Groshe Martincanaj In September 2004 Gjin Martincanaj from Lekbibaj in Tropoja Albania, then living on the outskirts of Tirana, was sentenced to seven years and four months imprisonment for killing his 21-year-old daughter Grosha Martincanaj. He shot her in February 2004 when she returned home after three days of absence and refused to inform her parents of where and with whom she had been. Her family initially claimed that she had died a natural death, but when police came to the house after neighbors reported hearing gunshots, her father readily admitted to killing her. When her father was convicted of the murder of his daughter, her uncle reportedly stated, "There is no way out but the bullet to make up for the loss of honor. We are not distressed, she deserved such a thing. We are concerned about the father who is going to suffer imprisonment, all for her sake." Her sister reportedly stated to the press, "Our father did right to kill her, he did his duty as the parent of a girl who shamed her family". No one cried at her funeral

Fiqirete Qinami Ruzdhi Qinami was sentenced to only two years prison for murdering his 16-year-old daughter Fiqirete Qinami. he had killed his daughter after seeing her return home at 5 am in a car; believing that she was having an affair while her fiancé was abroad, "he began to behave uncontrollably", and pushed her into the bedroom where a vicious argument ensued, "Figirete's behavior was such that a psychological effect acted on Ruzdhi Qinami, directly influencing his psyche, blocking his intellectual powers and weakening his self-control; as a result he fired the pistol four times at his daughter, causing her immediate death.

Donjeta Pajazitaj “All kinds of things were being said that day," said a court witness referring to the rumors in the village during the six weeks when 24-year-old Donjeta Pajazitaj was missing. She was allegedly kidnapped by her cousin, 56-year-old Naser Pajazitaj, who took her to the woods nearby and shot her twice in the head. Six weeks later, fellow villagers found her body covered in wood. Her cousin was sentenced to life imprisonment and is currently in prison. Albanian men at large agree that a man's honor is more important than a woman's life. When Esat Gutaj defends his client Nebi Berisha by justifying the extreme crime he committed against his wife Zejnepe, articulating publicly the belief that many men (some women as well) do not hesitate to express in informal settings that "one does not commit a crime like that unless driven to do so Men also mobilize one another to legitimize the customary Albanian laws known as the “Kanun," which says "The blood of a woman is not equal to the blood of a man." While mourning the loss of their beloved daughter and sister to a violent death, Donjeta's family had also to deal with the pressure from the village elders for the families to make peace with the murderer's family: to forgive and forget. Rather than paying respect to the dead young woman, Donjeta's life was deemed irrelevant: her family's pain and anger submerged in a superficial peace-making process by the people in the village where she grew up, where she played as a girl, went to school and grew into a young woman.

Eglantina Buci

Eglantina Buci was killed in Mali me Gropa in September 2012, in a place called "Mali i Fagut", in the municipality of Shëngiergi. The event was uncovered after 8 years, by a collaborator of justice, and accused as perpetrators of her murder are in the cell today, Eglantina's father and brother, Faik and Shkëlzen Buci, but they have not yet admitted the crime. Egintina Buci's stepmother, in an interview for the show "With an open heart" tells how without anyone realizing it, Eglantina had run away from home, while being used for prostitution by those whom she called the 'head of state'. The stepmother says that Eglantina told her that in one night she was forced into prostitution with 50 people. She also says that during the search they were helped only by a police officer who found Eglantina nude in a nightclub. The serious event happened in 2012, but it was only revealed in 2020. This is because a buried skeleton was found in Mali me Gropa, where after analysis, it turned out to be that of Eglantina Buci. Shkelzen Buci, her brother, called his sister for a coffee, while his friend was accompanying him. On her way, she realized that something was wrong. Then Shkelqen pulled out his pistol and shot her to death.

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bournemouth/media-dissertation-survey

Hi all, for my final year research essay I'm focusing on Examining the medias' accountability in addressing violence against women using New Zealand International rugby team.

I would appreciate it if anyone could take 8 minutes of their time to take this anonymous survey (18+ only)

Thank you in advance!

Hi all, I'm finishing up my final year at university. For my dissertation, I'm focusing on Examining the media's accountability in addressing violence against women using New Zealand International rugby team.

The survey is completely anonymous and should only take 8 minutes.

I'm looking for a minimum of 100 responses so if anyone could respond or share it that would be great help!

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bournemouth/media-dissertation-survey

Found this article earlier and it had me fuming. The whole idea of sex tourism is foul enough. Rich western men traveling to poor countries for cheap sex, where the women and children are so poor and desperate they are easy to exploit. But add in the fact that many of these men father children in these countries and just leave them to rot, the girls likely becoming prostitutes themselves way too soon.

I hope that with DNA testing and services like ancestry.com and 23&me, more and more of these men can be eventually tracked down and held responsible for the harm they’ve caused. Even if there’s no way to make them pay child support, at least have to come face to face with these women and children instead of being able to just forget about them. Maybe even have their families find out about what kinds of things they got up to in the past. The article mentioned the costs of DNA testing being prohibitive for the people in these situations though. If there was a charity that helped cover those costs, I would gladly contribute to it.

EDIT: got myself so worked up I forgot to post the article!!

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/02/children-sex-tourists-leave-behind-fathers-visited-philippines

Time and time again the police, healthcare, and other authorities drop the ball on this. Systems are useless, overworked, and beyond broken. It will only get worse with AI. Please protect yourselves and your girls.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68300484

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i wanted to inform more women about a site i recently discovered through tiktok and seek advice about what to do. i’m not sure if i’m allowed to name the site either (if that’s against sub rules? i’ll share if not) as it’s hosting illegal content but i’m sure some of you have seen women talking about it online. so far, i’ve reported it online to the Australian Federal Police but i doubt it’ll make any real impact since the site is now based in albania. i’ve seen my old classmates (graduated recently from high school) and other women i know on this site & just really don’t know what to do.

the site is similar to 4chan and has dedicated ‘boards’ for every state in the US, canada, australia, germany and the UK. in these specific boards, men will often share the nudes of girls they knew from highschool, female coworkers, women they follow on instagram, women they hooked up with, ex girlfriends, sex workers, etc. these threads are often accompanied by the full name of the woman & her social media accounts, as well as the postcodes or names of the suburb where the woman lives. men will also make specific requests for certain suburbs or request the nudes of a specific woman.

many of the women i’ve seen in the specific forum for my country are underaged. i recognised numerous girls from my highschool and my city. others are onlyfans models or sex workers who had their images & videos stolen and posted without consent. if that isn’t horrific enough, searching up this site lead me to reddit posts of women who had never sent nudes and only saved them to their snapchat my eyes only or to google photos - despite this, their accounts were hacked and their nudes were posted with the names of their hometowns on this site.

some users will also take requests to create deepfakes of instagram pictures of young girls where they are FULLY CLOTHED. there’s also a separate board dedicated to ‘candids’. even if you’ve never sent or taken a nude, there’s a chance you’ll be posted on there.

this site is horrifying and has a significant user base. it has been shut down before but it keeps returning and i’m losing hope. i just want to know if anything can be done. please let me know if there’s a better subreddit to direct this to.

and just to emphasise how large this site is - i’m from a little suburb in australia and i’ve seen women i know posted on there. there are so many men posting from every city in every country you can think of.

eta: sorry, but i will no longer be sharing the link with people who have little or no post history as there’s several men in my DMs pretending to be women’s right activists and demanding the link. i’m absolutely not sending the link to any men so don’t even bother.

eta2: not sure if anyone will see this but i had a small update. i found the hosting company which is called privex - they are based in belize and seem incredibly shady, only accepting cryptocurrency and also operating on tor. they also openly allow their customers to operate sites with ‘risqué’ content, so i doubt they’ll be receptive to taking down this forum. the site server is based in netherlands so it’s possible a report to the dutch authorities may be helpful, but i can’t do that online without speaking the language. not sure what to do now.