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| 12 Dec 2008 - 08:47 | Christine A. Brautigam
brautigamc@un.org
URL: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw_legisl . . .
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Dear colleagues,
The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women recently issued a report, based on an expert group meeting, on 'Good practices in legislation on violence against women'. The report provides guidelines and a model
framework for legislation on violence against women, including detailed recommendations, commentaries and examples of good practices. The 70-page
document also summarizes the prevailing approaches for addressing violence against women in different legal systems. The purpose of this report is to
assist States and other stakeholders in enhancing existing, and developing new, legislation on violence against women.
We would very much appreciate it you could inform your network of its
availability.
The link to the report, as well as to the expert group meeting (which also includes background and experts' papers) are attached below.
With best regards,
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm /vaw_legislation_2008/vaw_legislation_20 08.htm
Christine A. Brautigam
Chief, Women's Rights Section
Division for the Advancement of Women
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
DC 2 - 1228
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 963 0535
Fax: (212) 963 3463
Email: brautigamc@un.org
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| 12 Dec 2008 - 08:37 | Dara
URL: www.honoluluadvertiser.com
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7 Day Newspaper Series on Domestic Violence To Run in Hawaii Starting 12/14!
Hey everyone ~
After Hawaii had two of the first domestic violence-related murders of 2008 a reporter at The Honolulu Advertiser, Rob Perez, who had NO background or experience with domestic violence decided that he'd like to do a piece on why Hawaii has so much DV and how big of a problem is it REALLY? Initially Rob was worried that he wouldn't have enough to print, but then he began to dig and dig and dig... Wanna know what he excavated? Here's a preview as announced in today's paper:
CROSSING THE LINE
Battered women have lost faith in finding help and justice in the war at home. No story is more telling then Daysha Aiona-Aka's. As is by fate, she poured her heart out in volumes of journal entries chronicling a chilling tale of violence before her murder. Follow her story in our seven-part series.
You read right: a SEVEN-PART SERIES! What Rob uncovered not only gave him enough, it gave him too much! (Think he got a bit of PTSD in the process too the poor guy - he kept calling saying "I can't believe this!" with every new discovery he made.) Initially this series was supposed to run in July, then October, then November - Rob said he had so much stuff, he was struggling on deciding what he needed to cut out. While I have no idea what Rob has written, he's been a complete gentleman and has been amazingly gracious with the victim-survivors. So log on to:
www.honoluluadvertiser.com
sta rting Sunday, December 14th to see what comes out in the wash in "paradise".
Ok, hope everyone's enjoying the holiday season! Keep on keepin' on ~
With love and aloha, Dara
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| 11 Dec 2008 - 10:39 | Destacados del Clam, Dec 10.2008
URL: www.clam.org.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/ . . .
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Destacados del Clam,
Dec. 10, 2008
articulos continuan....
www.clam.org.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=21&UserActiveTemplate=_ES
Brasil
Aborto en los tribunales
10/12/2008 - El libro Aborto e Reprodução nos Tribunais Brasileros, promovido por la Comisión de Ciudadanía y Reproducción y la Red Latinoamericana por las Libertades Laicas, muestra las tensiones causadas por el aborto en los miembros del Poder Judicial. (Texto en portugués)
Por el mundo
60 años de derechos humanos
10/12/2008 - El 10 de diciembre se conmemora el 60º aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos. Ponemos a disposición el documento adoptado por las Naciones Unidas en 1948 que compromete a los Estados miembros a garantizar derechos y libertades fundamentales.
Brasil | México
“No hay democracia sin laicidad”
04/12/2008 - La laicidad implica un proceso por el cual las instituciones políticas van perdiendo su sacralidad religiosa, alcanzando una nueva forma de legitimidad proveniente de la soberanía popular, dijo el sociólogo Roberto Blancarte en debate en São Paulo.
Chile
Santiago: record de agresiones
01/12/2008 - La encuesta "Política, Derechos, Violencia y Diversidad Sexual", realizada en la Marcha del Orgullo LGBT de Santiago, detecta en la capital chilena el mayor índice de agresiones contra personas LGBT de la región. Informe disponible para download.
Brasil
Privilegios cuestionables
04/12/2008 - El acuerdo entre Brasil y la Santa Sede que otorga estatuto jurídico especial a la Iglesia Católica en el país fue discutido en el ciclo de debates promovido por la Red Iberoamericana por las Libertades Laicas y la Comisión de Ciudadanía y Reproducción. (Texto en portugués)
América Latina
Denos su opinión sobre el sitio
01/12/2008 - En 2008 el CLAM completó 5 años de actividades. En esta ocasión nos gustaría saber la opinión de los usuarios en relación al contenido, layout y navegación del website, con el fin de evaluar el trabajo hasta ahora realizado y mejorarlo cada vez más
Brasil
Brasil contra la violencia
01/12/2008 - Seminario realizado en Rio de Janeiro por el Día Internacional de la No Violencia Contra las Mujeres (25/11) comemora la adesión de todos los estados brasileños al Pacto Nacional por el Enfrentamiento a la Violencia Contra la Mujer (Texto en portugués).
Ecuador
Constitución de vanguardia
01/12/2008 - A partir de octubre rige en Ecuador la Constitución más progresista de la región, que reconoce la unión civil entre dos personas sin importar su sexo, sanciona la discriminación por orientación sexual, expresión de género y de portadores de VIH-sida.
Perú
Indolencia frente a la violencia
27/11/2008 - La deficiente respuesta estatal frente a la violencia de género, traducida en presupuestos ínfimos y en un sistema de justicia que favorece la impunidad, fue el tema de la campaña del Colectivo 25 de Noviembre del Perú, en el Día de la no Violencia contra la Mujer.
Brasil
Democracia, laicidad y derechos
25/11/2008 - Del 2 al 4 de diciembre la Comisión de Ciudadanía y Reproducción y la Red Iberoamericana por las Libertades Laicas realizarán el ciclo de debates “Democracia Estado Laico y Derechos Humanos”, en el Centro Universitario Maria Antônia, en São Paulo. (Texto en portugués)
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| 11 Dec 2008 - 10:20 | women's enews
URL: www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=3848
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Muslim Feminists Confront a World of Obstacles
By Nadira Artyk
WeNews correspondent
Participants at the International Congress on Islamic Feminism emphasized different obstacles to their work for women's rights, including a rise in political Islam and fundamentalism, along with U.S. foreign policies.
BARCELONA, Spain (WOMENSENEWS)--At one point during the third gathering of the International Congress on Islamic Feminism, Arifa Mazhar grew tired of talking about religion.
"Instead of debating Islam, we should be debating culture and its impact," she burst out at a microphone during a discussion after one of the sessions. "Culture is so conservative in some tribal areas. Women can't move around; they can't work. There are a lot of social taboos and tribal traditions that oppress women and they have little to do with Islam."
Continues...
http://www.wome nsenews.org/article.cfm?aid=3848
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| 11 Dec 2008 - 10:08 | Shared Hope International
URL: www.sharedhope.org/files/DEMAND.pdf
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DEMAND
A Comparative Examination of Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Jamiaca, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States
http://www.sharedhope.org/files/DEMAND.pdf
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| 11 Dec 2008 - 08:52 | angela
londono_angela@yahoo.com
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perdi la custodia de mis hijos hace 3 anos por divorcio no tenia dinero para pagar abogado ni documentos mis hijos estan sufriendo con la nueva mujer del papa me suplican por ayuda el hombre4 me amenaza que puedo hace i need help
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| 11 Dec 2008 - 08:50 | Maria
M.MAR1123@YAHOO.COM
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HOLA SOY VICTIMA DE VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA.. SOY HISPANA Y ME CASE CON UN AMERICANO.... !!!! GRAN ERROR!!!! Y HORROR!!!! PENSANDO QUE SERIA MAS RESPETUOSO CON LAS MUJERE .. MENOS MACHISTA QUE LOS LATINOS!!!!..
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* NO IMPORTA QUIEN ERES EN TU PAIS.... DESPUES DE QUE LLEGUES AQUI..SIN DINERO... SIN EL IDIOMA... SIN TRABAJO ( CON FAMILIA CON AMIGOS PERO NO SIRVE DE NADA)... ESTOS HOMBRES COMIENZAN A ABUSARTE DE TODAS LAS FORMAS!!!!..
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* NO CAIGAS EN LA TRAMPA...!!!! NO TE CASES... NI EN TU PAIS NI AQUI CON AMERICANO.... DE UN 100%.. quiza. 5%.. SON BUENOS .. PERO NUNCA DAREMOS CON ALGUNOS DEL 5%....
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* CUIDENSE MUJERES..!!! ESTOY SALIENDO DE TODO ESTO!!!
PERO NO ES FACIL.
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* NO CREAN TAN FACIL EN LO QUE VEN NI EN LO QUE DICEN!!!
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| 10 Dec 2008 - 13:14 | Carolina Gómez Mena
URL: kikka-roja.blogspot.com/
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Acoso sexual en el ámbito laboral, 40% de las mujeres
miércoles 3 de diciembre de 2008
Las organizaciones gremiales, las que más pueden hacer para frenar estas situaciones, señala
Expuestas al acoso sexual en el ámbito laboral, 40% de las mujeres: especialista
EL VALIENTE VIVE HASTA QUE EL COBARDE QUIERE
el capitalismo machista tiene los testículos muy "blanditos"
Carolina Gómez Mena
Aunque es difícil contar con cifras certeras en torno al acoso sexual en el ámbito laboral, se estima que 40 por ciento de las mujeres estarían expuestas a este tipo de situaciones, que van desde las más leves, como insinuaciones, hasta tocamientos o coacción, señaló la antropóloga social María de Jesús Pinto Iglesias, quien remarcó que se calcula que entre 9 y 10 por ciento de los casos son extremos, es decir es un acto sistemático, totalmente identificado y que daña la salud sicológica y corporal de la persona violentada.
En entrevista concedida durante el encuentro Las trabajadoras en la lucha contra la violencia y su erradicación en los espacios laborales, realizado en el Sindicato de Telefonistas, la experta española –quien colabora con el Consorcio de Infancia Mundo Urbano (Cimu), del ayuntamiento de Barcelona– refirió que este tipo de violencia está ligado a las relaciones de poder, y que aún para muchos es “invisible”, pese a que se da en todos los países, en todos los tipos de espacios laborales, formales o informales, empresas pequeñas o grandes, y puede ser ejercido por trabajadores con el mismo rango que la persona agredida, o por directivos o dueños de las empresas.
Tras remarcar que lo primero que se debe entender es que el hostigamiento o acoso sexual “no es algo normal en el ambiente de trabajo”, la especialista en temas de género expuso que este fenómeno es más frecuente en los espacios en que no existe la sindicalización, y acotó que son justamente las organizaciones gremiales las que más pueden hacer para frenar estas situaciones.
Lo anterior se logra mediante el establecimiento de cláusulas que sancionen estas actitudes y procedimientos que tengan que ser acatados por los empresarios y sus directivos, particularmente que se establezcan “protocolos de actuación” y que los gremios emprendan campañas de sensibilización.
Apuntó que también el acoso sexual ya está considerado en muchas leyes nacionales y locales de diversos países, e incluso tipificado en códigos penales. Citó que por ejemplo en Europa todas las naciones condenan estos hechos con cárcel o pago de multas, pero destacó que aunque la sanción es importante, lo primordial es que la persona agredida sea reparada en su situación.
En el caso de España comentó que al estar tipificado en el Código Penal, los castigos van de seis a 12 semanas de cárcel hasta la imposición de multas, y estas penas son más altas dependiendo de la gravedad del hecho, esto es si el acosador es un jefe, si se impidió una promoción laboral o si la mujer, por ejemplo, fue contratada de forma temporal.
La antropóloga manifestó que, aunque es muy poco frecuente, también existe acoso de mujeres hacia hombres y de hombres a hombres o mujeres a mujeres, y apuntó que cuando es una mujer la agresora, ésta siempre tiene un cargo de jerarquía y “ejerce estas acciones porque ha interiorizado los comportamientos machistas de los hombres”.
Apuntó que muchas mujeres agredidas experimentan manifestaciones corporales de lo que les sucede y pueden presentar agotamiento, dolores de cabeza, desgano, así como baja autoestima, o incluso, “como en muchas violencias de género, la víctima termina sintiéndose culpable de la actitud que toma el agresor, al pensar que se lo incitó a ello”.
kikka-roja.blogspot.com/
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| 10 Dec 2008 - 09:29 | Cheyla and Evelyn, One in Three Women
URL: www.change.org/ideas/view/create_cabinet . . .
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One in Three Women
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
We need your help.
One in Three WomenT has submitted an "idea" on Change.org and we need your vote.
"President-Elect Obama says he wants to hear ideas from everyone, so we're taking him up on his offer by submitting our idea: Create a Cabinet Position on Violence Against Women. The "Top 10 Ideas for America" will be presented
to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day. Change.org will then build a national campaign to advance each idea in Congress. A huge step forward for all of us and we don't have to finance it ourselves. Click here to begin
your voting process. It takes two minutes to do.
www.change.org/ideas/view/create_cabinet_position_on_violence_agains
t_women
Then click on the blue Vote graphic in the top left of the page. DO NOT click on the widget in the right hand column. Clicking on that widget will not do anything, it is an example of what you can place on a webpage. You will see a pop-up window that asks for your name, email address and to create a password. Easy. You will see a message at the top of the new page informing
you that your vote is not counted until you receive a confirmation link and once you have clicked on the link your vote is recorded.
We are all part of a constituency of thousands of people working to end
violence against women (VAW) and we can make this happen. If each of us does our part by voting for our idea and ask others to vote we can easily make this idea a reality.
We hear that a high level position may be created in the White house on VAW and that is great news but we still feel that a cabinet level position on VAW is long over due.
In the Spirit of Friendship and Peace,
Cheyla and Evelyn
Co-Founders
One in Three WomenT Campaign
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| 09 Dec 2008 - 22:53 | lupita
phytta21@hotmail.com
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hola, mi nombre es lupita y estoy aqui por un problema que tiene una prima mia... su esposo usa drogas y la maltrata, la tiene amenazada de muerte, ya no viven juntos, tienen un nino de 4 anos con posible autismo. y ella no tiene mas familiares que yo en este pais, la policia la guio a un centro de ayuda para mujeres y la van a ayudar para que pague el primer mes y el deposito en algun departamento.. pero ella esta sola con su hijo y trabaja 3 dias a la semanana, las rentas son muy caras y no puede pagar ella sola la renta... yo quiero saber si hay algun otro tipo de ayuda para ella, pues esta muy desesperada y se quiere alejar del area donde vive su esposo.. si alguien sabe adonde se puede dirigir ella, por favor haganmelo saber. en mi casa lamentablemente no puede estar mucho tiempo, porque vivimos varias personas y ella tendria que estar en la sala.. y donde la van a ayudar le piden que entregue el contrato de renta. de antemano muchas gracias
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| 09 Dec 2008 - 22:44 | Michelle Garcia, Stalking Resource Center
URL: stalkingawarenessmonth.org
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2009 National Stalking Awareness Month Web site is now live!
Dear Colleague:
The National Center for Victims of Crime's Stalking Resource Center and the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, are pleased to announce that the 2009 National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM) Web site is now live! The site offers many resources to help you plan your 2009 NSAM activities, including fact sheets, media tools, brochures, posters, artwork, and much more.
Visit
http://stalkingawarenessmonth .org for a versatile set of resources that
we hope will inspire your efforts to know, name, and stop stalking in
your community.
Sincerely,
Michelle M. Garcia
Director, Stalking Resource Center
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| 09 Dec 2008 - 10:26 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Iss . . .
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On the road to a new UN agency for women
In September of this year, UN member states passed a resolution to move swiftly to create a new UN agency for women, a move, packaged with a series of reforms on governance and funding, that they hope will result in renewed public faith in the UN system. Julia Greenberg, AIDS-Free World’s associate director, tells the inside story behind the sudden groundswell in support for the new women’s agency and why the global community of women living with, and affected by HIV/AIDS, should care.
AIDS-Free World’s call for a complete overhaul of the UN’s response to the rights and needs of women in began 2005 when Stephen Lewis and Paula Donovan, our co-directors, and then the team that drove the work of the office of the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, began mentioning the limitless potential of a new women’s agency in all of Stephen Lewis’s speeches about the horrendous impact of AIDS on the women of Africa. In 2006, gender equality found its way onto the agenda of the UN reform process spearheaded by Kofi Annan, due largely to the high level advocacy of the Envoy Team combined with the community mobilisation and tireless activism of a global coalition of women’s groups called the GEAR campaign (Gender Equality Architecture Reform). The envoy team’s public statements about the UN’s woefully inadequate women’s programmes (the combined annual budgets for all of the UN agencies concerned with gender totalled US$65 million in 2006, while UNICEF’s budget was US$2 billion), and intensive lobbying of members of the High Level Panel tasked by Annan to recommend a series of reforms on ‘system-wide coherence’, helped lead to a concrete recommendation for a wholly new women’s agency, ambitiously funded, with operational capacity at the country level, headed by an under-secretary general.
Since this recommendation was made, the proposal for the women’s agency has been caught up in political wrangling among member states over other reforms recommended by the High Level Panel on such issues as governance and funding. These are critically important issues, especially for poor countries in the Group of 77 block (G77) who live with the destructive legacy of the conditions, such as structural adjustment programmes, that have been imposed upon them by the World Bank and the IMF. While we did not (and would never) play down the impact of this damaging legacy, we bridled at the contention of many G77 countries that that the proposal for the women’s agency was, in effect, a condition imposed on them by donors. Moreover, we lamented the lack of will and leadership in the secretariat, who seemed more concerned with hanging on to jobs they might lose in the proposed new structure than with upholding the core values of equality enshrined in the UN charter.
And so ambassadors and UN officials continued to talk and the proposal for the women’s agency languished. And during that very same time period we saw the rape of hundreds of women in Kenya during post-election violence with no UN agency to address their specific needs, a prolonged battle within UNAIDS to come up with coherent gender guidance for member states, which was only issued in April 2008, just before the secretary general reported that 61% of the populations in sub-Saharan Africa infected with HIV were women.
In January 2008, we began to see signs of life when the new secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, appointed two new co-chairs, Augustine Mahiga, the ambassador from Tanzania, and Paul Kavanagh, the ambassador from Ireland, to resurrect the system-wide coherence process, and thus, the proposal for a new women’s agency. Mahiga and Kavanagh have proven to be shrewd and tireless stewards of the reform agenda. They recognised that they had to significantly narrow the scope of the High Level Panel’s recommendations in order to achieve consensus, and as such they informed the General Assembly that they would convene a series of ‘Informal Consultations’ (General Assembly meetings) on four aspects of the High Level Panel’s recommendations: 1) ‘Delivering as One’ (an attempt to streamline the on the ground operations of UN country teams); 2) governance 3) funding; and 4) gender.
Continues....
www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/An-AIDS-Free-World-travel-diary-On-the-road-to-a-new-UN-agency-for-women
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| 09 Dec 2008 - 10:08 | Lynette Dumble, Global Sisterhood Network
URL: www.global-sisterhood-network.org/conten . . .
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Pakistan
No relief for abused women
By Alefia T. Hussain
SOME progressive and forward-looking minds in the country are waiting to see the government take a giant step forward and pass the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill 2008 pending since August this year. Why the delay? Is the government afraid it will invite howls of protest from anti-women elements both in and out of parliament? Human rights activists back the legislation and maintain that it will provide relief and protection to the women and others in the household from domestic violence.
Crucially, the bill is not women-specific; it extends protection to children and other vulnerable persons against domestic violence. It falls in line with the constitutional guarantees and international commitments that Pakistan is bound by to ensure a safe domestic environment. When the bill is passed, domestic violence becomes part of Schedule I of the Family Courts Act, 1964.
The makers of the bill have broadened the definition of domestic violence: it does not only pertain to physical and emotional abuse committed by the accused but also sexual, verbal and economic abuse. Causing hurt, wrongful confinement, criminal force, assault, mischief, criminal intimidation and attempt are also considered crimes.
Under the proposed bill, harassing a member of the household with threats, unwelcome telephone calls and letters is punishable. Also, stalking and abetting are punishable crimes. Interestingly, these acts of violence can be brought to notice by the victim or any person connected to the victim. Hospitals and private clinics can also report such acts to the police. Subsequently an accused will be imprisoned or ordered to pay up to Rs10,000 in compensation for abusing the victim and Rs5,000 for harassing and stalking.
Work on the domestic violence bill was initiated in December 2006 when the National Assembly Standing Committee on Women Development constituted a subcommittee to examine the bills proposed by Mehnaz Rafi and Sherry Rehman (as private members’ bills). The Ministry of Women Development and the Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights decided to club together the two bills. Though it was approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Women Development in April 2007, it lapsed as the assembly’s five-year term completed in December 2007.
With the swearing in of the new PPP government, civil society took the initiative to revive debate on the bill. On Aug 7, 2008 eminent legal and judicial personalities such as Justice (retd) Nasira Iqbal, Justice (retd) Majida Razvi and Justice (retd) Shaiq Usmani, and women rights organisations such as Shirkat Gah and others were brought together by Aurat Foundation to critique and review the bill. This national-level consultation was followed by four regional meetings. At the end of the series of consultations, recommendations were incorporated in the original draft and were sent to the Ministry of Women Development in August 2008. Copies were also shared with the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) and Gender Action Reform Programme (GRAP).
So what’s stopping the government from doing the needful? Till when will it keep the record on women-related brutalities complicated? When will it develop new laws to curb violence against women?
Naheed Syed of the Aurat Foundation says no matter how publicly domestic violence is committed, it is still an unreported matter in our society. Also she holds the male-dominated perspective among our parliamentarians as one of the reasons behind the non-serious attitude towards the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill 2008. Mahnaz Rafi agrees, in fact, she does not mince words in blaming the anti-women “waderas and tribal lords sitting in the assemblies” for the delay.
The appointment of two anti-women ministers Sardar Israrullah Zehri and Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani proves Rafi’s point. In the past few weeks the PPP government has drawn sufficient flak from civil society for such cabinet appointments. Civil society has lambasted Zehri for defending a barbaric incident where at least two women were allegedly buried alive in his province, Balochistan, saying that such killings were part of the tribal culture. It has heaped criticism on Bijarani for allegedly heading a jirga in 2006 that decided to give five minor girls in compensation to settle a feud between two rival tribes. Both were subjected to severe criticism so much so that if Zehri and Bijarani had been the kind of people to be discouraged by this kind of verbal onslaught they would have given up right then. But they didn’t.
Attitudes towards women especially among educated urbanites have changed to some extent in the past few years. Women’s representation in the legislative assemblies has increased substantially. Yet much of the country is conservative and hence gender-based crimes remain unaddressed. Incest, burning alive, throwing acid, trafficking, karo-kari, vani, etc. is rampant. In the midst of such serious crimes, routine acts of domestic violence go ignored. According to rough estimates 80 per cent of women in Pakistan are subjected to domestic violence.
The PPP’s election manifesto commits the party to achieving gender equality and pledges to eliminate discriminatory laws and policies. The party pledged a 20 per cent job quota for women in public services and effective legislation to enable legal ownership of assets and resources to facilitate women’s financial independence. This, coupled with the active participation of Sherry Rehman, Shazia Marri, Sassui Palejo and others, who seemed to be guided by the legacy of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, made the party appear more women-friendly than others in the Feb 2008 contest.
Now, 10 months into the parliamentary term and the Ministry of Women Development is missing a minister. The portfolio has yet to be assigned. So much for addressing women-related issues.
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| 08 Dec 2008 - 11:25 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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Denunciado por diputada local Irma Ramos Galindo
CDH-Puebla integra expediente por abuso a niñez en Hueytlalpan
De la redacción
México DF, 5 dic 08 (CIMAC).- El Visitador de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de Puebla en Cuetzalan está desde ayer en la población de Hueytlalpan donde, como parte de los festejos a San Andrés, patrono de la comunidad, el Ayuntamiento autorizó la instalación de un rodeo de media noche, en el cual el pasado fin de semana se organizó un concurso que obligaba a menores de edad a desnudarse por una cantidad de dinero, como denunció la diputada local Irma Ramos Galindo, testiga de los hechos.
El presidente municipal de Hueytlalpan, Juan Martín Barrientos Ramos, rindió ante dicha Comisión (CDH-Puebla) un informe previo, en donde aceptó que se llevó a cabo el evento que refirió la diputada Ramos, y que originó que la el organismo iniciará oficiosamente la queja número 12212/08-C, en contra del Presidente Municipal de Hueytlalpan, por maltrato a menores de edad, informó la CDH-Puebla en un comunicado.
El Visitador, Ricardo de Jesús Saldaña Arellano, recaba testimonios y trata de obtener pruebas para integrar el expediente de queja. El trámite del expediente se lleva a cabo conforme lo marca la normatividad de la institución: solicitando informes, recabando testimonios, videos, fotografías, grabaciones magnetofónicas, para que en su momento se tengan todos los elementos y se emita una resolución.
Dentro de las primeras medidas que tomó la CDH, cuya titular es Marcía Maritza Bullen, está la petición de medidas cautelares a la autoridad señalada, para no permitir que se repitan hechos similares. Además, se ofrecerán los servicios de capacitación de la CDH, en donde por medio de pláticas y talleres a la niñez, a las madres y padres de familia, a las y los maestros y funcionarios municipales, se les sensibilizará e instruirá en el respeto de sus derechos universales.
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| 08 Dec 2008 - 10:44 | Time Inc.
URL: www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599, . . .
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Good synopsis of new child abuse research..
Study: Most Child Abuse Goes Unreported
Time
By Tiffany Sharp
www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1863650,00.html
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| 08 Dec 2008 - 10:24 | msn
URL: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27098993/
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Teen recounts horror of abduction into sex slavery
Many young victims of human traffickers treated as criminals themselves
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2709899 3/
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