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| 14 Jun 2008 - 18:54 | Women of Color Network
URL: womenofcolornetwork.org/
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The Women of Color Network
Enhancing Leadership, Impacting Communities: National Leadership Institute For Advocates Serving Battered Women of Color
The Women of Color Network (WOCN) will conduct a Leadership and Mentor Training Institute on
August 6 – 8, 2008, in New Orleans, LA.
Registration is available to OVW Grantees and Community-based Advocates who are not OVW funded. Please go to our website’s Announcement page for more information and registration forms.
REGISTER NOW! SPACE IS VERY LIMITED!
Enhancing Leadership, Impacting Communities: National Leadership Institute For Advocates Serving Battered Women of Color
The Women of Color Network (WOCN) has received funding from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to conduct a Leadership and Mentor Training Institute this summer. The Institute will be held on August 6 – 8, 2008, in New Orleans, LA. Registration is available to OVW Grantees and
Community-Based Advocates who are not OVW funded. If you are interested in attending, please go to the registration links below.
For more on the Institute objectives and other details, download the Institute Flyer at: http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/infoinstflyer .pdf
If you are an OVW Grantee or work for an OVW funded program, you can apply with the following registration form - please read instructions carefully: http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/leadershipreg form.pdf
If you are a Community-Based Advocate without OVW funding, you can apply with the following registration form - please read instructions and criteria carefully: http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/communityregf orm.pdf
We look forward to receiving your participation!
In solidarity,
Women of Color Network.
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| 14 Jun 2008 - 11:24 | feministpeacenetwork
URL: www.feminstpeacenetwork.org
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new feminist peace network entries
www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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| 14 Jun 2008 - 11:19 | Women Won't Wait
URL: www.womenwontwait.org
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Women and Girls Still Waiting For Action On HIV/AIDS And Violence
From Women Won’t Wait:
Government officials and AIDS activists from around the world will convene at the United Nations in New York from 10-12 June to review the global HIV/AIDS response. At the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001, governments committed to promote and protect women’s human rights and reduce women’s vulnerability to HIV&AIDS by eliminating all forms of discrimination including violence against women.
Seven years on, women are still waiting!
Research in 16 countries[1] shows governments have failed to keep their commitments to promote gender equality and women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and end violence against women. This failure also shows governments are not putting women’s risk at the center of their AIDS responses. The research found that “while countries have regulatory instruments in place to counter gender-based violence in all its various forms, the implementation of actions is still highly deficient,” said Alessandra Nilo from GESTOS in Brazil, who coordinated the research. This research is part of a concerted effort by civil society to monitor and make visible the hidden gaps in policy implementation.
Despite continued calls by human rights and women’s rights groups, most countries do not have HIV prevention programmes designed specifically for women, much less commitment to promoting and protecting women’s human rights. In fact, in some countries there is evidence of HIV prevention related campaigns reinforcing gender stereotypes rather than challenging them.
In Argentina for example, “There remains much to be done especially in developing a protocol and creating specialized care services for women survivors of violence and coordinating the work of different services including health, the criminal justice system etc. Also governments must launch multi-pronged, sustained campaigns that promote women’s rights.” said Mabel Bianco, Director of Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer (FEIM), Argentina who participated in the research. Many countries have legal and policy frameworks to protect women and girls from violence; however, all countries report poor or no implementation of these policies.
Most worrying is that the research “points to the lack of political will and ability to prevent and redress violence,” said Cynthia Rothschild from the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership in the United States. This lack of will results in insufficient resources given to programmes to protect women from violence, a lack of specialised medical-legal services for survivors of violence, safe houses for women, etc. In addition, the governments do not even have systematic sex-disaggregated data gathering on the extent and impact of violence against women, said Rothschild.
“As we did in 2001, we need to continue putting pressure on government and donors to track and measure commitments to women’s rights and to demand accountability of those in charge of the global AIDS response,” said Neelanjana Mukhia, the International Policy and Campaign Coordinator at ActionAid, a member of the Women Won’t Wait campaign and its international secretariat.
While decision-makers make empty promises again, it is women like Rhodea from Namibia who continue to bear the brunt. “I was sterilized after giving my birth to my baby. I did not find out about this until I returned for contraceptive counseling after I had my baby. All I was told was that it was better this way. Because I am HIV positive.” This experience is confirmed by many of the women across the countries studied who report severe discrimination and rights violations in health systems. These range from forced sterilisation and abortions, to HIV positive women being denied access to information on safe sex practices and prevention products. There has to be greater urgency, to really turn the tide for women” says Nilo. “The most effective way is to significantly increase resources for gender-sensitive and human rights based prevention, treatment, care and support - for both epidemics - violence against women and HIV&AIDS.” In particular, there is a need to a shift in focus from targeted interventions to interventions with vulnerable populations. This means that funds and interventions are needed for persons vulnerable to the virus because of their race, class, ethnicity, language and geographic location. “Governments and donors have to act with urgency to fulfil their responsibilities to the world’s women” Bianco said.
Resources are not the only answer, though. We must ensure that all AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support interventions integrate community education on zero tolerance of violence. In addition, the promotion of laws and law enforcement that prevent and protect women from violence, training for health care personnel and legal infrastructures, and the availability of post-exposure prophylaxis, emergency contraception, female condoms and other female-controlled prevention ALL need to form part of a comprehensive approach to HIV&AIDS.
As governments meet to monitor progress on the UN Declaration of Commitment, we urge them to keep their promises to women and girls.
Women Won’t Wait!
The Women Won’t Wait campaign is an international coalition of organizations and networks working to promote women’s health and human rights in the struggle to address HIV and AIDS and end all forms of violence against women and girls. Women Won’t Wait is an international coalition of organizations and networks from the global South and North working to promote women’s health and human rights in the struggle to comprehensively address HIV and AIDS and end all forms of violence against women and girls. The coalition members are: Action Aid; African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET); Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID); Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL); Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE); Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer (FEIM); GESTOS-Soropositividade, Comunicacao & Genero; International Community of Women Living with HIV&AIDS Southern Africa (ICW-Southern Africa); International Women’s AIDS Caucus; International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC); Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network; Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; SANGRAM; VAMP; and Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA). National coalitions of the campaign are also operational in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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| 14 Jun 2008 - 10:07 | Dr. Changwon Pyo
crimedoc@gmail.com
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World Forum on Women's Rights - Urgent Call for Presentation
Dear Victim Support Professionals,
The Organizing Committee of the World Forum on Women's Rights in Korea
is urgently looking for a speaker who will present on the US system,
policy or practice regarding either victims care, investigation or
offender treatment of Juvenile (or child) sex offences.
The date and venue of the forum : 16th July, Women's Plaza in
Seoul, Korea Terms/Conditions : Air travel tickets to and from
Seoul, 3 days' room and board plus $800 in cash
qualifications/requirements : either law enforcement professional
or academic researcher or professor
If you can and will, please contact me a.s.a.p. The offier is valid
only for 2 days from now.
yours,
Dr. Pyo, Changwon
Associate Professor, Korea National Police University &
Secretary, Asian Association of Police Studies
Dr. Changwon Pyo
http://www.cwpyo.com (Korean only site)
Professor, Korea National Police University
http://www.police.ac.kr (Korean & English)
Deputy Director, Korean Institute of Police Science
http://www.kips.re.kr (Korean only site)
Secretary, Asian Association of Police Studies
http://www.aaps.or.kr (English only site)
Alternative email addresses :
crimedoc@gmail.com
cwpyo@hanmail.net
cwpyo@korea.com
cwpyo@cwpyo.com
aaps@aaps.or.kr (for AAPS business only, please)
Mobile Phone : +82 10 3930 4500
Tell : +82 31 283 4540
Fax : +82 31 601 8318
Postal Address : (446-703) National Police University, Yong-in City,
Korea
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| 13 Jun 2008 - 20:28 | California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
yvonne@tonati.net
URL: www.clrj.org
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It's Not Too Late! Deadline Extended to June 16;
Agenda Now Available!
Reproductive Justice Summit
More Information
We are delighted to introduce Yvonne Paul, who has joined our team as the Event Coordinator.
Please feel free to contact Yvonne (yvonne@tonati.net or 562-435-3933) if you have
additional questions about the Summit registration, location, travel options or special needs.
Please Join Us!
2008 California Reproductive Justice
Action Summit
Friday, June 20, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
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RJ Summit Updates
Dear Maria:
We are writing with exciting news and updates about the 2008 California Reproductive
Justice Action Summit!
Registration Deadline Extended To Monday, June 16th!
RJ Summit Agenda Now Available!
Please see the tabs below for further details.
As a reminder, the RJ Summit will bring together allies statewide in order to:
* Share community and youth perspectives on Reproductive Justice;
* Learn about exiting RJ models and campaigns; and
* Explore common values for taking action.
We look forward to seeing you at the RJ Summit!
In solidarity,
The CLRJ Team
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| 13 Jun 2008 - 20:19 | norma
norma_acano@hotmail.com
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En 2000 me quitaron a mi hija el cps por acusaciones de abuso sexual de mi esposo la pusieron en custodia de mi familia y les dije que era lo peor que iba a hacer porquela iban a mltratar mi mama vivia con mi hija mayor y ella me maltrato de adolecente y hizo lo mismo con mi hija menor, la nina fue golpeda, humillada y violada por el esposo de mi hija mayor, mi hija menor su fue de la casa siendo menor de edad aun y estubo en un protibulo en tijuana y nadie la busco hasta que le llamaron a mi hija mayor de la cruz roja de tijuana que la nina se estaba muriendo por una infeccion vaginal,esto un poco de lo que la nina sufrio, la forma en que me la quitaron aclaro yo no tengo problemas de drogas ni alchol, todo fue una injusticia y la que pago el precio fue mi hija. me gustaria que me contestara alguien quien me pudiera orientar legalmente. por favor
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| 13 Jun 2008 - 19:47 | María Zuárez
petateras@justassociates.org
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AcciónUrgente en Nica
Observatorio de la TrasgresiónFeminista: AcciónUrgente en Nica
Queridas compañeras, como ustedes saben la compañera Dora María Téllez, reconocida internacionalmente por su lucha contra la dictadura, está en huelga de hambre desde el 4 de Junio de 2008, para protestar por la posible cancelación de la personalidad jurídica del partido Movimiento Renovador Sandinista; en el cual militan diversas feministas nicaragüenses de reconocida trayectoria.
Esta situación se suma al hostigamiento a defensoras de derechos humanos -como es el caso de las nueve feministas demandadas por el caso Rosita-, y a la vulneración de derechos fundamentales de las mujeres como lo fue la penalización del aborto terapéutico.
Es importante que apoyemos a las compañeras nicaragüenses a través de una acción contundente de denuncia pública que permita colocar este caso en la opinión pública nacional e internacional y denunciar lo que pareciera una política deliberada para limitar la acción de quienes cuestionan y denuncian graves violaciones a derechos humanos por parte
del gobierno en turno.
Las convocamos a suscribir la carta que se anexa y a entregarla el
próximo 16 de junio en las embajadas de Nicaragua en sus respectivos países, convocando para ello a la prensa y a otros medios de comunicación con quienes tengan contacto. Aquellas que puedan realizar esta acción les solicitamos lo comuniquen a
petateras@justassociates.org. De antemano muchas gracias por su
solidaridad.
Atentamente: María Zuárez, Malena de Montis, Patricia Ardón, Mariela
Arce, Roxana Arrollo, Alda Facio, Marusia López, Lisa VeneKlasen,
Valerie Miller, Alejandra Bergman
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| 12 Jun 2008 - 22:47 | Anne S. Walker
annewalker@iwtc.org
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Press Advisory --UN Security Council set to debate on sexual violence
Security Council Should Listen to Women Hurt by War
(New York , June 11, 2008) The United Nations Security Council should effectively address sexual violence in conflict as a weapon of war and its destabilizing impact on communities, Human Rights Watch and the International Women¹s Tribune Center said today.
On June 11, 2008 , high-ranking military officials from countries involved in peacekeeping missions and women from war-torn countries will make recommendations to the UN Security Council on how to stop sexual violence in war.
³During wartime, it¹s often more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier,² said Marianne Mollman, women¹s rights advocate at Human Rights Watch. ³As the guardian of international peace and security, it¹s the Security Council¹s job to deal effectively with the persistent problem of sexual violence in armed conflict.²
Thousands of women and girls have been victims of sexual violence in many conflicts around the world for many years. Even UN peacekeepers have been
implicated in committing rape.
On May 27-28, UN military experts, government officials, and women¹s rights representatives met in Wilton Park near London to discuss concrete proposals for improving the UN¹s record on preventing sexual violence through its
peacekeeping operations.
Human Rights Watch and the International Women¹s Tribune Center said that the Security Council should provide peacekeepers with a clear mandate to prevent sexual violence.
³UN peacekeepers are charged with the protection of civilians, but they are not always told explicitly that this means stopping sexual violence,² said Mavic Cabrera-Balleza of the International Women¹s Tribune Centre. ³And the
demands on peacekeeping troops are so great that they may ignore anything they are not asked explicitly to do. The Council should provide clear mandates on this key issue.²
Women¹s groups from conflict zones have long promoted a stronger participation of women in peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts as a way to ensure that violence directed at women during and after a conflict is adequately dealt with. In January 2008, numerous women¹s organizations from the Democratic Republic of Congo put together a short list of
recommendations in this regard. Their focus was justice, health services, democratic participation, and accountability for perpetrators of sexual violence.
³Solutions work best when developed in consultation with those who are most affected,² said Mollmann. ³The Security Council should consult closely with
the women¹s groups working on the front lines in seeking solutions to deal more systematically with sexual violence in wartime.²
Over the past decade, UN peacekeepers have been implicated in committing
sexual violence against the very populations they were charged with
protecting. The United Nations has admitted to some abuses and has announced a zero-tolerance policy regarding such sexual exploitation and abuse, but has yet to put into place a system to effectively prevent the violence. This has raised concerns among human rights and women¹s rights groups about the
UN¹s ability to prevent sexual violence committed by others.
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| 12 Jun 2008 - 22:41 | One in Three Women
URL: oneinthreewomen.com/June_2008_Newsletter . . .
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One in Three Women
June newsletter online
see....
oneinthreewomen.com/Jun e_2008_Newsletter.pdf
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| 12 Jun 2008 - 22:36 | Manuel
puravida5@costarricense.cr
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En un programa de la televisión costarricense acabo de enterarme de su página. Adelante. Dios les bendiga. No me considero un agresor, pero por lo que están comentando me han puesto a reflexionar para mejorar mi relación con mi esposa y mis dos hijas
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| 12 Jun 2008 - 08:45 | admin
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9th Circuit chief Judge suspends L.A. obscenity trial after conceding his website had sexual images
Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times
June 12, 2008
A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, granted a 48-hour stay in the obscenity trial of a Hollywood adult filmmaker after the prosecutor requested time to explore "a potential conflict of interest concerning the court having a . . . sexually explicit website with similar material to what is on trial here."
Upcoming trial will see hours of hard-core fetish pornographyAlex Kozinski: A respected, colorful, sometimes controversial jurist
Kozinski in 2003: On Jurist's Case Over His Ties to a Killer
In an interview Tuesday with The Times, Kozinski acknowledged posting sexual content on his website. Among the images on the site were a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. He defended some of the adult content as "funny" but conceded that other postings were inappropriate.
Kozinski, 57, said that he thought the site was for his private storage and that he was not aware the images could be seen by the public, although he also said he had shared some material on the site with friends. After the interview Tuesday evening, he blocked public access to the site.
Kozinski is one of the nation's highest-ranking judges and has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. He was named chief judge of the 9th Circuit last year and is considered a judicial conservative on most issues. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan in 1985.
After publication of an latimes.com article about his website Wednesday morning, the judge offered another explanation for how the material might have been posted to the site. Tuesday evening he had told The Times that he had a clear recollection of some of the most objectionable material and that he was responsible for placing it on the Web. By Wednesday afternoon, as controversy about the website spread, Kozinski was seeking to shift responsibility, at least in part, to his adult son, Yale.
"Yale called and said he's pretty sure he uploaded a bunch of it," Kozinski wrote in an e-mail to Abovethelaw.com, a legal news website. "I had no idea, but that sounds right because I sure don't remember putting some of that stuff there."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressed concern about Kozinski's website.
"If this is true, this is unacceptable behavior for a federal court judge," she said in a statement.
Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics and has known Kozinski for years, called him "a treasure of the federal judiciary." Gillers said he took the judge at his word that he did not know the site was publicly available. But he said Kozinski was "seriously negligent" in allowing it to be discovered.
"The phrase 'sober as a judge' resonates with the American public," Gillers said. "We don't want them to reveal their private selves publicly. This is going to upset a lot of people."
Gillers said the disclosure would be humiliating for Kozinski and would "harm his reputation in many quarters" but that the controversy should die there.
He added, however, that if the public concludes the website was intended for the sharing of pornographic material, "that's a transgression of another order.
"It would be very hard for him to come back from that," he said.
Kozinski has a reputation as a brilliant legal mind and is seen as a champion of the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. Several years ago, for example, after learning that appeals court administrators had placed filters on computers that denied access to pornography and other materials, Kozinski led a successful effort to have the filters removed.
The judge said it was strictly by chance that he wound up presiding over the trial of filmmaker Ira Isaacs in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Appellate judges occasionally hear criminal cases when they have free time on their calendars, and the Isaacs case was one of two he was given, the judge said.
Isaacs is on trial for distributing sexual fetish videos, featuring acts of bestiality and defecation. The material is considerably more vulgar than the content posted on Kozinski's website.
The judge said he didn't think any of the material on his site would qualify as obscene.
"Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he said. "I think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."
Before the site was taken down, visitors to http://alex.kozinski.com were greeted with the message: "Ain't nothin' here. Y'all best be movin' on, compadre."
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| 12 Jun 2008 - 08:30 | Marcela
quimicagarcia@hotmail.com
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quiciera platicar con alguien acerca de my problema, fui o soy victima de la violencia domestica, y mi exnovio me amenaza con quererme quitar a mi hija de 9 anos que aparte no es de el, y tambien con my status migratorio. quiciera recibirr informacion acerca de que tengo que hacer. hace un mes tube un problema con my ex. me esta ultima vez me avento y cacheteeo estando yo envarazada por 3 cemanas, me amenazo de muerte, tambien con mandarme a golpear con ulgunas de sus amigas, quitarme a la nina que no es de el y con my estatus migratorio tambien. soy mexicana y en mexico tube el mismo problema es por eso que me vine a estado unidos por huir del mismo problema.y proteger a la nina pero aqui me vuelve a suceder lo mismo despues de 5 anos que deje my pais.
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| 11 Jun 2008 - 08:30 | jorge medina
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En el diario "Página 12" el 10/06/08.
Una muerte en la pista de la trata
Vanesa Martínez, de 27 años, viajó el 20 de mayo del año pasado al DF como stripper. La mantuvieron cautiva, con dificultades para comunicarse con su familia. El 17 de julio murió en un hospital por desnutrición y neumonía, pero su familia se enteró un año después.
Dos fiscalías locales y la justicia mexicana intentan develar los pasos de la modelo argentina Vanesa Martínez en el país del cielito lindo y las margaritas, y la pista de una organización de trata y corrupción de mujeres con base en Buenos Aires y destino final en el DF mexicano. Vanesa viajó el 20 de mayo de 2007 al DF con el pasaje pago y alojamiento en un hotel céntrico, y la promesa de miles de dólares para bailar como stripper y copera en un local de la capital mariachi. Un mes y veinte días después sus familiares le perdieron el rastro. Sus hermanas la buscaron en todos los rincones durante nueve meses, hasta que a fines de abril recibieron una comunicación oficial: habían encontrado su cuerpo en la morgue de una escuela de medicina donde los alumnos lo diseccionaban para estudiar anatomía.
Vanesa había trabajado en películas porno de producción porteña. En los sets fue contactada por una chica (Paula), que la conectó con un club aparentemente conocido en México, el Royal Club. Le dieron pasaje, alojamiento en el hotel Niza, ubicado en el lujoso barrio de Polanco. Según los cálculos que anotó en su diario (abandonado en Buenos Aires), entre bailes y copas podría ganar miles de dólares “sin sexo”, detalle que después formaría parte de las hipótesis familiares. “No le dejaron llevar celular y la tenían encerrada”, dijo Silvana, su hermana.
“Estaba muy angustiada, se sentía muy mal físicamente y se quería volver ya. Estaba juntando la plata del pasaje y tenía fecha creo que para agosto, pero me dijo que no la iban a dejar ir todavía porque tenía que pagar multas. A nosotros nos parece que es la forma que tienen en esas organizaciones para justificar que queden encerradas.”
El 11 de julio fue la última comunicación. “Como no se comunicaba todos los días, al principio estábamos un poco intranquilas, pero empezamos a preocuparnos realmente cuando el 16 de julio no me llamó por mi cumpleaños. Pero eso no era nada. El 8 de agosto cumple una de sus sobrinas. Y tampoco tuvimos noticias. Que no llamara por mi cumpleaños puede ser, pero que se le pasara el de las sobrinas, que nunca, eso nos pareció muy preocupante. En el último chat decía que estaba muy débil y se sentía mal pero no explicaba quién la tenía ni por qué”.
Silvana y Leticia, las dos hermanas de Vanesa, iniciaron una búsqueda desesperada. Intentaron pedir ayuda en la embajada mexicana en Buenos Aires pero no aceptaron recibir denuncias. Finalmente, la Cancillería presentó una denuncia ante la Justicia, que tomaron las fiscalías 10, por la desaparición, y 6, de Delitos Sexuales, siguiendo la hipótesis de la organización de trata de mujeres. Se comunicaron con el Royal, con el hotel Niza, con Paola (que había viajado con su pareja, Ariel, y con Vanesa, a México) que había regresado, con gente de la noche que la conoció allá. “Todos dijeron que la habían visto y que estaba bien y que volvería, hasta que dejaron de hablar por miedo.” El 28 de abril, desde la Cancillería, informaron a la familia que Vanesa había sido internada en grave estado el 11 de julio en la sala de urgencias del hospital Salas, del DF, y había muerto de una neumonía el 17 de julio. Nadie reclamó su cuerpo y fue derivada a la morgue del Instituto Politécnico.
“¿Por qué no la dejaban comunicarse? ¿Por qué con pedido de búsqueda ingresó al hospital como Vanesa Martínez y un segundo apellido que no era de ella y las autoridades no repararon en que la buscaban? ¿Quién la ingresó? ¿Por qué los que consultamos en septiembre nos dijeron que estaba bien cuando estaba muerta?”, se pregunta la familia y todavía no tienen respuesta.
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| 11 Jun 2008 - 08:23 | Maria Alejandra Campos
mariale_campos@hotmail.com
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Estimadas amigas Hace mucho que no recibo noticias de la red, por ello no se si me estoy dirgiendo a la dirección correcta. Les comento las aciones que hemos realizado, como Movimiento de Mujeres Sanjuaninas, con motivos de una situación de violencia contra la mujer protagonizado por un funcionario de la provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Nos enteramos que un Concejal de la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de San Juan, Alejandro Bravo, había golpeado brutalmente a su mujer en la vía públuca. Le produjo heridas de consideración y tuvo que ser hospitalizada, acompañada por su padre puso la denuncia en la Policia y el caso llegó a Tribunales de Justicia. Como el Concejal Bravo, es hijo de Leopoldo Bravo, quien fuera tres veces Gobernador de San Juan, de gran participación politica en el ámbito Provincial y Nacional, desde los años 50 hasta los 80, candidato a Presidente en el año 1973, varias veces Embajador Argentino en Rusia y su hermano Leopoldo Bravo (hijo) es el actual Embajador de Argentina en Rusia, pertenenciente al Partido Bloquista, socio político del Gobernador José Luis Gioja, desde el ambito de la Gobernación se dió orden a los Medios de Comunicación de no sacar noticia al respecto. Enteradas del hecho, enviamos Comunicados de Prensa repudiando el acto de violencia contra la mujer, el que nunca fue difundido y el martes 3 de Junio nos movilizamos a las puertas del Concejo Deliberante de la Municipalidad, un grupo de 60 mujeres de Movimiento. Con parlantes, pancartas y silbatinas realizamos un escrache, pidiendo su destitución. Además presentanos sendas notas al Presidente del Consejo Deliberante y al Intendente de la Municipalidad. Estos acontecimientos son preocupantes, ya que en nuestra provincia se repiten con mucha frecuencia llegando algunos a casos donde hay que lamentar muerte de mujeres, la mayoría dejando varios niños. Tenemos una gran lista de muerte de mujeres a manos de sus parejas. También es preocupante la posición del Gobernador José Luis Gioja, quien en los actos de entrega de viviendas les aconseja a las mujeres "tengan muchos hijos y cuiden al marido,no lo pongan nervioso", en ningun momento ha tenido una posición publica para los casos de agresión física a las mujeres. A la espera de que esta sutuación sea difundida entre las amigas de la red la saludo atentamente Maria Alejandra Campos
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| 10 Jun 2008 - 21:06 | Caroline Bettinger-Lopez
c.lopez@law.columbia.edu
URL: www.clshumanrights.com
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Jessica Gonzales v. U.S. - Update
Mon Jun 9, 2008 6:21 pm (PDT)
I have received several inquiries recently about the status of Jessica
Gonzales v. United States, currently before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. As many of you know, the case involves a domestic violence victim whose three children were killed after police refused to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband.
Ms. Gonzales' (now Jessica Lenahan) petition to the Inter-American Commission alleged
that the U.S. is responsible for human rights violations committed against her and her children. For an overview of the case and the possibilities it offers for advocacy, here is a link to an essay I recently wrote entitled "Jessica Gonzales v. United States: An Emerging Model for Domestic Violence & Human Rights Advocacy in the United States" --
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c fm?abstract_id=1095734.
Also, the string of emails below give more detailed information on the case. The procedural update is that we received a favorable admissibility decision in October 2007 (see
http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/2007eng/ USA1490.05eng.htm )
and we briefed the merits of the case in March 2008. The merits brief can be found at
http://www.law.columbia.edu/null?&excl usive=filemgr.download&file_id=1570&rtco ntentdisposition=filename%3D3.24.08%20GO NZALES%20MERITS%20BRIEF.pdf
and the corresponding exhibits at
http://www.law.columbia.edu/null?&excl usive=filemgr.download&file_id=1569&rtco ntentdisposition=filename%3D3.24.08%20GO NZALES%20MERITS%20BRIEF%20EXHIBITS.pdf.
We are now awaiting the U.S. response on the merits of the case. We expect to receive a final decision on the merits from the Commission later this year or early next year, though we have no guarantees.
Three major highlights in our March 2008 merits brief include:
(1) a deep analysis of the facts of the case, including evidence highlighting the police failure to appropriately respond to Ms. Gonzales' requests for help
and the Colorado authorities' failure to conduct an adequate investigation into the Gonzales girls' deaths after-the-fact;
(2) a legal analysis of
the governmental duty to protect under international law; and (3) a legal analysis of the right to truth for families and society, and the
governmental duty to investigate human rights violations.
Several organizations, academic institutions, and law firms are currently drafting amicus briefs in the following areas:
* children's rights and domestic violence
* domestic violence as torture
* comparative analysis of domestic violence laws & policies in common law
countries
* the benefits and limitations of VAWA in holistically addressing domestic
violence
* domestic violence, race, and immigration status (intersectionality)
Please let me know if you or your organization/institution are interested in assisting with editing and/or signing onto an amicus brief and I can give you the contact information for that group. And feel free to pass along this email to anyone who might be interested.
All best,
Carrie (on behalf of Jessica’s legal team)
Caroline Bettinger-López
Deputy Director, Human Rights Institute
Lecturer in Law, Human Rights Clinic
Columbia Law School | 435 W. 116th Street, Box G-3 | New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 854-8364 | Fax: (212) 854-3554 | Email:
c.lopez@law.columbia.edu
Website: http://www.clshumanrights.com
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| 10 Jun 2008 - 09:16 | cimacnoticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08060903-El-f . . .
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Violencia relacionada con el legado patriarcal
El feminicidio y su expansión en Latinoamérica
De la redacción
México DF, 9 junio 08 (CIMAC).- Junto a la crisis alimentaria, el narcotráfico, la corrupción y el pandillaje, entre otros males, una epidemia avanza sobre los pueblos situados del río Bravo a la Patagonia: el feminicidio, considera un artículo de Prensa Latina.
Las estadísticas, aún silenciadas o minimizadas por autoridades
gubernamentales en casi todos estos países, dan cuenta del progresivo ascenso de los maltratos, secuestros, torturas y asesinatos de mujeres por razones ligadas al legado patriarcal.
Funcionarios del Ministerio Público de Honduras admitieron que los crímenes contra mujeres sumaron mil 18 y las denuncias por violencia doméstica ascendieron a un promedio de 15 por día desde 2002 hasta mayo de 2008.
Tales datos --corroborados por el Centro de Derechos de Mujeres y por la Fiscalía de la Mujer-- y la publicación en el diario El Heraldo de una serie investigativa sobre el tema, motivaron la creación de un equipo profesional para indagar acerca de tales asesinatos e imputaciones.
En tanto, suman nueve los feminicidios reportados desde enero a la fecha en Costa Rica, donde el Instituto Nacional de la Mujer contabilizó desde 1995 hasta finales del año anterior más de 300.
La procuradora de los Derechos Humanos Lisbet Quesada sugirió incorporar el tema a la agenda de seguridad ciudadana y desarrollar una política más agresiva para combatir la impunidad en tales casos, en el territorio.
Aunque las costarricenses lograron un paso de avance el 12 de abril de 2007 con la aprobación de una Ley de Penalización contra la Violencia Doméstica, la práctica demuestra que no es suficiente para erradicar el mal.
Guatemala también aprobó una ley, en abril de 2008, que establece penas de hasta 50 años de prisión para los identificados como feminicidas, en respuesta a un registro de tres mil mujeres masacradas desde el 2000.
De las fallecidas por la ascendente violencia de género, 139 perdieron la vida en los primeros cuatro meses de este año, según la Red de Sobrevivientes de la Violencia Doméstica.
Armas de fuego, objetos cortantes, asfixia o estrangulamiento terminaron con la vida de la mayoría de ellas, mientras 98 por ciento de esos crímenes sigue impune, según la Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala.
En México, los feminicidios, más visibilizados a partir de 1993 ante la secuencia de asesinados de este tipo en la chihuahuense Ciudad Juárez, también acaban con la existencia de un promedio de cuatro mexicanas cada día.
Las tasas de crímenes contra las mujeres son alarmantes a su vez en El Salvador, segundo lugar en Latinoamérica en cuanto a la problemática, donde la Red Feminista contra la Violencia contabilizó un aproximado de mil 886 feminicidios de 2001 a 2007.
En Paraguay una mujer es asesinada cada 10 días y aunque Argentina carece de cifras oficiales sobre el tema, el Centro de Encuentros Cultura y Mujer contabilizó mil 284 víctimas de 1997 a 2003.
Según el Instituto de Medicina Legal de Colombia, el pasado año se reportaron 132 casos, dos como promedio semanal, protagonizados lo mismo por matrimonios, parejas separadas, amantes o novios.
La entidad registró 300 mil lesiones personales a mujeres en 2006, de los cuales 43 mil 319 fueron a manos de sus parejas, pero más de 70 mil (casi el doble) obedecieron a la violencia familiar, es decir, resultado de la intervención de padres, hermanos o hijos.
Entre enero de 2001 y junio de 2007, más de 300 chilenas también dejaron de existir, la mayoría de ellas a manos de hombres con quienes habían tenido relaciones de intimidad y confianza, aportó la Red contra la Violencia Doméstica y Sexual.
VIOLENCIA Y CULTURA PATRIARCAL
Tales estadísticas apenas dan una ligera idea de la epidemia expandida por Latinoamérica --junto a otros males impulsados por la crisis estructural de un sistema de desarrollo-- y para seguidores del tema lo más grave es el poco acceso a la justicia.
Especialistas y defensores de los derechos humanos y femeninos coinciden en que las causas de la problemática son disímiles, pero por lo general descansan en el legado milenario de una cultura patriarcal.
Para la Convergencia Cívico Política de Mujeres de Guatemala, parte de los feminicidios deriva de la violencia familiar y de la agresividad arrastrada por pueblos sometidos antes a conflictos armados y azotados por el narcotráfico, la trata de personas y las pandillas, entre otros flagelos.
La mayoría de las latinoamericanas viven situaciones que les niegan derechos fundamentales o las ponen en desventaja para acceder a la educación, la salud, el trabajo, la asistencia social o el descanso, añaden investigaciones de otros centros o grupos dedicados a estos temas.
Marcela Lagarde, etnóloga y antropóloga mexicana, asegura que los feminicidios constituyen actos de odio contra mujeres y por ello deben ser tipificados penalmente: no se trata sólo del número de asesinatos, sino de la saña con que se cometen y de la impunidad en la cual queda la mayoría de estos casos, concluye el texto de Prensa Latina.
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| 10 Jun 2008 - 09:08 | Jessie Mindlin
jmindlin@victimrights.org
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Teleconference is being hosted by The Victim Rights Law Center, which invites you to join them for the second training of their teleconference series:
Serving Non-Citizen Victims of Sexual Assault
Supported by Office of Violence Against Women
Grant #2004-WT-AX- K062
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
1:30 - 3:00pm EST
All interested persons, should please email Jessie
Mindlin at jmindlin@victimrights.org
Teleconfere nce free to all OVW grantees and their grant partners
This teleconference will address some of the considerations and
challenges specific to advocating for or representing non-citizen
victims of sexual assault, including immigration status and related
issues, non-citizen victims' access to health care, forensic
examinations, culturally and linguistic appropriate services,
and other victim needs.
Presented by:
Leslye Orloff, Esq.
Co-Director of Legal Momentum and Associate Director of the
Immigrant Women Program
Who should attend: Sexual assault advocates, lawyers, community
service providers, prosecutors, medical providers and any others
who serve victims of sexual assault.
How to Register: Space is limited! Registration is limited to 50
telephone lines; registrations will be accepted on a first-come,
first-served basis. To register please email
jmindlin@victimrights.org with the
following information:
First and Last Name:
Title:
Organization:
Address:
Phone number:
OVW Grant Type:
You will receive confirmation of registration when you reply to
this email. Additional emails with teleconference materials,
instructions, will also be sent to you as we approach the date of the
teleconference. Please do not hesitate to direct your calls, and
questions to
conferences@ victimrights. org
Can't join for this teleconference? Here is a preview of future
VRLC teleconferences:
Join us Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Chic Dabby, Director of the
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence /APIA Health
Forum presents on "What you need to know about working with Asian
refugee and immigrant victims of sexual violence, including sexual
violence experienced by immigrants and refugees from conflict and
disaster
zones."
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 -the Southwest Center for Law and
Policy's (SWCLAP) Hallie Bongar White and VRLC's Jessica Mindlin
present on "Civil Legal Remedies for Native Sexual Assault
Survivors." We ask that you contact SWCLAP directly at
obrien@swclap. org <mailto:obrien@swclap.org> .
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| 10 Jun 2008 - 08:54 | Robin Runge, American Bar Association
runger@staff.abanet.org
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Job Posting - Program Assistant
ABA Commission on Domestic Violence, Washington, DC
The ABA Commission on Domestic Violence seeks a bright, energetic, self-directed individual with a commitment to ending domestic violence, to provide programmatic and administrative support to development of training opportunities for attorneys representing survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
Job responsibilities include coordinating logistics for Commission meetings, events and continuing legal education programs; administering contracts for goods and services with the Commission, including working with accounts payable on invoices, check requests, and reimbursements for Commission members, event faculty and attendees; maintaining records for Commission events and projects; managing budgets for Commission related events; updating Commission website; responding to publication requests and managing publications inventory; and maintaining Commission listserves. This position requires some travel. For more information on the Commission, please visit our website at www.abanet.org/domviol <http://www.abanet.org/domviol> .
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, ability to take initiative and to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision and a close attention to detail and to meet deadlines while juggling multiple projects; interest in learning about the provision and coordination of legal services for victims of domestic violence or women's rights issues preferred. Experience with word processing, computer-based design, document development and conversion, spreadsheet development, administration of listserves and websites is necessary. Event planning experience and basic financial skills, including budget development are a plus.
Contact: Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to Robin Runge, Director, ABA Commission on Domestic Violence at runger@staff.abanet.org by or before June 20, 2008. No phone calls please. Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V.
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| 10 Jun 2008 - 08:47 | Lillian Tumuhamye
lillian.tumuhamye@unifem.org
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Urgent Call for CVs for two International Positions in
Liberia
Dear All,
UNIFEM Liberia Office is seeking for experienced professionals to fill two
international positions of (i) Gender and Economics and (ii) Gender Justice (GBV and Security Sector) respectively as per attached Terms of Reference.
Suitable candidates are urgently required to send their CVs to
signe.allimadi@unifem.org copied above. The deadline for submission is Monday 15 June, 2008.
Warm regards,
Lillian Tumuhamye
UNIFEM Uganda
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| 10 Jun 2008 - 08:38 | Lynette Dumble
lynette.dumble7@bigpond.com
URL: www.global-sisterhood-network.org/conten . . .
| Egypt: Female circumcision banned
Read on for the double victory of Egypt's feminists with the enactment
of laws against female circumcision and marriage of girls and boys
under the age of 18 years -
Lynette
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Formatte d version of the "Female circumcision banned in Egypt", and
link to extensive details on this feminist struggle in Egypt, at:
http://www.global-sisterhood-network.org/content/view/2132/59/
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
The Deccan Chronicle ~~ Monday June 9 2008
Female circumcision banned in Egypt
Cairo, June 8: The Egyptian Parliament has passed new laws banning female circumcision and setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage for both genders, media said on Sunday. The new legislation, passed on
Saturday, imposes a jail penalty of three months to two years or a
fine between $190 and $940 for female circumcision, the official
al-Ahram newspaper said. Being a part of the child's rights bill, the
law prohibits the circumcision unless in cases of "medical necessity."
Members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, who are
independents in the Parliament, were furious about the new
legislation, charging that it "contradicts with the Islamic
jurisprudence and is brought from the West." Female circumcision is a
common practice in Upper Egypt villages, which can cause death,
infection and traumas. Several government campaigns have been launched against the practice, but it wasn't legally prohibited before the new legislation.
Meanwhile, the Parliament also approved a law banning marriage of both females and males under the age of 18. Previously Egyptian girls were allowed to legally marry at the age of 16. Pre-marital medical tests
have become a requirement for legal marriage under the new ruling.
Couples are now obliged to undergo medical tests to legally register their marriage.
Parliamentary members consider this new requirement a solution to
lessen the rates of infants born with genetic deficits. In other news,
the assembly approved the right for unmarried mothers to register
their children under their names, a breakthrough in Egyptian
legislation that have been requested by many social and child rights experts for many years. The move was strongly opposed by many parliamentary members who argued that the law would open the door for many females to commit adultery.
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| 09 Jun 2008 - 14:59 | boletin e-leusis
URL: www.e-leusis.net/noticia.asp?id_noticia= . . .
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Espana
Castigar más al varón es válido para proteger a la mujer
Sociedad
05/06/2008
El establecimiento de un mayor castigo penal al hombre que maltrata a la mujer en el ámbito de las relaciones de pareja es "razonable", según la sentencia que hizo pública ayer el Tribunal Constitucional y que avala la ley de Violencia de Género. El tribunal entiende que lo que se persigue es "proteger la integridad física, psíquica y moral de las mujeres en un ámbito en el que están insuficientemente protegidas". Y acepta el argumento de que la agresión del varón a la mujer es más grave que otras.
El País
La sentencia desestima la consulta planteada por la juez número 4 de Murcia, María Poza, que cuestionó la nueva redacción del artículo 153.1 del Código Penal, en cuanto agrava la conducta para el hombre maltratador pero no para la mujer. La juez interpretó que ese agravamiento penal podría implicar una discriminación por razón de sexo que vulneraría el derecho a la igualdad del artículo 14 de la Constitución. El artículo 153.1 impone una pena de seis meses a un año al hombre maltratador, mientras que si la mujer agrede al hombre la pena es la del 153.2, de tres meses a un año.
La sentencia, de la que ha sido ponente el magistrado Pascual Sala, sostiene que la diferencia entre ambas normas se sustenta en la voluntad del legislador de "sancionar más unas agresiones que entiende que son más graves y más reprochables socialmente".
El derecho a la igualdad del artículo 14 de la Constitución exige que el tratamiento diferenciado de dos supuestos de hecho iguales tenga una justificación "objetiva" y "razonable" y no tenga unas consecuencias "desproporcionadas". Siguiendo ese razonamiento, el Tribunal encuentra una primera razón justificativa en "las altísimas cifras en torno a la frecuencia de una grave criminalidad que tiene por víctima a la mujer y por agente a la persona que es o fue su pareja".
Para el Tribunal, las agresiones del varón hacia la mujer "tienen una gravedad mayor que cualesquiera otras", porque corresponden a un "arraigado tipo de violencia" que es "manifestación de la discriminación, de la situación de desigualdad y las relaciones de poder de los hombres sobre las mujeres". Y esa mayor gravedad exige "una mayor sanción, que redunde en una mayor protección de las potenciales víctimas".
La sentencia niega que el diferente trato penal obedezca a una discriminación por razón de sexo. "No es el sexo lo que el legislador toma en consideración", prosigue la sentencia, sino el carácter especialmente lesivo de ciertos hechos que manifiestan "una grave y arraigada desigualdad".
Respecto al argumento de la juez Poza, que planteó si no se estaría atribuyendo al varón "una responsabilidad colectiva, como heredero del grupo opresor", el Tribunal entiende que no se sanciona al maltratador por "las agresiones cometidas en el pasado por otros cónyuges varones, sino por el especial desvalor de su propia y personal conducta".
En definitiva, lo que hace el legislador, según la sentencia, es apreciar una gravedad o un reproche peculiar en ciertas agresiones que se producen en el seno de la pareja y que se insertan en parámetros de desigualdad tan arraigados, "que aumentan la inseguridad, la intimidación y el menosprecio que sufre la víctima".
Entre los magistrados que han formulado votos particulares, Vicente Conde considera "intolerable" que puedan establecerse diferencias por razón de sexo, y entiende que en el fondo de la sentencia late "una superada concepción de la mujer como sexo débil".
En la misma línea, el magistrado Jorge Rodríguez-Zapata cree que la sentencia se suma a un Derecho penal "paternalista" que promueve una concepción de la mujer como "sujeto vulnerable" que históricamente le colocaba en la misma posición que la de los menores o incapaces. Para Rodríguez-Zapata, parecen existir dos derechos penales: uno para todos y otro para grupos especiales de determinadas personas.
Los magistrados Javier Delgado Barrio y Ramón Rodríguez Arribas opinan que debió hacerse una sentencia interpretativa que salvase la constitucionalidad del precepto y limitan su desacuerdo al fallo desestimatorio. El voto particular del recientemente fallecido Roberto García-Calvo no llegó a ser notificado al Pleno.
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| 09 Jun 2008 - 09:48 | admin
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Police chief, assistant charged with rape www.privateofficer.com
DES MOINES, Iowa June 8 2008 A southwest Iowa police chief and his assistant chief were charged Friday in the rape of a woman at a country club bar.
Creston Police Chief James Alan Christensen, 40, and assistant chief John West Sickels, 38, are charged with second-degree sexual abuse. The charges allege that a forced sex act was committed while being aided or abetted by another person. Both men surrendered Friday.
In an affidavit, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent David Dales detailed what happened during the alleged assault at the Crestmoor Golf Club in the early morning hours of April 18.
It said that Sickels and Christensen were the only customers at the club’s bar around closing time when Sickels requested that a female employee perform a sex act on both men and she refused.
The men allegedly blocked the woman’s exit from the bar area and then Sickels left that area apparently to lock the door to the country club. Upon his return Sickels had forced sexual intercourse with the woman while Christensen “held her hand, stroked her hair and ’shushed her,”‘ the affidavit said.
It said the woman repeatedly told Christensen that what was happening was wrong, and that he knew it was wrong.
Attempts to reach attorneys for the two officers were unsuccessful.
Sickels was interviewed by state investigators last month and initially denied any physical contact with the woman. He later admitted having intercourse with the woman but claimed it was consensual and said that he doubted Christensen had witnessed the act, the affidavit said.
When Christensen was interviewed, he initially denied that he or Sickels had any contact with the woman. Later, he admitted that he saw Sickels having sex with the woman and that during the act he touched her hand. The affidavit said he also admitted that the woman had expressed that she did not consent to have sex.
Bail has been set at $25,000 each for Sickels and Christensen. If convicted, they face a maximum prison sentence of up to 25 years.
The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is prosecuting the case at the request of the Union County attorney’s office. The Division of Criminal Investigation has handled the investigation.
Warren Woods, mayor of the town of about 8,000 located 70 miles southwest of Des Moines, said the police chief and his assistant have been on administrative leave for about a week, adding that the city is evaluating what to do now that both men face charges. The fire chief has taken over administrative duties for the Police Department, which is comprised of about a dozen officers, Woods said.
The state patrol will provide backup if needed, he said, adding that all the police shifts are being covered.
“Our police department is in place. We have good officers on the ground,” he said.
A woman who answered the phone at the Crestmoor Golf Club declined to comment.
Alma Swanson, owner of Fiscus Diamond Jewelry and Gifts in Creston, said rumors “have been flying” around the community for several weeks.
“It’s just totally blown us all away,” said Swanson, who said she knew Christensen. “I’m still just totally amazed. It’s kind of hard to believe.”
Swanson called it a sad situation and said she’s trying not to jump to conclusions.
“There are a lot of things I’m sure that will be uncovered and/or discussed when this comes to trial,” she said.
Jim Saunders, a spokesman for the DCI, said the case was an isolated incident among law enforcement and that Sickels and Christensen are being held accountable.
“I think it goes without saying that when something like this happens it’s kind of a blow to the public trust that law enforcement tries to maintain in the community,” he said.
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