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| 16 Dec 2007 - 09:34 | admin
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2226600 . . .
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Freedom lost
After the invasion of Iraq, the US government claimed that women there had 'new rights and new hopes'. In fact their lives have become immeasurably worse, with rapes, burnings and murders now a daily occurrence.
Article continues...
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/St ory/0,,2226600,00.html
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| 15 Dec 2007 - 18:04 | admin
URL: www.fpfe.org/firmas.asp
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CAMPAÑA DE RECOGIDA DE FIRMAS PARA EXIGIR LA PROTECCION INMEDIATA Y LA DEFENSA DE LOS DERECHOS INDIVIDUALES DE LAS PERSONAS, EN PARTICULAR DE LOS DERECHOS SEXUALES Y REPRODUCTIVOS QUE COMO CIUDADANOS Y CIUDANAS NOS CORRESPONDEN.
para firmar
www.fpfe.org/firmas.asp
Ante los recientes acontecimientos ocurridos en Barcelona y Madrid que han redundado en la suspensión cautelar de actividades de la Clínica CB Medical en Madrid, la ausencia de transparencia informativa en los hechos ocurridos en algunas clínicas donde se practican IVE en Barcelona; y muy especialmente ante las agresiones físicas y verbales y las constantes amenazas sufridas por Dña. Victoria Virtudes, la FPFE lanza esta campaña activa y urgente de recogida de firmas en apoyo.
Las y los abajo firmantes, nos dirigimos a los actuales responsables de las Delegaciones del Gobierno en las Comunidades Autónomas de Madrid y Barcelona en primera instancia, a los y las responsables de los gobiernos autonómicos y central con responsabilidades políticas y administrativas en materia de Interrupción Voluntaria de Embarazo en nuestro país, para exigir los siguientes puntos:
Exigimos que de manera inmediata se proteja de modo efectivo la integridad física y psíquica de la ciudadana Victoria Virtudes que está siendo objeto de constantes amenazas y agresiones, garantizando su protección policial y la puesta en marcha inmediata de todas las medidas que el Estado de Derecho ha de proveer en estas situaciones.
Exigimos que los hechos de agresión física, verbal y amenaza constante de las que Dña Victoria Virtudes está siendo objeto en las últimas semanas sean investigados con carácter de urgencia y resueltos con la diligencia y efectividad que se presupone a las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado.
Exigimos que desde las Administraciones Públicas Autonómicas y Central, se garantice la seguridad física y jurídica de todas y todos los profesionales sanitarios que en ejercicio de su profesión realizan y /o trabajan en las clínicas acreditadas para la realización de IVE.
Denunciamos la insuficiencia de la actual legislación de aborto en España y que están generando gran confusión e inseguridad en la sociedad española en su conjunto y, que está contribuyendo a la desinformación, ausencia de claridad y rigor informativos en relación a este tema, exigiendo que se informe clara y puntualmente de los 3 supuestos que la ley actual contempla y que en el caso del primero de ellos no existe un límite de tiempo para practicar el aborto y por tanto no constituye ningún delito practicarlo en cualquier momento del embarazo.
Exigiendo la revisión de la actual ley de modo inmediato en el Congreso de los Diputados y que se promueva una nueva legislación de aborto en España, acorde a las declaraciones internacionalmente reconocidas y consensuadas de Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, y que garanticen el derecho al aborto a las mujeres en nuestro país.
Exigimos que se investigue la provisión de fondos públicos a los movimientos integristas-fundamentalistas que actúan sistemáticamente contra los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, que vienen manteniendo un ataque continuo y sostenido a la libertad y a estos derechos, hostigando a quienes los defendemos; y, reivindicamos y exigimos que les sean retirados.
Por último, reivindicamos y exigimos, una vez más, el Derecho al Aborto libre y gratuito, considerado un Derecho Humano desde 1994 en la Conferencia Internacional sobre la Población y Desarrollo celebrada en El Cairo (Egipto). Recordamos que los acuerdos de esta Conferencia se firmaron por el Gobierno del Estado Español, entre 187 países más, pero continúan sin cumplirse.
para firmar
www.fpfe.org/firmas.asp
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| 15 Dec 2007 - 10:24 | admin
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Nicaraqua: Not One More Dead
from the Women’s Network from Nicaragua:
FOR THE LIFE OF WOMEN — NOT ONE MORE DEAD
neither by femicide nor by forced maternity
NETWORK OF WOMEN OF MATAGALPA
Once again, on 25 November, international day against violence towards women, we point out the multiple ways in which our society expresses this violence, and we cannot forget the women who have been assassinated. So far this year, more than 60 women have been assassinated just because they were women.
We remember them today, but we can’t even give an exact number of how many there are. Different public institutions give different numbers. The Ministry of Health keeps strict accounting of those who are sick and die from leptospirosis* or any other epidemic. But to know with certainty how many women have been attacked and how many assassinated is no easy task. No institution of the State takes on the job of knowing how many there are. Who, then, will take the responsibility to ensure that NO MORE be killed? Who will take the responsibility of bringing up and educating the children who are orphaned?
As long as prejudices and stereotypes persist and archaic values regarding women and the role we should play in our society, violence will continue, because violence is an instrument to perpetuate the abuse of power, to keep women subjected and submissive.
But we women are not always quiet; we do not always obey. We are learning to raise our voices, to look at situations directly and assert our rights. This is why violence against us has become more acute. We scold and admonish, we are not disposed to continue being subjected to the whims of others. That is why they keep attacking us…
why they kill us.
For the machos, it is not enough to peer at us, to raise their hands against us. Verbal aggression by which they invalidate us is not enough. They have to silence us and show that we are their property, that our bodies do not belong to us, and that they are not going to permit us to take control of our own lives.
And private men do that in their private lives to control the women they consider “theirs” — public men and politicians, too, the public functionaries, the church hierarchy who in a GRAND PACT have decided to use the lives and bodies of women to exert personal political leverage. This past year they have demonstrated this fact three consecutives times by criminalizing therapeutic abortion.
More than 80 women have died in the past year for reasons connected to a pregnancy, all of which could have been avoided if the women had more information, better health care and more power to make their own
decisions.
Many died because they were denied the right to a THERAPEUTIC ABORTION. Then, isn’t it somewhat demagogic to almost obsessively repeat the phrase “the people president”? Which people president?
Criminalization of abortion condemns to death the poorest women of our country and is also a clear message that women are not considered capable of deciding what is best for our own lives.
We have not seen the Women’s Institute nor the Family Ministry act aggressively to protect the rights of female children that are abused and raped and become pregnant as a result. We have not seen any forceful actions by the Supreme Court against those notaries who “marry” minors, thus legalizing the abuse committed against them
Speeches, good intentions, promises are not enough. We demand actions. In light of this, on 25 November, international day against violence towards women,
WE DEMAND
-That the crime of FEMICIDE be included in the Penal Code, with the maximum penalty. In the majority of cases, women are assassinated just for being women, for not being obedient and submissive to the will of a man, for wanting a better life without violence for themselves and for their children. The crime, therefore, and the penalty should be something different from those of crimes committed against men.
-That the State guarantee a registry that gives an exhaustive list of the various ways in which violence is expressed and especially in cases of femicide, along with information that will assist in defining priorities of the State to prevent, sanction and eradicate violence against women.
-Appropriation of sufficient fund in the federal budget to guarantee fiscal, forensic and alimentary resources to women in ALL the municipalities of the country, offering professional attention sensitive to the issue of gender violence.
-Inasmuch as violence was recognized by the Ministry of Health as a public health problem, we demand plans and campaigns for prevention and attention to women who are subjected to violence and that this issue be given the same priority as other health problems. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IS AN EPIDEMIC, TOO.
-NO MORE DOUBLE STANDARD — enough of using religious beliefs to institutionalize violence against women. Public officials are obligated to respect the law and to make it be respected. The Constitution guarantees that one cannot impede the rights of other by invoking religious beliefs (Art. 69 Cn).
-Fewer posters and more action. We women are “the people,” too. We are citizens and we are the majority among the poor.
FOR THE LIFE OF WOMEN — NOT ONE MORE DEAD neither by femicide nor by forced maternity
NETWORK OF WOMEN OF MATAGALPA
Translation: Trisha Novak, USA
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| 15 Dec 2007 - 10:19 | admin
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org/
| New Feminist Peace Network online Boletin
http://www.feministpeacenetwork .org/
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| 14 Dec 2007 - 14:59 | Jenny Alejandra
jennyalejandrag@hotmail.com
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yo dsde hace mucho tiempo he querido ser policia quiciera que no me quitaran la opertunidad de cumplir mis sueños ya que estoy a poco de salir del bachillerato en el 2008 estare cuersando 11 y saldria a los 17 años quisiera salir y entrar a hacer mi carrera de mujer policia gracias.
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| 13 Dec 2007 - 09:57 | Ex-Prostitutes
xpalss@shaw.ca
| Statement by Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude
We urge you to oppose any attempt to introduce a legal brothel in Vancouver.
As women who have been prostituted in Vancouver and in the light of these
facts :
. That current discourse on prostitution would have the public believe that it is normal work that simply needs to be better regulated
. That there is currently a proposal to open a legal brothel in Vancouver
. That this proposal is said to speak for current and former prostitutes of
Vancouver
. That this proposal promises to make the lives of prostituted women "safer"
at best
. That none of us have ever met a prostituted woman who would not leave the "trade" if she had a real chance to do so
. That we are women who have been abused on Canadian soil, by Canadian men while all levels of our Government did nothing to intervene.
. That some members of parliament are now advocating to legalize that abuse.
We want you to know :
We are women who have been harmed by prostitution. We believe that no amount of changing the conditions or the locations in which we were prostituted could ever have significantly reduced that harm.
We experience the normalizing of that harm by calling it "work" insulting at best.
It matters very little to us whether we were prostituted on the streets or
in the tolerated indoor venues and escort agencies of Vancouver. Our
memories are not of the locations but of the men who consistently acted as though we were not quite human. We remember the countless other men and
women who daily averted their eyes. We remember the utter lack of services or options that made any sense and the blatant denial of access to any kind of help or justice. We remember the need to "dumb down" our sense of entitlement to a better life so we could bear the one we were in. And we remember too well the numbing despair that came when we finally lost faith that there existed in this world anything decent and good.
We oppose any measure that would put more power in the hands of the men who abused us by telling them that they are legally entitled to do so. This proposal does not speak for us, would not have affected our level of safety in a way that matters, and would not have spared us the harm that is inherent in prostitution.
We are not impressed with lip service proposals to make prostituted women's lives "safer". Safer is not good enough. We consider it a violation of our
human rights that we were abandoned to years of situations that fit the definition of sexual assault under current law. But not only is this violence not recorded, not prosecuted, not punished. We are now being told that we chose it.
We believe that, where there is public and political will, lives can be
changed for the better. We do not believe the lie that prostitution is
inevitable. We believe it can be abolished.
As hosts of the 2010 games, we want our city, our home, to refuse to take part in the global flesh market that is sex tourism and send a message to the world that women will not be sold in Vancouver.
We believe that every sexually exploited woman represents a life wasted. We are greatly saddened for the lives of women lost in prostitution, as well as the loss of the sum of the contributions that countless women still living
would have made had they not been abandoned to sexual slavery.
We urge you all to refuse to believe that prostitution is normal or that is
an equal exchange "between two consenting adults".
We urge you to oppose any attempt to introduce a legal brothel in Vancouver.
X-PALSS (Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude), Vancouver,
B.C.
E-Mail : xpalss@shaw.ca
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| 13 Dec 2007 - 09:51 | Gender Action
URL: www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/5901.html
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GUIA DE GENERO SOBRE LA POLITICA DE PRESTAMOS
DEL BANCO MUNDIAL Y EL FMI
Autoras: Suzanna Dennis
y Elaine Zuckerman
Diciembre de 2006
Gender Action
Copyright © 2006 Gender Action
Esta Guía describe el impacto que producen sobre la vida de las personas, y en particular de las mujeres, las políticas de préstamos basadas en reformas que el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) otorgan a países en desarrollo. Estos préstamos requieren a los gobiernos reformas de las políticas económicas, financieras y comerciales (policy-based loans). Estas "reformas" - también llamadas condicionalidades- por lo general pasan por alto los procesos democráticos locales y contribuyen a la feminización de la pobreza.
Estos préstamos a menudo ayudan a los acreedores más que a los hombres y mujeres en los países en desarrollo y los gobiernos se ven obligados a utilizarlos para pagar viejas deudas contraídas en circunstancias dudosas. Las condicionalidades tienden a beneficiar a las compañías extranjeras al abrir mercados a expensas de las industrias locales y de los trabajadores y trabajadoras. El Banco Mundial y el FMI sostienen que han reducido las condicionalidades pero las investigaciones demuestran que en realidad éstas aumentaron (Alexander 2006; Khor 2006). Para revertir esta situación y crear un mundo más justo, esta Guía proporciona ideas para acciones y campañas.
Choike ha traducido la Introducción y los items 3 al 3.4 inclusive. Se puede acceder al texto completo en idioma inglés en el sitio web de Gender Action (formato pdf); Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-based lending
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| 13 Dec 2007 - 09:45 | Gender Action
URL: www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/5901.html
| Gender Action: Gender Guide now available in Spanish!
Source: Gender Action
The Gender Action Publication "Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF
Policy-Based Lending" is now available in Spanish!
This Gender Guide highlights the gendered impacts of World Bank and IMF
policy-based loans which often deepen poverty, undermine gender equality,
contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS and bring about increased violence
against women.
Gender Action is a founding, active member of the first concerted anti-IMF
campaign that citizens' groups launched during the September 2006 annual
World Bank-IMF meetings. Read the campaign document.
For more information and to access the publication in Spanish, please visit
http://www.choike.org/nuevo/infor mes/5901.html
To access the publication in English, please visit
http://www.genderaction.org/
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| 13 Dec 2007 - 09:41 | Defensoría del Pueblo
doctoralucy@yahoo.es
| INVITACIÓN
Presentación:
INFORME DEFENSORIAL Nº 111
"SUPERVISIÓN A LOS SERVICIOS DE PLANIFICACIÓN FAMILIAR.
V CASOS INVESTIGADOS POR LA DEFENSORIA DEL PUEBLO"
Por medio de la presente tenemos el agrado de dirigirnos a usted, a fin de invitarlo a participar en la Presentación del INFORME DEFENSORIAL Nº 111 "SUPERVISIÓN A LOS SERVICIOS DE PLANIFICACIÓN FAMILIAR. V CASOS INVESTIGADOS POR LA DEFENSORIA DEL PUEBLO".
El evento se desarrollará en el Auditorio del Templo San Francisco de Asís, ubicado en Jr. 28 de Julio Nº 305 (costado del Templo San Francisco de Asís), el día jueves 13 de diciembre de 2007, a las 5.00 P.M. hasta las 7.00 P.M. (HORA EXACTA)
Seguros de que contaremos con su asistencia, lo invitamos a inscribirse por medio del correo electrónico doctoralucy@yahoo.es; o al teléfono 311256 con la Comisionada Lucy Mucha. Se entregarán constancias de asistencia, vacantes limitadas.
Es ocasión para agradecer por anticipado su atención y expresarle las muestras de mi especial consideración.
Atentamente
Dr. Jorge Fernández Mavila
Defensoría del Pueblo - Ayacucho
Lucy Margarita Mucha Chate
Comisionada por los Derechos de la Mujer, Niñez y Adolescencia
Defensoría del Pueblo - OD Ayacucho
Av. Mariscal Cáceres 1420 - Telf (66) 311256
Cel Mov. 01-90768876
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| 13 Dec 2007 - 09:36 | vawa
URL: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/pdftxt/FY08_V . . .
| Sexual Assault Services Program fellowship at OVC
Dear Colleagues:
We are very excited to announce that the Office of Justice Programs has posted a new opportunity for an interested individual to apply for one of their Victim Assistance Fellowships which will specifically focus on sexual assault. This person would work directly on implementation of the Sexual Assault Services Program. It's a fantastic opportunity for the community. Others individuals may also be interested in applying for two other fellowships also funded through the Victim Assistance Fellowship Program. One is focused on Human Trafficking and Public Awareness, and one is focused on Field Outreach and Crime Victims' Rights Enforcement.
Here is the link to the pdf which explains in detail how to apply for the Fellowship. This is a great opportunity for someone with in-depth knowledge of sexual assault issues to have a direct hand in helping to shape federal policy. Please encourage applicants:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ ovc/fund/pdftxt/FY08_Victim_Assistance_F ellowship_Program.pdf
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| 12 Dec 2007 - 10:21 | Rocio
Srocio77@yahoo.com
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solicito informacion sobre la ayuda legal contra violencia domestica
no se que hacer, no tengo trabajo, tengo un nino 2 y medio. se padre me pego no meda dinero, ya lo reporte a la policia pero el supo como que dar yo ante la policia que solo estaba histerica y no pasaba nada, que ya me habia dado dinero
eso fue del 18 de Noviembre 2007 volvia a llamar a la policia pero no me hicieron caso y solo me dieron un telefono para llamar a un abodado
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| 12 Dec 2007 - 09:54 | Leslie Moncada
madretierrava@mail.org
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Somos una organizacion comunitaria, que estamos en Fredericksburg Virginia y luchamos por los derechos de las mujeres latinas inmigrantes y sus familais, en el tema de la violencia de genero: que para nosotras implica todas las formas de violencia hacia las mujeres inmigrantes: Domestica, Sexual e Institucional. Gracias por esta información que nos parece muy buena para nuestra comunidad.
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| 11 Dec 2007 - 15:29 | Boletin e-leusis
URL: www.e-leusis.net/noticia.asp?id_noticia= . . .
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Las televisiones públicas acuerdan con el Gobierno crear la figura del Defensor/a de la Igualdad
La Corporación Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) y la Federación de Organismos de Radio y Televisión Autonómicos (FORTA) han acordado con el Gobierno crear en sus respectivas estructuras orgánicas la figura del Defensor o Defensora de la Igualdad como parte de la lucha contra la violencia machista.
Red Feminista - EFE
continua...
http://www.e-leusis.net/n oticia.asp?id_noticia=3565
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| 11 Dec 2007 - 10:35 | ADELITA PINTO
adepinye@yahoo.es
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las mujeres autoridades locales (Concejalas, Alcaldesas y Juntas Parroquiales) de Ecuador agrupadas en AMUME Asociacion de Mujeres Municipalistas del Ecuador, nos encontramos elaborando una ley contra el Acoso y la violencia politica a fin de que sea aprobada y asi lograr que cesen los abusos, discriminaciones y violencia contra las mujeres politicas elegidas por medio del voto popular. Ojala puedan ayudar en este proceso.
Telefono 099570078 - 094765512
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| 11 Dec 2007 - 09:35 | admin
URL: www.hrw.org/reports/2007/us1207/
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New Human Rights Watch Report
Nuevo Informe de Human Rights Watch
Chronic Indifference
HIV/AIDS Services for Immigrants Detained by the United States
www.hrw.org/reports/2007/us1207/
Indiferencia crónica
Servicios de VIH/sida para personas inmigrantes detenidas por Estados Unidos
www.hrw.org/spanish/reports/2007 /us1207/
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| 10 Dec 2007 - 19:10 | Angela Martin
UAADV.SC@gmail.com
URL: www.uaadv.org/
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I was a victim of Domestic Violence... I AM a survivor of Domestic Violence. I am the SC state volunteer representative of United Angels Against DOmestic Violence. I want to help others overcome the issues that we, as victims, must live with daily. I am finding it hard to find other women in SC, which is great if there are none, but if there are, I would like to connect with them, and offer my support. I am also looking for individuals who would like to assist in research for SC. Please, feel free to visit our site at http://www.uaadv.org/
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| 10 Dec 2007 - 14:54 | Felisa Tibbitts
compendium@hrea.org
URL: www.hrea.org/compendium/
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EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS!!
New deadline: December 31, 2007
Dear Colleagues,
Happy Human Rights Day!
We are delighted to have received more than 120 submissions for the Compendium on Good Practices in the area of human rights education, civics, and education for mutual respect and understanding (tolerance education). We are extending the deadline for submissions to December 31st so that those who were not able to prepare Submission Forms by December 1st will have an additional opportunity to do so. Organizations requiring a further extension should contact HREA directly at compendium@hrea.org.
Details about the Compendium and how to prepare a submission are at http://hrea.org/compendium/
With best wishes,
Felisa Tibbitts
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| 10 Dec 2007 - 09:16 | JCWS
URL: www.washburn.edu/ce/jcvvs/higher_educati . . .
| Spring 2008 Academic Courses
Academic courses related to victimology/victim services offered by the three universities are posted
on the Joint Center on Violence and Victimology web page. Many of these courses are offered in non-traditional formats, such as web-based and weekend workshops.
For a listing of courses visit the web page at... www.washburn.edu/ce/jcvvs/higher_educati on/schedule.shtml
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| 10 Dec 2007 - 09:10 | admin
URL: www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/dis . . .
| The Sunday Herald ~~ Glasgow ~~ December 10, 2007
Revealed: 40% of people say women ‘to blame’ for rape
By John Bynorth
‘Startling’ survey highlights urgent need to challenge men’s attitudes
to consent
DAMNING EVIDENCE that public attitudes towards rape victims are
undermining Scotland's judicial system is revealed today in a major
new study obtained by the Sunday Herald.
Researchers who interviewed more than 700 potential rape trial jurors
between 18 and 65 years old for the charity Rape Crisis Scotland found
that 40% felt women contribute to an attack if they put themselves in
"risky" situations, such as willingly going home with a man.
Although 39% of people thought the victim is not to blame for being
raped, 61% were "unsure" or disagreed in various degrees. Rape Crisis
Scotland said the results are "startling" and highlighted the urgent
need for a major advertising campaign to challenge male preconceptions
about how women consent to sex.
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www.sundayherald.c om/news/heraldnews/display.var.1891522.0 .0.php
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