
Is rape restricted to the same gender?
Consensus intercourse-how does not one define it?
How does one prove that, by taking that into writing?
These are hazy areas .
While rape of a woman is a heinous offence, so is the rape of Men.
It is accepted that in case of Rape the woman’s word is taken as the Truth.
Need not necessarily be.
Some efforts are made in the US to redefine rape.
Here is a story from The New York Times.
Provides serious food for thought.
Story:
Another decade passed before the “earnest resistance requirement,” which asked rape victims to establish that they had sufficiently fought off their assailants even when those assailants held weapons, was expunged.
Given these standards, rapists typically avoided imprisonment. There were 1,085 arrests for rape made in New York City in 1969; only 18 resulted in convictions.
The dismantling of various cultural and judicial obstacles to successful prosecution has proceeded well enough that we can now conduct civic debates about rape at the level of semantics. When former Representative Todd Akin of Missouri and other Republican politicians betrayed outrageous ignorance of the meaning and consequences of the crime last year, Americans responded with a virtually uniform voice of reproof and disgust at their language. “Rape is rape” was the meme quickly ignited to counter the lunacy.
And yet in some sense, the crisp clarity of that phrase is belied, however inadvertently, by a burgeoning progressive movement to broaden the legal understanding of the term. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation changed its definition of “forcible rape” to include other types of sexual attacks when it gathers statistics.
Currently, there are two proposals in the State Legislature that seek to alter our thinking.
One, offered by Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, Democrat of Queens, would re-categorize instances of forced oral and anal “conduct” as rape. They are currently punishable under the penal code as “criminal sexual acts,” and at the first-degree level come with the same strict sentencing guidelines that accompany rape convictions. This would not change if the bill were to become law. The move, in effect, is purely symbolic, intended to offer the victims of certain sexual crimes the permission to see themselves as survivors of rape in the eyes of the court. As Ms. Simotas has said: “No one goes around saying they were criminally sexually acted upon. Rape is a powerful word.”
This is indisputable, but we might deploy the same reasoning to argue that the power it levies, despite our best efforts, is stigmatizing and that our use of the word ought to be ratcheted down rather than up. As it happens, various states have eliminated the term rape from criminal codes in favor of more clinical language.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/nyregion/debating-the-semantics-of-rape.html?ref=nyregion
“Some of the newspapers mentioned that after I saw the guy masturbating, I didn’t report it. I did. I reported it,” the woman said in an interview outside her apartment on the Upper West Side. “There was a park ranger who came by, and I stopped him immediately and showed him the picture. And I said: ‘Look at this picture. This guy is in the Ramble.’ And the ranger said, ‘Oh, O.K., I’ll look out for him.’ ”
The rangers, who work for the New York City parks department, have the power to make arrests and issue citations with their primary responsibility being to ensure that people abide by park rules. The ranger walked toward the Ramble, and the woman believed she had done all she was supposed to.
“I felt that was enough,” she said.
Vickie Karp, a spokeswoman for the parks department, referred questions about whether the victim approached a ranger and what rangers’ responsibilities in such situations are to the Police Department.
Women Rape Men.
Former U.S. Marine James Landrith joined HuffPost Live to tell his story of being raped by a pregnant woman decades ago. As host Mike Sacks points out, female sexual predators are often depicted as objects of teenage fantasy in popular culture, but this ignores the fact that men can be victims of rape by women.
Earlier this year, the United States government updated its official definition of rape to include any gender of the victim and perpetrator.
Watch Video in the Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/01/women-raping-men-a-surviv_n_2224204.html
Source:
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/early-human-ancestors-faces.htm
In what is euphemistically called ‘rendition’ is nothing but total disregard for Intentional Law and an authoritarianism to kidnap,intern,torture of those suspected of terrorist Links.
The US was not alone.
The Countries who were crying foul on Guantanamo were secretly in cahoots with the US!
Read On.
As many as 54 countries have been complicit in the CIA’s extraordinary rendition operations in which terrorism suspects were held in secret prisons overseas or turned over to foreign governments for interrogation, a human rights organisation has said in a report.
The report, released on Tuesday, claims that foreign governments in Europe, Asia and Africa have been secretly involved in global kidnap, detention and torture of at least 136 people on behalf of the United States after September 11, 2001 attacks.
“By engaging in torture and other abuses associated with secret detention and extraordinary rendition, the US government violated domestic and international law, thereby diminishing its moral standing and eroding support for its counterterrorism efforts worldwide as these abuses came to light,” the report said.
The report by the Open Society Justice Initiative said its information was based on “credible public sources” and “reputable human rights organisations”.
The CIA declined comment on the report.
The governments accused of helping the CIA programmes included some staunch US allies such as Australia, Israel, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland and Ireland, and some not usually viewed as US-friendly such as Iran and Syria.
The report said Tehran had transferred 15 individuals to Afghanistan, which transferred them to the US government.
Amrit Singh, author of the report, described the involvement of foreign governments as “a continuum” which included the hosting of secret CIA prisons, providing intelligence and capture and detention of prisoners.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from New York, Singh said there was “a wide variety of complicity” from all involved.
‘Globalising Torture’
“Responsibility for these violations does not end with the United States. Secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations, designed to be conducted outside the United States under cover of secrecy, could not have been implemented without the active participation of foreign governments. These governments too must be held accountable.”
While Barack Obama, US president, after taking office in 2009 ordered the closing of secret CIA detention facilities, the
executive order “did not repudiate extraordinary rendition,” the report said.
The New York-based rights group has called for the United States to end the controversial programme, close all secret prisons and investigate human rights violations that resulted from the practice.
The 256 page report, “Globalising Torture”, comes ahead of the confirmation hearing of John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday.
In reference to a December 2005 statement by Brennan that rendition was “absolutely vital” to countering terrorism, Singh said he “has some serious questions to answer”. Singh went on to say she hopes the report will compel the Senate “to ask what he meant by that statement”.
Internationally, OSJI wants other governments to end their involvement in the practice and take steps to ensure that counter-terrorism efforts do not violate human rights.
The US Justice department has built a Legal case for felicitating the attack on persons.organisations out side the US by US forces.
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S…(open channel)
http://ramanisblog.in/2013/02/05/us-white-paper-use-lethal-force-in-foreign-countrydocument/
People who were engaged in rescue operations following the attack on World Trade center on 9/11/,2001 were found to be suffering from increased risks of asthma, stress-related mental health problems, in a study conducted earlier.
A new Study
“from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are analyzing data from the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Registry to determine possible effects, if any, of the Twin Towers’ collapse on cancer risk.
“Dust, debris, and fumes from the WTC contained known and suspected carcinogens, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, asbestos, benzene, and dioxins,” the researchers write in their article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“At issue is whether dosages to exposed individuals were sufficient to cause excess malignancies and, if so, whether such excesses are […] detectable at present,” they write.
The researchers focused on nearly 55,700 people, 22,000 of whom were recovery and rescue workers (fire fighters, other first responders, construction workers, transportation workers, sanitation crews, security, and more) and the remainder of whom live in lower Manhattan, near the Towers. So far, the team only analyzed data on health outcomes, including the incidence of 23 different types of cancer, of these people through the end of 2008. While that is a relatively short time period for cancers to emerge, five to seven years after 9/11 the data already suggest that rescue and recovery workers harbor a 43% higher risk of prostate cancer compared to other residents of New York State during that the time, even after the scientists adjusted for age, sex, race, and smoking status. The risks of thyroid cancer and of myeloma (a disease of the blood plasma cells) were more than double that of ordinary New Yorkers. The heightened cancer risk, however, was not found among residents or others who were briefly exposed to the debris in the hours after the terrorist attacks.
…In the mean time, it’s not entirely clear why prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, and myeloma would be most strongly associated with WTC exposure. Myeloma, which is relatively rare, has been correlated previously with some workplace exposure to hazardous materials. But thyroid cancer has been linked more often to ionizing radiation, a risk factor not thought to be present at the WTC site, Stellman says. And as for prostate cancer, the environmental risk factors remain “elusive,” he says. “There’s no consensus among researchers.” He also acknowledges that the number of cancer cases in the registry is small, and that the data do not include data on other sources of potential exposure other than the Towers that might account for the elevated risk.”
The other unthinkable source could have been Nuclear Debri from the attack site, which might indicate that the planes had limited Nuclear device.
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