No Room For Grooming By Ruth Akinradewo Grooming, as defined by the NSPCC, is “when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them.” This topic is one that has hit the headlines
Female Foeticide and Infanticide By Ruth Akinradewo Femicide is defined as: ‘the intentional killing of females because of their gender’. Numerous examples we have already explored comprise diverse types of femicide. Not withstanding this, female foeticide and infanticide represent perhaps the starkest form of femicide. ‘Female foeticide’ relates to
Press Red On Breast Ironing By Ruth Akinradewo Have you ever heard of breast ironing? I hadn't until four years ago. It was a coincidence really; I happened to be called onto a BBC Radio interview, and another guest was invited to talk about the horrific practice during a
END FGM by Ruth Akinradewo Female genital mutilation, commonly referred to as FGM, is an inhuman and gender-specific abuse. It is a procedure whereby female genitalia is deliberately cut, injured, or changed and is sometimes referred to as female circumcision, which is a misnomer as it is quite different
Rape - A Violent Violation by Ruth Akinradewo This year’s global UN 16 days of activism campaign is centered explicitly on rape: by far the most ruthless of sexual violations. Rape as defined by the Metropolitan Police, "is when a person intentionally penetrates another's vagina, anus or mouth with
Sexual Harassment & Male Entitlement by Ruth Akinradewo The UK legal definition of sexual harassment, drawn from the Equality Act of 2010, is: “unwanted conduct of a sexual nature which has the purpose or effect of violating someone’s dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment
The Commodification of Women’s Bodies by Ruth Akinradewo The injustices of gender-based violence are not limited to physical attacks on our bodies. They are attacks on our very personhood, and are embodied in manifold monsters, of different shapes, yet each with a very ugly face. Considering how many different faces abuse against women
