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Advert for sex worker displayed on government website

Advert for sex worker displayed on government website

An advertisement for prostitutes has appeared on a government website, it has been revealed. Direct Gov is a website owned and run by Whitehall and is part of the the Department for Work and Pensions. However officials have been left red-faced after an advert by a company named Horny Escorts, appeared on the government website promising £10 an hour for[Read More…]

US man sues govt following ‘voluntary’ DNA checks for prescription drugs

US man sues govt following ‘voluntary’ DNA checks for prescription drugs

A US man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Pennsylvania after being stopped for “voluntary” DNA checks. The suit follows a state-wide campaign by police in Reading, Pennsylvania who created checkpoints in the city in which citizens were forced to stop and then asked if they would like to ‘volunteer’ to have their cheeks swabbed in search of[Read More…]

Scientists come up with a new way to capture compassion

Scientists come up with a new way to capture compassion

Scientists have come up with a new way to measure compassion and use it to the benefit of patients, it has been revealed. In a journal entitled Health Expectations, the researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center has unveiled the results of a study in which they have identified compassionate words and statements which are the most effective on[Read More…]

University Medical Center of El Paso where invasive search was carried out

Border agency staff conducts six hour cavity search following false positive

  Yet another woman in New Mexico, Texas has been on the receiving end of intrusive cavity searches lasting for hours, it has been reported. A 54-year-old New Mexico woman was seized by US border agency staff and subjected to a humiliating a six hour long cavity search and then billed for the sexual assault. The petite lady who has[Read More…]

Reports of military sexual assault on the rise

Reports of military sexual assault on the rise

Reported sexual assaults in the US military jumped by 50 per cent in 2013, according to a new study. Data obtained by AP shows there were more than 5,000 sexual assault reports in 2013. By contrast, there were 3,374 incidents reported in 2012. Of the total reports in 2013, around 10 percent involved incidents that happened before the victim was[Read More…]