sexual assault – Bridge Agents

Here’s the truth about false accusations of sexual violence

November 29, 2017 Bridge Agents #metoo, Bridge Agent, Conversation, False reporting, Featured, greed, Justice, Justin King, sexual assault, Solidarity Not Silence campaign, The Fifth Column

(Conversation) – Why didn’t these women speak up sooner? This was asked time and time again during the recent public furore around sexual harassment, violence and abuse. Underlying the question is a persistent uncertainty about the credibility of victims – a concern with identifying what is true and what is false. As women speak out, some have been met with explicit counter accusations that their descriptions are untrue. Others have been served with a defamation case which has resulted in the Solidarity Not Silence campaign to raise funds to fight…

We need to talk about the social norms that fuel sexual assault

November 22, 2017 Bridge Agents Bridge Agent, Conversation, Featured, greed, Human Rights, Justin King, sexual assault, The Fifth Column

(Conversation) – The recent spate of sexual harassment accusations against prominent men in Westminster comes as no surprise to many of us. We expect them to know better – to have been better people – but we have also seen this kind of behaviour before … over and over again. It isn’t just powerful men – but it is almost always men. It’s time to start looking at the deep-rooted causes of harassment. We need to try to understand why sexual harassment is carried out much more by men against…