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May 2010 ... the first chance I had to enjoy a leisurely walk through the bluebell woods near Slindon. My camera broke! The best I could do was to race to the local shop, which had only one disposable camera left. Some of the photos didn't come out very well.
A 50-year-old woman from Greater Manchester is backing the Report Rape and Take Control campaign after she bravely reported her ordeal to the police, following years of abuse by her father as a child.
'Rachel' from South Manchester wants to help GMP and its partners to encourage other victims to come forward and remind them that it’s never too late to report, or get the help and support available.
Rachel (not her real name) was six when she was first sexually abused by her father, who continued to rape and sexually assault her until she was 14. It took more than 30 years for her to feel able to seek support. This eventually led to a successful prosecution of her father who was jailed in 2010.
“For a variety of reasons, many incidents of rape go unreported, so we are launching this campaign to encourage people not to suffer in silence and give people the confidence to come forward and report it by highlighting the help and support available”, said Detective Superintendent Phil Owen of Greater Manchester Police’s Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons Unit.
GMP receives in the region of 850 reports of rape a year, while St. Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) provides support and counselling for approximately 1,000 clients each year, around 90 men contact Survivors Manchester and 1,400 women contact Manchester Rape Crisis.
“Although these figures show that many people have confidence in reporting rapes to either the police or a support organisation due to the successful service we provide, we know that many other victims are still suffering in silence. So the message of this campaign is that regardless of when the incident happened, tell someone and get the help and support you need.
“Over the past few years we’ve made massive improvements to the way that we investigate and deal with rape cases to ensure that we provide the best possible service to victims and bring the offenders to justice.
“I want to reassure victims who haven’t yet reported a rape that GMP treats every report seriously, with specially trained officers and the support of the Independent Sexual Violence Advisor services, to help and support victims from the initial report, throughout the investigation and during court proceedings.”
Greater Manchester is nationally recognised as a model of good practice in terms of support services available to victims, but GMP and its partners aim to continually improve the support services available.
Dr Catherine White, Clinical Director at St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre, said: “St Mary’s SARC provides a service for people that have been raped recently or in the past. It is for men, women and children and provides not just access to a forensic examination, health screening and crisis support but can also support people through on going counselling for as long as they need it.”
Duncan Craig, Founder of Survivors Manchester, said: “Since founding Survivors Manchester, over 18 months ago, we have been working hard with our partners at Greater Manchester Police, St Mary’s SARC, Manchester Rape Crisis and Manchester Victim Support, to identify the barriers that victims and survivors face in coming forward and speaking out. As a survivor-led organisation, we know first hand the trauma, impact and legacy of sex crimes and want people in OUR amazing city to see that this partnership is leading the way in supporting people to take back the power and reclaim control of their own lives”.
As part of this campaign, two posters, one aimed at male victims and the other aimed at female victims, will urge them to ‘Report rape, take control and don’t suffer in silence’ and will be distributed throughout Greater Manchester. Both posters will feature the contact details for St Mary’s SARC, which provides a specialist service to all victims of serious sexual offences across the county.
For more information go to www.facebook.com/ReportRape2010 or follow the Greater Manchester partnership on Twitter @ReportRape2010.
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Rape aka allergy flower. I love the smell, I love the colour. This one was a solitary escape. No sunshine here today.
17th June 2013 Stafford UK.
Large oilseed rape field at Cudmore Grove Country Park, East Mersea
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Oilseed rape
The word "rape" as applied to oilseed crops is derived from the Latin word rapum that means turnip. Today turnip rapes and the similar but more common swede rapes are grown for their oil and are widely recognised by their bright yellow flowers that can be seen from late april onwards.
Holmesburg Prison is part of the City of Philadelphia Prison System. Built in 1896 and in continuous use until 1995, the facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Ave in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the site of a controversial decades-long dermatological, pharmaceutical, and biochemical weapons research projects involving testing on inmates. The prison is also notable for several major riots in the early 1970s as well as a report released in 1968 of the results of an extensive two-year investigation by the Offices of the Philadelphia Police Commissioner and the District Attorney of Philadelphia documenting hundreds of cases of the rape of inmates. The 1998 book Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, by Allen Hornblum, documents clinical non-therapeutic medical experiments on prison inmates at Holmesburg.
Naked Broom-rape (Orobanche uniflora). The flowers of ths root parasite are most often purple but occasionally cream to white in color. Yosemite National Park. Mariposa Co., Calif.
BUKAVU
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Costermansville/Costermansstad
Location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Coordinates: 2°30′S 28°52′E
Country Democratic Republic of the Congo
Province South Kivu
Founded 1901
Government
• Mayor Nzita Kavungirwa
Area
• Total 60 km2 (20 sq mi)
Elevation 1,498 m (4,915 ft)
Population (2012)
• Total 806,940
• Density 13,000/km2 (35,000/sq mi)
Time zone Lubumbashi Time (UTC+2)
Website Official website (French) (** query broken URL)
Bukavu (former official names: Costermansville (French) and Costermansstad (Dutch)) is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River. It is the capital of the South Kivu province and as of 2012 it had an estimated population of 806,940.
Contents
1 History
2 Transport
3 Medical care
4 Status of women
5 Natural hazards
6 Climate
7 Other features
8 Personalities
9 References
10 External links
History
Lake Kivu, seen from Bukavu
Bukavu is part of the ancient territory of Bushi Kingdom, the main ethnic group of South-Kivu. It was governed by a “Muluzi” Nyalukemba, when the first Arabs, then the European arrived in Bushi at the end of the 19th century. (“Muluzi” or “Baluzi” in the plural means « the nobleman or nobility to Shi. It is equivalent to Watutsi or Tutsi in Kinyarwanda. Before the Europeans came in Bushi Kingdom, Bukavu was called “Rusozi”. The name Bukavu comes from the transformation of word 'bu 'nkafu ' (farm of cows) in Mashi, the language of Bashi.[citation needed] Bukavu was established in 1901 by the Belgian colonial authorities. Originally named "Costermansville" (in French) or "Costermansstad" (in Dutch) until 1954, it had a prominent European population under colonial rule. They were attracted by the subtropical climate (Lake Kivu is 1,500 metres above sea level) and scenic location (Bukavu is built on five peninsulas and has been described as "a green hand, dipped in the lake"). Many colonial villas have gardens sloping down to the shore.
By contrast, the main residential district for ordinary people, Kadutu, climbs up the hillside inland. The surrounding hills reach a height of 2,000 metres. Formerly an administrative centre for the whole of the Kivu region, the town lost some of its status as result of the growth of Goma.
Following the Rwandan Genocide, Hutu refugees and many members of the former Hutu-led government fled as part of the Great Lakes refugee crisis. The refugee camps around Goma and Bukavu became a center of the Hutu insurgency from the camps against the new Watutsi government of Rwanda. In November 1996 at the start of the First Congo War, Rwandan government forces consequently attacked the Hutu camps, and forces of the then Zaire government which allowed the insurgency. The Rwandan government supported rebels in Zaire led by Laurent Kabila who overthrew the Kinshasa government with their help, and then fell out with them, leading to the Second Congo War. Rwanda supported the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) against Kabila. The RCD was dominated by the Banyamulenge, and Bukavu which with the rest of Sud-Kivu was held by the RCD saw sporadic fighting between rebels and government forces and their proxies, including the Mayi-Mayi, especially in 1998 and 2004.
On June 3, 2004, protestors in several Congolese cities took to the streets to demonstrate against the United Nations for failing to prevent Bukavu from falling to Rwandan-backed RCD forces led by General Nkunda.[1] About 16,000 women were raped on a single weekend after General Nkunda told his troops "This city is yours for three days."[2] In September 2007 Nkunda, who had been persuaded to fall in line with the peace accords which ended the war and re-integrate his troops with the Congolese government forces, again rebelled and started attacking government troops north of Goma.
Bukavu an important transport hub and gateway to eastern DR Congo, but as a result of the wars the road network has deteriorated and highways to Goma, Kisangani and other towns have not been fully restored. As with Goma, close proximity to the paved road network of East Africa and the functioning eastern section of the Trans-African Highway to Mombasa may allow a faster recovery than other Congolese towns. Bukavu's proximity to the Lake Tanganyika ports of Bujumbura and Kalundu-Uvira give it an additional advantage, with access on the lake to the railheads of Kigoma (linked to Dar es Salaam) and Kalemie (rail link to Katanga, in need of rehabilitation). Isolation, largely due to bad road infrastructure, has been found to be an important determinant of wealth and/or development in South Kivu.[3]
Bukavu has numerous lakeside wharves and boat transport is used extensively in the Congolese waters of the lake in the absence of well maintained roads.
Kavumu Airport (ICAO code:FZMA, IATA code: BKY) located about 30 kilometres north is the domestic airport for Bukavu.
Medical care
Panzi Hospital
Bukavu is home to the Panzi Hospital, which is also the teaching hospital of the Evangelical University in Africa.
Bukavu is also home to the Catholic University of Bukavu's School of Medicine and General Reference teaching hospital.
The pharmaceutical factory Pharmakina owned by a German immigrant produces the antimalarial drug quinine and the generic AIDS medicament Afri-vir. Pharmakina also runs an AIDS diagnostic and treatment center.[4] With 740 employees and about 1000 free-lance workers Pharmakina is the largest employer in town.[5]
Status of women
Women continue to face major problems of violence in the wake of war in the eastern DRC. Fondation chirezi in August 2007 launched a project for women's trauma healing and care, based in Bukavu.
Natural hazards
Although not threatened by volcanoes as Goma is, Bukavu is equally in danger from a potential limnic eruption from Lake Kivu, in which vast quantities of dissolved carbon dioxide and methane could explode from the lake and threaten the lives of the 2 million people who live near the lake.[6]
Climate
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical wet and dry (Aw).[7]
[hide]Climate data for Bukavu
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 25
(77) 25.1
(77.2) 25.1
(77.2) 24.6
(76.3) 24.7
(76.5) 25
(77) 25.7
(78.3) 26.8
(80.2) 26.6
(79.9) 25.6
(78.1) 25
(77) 24.8
(76.6) 25.33
(77.61)
Daily mean °C (°F) 19.8
(67.6) 19.9
(67.8) 19.9
(67.8) 19.6
(67.3) 19.9
(67.8) 19.6
(67.3) 19.5
(67.1) 20.4
(68.7) 20.5
(68.9) 20.1
(68.2) 19.8
(67.6) 19.7
(67.5) 19.89
(67.8)
Average low °C (°F) 14.7
(58.5) 14.7
(58.5) 14.7
(58.5) 14.7
(58.5) 15.1
(59.2) 14.2
(57.6) 13.4
(56.1) 14
(57) 14.5
(58.1) 14.7
(58.5) 14.6
(58.3) 14.6
(58.3) 14.49
(58.09)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 135
(5.31) 137
(5.39) 170
(6.69) 165
(6.5) 103
(4.06) 34
(1.34) 17
(0.67) 52
(2.05) 110
(4.33) 151
(5.94) 172
(6.77) 145
(5.71) 1,391
(54.76)
Source: Climate-Data.org, altitude: 1490m[7]
Other features
Entrance to Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, a World Heritage Site and one of two homes of the Eastern Lowland Gorilla, is close to the city and can be accessed from the road to Kavumu. The park headquarters at Tshivanga is located 31 km from Bukavu.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LlHaOm5H1c
"Setting a precedent, tainting the future
Pedophiles, molesters, freed upon society
Murderers let loose to find their next victim"
Raped, a work by Käthe Kollwitz (1907) from the Kollwitz exhibit at The Getty.
"Together with the exploitation of laborers in The Ploughmen, the sexual abuse in Raped signals the brutal conditions that triggered the 16th-century Peasants' Revolt. A woman lies violated and dead in a patch of flowers and cabbage leaves. The extreme foreshortening of her body, with legs splayed and arms pulled back, conceals her face from the viewer. The lush vegetation -- a unique depiction of flora in Kollwitz's oeuvre -- serves as foil to the lifeless body. In deep shadow at the upper left, a small child looks over the garden fence at the victim. An ominous triangular shadow extending to the woman's left foot suggests a menacing presence just beyond the picture plane. Although Kollwitz does not explicitly illustrate violent action in this print, its meaning is clear.
Sign at The Getty.