På söndag träder samtyckeslagen i kraft. Det är nu viktigare än någonsin att alla har rätt kunskap om vad samtycke innebär.

Samtidigt sprids nyheten om försvarsadvokaten Baharak Vaziris app Libra där en kan fylla i att en samtycker till sex. Syftet är att underlätta när samtyckeslagen träder i kraft och är tänkt att göra bevisning för att en samtyckt eller inte.

Vi i Fatta, som kämpat för samtyckeslagen sedan 2013, reagerar starkt på appen. Vi ser framförallt två stora, rent skadliga, problem.

THE SECRETS ARE hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack. Thousands of people pass by the buildings each day and rarely give them a second glance, because their function is not publicly known. They are an integral part of one of the world’s largest telecommunications networks – and they are also linked to a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to include ”gaming disorders” in its 11th revision of internationally recognised diseases.

This addiction is described by the WHO as ”a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour” that may become so extensive that it ”takes precedence over other life interests”.

The announcement has been met by criticisms from within both the gaming industry and experts within the field of psychology, with counterclaims stating that the addiction outlines put forth by the WHO are simply not aligned with the nature of addiction.

Andrew Orchard lives near the northeastern coast of Tasmania, in the same ramshackle farmhouse that his great-grandparents, the first generation of his English family to be born on the Australian island, built in 1906. When I visited Orchard there, in March, he led me past stacks of cardboard boxes filled with bones, skulls, and scat, and then rooted around for a photo album, the kind you’d expect to hold family snapshots. Instead, it contained pictures of the bloody carcasses of Tasmania’s native animals.

A Guatemalan woman whose child was taken from her last month by immigration authorities in Texas after coming to the U.S. seeking asylum was released after 38 days in detention last week. Immediately after being freed, she went to the federally funded facility that was managing her 5-year-old son’s care and recovered him.