Multilingual handbook on sexual violence and consent teaching women about rights in Australia
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Multicultural Families Organisation s Rana Al-Mekarry says the handbook is for both men and women.
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Women across Australia have come forward in recent weeks to tell their stories of sexual abuse, but for culturally diverse women speaking out and seeking support is not an easy endeavour.
Key points: It has been created by the Multicultural Families Organisation and Centre Against Sexual Violence Experts say violence against women is woven into Australian and global cultures
Multicultural Families Organisation s Rana Al-Mekarry said many women did not know their rights in Australia.
The victim was shopping with her husband Sunday when she entered a third floor bathroom around 11:30 a.m. Uqdah had been waiting inside the restroom for 20 minutes when she entered, police said. He allegedly jumped over her stall, dragged her into another stall and raped her.
Uqdah, who used kitchen skewers as a makeshift weapon, also stole between $60 and $80 from the woman, police said.
Uqdah allegedly fled on the Market-Frankford Line at SEPTA s 13th Street Station, located beneath the department. Surveillance cameras caught him exiting the El station at 52nd and Market streets and visiting a store at 52nd Street and Girard Avenue, about a mile from the El station.