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Youth prison subjects teen girls to breast & gynecological exams during court ordered psych assessments Justice for Girls speaks at Prionser Justice Day about the issue... April 2009 April 2009
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Justice for Girls is a non-profit organization that promotes freedom from violence, social justice and equality for teenage girls who live in poverty. Canadian girls face disturbingly high rates of violence. Male violence is a daily reality for homeless young women. On the street young women are subjected to constant verbal, physical and sexual violence. Girls who 'panhandle' and 'squeegy' for money face every kind of physical and verbal assault. Day to day they are touched, poked, prodded, fondled, forcibly kissed, spat on, pelted with objects (such as cigarette butts), grabbed, pushed, punched, and kicked. Girls who are sexually abused through prostitution are most vulnerable to all forms of violence including murder. Men who abuse girls on the street-"johns", passers-by, boyfriends, police, bar patrons- rarely, if ever face consequences for their attacks on homeless teenage girls. As a result of racist child welfare practices and colonial destruction of
Indigenous communities, Indigenous girls make up a large percentage of teenage girls in
poverty including homeless girls. Indigenous girls are subjected to extreme rates of violence and
constitute a shocking number of murder and suicide victims in British Columbia. Justice for Girls has observed that men who commit the most serious sexual violence against multiple teenage girls very often choose Indigenous girls as their targets. We understand these to be hate motivated acts of sexual violence. |
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Website by abovodesign |
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