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French police arrest yoga guru, 40 others over suspected sexual exploitation of followers – Lifotravel

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French police arrest yoga guru, 40 others over suspected sexual exploitation of followers

French authorities arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization Tuesday on suspicion of indoctrinating female followers for sexual exploitation. Issued on: 29/11/2023 – 08:54Modified: 29/11/2023 – 09:06 1 min The Romanian guru at the heart of the Atman Yoga Federation was detained during a massive morning police operation across the Paris region, according … Read more

Gender-based violence in French universities: ‘I decided something had to change’ – Lifotravel

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Gender-based violence in French universities: ‘I decided something had to change’

The most prestigious universities and business schools in France such as Sciences Po and HEC train the country’s future executives and politicians. But due to the prevalence of gender-based violence that takes place on campus, for many students, they are also spaces that don’t feel safe. On November 15, Nantes University published the results of … Read more

Talking Europe – Can Europe protect its women? EU members at odds over gender-based crimes – Lifotravel

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Talking Europe - Can Europe protect its women? EU members at odds over gender-based crimes

Back to homepage / Shows / Talking Europe Issued on: 24/11/2023 – 12:24Modified: 24/11/2023 – 12:36 12:08 TALKING EUROPE © FRANCE 24 The statistics are as damning as they are grim. In the EU, one in three women aged 15 or over has experienced physical or sexual violence – or both. More than half of all women in … Read more

Axl Rose Accused Of Violently Sexually Assaulting A Woman In 1989 – Lifotravel

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Axl Rose Accused Of Violently Sexually Assaulting A Woman In 1989

A new lawsuit accuses Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose of violently sexually assaulting a woman in a “volatile rage” in 1989. The civil lawsuit from former “Penthouse” model Sheila Kennedy alleges that Rose violently assaulted her in his New York hotel room in 1989 after the pair, both in their mid-20s at the time, … Read more

Germany’s Protestant leader quits but denies ignoring sex abuse allegations – Lifotravel

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Germany’s Protestant leader quits but denies ignoring sex abuse allegations

Annette Kurschus says she is stepping down ‘to prevent damage to my church’. The head of the Protestant Church in Germany has resigned amid accusations she turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual assault at a church she pastored in the 1990s. Annette Kurschus, a senior theologian who led Germany’s largest Protestant federation, said … Read more

What we know about the French senator accused of drugging an MP in attempted sex assault – Lifotravel

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What we know about the French senator accused of drugging an MP in attempted sex assault

French Senator Joël Guerriau is facing preliminary charges of drugging a fellow lawmaker with the intent to commit “rape or sexual assault”, prosecutors confirmed Friday, in a case that has shocked France. Guerriau was suspended from both his Horizons party and his Senate group on Saturday.  The 66-year-old senator from western France was arrested at his Paris home on Thursday over the alleged attempted assault of Sandrine Josso, 48, … Read more

Canadian fashion mogul guilty of sexual assaults – Times of India – Lifotravel

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Canadian fashion mogul guilty of sexual assaults - Times of India

Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was found guilty of four counts of sexual assaultby a Toronto jury on Sunday, according to CBC News. Nygard, 82, was on trial in the Ontario Superior Court. The court heard testimony from five complainants who said during a period between the late 1980s to around 2005 Nygard had attacked … Read more

Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard convicted of sexual assault – Lifotravel

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Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard convicted of sexual assault

Peter Nygard, the founder of one of Canada’s largest clothing brands, was found guilty Sunday on four counts of sexual assault, a court announced in Toronto. Issued on: 13/11/2023 – 01:55 2 min The jury, which deliberated for five days, also acquitted the Finnish-Canadian Nygard on one count of sexually assaulting one of the women who … Read more

Rights violations in Sudan ‘verging on pure evil’ amid escalating conflict, warns UN – Lifotravel

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Rights violations in Sudan 'verging on pure evil' amid escalating conflict, warns UN

The UN warned Friday of soaring human rights violations in Sudan’s Darfur region and said they were “verging on pure evil,” amid escalating fighting seven months into the war between the army and paramilitaries. Issued on: 10/11/2023 – 21:33 2 min “We keep saying that the situation is horrific and grim. But frankly, we are … Read more

Former Sen. Martha McSally Says She Was Sexually Assaulted During Run – Lifotravel

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Former Sen. Martha McSally Says She Was Sexually Assaulted During Run

Former Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) said she was sexually assaulted by a man as she ran along the Missouri River near Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday. McSally, who has previously spoken out about being raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, said in an Instagram video that a man grabbed her from … Read more