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| 18 May 2008 - 16:03 | Krista Minteer, Human Rights First
URL: www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/hrd/2008/ . . .
| Human Rights First ~~ For Immediate Release: May 13, 2008
Krista Minteer (212) 845-5207
Somali Women’s Rights Activist Wins Roger Baldwin Award
Honored For Her Work with Women and Girls Affected by Violence
More About Human Rights Defenders
New York, NY Hawa Aden Mohamed received the 2008 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award presented by Human Rights First in honor of her work to improve the quality of life for Somali women and girls. The award ceremony took place at a private reception on Tuesday, May 13th in New York City.
“Hawa Aden Mohamed has helped thousands of women and girls get access to education in what many would consider a failed state,” said Maureen Byrnes, executive director of Human Rights First. “But she has also helped challenge pervasive problems of violence against women in a setting where they are most vulnerable one of conflict.”
While in Washington, DC, and New York in the 10 days prior to the
reception, Ms. Mohamed met with international organizations, elected
officials and policymakers to speak about the situation in Somalia.
“We asked the international community to hear women’s voices as part of the process of peace and reconciliation in Somalia,” said Mohamed.
Mohamed has dedicated her life to advancing the health and education
of Somali women and girls, to providing both emergency and long-term assistance to internally-displaced Somali families, and to abolishing the practice of female genital mutilation. Ms. Mohamed began her work over three decades ago by founding the Refugee Women’s Relief and Development Center.
Currently, Mohamed serves as the Executive Director of the Galkayo
Education Center for Peace and Development (GECPD), a community-based organization in the Puntland area of Somalia. Since it’s founding in 2000, GECPD operates primary and vocational education programs for
impoverished, displaced, and minority women and girls and works within communities to promote women’s rights, including combating the grave problems of gender-based violence and female genital mutilation.
Named in honor of the principal founder of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), the award is presented by Human Rights First
every other year to a human rights organization or activist outside of
the United States that has made a distinguished contribution to the
protection and promotion of human rights. In alternate years the ACLU
selects a U.S.-based winner.
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| 18 May 2008 - 15:58 | cande
candelync@yahoo.com
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I was single raped plus gang raped, do not think that it can not happen to you it can.
* Most people do not even know the difference between single rape and gang rape, It was brutal. It will be with me til the day I die, every day I have mircoscopic flashbacks. Little by little the pieces are fitting together.
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| 18 May 2008 - 15:55 | elois
eloisalincecum@yahoo.com
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mi nombre es eloisa lincecum soy mexicana y sufri violencia domestica por casi 2 anos, estoy embarazada de 3 meses, mi esposo es nacido aqui blanco, y me robo junto con su tia a mi pequena bebe de 8 meses tomo los 3 carros y el motor home en que viviamos, siempre me amenazo con llamar a inmigracion mi bebe sufre violencia domestica, el tiene mal record con otra chica 3 anoa pasados, ademas golpeo a mi manager y tiene cargos, ahora estoy viviendo enel shelter en tulsa oklahoma no tengo nada no baby,no dinero no casa, el dvis me esta ayudando, pero no entiendo mucho ingles y ademas el proceso es muy lento,estuve en la corte la semana pasada pero extendieron la orden de custodia,estoy tramitando el divorcio pero tengo miedo ya que el apesar de lo que me hizo esta pagando un abogado por favor ayudenme a recuperar a mi pequena ya que el tiene exceso de drogas, pero tiene un buen trabajo que obtiene 10000 dollars
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| 17 May 2008 - 10:01 | Equal Rights Center
URL: equalrightscenter.org/publications/
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Report
No Vacancy: Housing Discrimination Against Survivors of Domestic Violence in the District of Columbia, April 2008
In 2006, after working with numerous domestic violence advocacy groups, the D.C. City Council and mayor approved cutting-edge legislation, the Protection From Discriminatory Eviction for Victims of Domestic Violence Amendment Act of 2006, prohibiting discrimination in housing against domestic violence victims. The legislation was designed to reduce discrimination in housing based on a person’s status as a domestic violence victim, and in doing so, prevent victims from being forced down a path toward homelessness.
This study demonstrates that one full year after implementation of the Act, much remains to be done to ensure that survivors of domestic violence are not illegally discriminated against when they seek housing merely because of the domestic abuse they have already suffered.
See report:
www.equalrightscenter.org/publi cations/
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| 17 May 2008 - 09:57 | DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
URL: dccadv.eventbrite.com/
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Service Providers did you know that there are new local and federal laws that benefit domestic violence victims facing housing-related issues?
We are offering FREE trainings tailored to different audiences on everything you need to know about these laws.
Trainings will cover:
§ Evictions
§ Discrimination
§ Early Lease Terminations
Training Schedules and SignUps
http://dccadv.eventbrite.com/
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| 17 May 2008 - 09:35 | Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
PCADV@transitionguides.com
URL: www.pcadv.org
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JOB**JOB**JOB
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Executive Director Search
This position is available at Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The Position Summary is available at
http:www.pcadv.org under Employment. To apply please email your resume along with a
cover letter explaining your interest in the organization and salary requirements
to:
PCADV@transitionguides.com
or to
PCADV Executive Director Search,
c/o TransitionGuides
1751 Elton Road
Silver Spring, MD 20903.
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| 17 May 2008 - 09:13 | cimacnoticias
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URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08051612-Arge . . .
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Familia denunciará a médicos por homicidio
Argentina: Ana María Acevedo murió hace un año por negarle ILE
Por Marcela Espíndola
Buenos Aires, Arg., 16 mayo 08 (CIMAC/Artemisa).- ''Que se haga justicia''. En estas palabras resume su sentimiento Norma Cuevas, madre de Ana María Acevedo, al cumplirse un año de la muerte de su hija.
Víctima de cáncer, la joven había pedido realizarse un aborto terapéutico para poder ser tratada de su enfermedad. Los médicos se negaron a interrumpir el embarazo por ''razones religiosas y culturales'' y a brindarle una terapia paliativa del dolor. Finalmente la joven murió el 17 de mayo de 2007. Una historia que resume la peor de las privaciones: no poder elegir sobre el propio cuerpo.
Mas...
http://www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08051612-Argentina-Ana-Mari.33197.0.html
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| 17 May 2008 - 09:08 | CIMACnoticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08051601-Se-h . . .
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Quien perdió más fue él, dice la periodista
Se hará justicia, prometió Calderón a Lydia Cacho y ahora no la recibe
Por Catalina Gayà Morlà *
México DF, 16 mayo 08 (CIMAC).- Cuando Lydia Cacho llegó a Barcelona para recoger el premio a la Libertad de Expresión que otorga la Casa Amèrica Catalunya y recién había ido a recoger, en Mozambique, el premio Mundial a la Libertad de Prensa UNESCO-Guillermo Cano 2008, la periodista española Catalina Gayà Morlà la entrevistó.
El texto de la plática que duró 35 minutos, fue publicado en Revista-Blog Mundo Abierto y aquí la reproducimos:
Por los mensajes de los lectores y por las entrevistas que Lydia concedió a otros medios, se puede decir que todo el mundo se quedó perplejo ante lo que explicaba Lydia Cacho, tanto por los casos de pederastia como por toda la corrupción política.
No había capacidad para entender a ese México corrupto en el que cada día son asesinadas cuatro mujeres y en el que las redes criminales no se diferencian del poder político. Insisto, en el exterior, o como mínimo en España, México aparece como un lugar maravilloso para ir de vacaciones o un país hermano que acogió a los exiliados.
– Cuando Emma (una de las víctimas de pederastia) la contactó, ¿pensó que se trataba de una red tan peligrosa?, pregunto a Lydia Cacho.
– No, de ninguna manera. Cuando hago trabajo, como cuando entrevisto a una víctima, nunca hago proyecciones de futuro. Intuí que esta historia era peligrosa, pero no sabía qué tanto lo era para ella o para mí. Cuando me di cuenta de que estaba metida hasta el cuello y que había un compromiso personal ineludible por mi compromiso ético, fue cuando decidí publicar Los demonios del Edén.
– ¿De dónde saca la fuerza para enfrentarse a un secuestro, dos atentados, amenazas de muerte y a toda la corrupción que rodea el caso?
– De mi personalidad, desde niña he sido una mujer de convicciones, en realidad podría decir que soy muy terca. Cuando creo que algo debe hacerse, lo hago. Entonces a veces me equivoco y otras, no. En este caso estoy segura de que no me equivoqué.
– ¿A qué se enfrenta?
– Mi caso es una buena radiografía de las disfunciones de mi país. Yo soy una periodista y al mismo tiempo una activista feminista que trabaja en una casa de acogida, escribo un libro sobre abuso sexual infantil y redes de pornografía infantil en México y, a raíz de haber escrito este libro, los personajes que aparecen en él y que son los que manejan la red se coluden con un Gobernador y con políticos más poderosos para encarcelarme y torturarme con la finalidad de que yo me retracte del contenido de mi libro y la historia se quede aplastada como millones de historias importantes en México.
“Lo que pasó fue que yo salí con más fuerza de la cárcel y el caso acabó llegando a la Suprema Corte de Justicia de México, en buena medida por solidaridad de los movimientos sociales en diferentes lugares en el mundo y porque la Cámara de Diputados reaccionó ante unas llamadas escandalosas que se publicaron y evidenciaron cómo se coludieron el Gobernador y este mafioso, y cómo éste dio órdenes a otra persona para que yo fuera torturada y violada en la cárcel”.
– Y México perdió una gran oportunidad para hacer Justicia.
Mas...
www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08051601-Se-hara-justicia.33183.0.html
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| 17 May 2008 - 08:54 | The Cedar Project
URL: www.cedar-project.org/
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The Cedar Project: Historical trauma, sexual abuse and HIV risk among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in two Canadian cities
For the Cedar Project Partnership, Margo E. Pearce, Wayne M. Christian, Katharina Patterson, Kat Norris , Akm Moniruzzaman, Kevin J.P. Craib, Martin T. Schechter, Patricia M. Spittal
Social Science & Medicine 66 (2008) 2185-2194.
a b s t r a c t:
Recent Indigenist scholarship has situated high rates of traumatic life experiences, including
sexual abuse, among Indigenous peoples of North America within the larger context of their status as colonized peoples. Sexual abuse has been linked to many negative health outcomes including mental, sexual and drug-related vulnerabilities.
There is a paucity of research in Canada addressing the relationship between antecedent sexual abuse and negative health outcomes among Aboriginal people including elevated risk of HIV infection. The primary objectives of this study were to determine factors associated with sexual abuse among participants of the Cedar Project, a cohort of young Aboriginal people between the ages of 14 and 30 years who use injection and non-injection drugs in two urban centres in British Columbia, Canada; and to locate findings through a lens of historical and intergenerational trauma. We utilized post-colonial perspectives in research design, problem formulation and the interpretation of results. Multivariate modeling was used to determine the extent to which a history of sexual abuse was predictive of negative health outcomes and vulnerability to HIV infection.
Of the 543 eligible participants, 48% reported ever having experienced sexual abuse; 69% of sexually abused participants were female. The median age of first sexual abuse was 6 years for both female and male participants. After adjusting for sociodemographic variables and factors of historical trauma, sexually abused participants were more likely to have ever been on the streets
for more than three nights, to have ever self-harmed, to have suicide ideation, to have attempted suicide, to have a diagnosis of mental illness, to have been in the emergency department within the previous 6 months, to have had over 20 lifetime sexual partners, to have ever been paid for sex and to have ever overdosed. The prevalence and consequences of sexual abuse among Cedar Project participants are of grave concern. Sexual trauma will continue to impact individuals, families and communities until unresolved historical trauma is meaningfully addressed in client-driven, culturally safe programming.
_ 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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| 17 May 2008 - 08:42 | admin
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GLOBAL DV - Afgan Justice Puts Battered Women Behind Bars for Being Abused
Copyright 2008 Landmark Communications, Inc.
Abused women often imprisoned
BYLINE: By Alisa Tang
The Associated Press
JALALABAD, Afghanistan
Trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her 3-year-old son, Rukhma was handed to an Afghan man who raped and abused her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched helplessly.
He was jailed for 20 years for murder, but Rukhma ended up in prison, too.
Rukhma, who doesn't know her age but looks younger than 20, had put up with the mistreatment for three months last summer before seeking protection and justice from authorities. Instead she was given a four-year sentence on Dec. 5 for adultery and "escaping her house" in Pakistan, even though she says she was kidnapped and raped.
The fall of the Taliban six years ago heralded new rights for Afghan women: to go to school or get a job, and be protected under the law. Women's rights are now included in the constitution.
Yet except for a small urban elite, a woman fleeing domestic violence or accusing a man of rape often ends up the guilty party in the eyes of judges and prosecutors.
"Why am I here? I'm innocent," Rukhma said, crying in a musty jail cell and cradling a baby daughter by her previous marriage whom she bore in prison. "It is cruel to have your son killed before your eyes and then to be imprisoned."
In parts of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, where stern social codes prevail, a woman who runs away from home is typically suspected of having taken a lover and can be prosecuted for adultery. Simply leaving her house without her family's permission may be deemed an offense - as in Rukhma's case - although it is not classified as such under Afghanistan's penal code.
The chief prosecutor of eastern Nangarhar province who oversaw Rukhma's case suggested she got off lightly.
"If my wife goes to the bazaar without my permission, I will kill her. This is our culture," Abdul Qayum shouted scornfully during an interview in his office in the city of Jalalabad.
His colleagues laughed approvingly. "This is Afghanistan, not America," Qayum said.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission registered 2,374 cases of women complaining of violence in 2007, compared with 1,651 in 2006 - a sign that more are seeking help.
Family response units have been established in the police force, and there are tentative signs of sympathy in officialdom - at least in the relatively liberal capital, Kabul.
At a Kabul hospital, a 16-year-old girl who is too scared to give her name is recuperating from reconstructive surgery after her husband cut off her nose and ears, bashed out all but six of her teeth with a stone, and poured boiling water on her.
In-laws from southern Zabul province want to take the girl home, but the hospital director refuses to hand her over.
"This brother-in-law comes every day. He says, 'Let me take her home. She's OK now,'" Dr. Ghairat Mal said. "I don't trust him. The Ministry of Women's Affairs brought her to us, and I won't let her go unless they take her."
Kamala Janakiram, a U.N. human rights officer in eastern Afghanistan, said that in 70 to 80 percent of the cases she has seen, a woman complaining of domestic violence is charged as a criminal for running away from home.
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said many rape victims are forced to marry their attackers or are jailed for adultery because proving rape is virtually impossible.
Women can end up in prison simply on the basis of gossip, said Manizha Naderi, the director of Women for Afghan Women, an aid organization. "It's a horrible, horrible practice."
Fear of returning to a violent spouse drives some women to suicide.
Janakiram cited the case of a young village woman in Laghman province who was shot by her husband and left to die. She survived, but the provincial judge refused to hear her plea for a divorce and insisted that local elders resolve the matter.
Janakiram said the woman was so scared of being forced to return to her abusive husband that on Jan. 30, she set herself ablaze in front of the Laghman court. She had burns on 98 percent of her body and died a week later.
Naderi told of a 16-year-old girl kidnapped from her engagement party by three men and raped, after which her fiance called off the engagement.
"The whole village blacklisted her and said, 'It's your fault. Why did you go with them?' She was a lost soul because she was raped," Naderi said.
Rukhma, who goes by only one name, is still hoping an appeals court will free her.
social codes
In parts of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, a woman who runs away from home is typically suspected of having taken a lover and can be prosecuted for adultery. Simply leaving her house without her family's permission may be deemed an offense, although it is not classified as such under Afghanistan's penal code.
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| 16 May 2008 - 09:56 | alejandra
jeff1243@verizon.net
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HOLA!!!
* Yo sufro de violencia domestica de pare de mi pareja desde mis 18 años,ahora tengo 23, siempre pienso q el cambiara pero pasa un tiempo y buelve a pasar. Lo peor es que tenemos una hija de 1año,3meses y se da cuenta de todo y eso me tiene super mal lastimosamente no tengo a ningun familiar y amistad que me pueda ayudar. Estoy sola y cuando me desido a dejarlo no se ni para donde agarrar, otra cosa que me perjudica es que no me deja trabajar y dependo de el. Estoy escribiendo porque me gustaria hablar con alguien q me pudiera ayudar y con la cual pudiera platicar sobre el tema, pues con la gente conocida no me gusta hablar de esto porque me da mucha verguenza.
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| 15 May 2008 - 20:35 | WARD FOUR
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JOIN US IN OUR FIGHT TO
STOP ALL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
THE WARD FOUR EDUCATION
COUNCIL
PRESENTS ITS THIRD FORUM ON
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Lamond Riggs Rec Center 501 Riggs Rd NE
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A VICTIM ANY MORE
Moderator
From 93.9 WKYS
Jeannie Jones
Key Note Speakers:
Chief of Police Cathy Lanier
DC Metropolitan Police Department
How will the police department handle domestic violence in our
communities?
Mildred Muhammad (ex-wife of DC Sniper John Muhammad)
Come hear her story: The terror of living in fear at the hands of a
domestic violence
perpetrator and survival in the aftermath of such a horrible
experience.
Women Empowerment Against Violence (WEAVE)
Help is available for victims and their families: DC has the highest
teen DV rate in the country
What impact does domestic violence have on children who have parents that are victims of domestic abuse?
SPONSORS:
Ward Four Education Council & DC Women Commission for Women
Contact info 202-487-5926
Cherita Whiting
Former Chair of 4B ANC Commission
McKinley Tech PTA President
DCPTA Board of Directors
Chairperson Ward 4 Education Council
DCPS Education Compact Committee
Ward 4 Rep for Water & Sewer Advisory Committee
Commissioner on the Commission for Women District of Columbia
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| 15 May 2008 - 12:30 | ipsnews.
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42309
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Colombia: Therapeutic Abortion - A Right in Name Only?
Source: Inter Press Service News Agency
May 09, 2008 - A woman in Pasto, the capital of the western Colombian
province of Nariño, found out that the baby she was expecting was severely deformed. But when she went to the provincial university hospital for an abortion, the chief obstetrician gynaecologist told her that "If your son is born deformed, take him to a circus."
Cases like this one gave rise to LAICIA (High Impact Litigation, the
Unconstitutionality of Abortion Law in Colombia). The group is headed by Mónica Roa, a young lawyer with Women's Link Worldwide (WLW), which works for gender equality through legal action and "the development and strategic
implementation of human rights laws" around the world.
Since 2005, Roa has been fighting to get the Constitutional Court in
Colombia -- where abortion on demand is illegal, as in the rest of Latin America, with the exception of Cuba and Mexico City -- to take a stance on the issue.
Her group is backed by the Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres
(Committee for the Life and Health of Women), which has been working for several years to make sexual and reproductive rights a reality in Colombia.
In May 2006, the Constitutional Court handed down a verdict that
decriminalised therapeutic abortion in cases where pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, the foetus has a deformity that would prevent survival outside the womb, or the expectant mother's health or life is in danger.
Since then, abortion in such cases has become a legal right, and Roa has worked at making sure that the court's decision does not remain a paper promise.
The powerful Roman Catholic Church excommunicated the five Constitutional Court magistrates who voted in favour of the verdict, and threatened to do the same for doctors who perform therapeutic abortions.
Of all pregnancies in Colombia, 24 percent end in abortion and 26 percent in unwanted births, says a Ministry of Social Protection report made available to IPS by Deputy Minister Carlos Ignacio Cuervo.
More than half of all pregnancies are unplanned, and in one out of four illegal abortions, the patient ends up in a hospital or clinic because of complications. Between 1990 and 1995, more than 80,000 women were hospitalised as a result of abortion-related complications.
This figure "suggests that for every 10 live births, there are nearly four
abortions, and for every 100 women between the ages of 15 and 49, three have had an abortion," says the report. The Ministry of Social Protection estimates that around 300,000 illegal abortions a year are practiced in Colombia.
According to the ministry, abortion is the third cause of maternal
mortality in this country, a rate that Colombia must reduce by 75 percent by 2015, from 1990 levels, to meet the fifth of eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the international community in 2000.
But Beatriz Quintero, general coordinator of the Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, does not believe the decriminalisation of therapeutic abortion has had an impact on maternal mortality.
According to the Ministry of Social Protection regulations drawn up in late 2006 and 2007, based on the Constitutional Court ruling, therapeutic abortion must be performed under the specified conditions by all public or
private health services.
To access the complete article, please visit
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?i dnews=42309
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| 15 May 2008 - 12:22 | IRIN
URL: www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=78 . . .
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Mauritania: Justice not working for rape victims
Source: IRIN Africa
May 13, 2008 - The Mauritanian government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal texts make for slow progress.
The penal code, which is heavily based on Sharia or Islamic law, does not give a precise definition of sexual violence, said lawyer Bilal Ould Dik, so a judge's personal point of view can strongly sway his conviction decision.
"Rape convictions are very rare [in Mauritania] because we are working with such unclear legal texts," he told IRIN. As a result, "rapes often just end with a settlement between the family of the perpetrator and the victim".
And, according to Dik, many judges automatically label sexual abuses as voluntary sexual relations occurring outside of marriage, known as the crime of 'zina' in Mauritania.
"For many judges, the rape victim is 50 percent responsible for what has
happened to them," said Zeinebou mint Taleb Moussam, chairwoman of non-governmental organisation (NGO) Mauritanian association for the health of mothers and children (AMSME).
While the number of reported rapes in the capital Nouakchott has tripled
from 25 to 75 in the past year, according to Ahmed Seyfer head of child protection for UNICEF, next to none of the perpetrators were punished.
Stronger legal texts
The Mauritanian authorities tried to build more robust legal protection for children who have been sexually assaulted, on top of the penal code, by passing the Juvenile code in 2005.
Because of that Mauritanian children theoretically enjoy some of the strongest legal protection than children in any of their West African
neighbours, according to Frederica Riccardi, representative of NGO Terre des Hommes.
To access the complete article, please visit
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.as px?ReportId=78182
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| 15 May 2008 - 12:19 | Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
URL: www.wgnrr.org/home.php
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Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR): Call for Action
against RSHR violations in conflict situations
Source:
[Please note: The information below has been adapted directly from the
source.]
Thousands of women across the globe are subjected to sexual violence,abuse, torture and rape throughout conflict situations. In the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 4500 cases of sexual
abuse were reported during the first six months of 2007 alone. There
continues to be a global pattern of, often extreme, sexual and gender-based violence in conflict situations, which is frequently dismissed as an
inevitable and unavoidable by-product of conflict. Consequently, women survivors suffer physical and psychological health complications andeconomic and social exclusion; they often have no access to health care, including the necessity for access to safe and legal abortion services.
With more than 50 countries currently in the midst of armed conflict and the unabated violation of women's reproductive and sexual health rights being reported in every international and domestic war zone, WGNRR's Call for Action in 2008: Stop conflict being waged against women's bodies! Hold
local, national and international actors accountable for securing women's reproductive and sexual health and rights!
The Call for Action will be
launched worldwide on May 28th, the International Day of Action for Women's Health, through different events.
For further information and to download the call for action, please visit
http://www.wgnrr.org/home.php
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| 15 May 2008 - 12:12 | Barbara Monroe
vstrends2004@yahoo.com
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Calling all sonoma county women that have not been allowed communication with their child during "father's" costodial time. This seems to be the start of what ends up in severe parential alienation. Otherwise used in the old fashioned term of "brainwashing" that the child dosen't need MOM.
* I was just in Sonoma County Mediation and explained to the mediator that in our case father refussd to allow communication during christmas for 9 days, and refused to allow any communication at any time during costodial time, including holidays. Communication was court ordered between mother and child before but department 15, accused me of using the court orders as weapon's aginst Father because I wanted contempt of court orders due to non-compliance.
* I was now the perpertrator because I wanted justice, and the court to up hold what they originally stated was just and appropiate.
* I am asking all women to come forward and tell me thier stories about the lack of family court up holding the court orders thay put into place, threats that have been made to them that thier chlidren will be taken if they complain one more time, and any alienation situations. Family court is well aware of this knowing fathers are not following court orders, but no matter what increase thier time, it appears Sonoma County only rewards bad behavior! Please contact me with any information on the above intitled information at vstrends2004@yahoo.com
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* Thank you for your time and any input!
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| 14 May 2008 - 10:27 | INCITE!
incite_national@yahoo.com
URL: incite-national.org
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INCITE! LAUNCHES BEAUTIFUL NEW WEBSITE http://incite-national.org/
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence announces the exciting launch of our newly re-created website. Check it out:
http://incite-national.org/
Beautifully designed and engineered by Tumis (http://tumis.com/), a
fantastic bilingual design studio dedicated to global social justice that is woman-owned and run by people of color, the new website features an overview of INCITE!'s history, analysis, news, and projects. The site also includes
organizing resources <http://incite-national.org/index.php?s= 37 > , more detailed information about INCITE!
<http://incite-national.org/index.php? s=46 > chapters and affiliates, and
ways to get involved <http://incite-national.org/index.php?s= 36 > in radical women of color organizing.
Additionally, an Organizing <http://incite-national.org/index.php?s= 52 >
Toolkit To Stop Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color has been integrated into the new site. This toolkit provides critical organizing resources to address police brutality, immigration police violence, and militarism targeting women and trans people
of color. Check it out here:
http://incite-national.org/index.php ?s=52
In the coming months, we will develop additional elements in the site including:
* a blog to spark critical dialogue among women of color and our communities
about news, events, and ideas
* more developed resources such as a bibliography of books, articles, and films, and a list of weblinks to fantastic organizations and centers of information
* more accessible organizing tools to support grassroots mobilization
Be sure to visit our site <http://incite-national.org/index.php?s= 85 > map
to help navigate through the newly organized site:
http://incite-national.org/index.php ?s=85
Thank you to the amazing INCITE! community and supporters, including the Funding Exchange Media Justice Fund, for providing the resources and support
needed to create the new site. We still have more work to do to make the site truly dynamic and interactive and your financial support is vital for
that project. Please visit our donation
<http://incite-national.org/index.php? s=67 > page to help sustain this work!
http://incite-national.org/index.php ?s=67
To send feedback or questions about the site, please e-mail us at
incite_national@yahoo.com.
THANK YOU!
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| 14 May 2008 - 09:29 | abc.es
URL: www.abc.es/20080514/sociedad-sociedad/mu . . .
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Las mujeres discapacitadas sufren el doble de agresiones físicas y psíquicas
LUZ DERQUI. VALENCIA.
Ocho de cada cien mujeres que sufre algún tipo de discapacidad han sido maltratadas en alguna ocasión o bien física o bien psíquicamente, lo que supone un índice que duplica el registrado entre las mujeres sin discapacidad, según estudios elaborados por el Instituto de la Mujer.
Éste es uno de los datos puestos de relieve ayer en Valencia durante un Curso Magistral sobre «Mujer, Discapacidad y Violencia» organizado por el Centro Reina Sofía para el Estudio de la Violencia que contó con la participación de Hillary Brown, profesora de Trabajo Social y Consultora Senior de Protección de Adultos en la Universidad de Canterbury.
Los expertos que participaron en el encuentro coincidieron en destacar la necesidad de arbitrar medidas para poner fin a esta situación, entre las que se encuentra dotar de formación específica a todo el personal que está en contacto con mujeres discapacitadas, desde cuidadores a agentes de la policía, médicos o funcionarios. En este sentido, señalaron el elevado número de personas que están en contacto con estas mujeres, ya que debido a su dependencia necesitan mucha ayuda en su día a día.
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http://www.abc.es/20080514/sociedad-sociedad/mujeres-discapacitadas-sufren-doble_200805140252.html
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| 14 May 2008 - 09:14 | eanor Smeal
feministmajority@mail.democracyinaction.org
URL: salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900 . . .
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Take Action to Support International Family Planning!
Dear feminist activist,
Today, over 200 million women who want birth control lack access to contraceptives. Please join the movement to reverse cuts to reproductive health programs, helping the poorest of women. During the Bush years, international family planning funding has been cut some 40% in real dollars, and funding to the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) has been withheld for the past six years.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24484
We just spent the last week with Dr. Solomon Orero, a heroic Kenyan OB/GYN, who described to us in vivid detail the suffering and unnecessary deaths of young women and girls in Kenya. We also worked with Dr. Nafis Sadik from the United Nations, who described the harmful conditionality of US funding, such as wasteful abstinence-only programs and restrictive policies like the global gag rule. We must reverse the direction of US international reproductive health policies.
Take action now! Write to Senator Pat Leahy (D- VT) and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), chairs of the House and Senate State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations subcommittees. Urge them to support an $530 million increase in U.S. assistance to international family planning, including $63.5 million to the United Nations Population Fund, in the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act for FY 2009. This brings the total funding for international family planning to $1 billion, less than the cost of 1 missile.
Without adequate access to birth control, more than 500,000 young women die each year from pregnancy related causes and complications in childbirth. Another 70,000 women and girls die from botched, unsafe abortions. Women want access to birth control, but our government's policy of cutting family planning funding is contributing to unnecessary suffering and death.
Take Action! Tell the House Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations and Related Programs Chairs Senator Pat Leahy and Congresswoman Nita Lowey know you support empowering women and increasing international family planning funding to $1 billion.
For Women's Lives,
Eleanor Smeal
President, Feminist Majority Foundation
Anushay Hossain,
Global Programs Coordinator
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| 13 May 2008 - 19:04 | Enrique Julian
evianaucu@hotmail.com
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Soy Licenciado de Enfermería y Psicologo Social.Trabajo en el 1er. Nivel de Atención a la Salud en Prevención del Maltrato Infantil y Abuso sexual a niñ@s. Me gustaría recibir información de las actividades que realizan.
* Felicitaciones por todo lo que hacen!!! Cordialmente. Lic. Enrique Viana Pereyra.
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| 13 May 2008 - 19:02 | ana
anasmileyfuture@hushmail.com
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Hallo, I was married 3 years ago , I left my abuser husband 6 months ago because he abused me in many ways , threats of physical violence & death threats . We have 1 baby , she is 11 month old . Now I am applying in Marion county court , Fl. for dissolution of marriage due to domestic violence ,property division & child custody . Please if any one of the readers has experience in this topic & is willing to advice me in my court proceeding , I appreciate that too much . Thank you .
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| 13 May 2008 - 17:17 | Nidia
papafrita665@yahoo.com
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fui victima verbal y sicologica de violencia por parte de mi esposo hace unos 4 meses, resultado de esta violencia tuve que regresar a mi pais de origen (Colombia),ya que el me estaba persiguiendo constantemente despues de haberlo dejado en una ocasion le llame la policia pero aun asi no me pude quedar alla. Tengo un pequeño hijo nacido en CA, tiene 2 años y medio de vida y realmente no se que hacer pues continuo casada con el y las oportunidades en mi pais para mi y mi hijo son muy limitadas y no quisiera que el perdiera su nacionalidad y tambien quisiera separarme legalmente de el, pero tendria que regresar a Estados Unidos y mi visa esta vencida, mi hermano me pedio pero me faltan unos 5 años mas para obtener los papeles, les pido su ayuda y su consejo, por favor estoy desesperada sin empleo y sin servicios de salud para mi hijo. Gracias
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| 12 May 2008 - 11:36 | admin
URL: lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story . . .
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Is this the worst place on earth to be a woman?
In Yemen, women belong to men. Most are illiterate. They are arrested in the street. They die in childbirth. In this special report, Rachel Cooke meets the brave few who are campaigning for midwives and against early marriage
see full article:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2278332,00.html
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| 12 May 2008 - 11:25 | Boletin e-leusis
URL: www.e-leusis.net/
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Educación no aplica la Ley contra la Violencia de Género aprobada hace cuatro años
Fuentes próximas a la Cadena SER lo admiten sin reparo. No se ha hecho nada para aplicar en el sistema educativo la Ley Integral contra la Violencia de Género aprobada en diciembre de 2004. Ni se han revisado los libros de texto ni hay formación para el profesorado. El Gobierno planea crear un pacto de Estado en la próxima Conferencia de presidentes autonómicos, según fuentes del ministerio de Igualdad.
Cadena Ser
No se habla de estos temas en las clases, no ha habido formación para el profesorado, fundamental para la detección precoz de la violencia en el ámbito familiar. No se han revisado los libros de texto para eliminar el lenguaje sexista, no hay expertas de género en los consejos escolares y la inspección tampoco vigila que se cumplan estas medidas.
Todo sigue igual según Esther Muñoz de la Federación de Educación del sindicato CC. OO. "Se han perdido estos cuatro años, esperemos que en esta nueva legislatura se pongan todas las condiciones necesarias para que no perdamos ni un minuto más", ha dicho esta representante del sector educativo.
El único paso que se ha dado ha sido la implantación y sólo en siete comunidades autónomas de la asignatura de Educación para la Ciudadanía, en cuyo temario el capítulo de género ha quedado diluido, sobre todo en los colegios religiosos concertados.
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| 12 May 2008 - 11:23 | admin
URL: www.womensenews.org
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JUDGE RULES RAPE OF ABORIGINAL GIRL 'TRADITIONAL'
INTERNATIONAL
By Sonia Shah - WEnews correspondent
NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia (WOMENSENEWS <http://www.womensenews.org/> )
-- A state judge defended an Aboriginal man's right to forcible
intercourse with an underage girl as a 40,000-year-old traditional
practice and has set off a national debate over the role of culture in
practices that deny women autonomy.
A Northern Territory judge ruled in October that a 15-year-old Aboriginal girl "knew what was expected of her" and "didn't need protection" when a 50-year-old man, who was later revealed to have been convicted of slaughtering his former wife, allegedly raped the girl and shot a gun into the air when she complained about it. Expert testimony submitted by an
anthropologist in the case called the man's arrangement with the girl
"traditional" and therefore "morally correct."
The girl's parents had "promised" her as a wife to the man, Jackie Pascoe Jamilmira, at the girl's birth, in return for a portion of Pascoe's
fortnightly government allowance. The girl resisted his advances, so he punched her, "put his foot onto my neck" and raped her, according to her statement to the police. When the girl's family was unable to protect the girl, police took Pascoe, brandishing a shotgun, into custody.
Later, when the girl refused to speak to prosecutors, the judge pressed rape charges against Pascoe anyway. Government-sponsored legal aid lawyers
provided Pascoe's defense, netting him a nominal 24-hour-sentence on
appeal. Several high-ranking government officials nodded with approval when the appeal judge upheld Pascoe's defense, explaining that while Pascoe knew he had done something wrong in the eyes of Western law, his
conduct was "Aboriginal custom" and part of his culture.
Women's Rights Advocates Say Tradition Has Long Been Distorted
Aboriginal feminists and anthropologists disagree. They say the real issue is how Aboriginal "tradition" has been distorted to mask the abuses of
both Aboriginal men and the white-dominated legal system.
Traditionally, small bands of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers adhered to a strict kinship system that afforded protection, autonomy and respect to girls and women, says anthropologist Diane Bell, who has written several books on Aboriginal women. Young girls in arranged marriages to older men
would be protected by overseeing co-wives and a semi-public life in
open-air camps, which ensured that relatives would come running, spears in hand, should sounds of violence echo across the desert.
This traditional Aboriginal culture has been "bastardized and brutalized," says Aboriginal professor Judy Atkinson, who has exposed the extent of violence against Aboriginal women in books and government reports. British
colonizers arrived on the continent in 1788, unleashing disease, slaughter and merciless programs of forced assimilation. Aboriginals were dispossessed and herded onto densely packed government settlements and missions in a colonization that vanquished the 1 million-strong Aboriginal
population to about 60,000 by the 1920s.
To "protect" Aboriginal children from "evil Aboriginal culture," between 1910 and 1970, state authorities took as many as a third of all Aboriginal infants and children from their families, in what is now being referred to as a "stolen" generation. "Rabbit-Proof Fence," a film that opens today in
New York and Los Angeles, recounts this period in Australian history.
Poverty Plagues Aboriginal Women
Today, many Aboriginals "live in environments similar to those in the
poorest developing countries," according to a government-sponsored task force on violence against Aboriginal women. While non-Aboriginal Australians can expect to live to age 78, the average Aboriginal's life ends at age 53, a yawning disparity greater than that between indigenous and settler populations in North America and New Zealand. Alcoholism and
petrol-sniffing are rampant.
Aboriginal women and children are 45 times more likely to be victims of
domestic violence than non-Aboriginal women, and eight times more likely to be murdered. As allegations of serial and gang rape swirl around the commissioner of the nation's top Aboriginal government agency, the
epidemic of violence against Aboriginal women has emerged as a national crisis.
"We will, in the end, have destroyed ourselves if we do not put a stop to
family violence now," said indigenous leader Jackie Huggins at a recent conference on domestic violence.
Functioning Aboriginal communities practice a complex system of community justice, with women as law-keepers and men as law-enforcers, enjoined to protect the young, anthropologists say. But today, many Aboriginal people
"feel powerless to intervene in their own communities," says Atkinson. At the same time, "there is enormous pressure on Aboriginal women and children not to go to the police, not to report to the authorities," says Dr. Harry Blagg, an expert on Aboriginals and the criminal justice system.
The government's legal-aid services to Aboriginals protect defendants, not victims, thus producing "a body of case law with a rather spurious understanding all skewed toward men's perspectives," adds Bell.
And official neglect apparently continues because of the sense, validated yet again in the Pascoe case, that Aboriginal men's rapes and beatings of Aboriginal women and girls are "traditional culture" that whites do well to ignore. Survivors' accounts of law enforcement officials laughing off reports of violent Aboriginal homes abound. In one community, police officers openly told Atkinson that they would do nothing about the rape of
a 5-year-old Aboriginal girl. "They said: 'That is cultural behavior,'"
she recalls.
Calling aberrant, misogynist behavior such as Pascoe's traditional "pathologize[s] our cultures," says Atkinson.
"We are living in a war zone in Aboriginal communities. Different
behaviors come out of that," she says. "Yet the courts of law validate
that behavior."
Sonia Shah is a freelance journalist based in North Queensland, Australia. She is editor of Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire.
For more information:
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence Report, State of Queensland, 1999: -
<http://www.indigenous.qld.gov.au/PDF/ thenextstep/V_Report.pdf>
http://www.indigenous.qld.gov.au/PDF/t henextstep/V_Report.pdf
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse: -
http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.e du.au
<http://www.austdvclearinghouse.u nsw.edu.au/>
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Social Justice: -
<http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justi ce/index.html>
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/ social_justice/index
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| 12 May 2008 - 11:09 | Joy Tonawai UNIFEM
joy.tonawai@unifem.org
URL: www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_ag . . .
| UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women
UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Issues Annual Call for Proposals - Focus on Implementing Laws and Supporting Innovation
United Nations, New York - The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, managed by UNIFEM on behalf of the UN system, issued its 2008 global annual call for proposals to support national and local initiatives working to end violence against women in the developing world and countries in transition on 28 April 2008. The Trust Fund, established
in 1996 by the UN General Assembly, is an essential source of funding to promote strategies and solutions that make women safer, strengthen
courts, law enforcement and enhance services for women.
Within the overall focus of supporting the implementation of national laws and plans of action on violence against women, the 2008 Call for Proposals is inviting civil society organizations, governments and UN Country Teams to submit programs on two areas: first, upscaling promising or proven approaches on ending violence against women and girls, and
second, supporting innovative and catalytic proposals that will expand
the global knowledge base on effective approaches to end violence against women.
The complete Call for Proposals detailing eligibility requirements and
complete guidelines on how to apply by the 26 May deadline is available at:
www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_ against_women/trust_fund_guidelines.php
or via the UNIFEM homepage.
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and the UNIFEM Say NO initiative strongly support UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's UNiTE to
End Violence against Women campaign launched 25 February 2008. Violence against women is probably the most pervasive human rights violation and one in three women will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
Joy Tonawai
EVAW Program Coordinator
UNIFEM Pacific Regional Office
Suva, Fiji
Phone: (679) 330 1178
Fax: (679) 330 1654
Email: joy.tonawai@unifem.org or progasst_unifem@undp.org
Website: www.pacific.unifem.org <http://www.pacific.unifem.org/>
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