more info here "October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which evolved from the first Day of Unity observed in October, 1981 by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Its aim was to connect battered women’s advocates across the country who were working to end violence against women and their children. Today, a woman is assaulted or beaten every 9 seconds in the...

Outrage is growing on the Boston campus of Emerson College. This comes after a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education over the college’s handling of a sexual assault report. Students at Emerson are furious about how the school allegedly handles allegations of rape on campus, but now the school says they’re going to do better and make changes. Emerson College says...

"Police (in the UK) have defended their increasing use of the 50,000-volt Taser stun gun. The device, which fires two tiny darts connected by a wire, delivers a disabling electrical charge to the body. The Taser was deployed by officers 123 times in the county in 2011 It was designed for use in situations in which officers would previously have used conventional...

Deployed women who underwent “combat-like” experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan are much more likely to report sexual harassment and sexual assault compared with other deployed women, according to a new study. Published in the August edition of Women’s Health Issues journal, the study used data from more than 13,000 military women who have been tracked in the Millennium Cohort Study, which began...

"A 22 year-old woman living on a college campus — or anywhere for that matter— I’ve heard the horror stories. I know that a female walking alone at night is a target. Many women — and men for that matter — end up in situations they never expected. I know this, and yet, more often than I care to admit, I find...

In today's post we are doing a review of two of the most popular pepper guns that are available for nonlethal self-defense. more info here The first is the Kimber Pepper Blaster II. This is manufactured by the Kimber firearms company based in Switzerland. They claim it to be three times as effective as other pepper spray products. It shoots out two...