‘No right to privacy from the opposite sex’: 13yo girl
takes school trans inclusion rules to UK High Court
takes school trans inclusion rules to UK High Court
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Some British schools are trying to be more accommodating to trans students at the expense of others, a 13-year-old has alleged in court documents. She says their guidelines go against girls’ desire for privacy, dignity and safety.
The new Trans Inclusion Toolkit released by Oxfordshire County Council last February instructs that students should have access to toilets, changing rooms, dorms and similar spaces, in accordance with the gender they identify as.
A 13-year-old girl has challenged the rules, saying the council never bothered to ask non-trans students like her how they felt about them. “Under these guidelines I have no right to privacy from the opposite sex in changing rooms, loos, or on residential trips,” she said in legal papers filed with the High Court in London on Thursday.
The pushback against the controversial drive for greater trans inclusivity in British schools comes with the backing of a group called Safe Schools Alliance. It is being brought to court by several parents and a teacher on behalf of the girl, who was not identified for legal reasons.
Safe Schools Alliance
@SafeSchools_UK
Today at the High Court a 13 year old girl (Miss A) filed a request for a Judicial Review against @OxfordshireCC on the basis that their schools trans inclusion toolkit puts her at risk. We are supporting Miss A in this case.Please see our website:http://bit.ly/39bNTb7
Application for Judicial Review against Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) filed today
Safe Schools Alliance UK is supporting a landmark legal case against Oxfordshire County Council on the grounds that its use of the Trans Inclusion Toolkit for Schools 2019 is serious…
The guidelines on gender-restricted spaces are aimed at offering all students – trans and non-trans alike – the most comfortable environment. Girls like the plaintiff, who don’t want to share a restroom or a dormitory with a biological boy, regardless of their gender identity, are supposed to be given separate arrangements.
Unbelievable! Make separate arrangements for normal kids and allow the trans kids to do anything they want! Crazy!
This ideal world expectation, however, does not always correspond to reality when it comes to the implementation of inclusivity rules. Some girls at Deanesfield Primary School in west London, for example, were ambushed with new unisex bathrooms containing poorly designed cubicles upon returning after a summer break. Rather than suffer the embarrassment, they simply stopped using the toilets.
Conservative activists see the drive for greater transgender acceptance at British schools as nothing but a leftist crusade that puts virtue signaling ahead of the wellbeing of children, including those encouraged to transition by the adults and their policies.
There is also concern that some of the students would declare themselves transgender frivolously – out of mischief, or to follow a fad – rather than due to a genuine gender dysphoria. The worst-case scenario would be boys gaining access to girls-only spaces to bully, or even sexually assault, them.
Fast track court sentences serial rapist and killer
to death in India
to death in India
Repeat story from Global Pervs n Paedos List
It is the third case in Telangana in which the courts have awarded
speedy death sentence
speedy death sentence
Gulf News
Hyderabad: Marri Srinivas Reddy, who was found guilty of abduction, rape and murder of three minor girls was sentenced to death by a special fast track court in Telangana.
SVV Natha Reddy, first additional district and session judge of Nalgonda, indicting Srinvas Reddy under various sections of Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, sentenced the convict to death.
While the offences were committed in Sitapur village of Yadadri district between 2015 and 2019, police arrested him in April last year. The proceedings of the case were completed in less than three months.
The court pronounced its judgement after examining 101 witnesses and forensic evidence.
The prosecution had alleged that 29-year-old Reddy had lured minor girls. While two of the victims were raped and murdered, the third was killed as she resisted his attempts to outrage her modesty.
This is the third case of rape and murder in the state in which the fast track courts have awarded death sentence.
Reacting to the judgement state’s senior minister K Taraka Rama Rao expressed his satisfaction over the fast track courts swift judgement in sexual offence cases.
“Within a span of six months, fast track courts in Telangana have delivered justice in three ghastly crimes against women. All five accused have been sentenced to capital punishment. Kudos to the law and home department officials and judiciary who have toiled hard to ensure quick justice”, Rama Rao said.
Pakistan National Assembly passes resolution calling for public hanging of child sexual abusers
The resolution was moved by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan and passed by all lawmakers, except leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
PPP leader and former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf spoke against the decision and said the intensity of the punishment will not result in the reduction of such crimes.
He further stated that public hangings violate the laws of the United Nations (UN) as Pakistan is a signatory of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
That's remarkable! Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as an excuse to not hang child sex abusers and murderers! That makes no sense!
Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry took to social media and strongly condemned the resolution.
“This is just another grave act in line with brutal civilisation practices, societies act in a balanced way barbarianism is not answer to crimes…… this is another expression of extremism,” he wrote.
Another remarkable comment! Raping and murdering children is barbarianism; tolerating such acts and protecting the rapists and murderers is closer to barbarianism than meting out justice to such evil people.
Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari also took to the micro-blogging website and clarified that the resolution passed was not a ‘govt-sponsored resolution but an individual act’, adding that she also opposes the decision.
Referring to the improved security situation in the country, the minister lauded the effort of all relevant stakeholders.
The minister of state for parliamentary affairs maintained that several steps have been taken to protect the youth from any kind of abuse, including the establishment of a child protection centre in the federal capital and ratification of laws such as the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act.
Kerala To Set Up 28 Fast Track Courts For
Rape, Child Sex Abuse Cases
With 12,000 cases pending in the state
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala has sanctioned the setting up of 28 fast track courts for speedy trial in rape cases and other cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
State Social Justice and Women and Child Development Minister KK Shailaja said the state government has decided to set up POCSO courts to ensure that the culprits get the punishment they deserve. She said the decision has been taken in the wake of rising violence against women and children.
"The Union Law Ministry has recently sanctioned the opening of 28 POCSO fast track special courts in Kerala at the request of the state government. The project will be implemented jointly by the High Court, Law and Home Departments under the leadership of the Department of Women and Child Development," the Minister said.
The four courts are alloted in Thiruvananthapuram district, three in Thrissur and Malappuram districts, two each in Kollam, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam, Palakkad, Kozhikode and Kannur districts.
The Minister informed that POCSO courts are jointly established by the central and state governments and according to the High Court data, 12,234 POCSO and rape cases are pending in the state.
Pakistani court suspends corporal punishment for children ‘in good faith for their benefit’
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А court in Pakistan has suspended until further notice a penal code article that activists say allowed teachers to physically punish students.
On Thursday, the Islamabad High Court suspended Section 89 of the Pakistan Penal Court, (court, or code?) which deals with the power parents, teachers, and legal guardians have over children. The section in question says that “Nothing which is done in good faith for the benefit of a person under twelve years of age… is an offence by reason of any harm which it may cause.”
The decision came as the result of a petition by famous pop singer and human rights campaigner Shehzad Roy, who set up an organization for education reform.
He argued that Section 89 is an “unconstitutional colonial-era law” that allows the use of violence in order to discipline students. This provision has drawn criticism from human rights groups in the past, since the problem of corporal punishment remains persistent in Pakistani schools.
In 2017, Pakistan’s Sindh region adopted a law protecting children from being subjected to corporal punishment in all types of schools, as well as at work and in care centers. Several bills tackling corporal punishment of minors have been introduced in the nation’s parliament in recent years.
Roy’s lawyer told the court that his plea was partially inspired by the death of a student last September. A teenager in the city of Lahore was allegedly beaten to death by a teacher for failing to memorize a lesson.
Section 89 has been suspended until further notice. The government now has until March 5 to reply to Roy’s petition.
'My name is Karly': Sex trafficking victim joins police on front lines in battle against exploitation
Durham Police unit is one of first in Canada to team up with a human trafficking survivor for field operations
Jennifer Barr · CBC News
Karly Church is a human trafficking survivor who works in collaboration with the Durham Regional Police Service Human Trafficking Unit, going with them on operations to help council and support people trapped in the sex trade. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Warning, this story contains graphic content that readers may find disturbing.
Durham Regional Police operate in several communities in eastern Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
Karly Church, 31, escaped the dangerous world of domestic sex trafficking when a police officer found her in a hotel room, and her two traffickers were arrested.
Six years later, Church now works as a crisis intervention counsellor with Victim Services of Durham Region, east of Toronto. She also teams up with Durham Regional Police detectives in the field to help underage girls and young women caught up in the heinous crime.
"I want to instill hope," Church says. "I want them to see that there is a way out, and there is the ability that they can reach any goal that they have for themselves. That you don't have to be stuck, that there are people who care."
Human trafficking is a fast-growing crime in Canada and one of the most difficult to beat.
According to Statistics Canada's latest figures, reports of the "most serious violation" of laws around human trafficking soared from a couple of dozen across the country in 2010 to 340 in 2016.
And, of course, those are only the ones they know about.
StatsCan adds that, "human trafficking is difficult to measure, due in part to its hidden nature. While there has been an increase in the number of human trafficking incidents reported by police in recent years, human trafficking remains highly underreported."
The majority of reported cases are in Ontario, and 93 per cent of the victims are female. Approximately 72 per cent of female trafficking victims are under the age of 25, and can be as young as 12 years old.
And the conditions police find victims in can be horrific.
"There are incidents with girls getting waterboarded, eating their own feces, being brutally raped," says Detective Dave Davies, who runs the Durham Regional Police Human Trafficking Unit.
"The hardest ones are the ones that are young — the young ones that have never had sex before and they lose their virginity to some John, or they end up getting pregnant. Those are real scenarios that we've dealt with."
The Durham Regional Police are one of the first in Canada to work directly with a human trafficking survivor, and they say Church is their secret weapon. With six detectives attached to the Human Trafficking Unit, most of them undercover, the police have nicknamed her Number Seven.
I wonder how she feels about that - being named after the phenomenally attractive 'Seven' from one of the Star Trek series?
"She's a part of our team," says Detective Davies.
The collaboration between the Durham Regional Police Unit and Victims Services of Durham Region is about building relationships and trust with the victims. Church and Davies say it's working.
Since Church got involved, the number of local police investigations has doubled and so has the number of victims she is supporting. In 2018, Victim Services of Durham Region helped 120 human trafficking victims, and in 2019 that jumped to 240.
This is an excellent idea and Durham Police are to be congratulated for implementing it. So many victims of sex trafficking are rescued but then end up back on the streets because it's the only thing they know, or the easiest way they can think of to make a few bucks.
There is much more on this story at CBC News.
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