endIndex: COVID-19, Brexit and the international political carnage of this year have hammered the continent and exacerbated tensions that have blighted the European Union for years. (FILE PHOTO)
(CNN) You d struggle to find anyone in Europe who will be unhappy to see the back of 2020.
COVID-19, Brexit and the international political carnage of this year have hammered the continent and exacerbated tensions that have blighted the European Union for years.
But those problems are not going anywhere in 2021.
With no pandemic, fraught talks with the UK or an American president as anti-European Union as Donald Trump, Brussels might finally find space to address issues that have long undermined the bloc though it won t be easy.
Local Democracy Reporter Alice Angeloni explores Tinder, toxic masculinity and sexual consent, and whose role it is to keep young people safe and informed.
Tinder, toxic masculinity and sexual consent: The fallout from Grace Millane s murder
26 Dec, 2020 02:34 AM
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By: Alice Angeloni, RNZ
New Zealand needs to unpack the macho male psyche to challenge a rhetoric that dehumanises women, a sex educator in Gisborne says.
In 17 years of teaching sex education in schools, Meredith Akuhata-Brown has witnessed a shift in attitude where women in particular are more objectified. She believes this aligns with greater accessibility of porn.
Add mobile phones and dating apps to the mix, further detaching young people from human contact and physical touch , and the result was an attitude towards relationships which lacked respect and connection, she said.