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| 19 Oct 2008 - 21:43 | Clarin
URL: www.clarin.com/diario/2008/10/19/policia . . .
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Argentina
UN LUGAR DE SANTA FE QUE SE HIZO CONOCIDO PORQUE CUATRO JOVENES FUERON CAPTADAS POR REDES DE TRATA
SAN JAVIER, EL PUEBLO QUE VIVE DE LA EXPLOTACION FEMENINA
Las chicas se prostituyen desde pequeñas con turistas extranjeros.
Por: Alejandro Marinelli
Fuente: SAN JAVIER. ENVIADO ESPECIAL
A TRABAJAR. ALGUNAS CHICAS VAN EN BICICLETA A ESPERAR A LOS CLIENTES. SON PARTE DEL PAISAJE DE SAN JAVIER.
Ella se fue a las cabañas como siempre, pero nos preocupamos porque no volvió". Estas palabras las dijo una madre al denunciar en la comisaría la desaparición de su hija y ayudan mucho a entender lo que sucede en San Javier. En esta zona de Santa Fe nadie se espanta por lo que pasa en "las cabañas". Las visitas de las chicas del pueblo a los bungalows donde se alojan los turistas extranjeros son muy habituales. Con esos billetes de una noche les dan de comer durante días a sus familias. Por esa razón nadie se preocupa porque vayan. Pero sí porque no vuelvan.
Continua....
www.clarin.com/diario/2008/10/19/policiales/g-01784528.htm
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| 19 Oct 2008 - 21:29 | Nacion
URL: www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/octubre/18/pai . . .
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Costa Rica
Gestión de Dall’anese
Fiscal ordena continuar lucha contra violencia doméstica
Instrucción surge tras fallo de Sala IV que anuló dos artículos de esa Ley
Directriz insta a fiscales a oponerse al levantamiento de medidas cautelares
Los fiscales deben oponerse al levantamiento o cambio de medidas cautelares a los sospechosos de haber agredido a su pareja, según lo ordenó el fiscal general de la República, Francisco Dall’Anese.
Esto a pesar de que la Sala IV anuló los artículos 22 y 25 de la Ley de Penalización de la Violencia contra las Mujeres, que establecían el castigo de cárcel por maltrato físico o psicológico.
Dall’Anese emitió una directriz en la que le recordó a los fiscales una circular del 2005, en la la cual ordenó perseguir los delitos contra las mujeres basados en los artículos 123, 124 y 125 del Código Penal.
Según la interpretación del Fiscal General, estas normas sirven incluso para tipificar la agresión psicológica pues en el artículo 125, que norma las lesiones leves, se diferencia entre los daños al cuerpo y los daños a la salud.
“En las lesiones que aparecen en el Código Penal se habla de daños en el cuerpo y la salud, de manera que hay que interpretar que los daños en el cuerpo son los daños físicos y en la salud se trata de la salud psicológica”, explicó Dall’Anese durante una visita a Upala.
El Ministerio Público seguirá accionando los casos de violencia doméstica e insistiendo en mantener las medidas cautelares, ya sea prisión preventiva u órdenes restrictivas que tienen los sospechosos de agredir a una mujer.
El jueves Adaptación Social comunicó a La Nación que hay 61 hombres en prisión preventiva por acusaciones de maltrato y otros 21 por violencia emocional.
Medida de emergencia. La presidenta del Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (Inamu), Jeannette Carrillo, calificó la orden del Fiscal como una “medida de emergencia” para evitar que la vida de muchas mujeres esté en peligro.
“Tomamos (en el Inamu) con agrado la rapidez con la que la Fiscalía y el Poder Judicial actuaron para evitar una excarcelación masiva que atentaría contra la seguridad de muchas víctimas”, comentó anoche Carrillo. Colaboró el corresponsal Carlos Hernández.
FOTOS
Para Francisco Dall’Anese “la defensa de las mujeres y la represión de la violencia es una decisión que hemos tomado como Estado”. Archivo
Otras causas penales
Artículos del Código Penal que tipifican los crímenes contra las mujeres, incluso los de carácter psicológico, de acuerdo a la interpretación de Dall’Anese:
123 – Lesiones gravísimas: Se impondrá prisión de tres a diez años a quien produzca una lesión que cause una disfunción intelectual, sensorial o física o un trastorno emocional severo que produzca incapacidad permanente para el trabajo, pérdida de sentido, de un órgano, de un miembro, imposibilidad de usar un órgano o un miembro, pérdida de la palabra o pérdida de la capacidad de engendrar o concebir.
124 – Lesiones graves: Se impondrá prisión de uno a seis años, si la lesión produjere una debilitación persistente de la salud, de un sentido, de un órgano, de un miembro o de una función o si hubiere incapacitado al ofendido para dedicarse a sus ocupaciones habituales por más de un mes o le hubiere dejado una marca indeleble en el rostro.
125 – Lesiones leves: Se impondrá prisión de tres meses a un año a quien causare a otro un daño en el cuerpo o la salud, que determine incapacidad para sus ocupaciones habituales por más de cinco días y hasta por un mes.
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| 19 Oct 2008 - 21:18 | diariometro
URL: www.diariometro.es/es/article/ep/2008/10 . . .
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Tres de cada cuatro mujeres y niños son objeto de violencia doméstica física
La lentitud burocrática limita el efecto de las ordenes de alejamiento contra los abusadores
MADRID, 19 (EUROPA PRESS)
Papua Nueva Guinea registra una de las tasas de violencia física contra mujeres y niños más elevadas del mundo: según datos de UNICEF, cerca del 80 por ciento de los niños son víctimas de abuso verbal, y tres de cada cuatro mujeres y niños son objeto de violencia física.
La mayoría de las 800 tribus que componen el país viven en regiones remotas, inaccesibles, donde la tradición impone las familias expandidas y una cultura patriarcal donde las mujeres y las niñas carecen del valor que se les concede a los hombres y a los jóvenes, y dónde los niños adoptados o huérfanos atraviesan tiempos especialmente difíciles.
Continua...
www.diariometro.es/es/article/ep/2008/10/19/20081019162954/index.xml
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| 19 Oct 2008 - 20:22 | New York Times
URL: www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/world/africa/ . . .
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Rape Victims’ Words Help Jolt Congo Into Change
New York Times
/www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/world/africa/18congo.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| 19 Oct 2008 - 16:15 | No Name
naadu2@yahoo.com
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How do I get a women's advocate? Am a victim of rape by a distance relative. I need to ask questions and help am not getting from the DA's office Please. My try date is about 2 weeks a way.
* Am in Newark and Ex. county
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| 18 Oct 2008 - 11:36 | feminist peace network
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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New feminist peace network boletin
www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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| 18 Oct 2008 - 10:57 | Time Inc.
URL: www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1 . . .
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President Ortega vs. the Feminists
Time Inc.
By Tim Rogers
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's macho and mustachioed Sandinista commandante of the 1970s and '80s, may claim the mantle of revolutionary "new man," but Latin America's feminists insist Ortega is a dirty old man. Throughout the continent, Ortega is being hounded by feminist groups over his alleged sexual abuse of stepdaughter Zoilamerica Narvaez during the 1980s. The allegation first surfaced in 1998, but was eventually dismissed by a Sandinista judge without investigation or trial — despite an investigation by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, which determined that the case had merit. In most democracies, the furor would have been enough to sink any political career. But not in Nicaragua, where Ortega — protected by legal immunity and a judicial system stacked with Sandinista judges — has not only survived but thrived, returning to the presidency in 2007 and amassing more power than ever before. But now that Ortega is trying to reclaim his place in the international pantheon of revolutionary heroes, the feminists are crying foul. Unable to pursue him through Nicaragua's legal system, they are instead subjecting the Sandinista leader to the tribunal of public opinion.
Ortega's accusers are not limited to Nicaragua's small feminist organizations. The minister of women's affairs in Paraguay's new left-wing government, Gloria Rubin, whipped up a media storm in August by calling Ortega a "rapist" and protesting his invitation to President Fernando Lugo's inauguration — an event Ortega eventually skipped to avoid the heat. A week later in Honduras, Selma Estrada, minister of the National Institute of Women, resigned her government post in protest over the official invitation of Ortega to Tegucigalpa. And in El Salvador, feminist leaders are asking their government to declare Ortega persona non grata before he's scheduled to attend a presidential summit there at the end of the month.
Throughout Latin America, the feminist movement has become Ortega's nemesis, challenging his efforts to restore his image as a progressive and revolutionary leader. Although Narvaez last month wrote to the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights asking it to close the books on her case — she did not retract the accusation that Ortega had sexually abused her, but simply said she'd made a decision to "find a solution" and asked for others to respect her privacy — the president's problem with the women of Latin America continues to grow. Last week in Honduras, Ortega had to sneak in through the back door of a Central American presidential summit to avoid feminists who were waiting for him out front holding pictures of his stepdaughter.
"This is Ortega's main vulnerability, which is making it very difficult for him to recapture the image of the great Latin American revolutionary leader like Fidel Castro," said Maria Teresa Blandon, an activist with Nicaragua's Feminist Movement.
Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, who has long been accused by feminists of being a silent accomplice in her daughter's alleged abuse, are fighting back with a Sandinista inquisition. Ortega has used all his tentacles — Sandinista media outlets, government ministries and fanatical party structures — to investigate, slander and harass Nicaragua's feminist movement, which is being informally accused of everything from money laundering and conspiring with the CIA, to "illegally" promoting abortion, pornography and "assassinating children".
Murillo has even tried to reinvent the feminist movement in her own image by penning an Orwellian essay called "Feminism and Low Intensity War." Murillo's feminist manifesto is intended to change the way Nicaraguan women look at feminism, but her views will hardly be deemed transformative — she lauds the traditional role of a woman as wife and mother, and rails against other feminists as "counterrevolutionaries" who "dress in the clothing of women, but have never known the sensibility of a woman's heart."
Murillo tried to give life to her new feminist vision through the unveiling of a new women's movement, "The Blanca Arauz Movement for the Dignity of Women's Rights," named after the wife of Sandinista namesake Augusto Sandino. The movement, which materialized overnight, is made up of Sandinista activists who profess their solidarity with "our sister, Rosario Murillo" and denounce other feminist groups critical of Ortega. The "Blanca Arauz" movement recently tried to legitimize itself by requesting a meeting with other feminist organizations in El Salvador, but there wasn't interest in networking with Murillo's group.
Now the Sandinista inquisition is escalating from threats to actions. Last Friday, state prosecutors and police raided the central office of the Autonomous Women's Movement (MAM) and another local NGO that has helped finance the feminist movement and removed all the files, computers and bookkeeping from their offices, in what Public Prosecutor Armando Juarez called a raid to "find evidence" to mount a case against them. The local opposition press denounced the raid as a "Gestapo" tactic, and women's rights activists from across Latin America released a joint statement from Guatemala denouncing the Ortega government's "institutionalized misogynism" and "campaign to criminalize feminists."
Nicaraguan journalist and feminist leader Sofia Montenegro, a central target in the government's crackdown, predicts Ortega's "psychologically vulgar and manipulative campaign" will eventually boomerang on him. Montenegro says the personal nature of the attacks against her have been so crass that even the machista element of Nicaraguan society is rejecting what many view as a cowardly persecution of women. "Men think: that could be my sister, or my wife," she said.
The attacks have only served to "throw more wood on the fire" and reinforce Ortega's misogynistic image abroad, Montenegro said. Even now that Narvaez has withdrawn her abuse case, the protests will continue to grow because the movement is now "out of her hands," Montenegro says.
"The case of Nicaragua has become super emblematic in Latin America because there was a revolution here and it was supposed to bring social change," she said. "If this was Pinochet's Chile, no one would expect differently, but with Ortega, it's doubly hard."
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| 18 Oct 2008 - 10:02 | Joan Zorza
joan@zorza.net
URL: www.oas.org/oaspage/live/OASlive.asp
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Opportunity to hear on-line VAW International Case
To watch a webcast of the hearing on Wednesday go to:
http://www.oas.org/oaspage/live/OASlive.asp
For more information, contact
*Selene Kaye, Advocacy Coordinator*
Women's Rights Project | American Civil Liberties Union
T: 212.549.2645 | F: 212.549.2580 | skaye@aclu.org
www.aclu.org/womensrights
This is the first case from the U.S. involving violence against women to
ever be heard before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and people can actually watch it live over the Internet.
Jessica Gonzales (now Lenahan) sadly lost her case against the Castle Rock [Colorado] police in the U.S. Supreme Court. They held the police had no duty to protect her children by enforcing her order of protection, despite clear law in Colorado mandating that police arrest anyone in violation of
an order of protection. The failure resulted in her ex-husband killing all three of their children. Her case, now re-framed as a violation of her
human rights by the U.S. government, will be presented before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights this coming Wednesday (Oct. 23).
It is officially scheduled from 3:15 to 4:15 pm (Eastern Time)in Washington, DC at 1889 F St., NW at the corner of 19th St. Her information will be posted on the ACLU's web site. For those who can't attend in person (most
readers, I suspect), but would like to hear the arguments, read the draft of what she plans to post on the ACUL web site, which ends with how to access the court's hearing on-line. (And one can listen in on about 5 languages, including English.) Note that she will testify herself, as well as be represented. Please feel free to pass this on to others likely to be interested in seeing this case. It is an amazing opportunity. The IACHR court grants only a few hearings even when it takes cases. Previously it
heard issues around standing and exhaustion of remedies in this case.
All my best, Joan Zorza
Editor, Domestic Violence Report
*J****
Jessica (Gonzales) Lenahan blog post *
My name is Jessica Lenahan and I am a survivor of domestic violence. On Wednesday I will make my second appearance before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC. The IACHR is responsible for
promoting and protecting human rights throughout the Americas. I turned to the IACHR three years ago because the justice system in the United States abandoned me.
In June 1999, my estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, abducted my three young
daughters in violation of a domestic violence restraining order I had
obtained against him three weeks before. I repeatedly contacted and pleaded with the Castle Rock Police for assistance, but they refused to act. Late that night, Simon arrived at the police station and opened fire. He was killed and the bodies of my three girls were found murdered in the cab of his truck.
I sued the town of Castle Rock, Colorado for failing to enforce the
restraining order I had against my husband at the time. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court, but they ruled that the enforcement of a restraining order wasn't mandatory under Colorado law. I felt utterly abandoned: the police had failed in their duty to protect me and my girls, and the government told me there was nothing wrong with that. I was sure that I would never have my day in court or a proper investigation of what happened. I nearly gave up at that point – I had gone all the way to the Supreme Court, and I thought that was the end of the line.
But in December 2005, with the help of the ACLU and the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, I filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In March 2007, I testified before the IACHR –
the first time I was allowed to tell my story in a legal forum.
Before this case, I never knew this regional system existed and never
thought of my private issues as human rights violations. I am the first survivor of domestic violence to bring an individual complaint against the United States for international human rights violations. I want other
people like me out there to know that this system exists to protect all of us, and that our government cannot just turn its back on us and get away with it. Although the U.S. is always pointing its finger at other countries for their human rights violations, there are plenty of violations occurring right here at home. International human rights bodies like the IACHR give
U.S. citizens the opportunity to have a voice, particularly those who have
lost everything.
It is fitting that my hearing is being held in October, Domestic Violence
Awareness Month, an important marker of what continues to be one of the most dangerous issues facing women today.
To watch a webcast of the hearing on Wednesday go to:
http://www.oas.org/oaspage/live/OAS live.asp.
For more information, contact:
*Selene Kaye, Advocacy Coordinator*
Women's Rights Project | American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004
T: 212.549.2645 | F: 212.549.2580 | skaye@aclu.org
www.aclu.org/womensright s
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| 18 Oct 2008 - 09:44 | admin
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from Judith Herman's
seminal book, Trauma and Recovery.
"It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the
perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the
contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim
demands action, engagement, and remembering...
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense...
To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the
most sophisticated and elegant rationalization.
After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim lies; the victim exaggerates; the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail."
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| 17 Oct 2008 - 20:57 | Victim Assistance Online
URL: www.vaonline.org/new.html
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These are the latest updates on VAOnline.org's various sites.
On the the VAOnline.org main website, the Conferences and Events section
has been updated. You can view these links at:
http://www.vaonline.org/new.html
or under our "Events Listings" link:
http://www.vaonline.org/events.html
* 2nd National Conference on Restorative Justice (USA)
* 13th International Symposium on Victimology (Japan)
* 21st Annual At-Risk Youth National Forum (California, USA)
* 70th National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference (USA)
* 2009 National Victim Assistance Academy (USA)
* Children and the Law: International approaches to children and their
vulnerabilities (Italy)
* Finding Your Cocoon: Dealing with Vicarious Trauma (Toledo, Ohio)
* IACP 115th Annual Conference and Exposition (USA)
* ID 2008 P rivacy and Identify Theft Conference (Canada)
* International Conference on Homicide : Domestic Related Homicide
(Australia)
* National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence (USA)
* National Victim of Crime Awareness Week (Canada)
* NCTI's Facilitator Certification For Delivering Cognitive Behavior Change
Curricula (USA)
* Pathways for Victim Services Conference (Pennsylvania, USA)
* Society for Social Work and Research Thirteenth Annual Conference
(USA)
On the Fusion Report blog:
http://vaonlinefusion.blogspot.com/
the following new articles have been added.:
* Witnesses in Court: the forgotten?
* Spotlight on Caring Unlimited (USA)
* California State Appeal Court says the state's DV laws discriminate
against men (USA)
* New law to ease burden on victims of rape (India)
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| 17 Oct 2008 - 08:55 | Human Rights Education Associates
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VIENNA, 16 October 2008 -- The OSCE Special Representative Eva Biaudet, on behalf of the Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team (AECT), released a statement today underscoring the fundamental role of a National Rapporteur or equivalent mechanism in the fight against human trafficking.
Biaudet said: "The Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team (AECT) believes that the establishment of national rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms throughout the European Union and beyond will contribute towards better knowledge and understanding of trafficking in human beings (THB). The AECT is convinced that this mechanism is an essential instrument which also can contribute towards a comprehensive and sustainable policy against THB based on reliable information. Moreover, implementation of such a concrete instrument at national level is devoted to strengthen the message that first and foremost the responsibility of addressing THB rests in the hands of governments."
"The National Reporting Mechanism, or an equivalent, would also provide the opportunity to better evaluate responses and monitor concrete results and progress achieved so far. This national mechanism can also contribute towards better regional and international co-operation among similar counterparts since information can be a means of creating a better basis for drawing up policy and developing appropriate action at all levels, from national, regional to international."
The AECT facilitates exchanges of experience, best practices and lessons learned, as well as joint actions, to combat human trafficking across the OSCE region.
AECT participants who signed the statement include: the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, UNIFEM, UNICEF, UNICEF Innocenti Centre, ILO, IOM, ICMPD, Europol, Interpol, Dutch National Rapporteur, Nexus Institute, Anti-Slavery International, ECPAT, La Strada International, International Federation of Terre des Hommes, and Save the Children.
The statement comes ahead of the European Union's Anti-Trafficking Day (18 October).
OSCE Press release
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 21:15 | Amanda
akw06@yahoo.com
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I was raped on Tuesday, at a park that I always go to. I live in a small 'safe' town. The park is nice, safe, secure, or so I thought. I didn't go staight to the police. I went home and got in the shower. I washed my hair, my face, but I got out before I went any further because my mom was on her way home and I didn't want to talk.
I went to my friend's house. She made me call 911. They had me come to the police department. I told them what happened. They said becuase my clothes that I was wearing, although they were torn, were not 'dirty enough for my story to be true'. They took me to where it happened, asked me to show them, I did. They said it couldn't have happened there because there was dew on the leaves and grass, but it happened before the dew fell. The dectective tried to convince me not to file a report because since he had 'been a detective since I had been shitting in my diapers' and he had a 'gut feeling' that i was lying.
I demanded that I wanted to go
to the hospital. We went. He was supposed to stay there all night, but as soon as I was in the room I over heard him talking in the hall. He was telling the nurse and doctor that he dind't feel that it was necessary for me to have a rape kit, that he didn't think that it would be conclusive, that they would 'find no sign of sexual intercourse'. He then told them that he was leaving and he would send an officer back the next day to pick up the kit, when he's supposed to stay and take it as soon as they're done.
They did the rape kit. They found semen. A cop was sent back immediately. I told the nurse what the detective had said to me. She told me it was probably because I wasn't hysterical. I don't cry. I get mad. I punched a brick wall, I broke my hand, I didn't cry, so I was lying? I was supposed to call the detective the next day. I did, he didn't answer, and he didn't return my call. Today he finally returned my call. I have a meeting with him tomorrow.
I've been told that in my town they try their hardest to talk ppl out of filing a report. They want the town to look perfect, they want to attract ppl to a 'crime free' town. I want them to recognize what happened to me. I want them to know how it hurts. I may not cry, but my life will never be the same.
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 11:00 | Graciela
olivieri_graciela@hotmail.com
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HOLA SOY UNA VICTIMA DE VIOLENCIA AUNQUE NO LO PAREZCA, PORQUE TODO EN APARIENCIAS ESTA BIEN, PERO YO ME SIENTO ABATIADA, CANSADA, SIN GANAS DE NADA, PIERDO TODOS LOS TRABAJOS Y MI HIJO SUFRE LOS GRITOS DE SU PADRE Y SU DESINTERES.
PODRAN AYUDARME A SALIR DE ESTA SITUACION. VIVO EN ARGENTINA
CORDIAL SALUDO
GRACIELA
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 10:55 | Amber
AMBERSTARPADILLA2007@YAHOO.COM
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I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THIS SITE, I HAVE BEEN TO THE FAMILY LAW FACILITATOR, LEGAL AID AND EVERYWHERE ELSE I COULD THINK OF THAT MAY HELP IN FINDING INFORMATION ON MY SITUATION. EVERYWHERE I WENT WAS A HANDOUT OF PAPEWORK AND NOTHING BEYOND THAT. THIS SITE HAS HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY WITH THE INFORMATION THAT I NEEDED TO CREATE MY CASE, I AM SO GREATFUL FOR THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THIS SITE AND THANK THEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. COMING FROM A MOTHER OF 2 BOYS 12 AND 11 AND A LONG PAST OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, MORE SITES LIKE THIS ONE SHOULD BE AVAILIBLE OR MADE KNOWN TO SO MANY OTHER WOMEN IN MY SITUATION.
* THANK YOU, AMBER PADILLA
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 10:11 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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Mayoría en el país aprueba aborto terapéutico y por violación
Latinoamericanas, solidarias con feministas perseguidas en Nicaragua
De la redacción
México DF, 15 oct 08 (CIMAC).- Durante la III Reunión de investigación sobre embarazo no deseado y aborto inseguro “Desafíos de salud pública en América Latina y el Caribe”, que se realizó la semana pasada en la Ciudad de México, activistas y especialistas en el tema expresaron su solidaridad con las feministas perseguidas hoy día por el gobierno nicaragüense, informó la agencia NotieSe.
Durante el evento, el doctor Arnoldo Toruño, docente de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, dijo que tras la acusación de violación sexual que recibió Daniel Ortega, actual presidente de la nación centroamericana, por parte de su hijastra Zoilamérica Narváez, el Estado ha tomado una postura en contra de los movimientos feministas, y en particular de quienes promueven la despenalización del aborto en ese país.
Y es que la figura jurídica de “aborto terapéutico”, vigente hasta 2006 en Nicaragua, fue derogada con el respaldo del partido político que llevó a Ortega al poder en 2007, el Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN).
“Se supone que es de izquierda, que está por los derechos de los más pobres, y aprueba una ley que perjudica a las mujeres pobres”, criticó el especialista. Lamentó que recientemente se han creado medios de difusión que pertenecen o tienen afinidad con el gobierno y el FSLN, los cuales han hecho “un ataque verdaderamente despiadado contra las mujeres. Les dicen asesinas. Ya no atacan las ideas, sino a las personas”.
POBLACIÓN, A FAVOR DE ABORTO
No obstante, según encuestas realizadas en el país centroamericano, la mayoría de las y los nicaragüenses está a favor del aborto cuando hay malformaciones congénitas, está en riesgo la vida o la salud de la mujer y cuando el embarazo fue producto de una violación sexual, mencionó.
Totuño, médico especialista en Salud Pública, habló también de la investigación “El aborto terapéutico en Nicaragua: un análisis de los medios escritos de comunicación, 2006-2007”, realizada por Cecilia Espinosa, representante de la organización internacional IPAS en Centroamérica.
Expuso que Espinosa revisó los dos principales diarios nacionales después de un año de que fue abolido el aborto terapéutico en el país centroamericano. De los textos periodísticos analizados, 66 por ciento fueron reportajes y 78 por ciento abordaba la interrupción del embarazo como tema central.
Lo más destacable del estudio es que alrededor de dos tercios de los textos periodísticos analizados tenían una postura a favor del aborto terapéutico, y que de acuerdo a encuestas efectuadas en Internet por ambos diarios, aproximadamente 75 por ciento de los nicaragüenses piensa que se debe de practicar la interrupción legal del embarazo cuando hay malformaciones congénitas, está en riesgo la vida o la salud de la mujer y cuando el embarazo fue producto de una violación sexual, citó.
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 09:26 | Boletin Cuerpo y Derechos
URL: /cuerpoyderechos.info/home/
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Boletin Cuerpo y Derechos
http://cuerpoyderechos.info/ho me/
El Grupo de Parlamentarios y Gobernantes Mundiales por la Vida: principales acciones después de su fundación
I. Casi un año después de su fundación
El Grupo de Parlamentarios y Gobernantes Mundiales por la Vida es una organización antiderechos sexuales y rep...
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Artículos
La parafernalia del protocolo de aborto terapéutico en Arequipa
La clínica jurídica de la UCSM hace ya unos meses, tomó como un caso de interés público la vigencia del protocolo de aborto terapéutico; sin saber que en la raíz, el problema no e...
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La información y distribución de la anticoncepción oral de emergencia en peligro
02 de octubre del 2008
En octubre del 2006, el Tribunal Constitucional falló declarando fundado el proceso de cumplimiento interpuesto por Susana Chávez Alvarado y otras[1], con la finalidad de que el Minist...
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Congresista Fabiola Morales propone trabajar con enfoque de "Familia" y no de género
La congresista y activista del Opus Dei, Fabiola Morales, propuso dejar de lado el trabajo con enfoque de género para introducir la perspectiva de “familia” en el quehacer de las polític...
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Dios bendiga America
¿Que indica la emergencia triunfalista de Sarah Palin en la eleccion de los Estados Unidos? En la política norteamericana contemporánea es más fácil elegir a un presidente ultra religioso con f...
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Noticias
Grupos católicos y jóvenes pro-vida bloquearán la salida del barco abortista
Nada más hacerse público la intención de varias entidades feministas y clínicas abortivas de traer a Valencia un barco holandés para embarcar a mujeres embarazadas y llevarlas a aguas internaci...
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Credos se movilizan ante posible despenalización del aborto
Organizaciones laicas y representantes católicos, evangélicos, judíos y musulmanes, se movilizan ante la ronda de audiencias públicas que está realizando, con mucha reserva, la Comisión ...
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La Iglesia se divide frente al ‘no’
En los templos católicos de las tres ciudades, los sermones se dividieron entre el apoyo y la censura a la nueva Constitución. En los sermones de ayer, la iglesia de Guayaquil está identificada con el no. En...
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Argentina: La educación sexual, clave para evitar los abortos
Polémica por la cantidad de mujeres que interrumpen sus embarazos
Desde el Programa Materno Infantil se trabaja para difundir información sobre el tema.
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 09:10 | Family Violence Prevention Fund
URL: www.preventconnect.org/display/displayTe . . .
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Web Conference
Teen Dating Violence Prevention
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Register here
www.preventconnect.org/display/displayTextItems.cfm?itemID=196§i
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| 16 Oct 2008 - 08:40 | Vancouver Rape Relief
URL: www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/35years/fles . . .
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Flesh Mapping:
vancouver markets pacific women
November 25- December 10, 2008, Vancouver BC.
Vancouver is an ancient and wondrous Pacific port, a modern colonial outpost; a 'border town' of the American imperial giant. This gateway to the splendour of the world's largest sea, ringed by magnificent volcanic mountains is also a man-made funnel to an urban ghetto of poverty, racism
and sexist violence.
A tourist destination pandering in advance of the Olympic games, Vancouver feigns harm reduction while growing and boasting an industry of warehousing and herding the poor. In the name of voluntary prostitution, it proposes to
use law and order to clean out the city of the disadvantaged Aboriginal
street women thereby protecting and raising the downtown land values. The sexual service to both resident and touring men it seems to assign to immigrant women and runaway girls housed in suburban brothels, many of which
are beyond city limits.
(...)
Vancouver is also a crossroads of thoughts about prostitution and
trafficking in women. New legal challenges may well strike down all laws against pimping, procuring, and prostitution. Other local courts punished the first cases of sex tourism and are investigating the next (Kenneth Robert Klassen - an international art dealer is charged with 35 sex tourism offences involving 6 Colombian girls, 8 Cambodians and 3 in the Philippines. The first charges of trafficking were laid here in a case of Korean women. (Michael Ng). See Canadian Court Cases of Sex Tourism and Trafficking for
details of the 3 cases. Law enforcement claims to support prostitutes as victims but fails to criminalize johns and traffickers. Read more under Prostitutes Offender Program.
The Canadian parliamentary committee considering the Status of Women agrees that Canada should move "From Outrage to Action". But national political parties are divided. All parties fail to decriminalize women but continue to
effectively decriminalize their tormentors and exploiters. See the Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. Some even propose legalization. They all fail to provide the conditions and resources that would allow women the choice not to be prostituted or to escape it. They all fail to provide desperate women the choice to migrate safely or to be safe
and to feed themselves in their homelands without migrating.
Women working against sexist violence face the global economy as it affects women in the rape crisis center, in the transition house and on the streets. See "A Global Economy: The Promotion of Prostitution" for more information.
They face it in the fists and pocketbooks of individual men and in their organized gangs and in the businessmen's consortiums.
They want to face it down in solidarity with women around the world: see the Ending Prostitution Rape Relief Forum. This project advances anti-rape feminist work into the global scene and into the globalized conditions of
women's lives. See the Study from the Secretary General on Ending Violence Against Women: from Words to Action for details.
Using our local traditions of activist art, consciousness-raising education methods and participatory anti- violence organizing techniques such as
Fighting Back Against Rape in Kerrisdale and Anti-Violence Workers Meeting, September 1999, we propose to ally with and learn from women around the
Pacific Rim.
Starting from our position that prostitution is neither necessary nor
desired by women and represents at best the "constrained choices" of women, we explore what are the links between the local demand of men for prostitution and the global traffic in girls and women.
(...)
Full presentation and hyperlinks at
http://www.yayahstudios.com/hubbubweb/ index.php
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| 15 Oct 2008 - 22:59 | SHARE News and Resources: Violence Against Women
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Connecticut Man Sentenced to 360 Months in Prison for Sex Trafficking of U.S. Citizens
Connecticut Man Sentenced to 360 Months in Prison for Leading Brutal Sex Trafficking Ring That Victimized U.S. Citizens
Prosecution Illustrates DOJ ‘Victim-Centered’ Model
WASHINGTON – Dennis Paris of Middletown, Conn., was sentenced today to 360 months in prison, five years of supervised release and $46,116 in restitution for his role in organizing and facilitating a prostitution ring that victimized minors and coerced multiple young women to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Paris—one of 10 defendants associated with this trafficking ring—was convicted in June 2007 on multiple counts of commercial sex trafficking through force, fraud or coercion.
“As this case illustrates, human trafficking can victimize any vulnerable person, including U.S. citizens, and girls as young as 14-years-old,” said Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “The Department works with non-governmental organizations to address the needs of victims and our investigators and prosecutors take the time to earn their trust. This victim-centered approach has been essential to our success in dismantling networks who exploit minors or adults for commercial sex.”
Paris, 36, was previously convicted on two counts of sex trafficking of minors, including a 14 year-old child; two counts of sex trafficking of adult women through force, fraud or coercion; 13 counts of using interstate facilities to promote and conduct a prostitution ring; and conspiracy to use an interstate facility to promote unlawful activities. All of the victims in this case were U.S. citizens, many of whom were young and vulnerable females, some addicted to drugs, and easily exploited. Nine co-defendants charged in connection with the scheme had previously pleaded guilty for their respective roles in the sex trafficking ring.
Evidence presented at trial demonstrated that Paris operated a prostitution scheme in the Hartford, Conn., area in which he exploited young, uneducated girls from troubled backgrounds and forced them to perform commercial sex acts for his financial benefit. The evidence demonstrated that Paris used a combination of deception, fraud, coercion, brutal rapes, threats of arrest, physical violence and manipulation of addictive drugs to maintain control over his victims.
The evidence established that Paris “purchased” two of the victims from a co-defendant, Brian Forbes, who previously pleaded guilty to five counts of sex trafficking and was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in recruiting and exploiting minors and vulnerable young women into prostitution, as well as using beatings, rapes, drug withdrawal, threats and unlawful restraint, to compel them to perform commercial sex acts.
“This defendant preyed on the vulnerabilities of girls and young women, and hopefully the strict sentence imposed today will deter others from participating in the sex trafficking businesses and manipulating women and minors into committing sexual acts under the threat of violence,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Nora R. Dannehy. “This investigation, prosecution and 30-year sentence combine to reflect that everyone is entitled to protection under the law.”
Human trafficking prosecutions are a top priority of the Justice Department. In FY 2008, the Civil Rights Division once again initiated a record-number of human-trafficking cases, beating record-setting FY 2007. Working with the various U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Division initiated 183 investigations, charged 79 defendants in 38 cases and obtained 77 convictions involving human trafficking in FY 2008.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James G. Genco and Special Litigation Counsel Andrew J. Kline of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit. It was investigated by a human trafficking law enforcement task force spearheaded by Detective Deborah Scates of the Hartford Police Department, Sergeant Chris McKee of the Windsor Police Department, Special Agent Chris Grispino of the FBI and Special Agent Douglas Werth of the Internal Revenue Service.
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| 15 Oct 2008 - 09:02 | Latinitas
URL: www.pww.org/article/articleprint/13826/
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Latina girls magazine talks back to Palin
Author: Special to the World
Teen reporters respond to Palin's abstinence-only stance
AUSTIN, Texas— Latinitas, (www.latinitasmagazine.org) the first digital magazine made for and by Hispanic girls, knows firsthand the effects of abstinence only sex-education, being America’s sub-group that experiences the highest level of teen pregnancy than any other community in the United States.
According the U.S. Census bureau, 53 percent of Hispanic teens get pregnant at least once before age 20, which is nearly twice the national average. Research also shows that 69 percent of those teenage moms end of up dropping out of high school.
This trend has plagued the Hispanic community for generations and the rates show no signs of going down.
Girls who contribute to Latinitas magazines are concerned about Vice Presidential-candidate Sarah Palin’s abstinence-only in sexual education voting stance, despite her own 17 year old daughter’s pregnancy.
“The abstinence policy that Palin supports didn’t work in her own home, yet she expects people to believe that it will work for others, who have even more limited access to reproductive health services”, said Latinitas’ editor Laura Donnelly.
Latinitas is responding to Palin’s broadcast comments stating, “Explicit sex-education programs will not find my support.” quoted from the Eagle Forum, a conservative pro-life web forum.
“They need to teach us about [sex ed] because if we don’t know about it, how can we prevent it (pregnancy),” said Magna Ramos, a junior reporter for the magazine who participates in Latinitas’ after school programs in Austin.
According to the U.S. Census bureau Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the U.S., so what goes on in this community strongly impacts the nation. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that children born to teen mothers are less likely to succeed in school. Texas “boasts” the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country and coincidentally employs abstinence-only sex education in schools statewide. Additional statistics show that children of teen mothers are more apt to a life of poverty.
“Maybe Palin needs to meet the 6th and 7th graders in the schools we work in who are going to be mothers this year in order to understand the urgency of thorough and inclusive sex education in the United States. So strongly libertarian in other ways, why wouldn’t she want to give young Latinas all the information they need so that they can make their own prepared decisions about sex?” said Donnelly. “An abstinence-only policy ignores the problem in the Latino community, and as a law maker you should want to do more to protect these young girls instead of alienating them.”
About Latinitas
Latinitas magazine (www.latinitasmagazine.org) is a non-profit publication with outreach programs dedicated to the advancement and empowerment of Latina youth through media and technology. Its vision is that all young Latinas are strong and confident in their own image.
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| 15 Oct 2008 - 08:03 | Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence
URL: www.centerforjudicialexcellence.org/cjef . . .
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New Video takes on PAS
Alec Baldwin's Crusade Misses the Mark
Prosecutors & New Film Slam 'PAS' Theory As "Litigation Tool" In Molest & Abuse Cases
Alec Baldwin is correct, according to the Center for Judicial Excellence-
the United States of America is experiencing a shameful national crisis in our family court system - a crisis that is jeopardizing the health and safety of more than 58,000 children each year[1][1]. Yet Alec Baldwin's analysis of the problem in his new book A Promise to Ourselves significantly
misses the mark, the organization claims, and a brief, award-winning
12-minute online film it produced explains the reasons underpinning the systemic breakdown in our nation's family courts.
Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk counters Baldwin's claim that "the political apparatus of lawyers, judges and feminist groups assault fatherhood and impact custody," and it debunks the myth that fathers are the
primary victims in the family court crisis.
"Just like the Catholic Church pedophile scandal, this true story shakes the very foundation of decency at the root of our society. The public will be outraged when they learn the truth about America's family courts," said Kathleen Russell, the film's co-director.
Please take just a few minutes to watch this 12-minute film clip:
<http://www.centerforjudicialex cellence.org/cjefldocumentaryvnr.htm>
h ttp://www.centerforjudicialexcellence.or g/cjefldocumentaryvnr.htm
The film's child abuse experts and attorneys explain how the family court system has evolved into a profit-driven business that ignores the best interests of the children it is supposed to protect. They explain how divorce courts across America are routinely placing children in the sole physical and legal custody of parents with a history of sexual abuse and/or domestic violence.
As the film points out, by urging the courts to give credence to 'Parental
Alienation Syndrome', or 'PAS', Mr. Baldwin is aligning himself with a legal theory that is commonly used by molesters and abusers to avoid prosecution for their crimes. The American Prosecutors Research Institute issued a 2003 report calling 'PAS' "an unproven theory that can threaten the integrity of
the criminal justice system and the safety of abused children."[2 <> ]
Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk is an award-winning documentary.
The films' recent awards include:
*2008 Accolade Honorable Mention for Feature Documentary: 42-minute film
*2008 Accolade Honorable Mention for Viewer Impact: Content/Message
Delivery: 42-minute film ( <http://www.accoladecompetition.org/>
h ttp://www.accoladecompetition.org/)
*2008 Action/Cut Short Film Documentary Semifinalist: 12-minute film (
<http://www.actioncut.com/> http://www.actioncut.com/)
To schedule Interviews with nationally renowned child abuse experts, lawmakers, attorneys, therapists and litigants who can refute Alec Baldwin's claims, please contact Kathleen Russell at 415-250-1180.
from Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence at <http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/med/ PR3.html>
http://www.leadershipcouncil. org/1/med/PR3.html
Kathleen Russell
W 415-459-9211, Ext. 28
C 415-250-1180
http://www.kathleenrussell .com
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| 14 Oct 2008 - 10:44 | Encuentro Iberamericano
URL: cursos.amdh.org.mx/proyecto_registro/reg . . .
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(HOY)
MAÑANA INICIA ENCUENTRO IBEROAMERICANO DE OBSERVATORIOS DE VIOLENCIA SOCIAL Y DE GÉNERO EN LA EDUCACIÓN
México, DF.- Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos y Cátedra UNESCO de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) convocan a docentes, educadores, promotores y personas interesados en la educación, defensa y protección de los derechos humanos de las mujeres en el ámbito escolar para asistir al Encuentro Iberoamericano de Observatorios de Violencia Social y de Género en la Educación.
Su objetivo es conocer y recuperar, a partir del intercambio con entidades análogas, las investigaciones y prácticas exitosas para la prevención y atención de la violencia social y de género, con especialidad de violencia en la educación, que realizan sociedad civil y gobierno, y conocer otras propuestas de los observatorios de violencia escolar de Iberoamérica, así como constituir la Red Iberoamericana de Observatorios de violencia social y de género en la educación.
Se llevará a cabo el 14 y 15 de octubre de 2008 en el Centro Interamericano de Estudios de Seguridad Social (CIESS). Informes a los teléfonos: (55) 56 59 49 80 y 55 54 80 94 ext. 210 Fax: (55) 56 58 72 29. Inscripciones en http://cursos.amdh.org.mx/proyecto_regis tro/registro.php
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| 14 Oct 2008 - 10:07 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08101303-Chil . . .
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Una mujer, asesinada cada cinco días
Chilenas en lucha contra el machismo
De la redacción
México DF, 13 oct 08 (CIMAC).- En Chile, cuyo gobierno está encabezado por una presidenta y nueve ministras, una chilena es asesinada cada cinco días, señala Jorge Luna en el Especial Prensa Latina, Mujeres del Tercer Milenio.
El dato, aportado en días recientes por la ministra Laura Albornoz, del Servicio Nacional de la Mujer (Sernam), agrega que en lo que va del 2008 fueron víctimas de feminicidio 48 chilenas (en el 2007 se registraron 62 casos).
Otras estadísticas oficiales indican que casi la mitad de las chilenas reconoce haber sufrido episodios de violencia durante su vida, el 90 por ciento ejercida por sus parejas u ex parejas.
Impulsado por la presidenta Michelle Bachelet, un proyecto que califica de "feminicida" a quien mate a una mujer y lo condena a presidio perpetuo, ya aprobado por la Cámara de Diputados --repleta ese día de mujeres-- espera, ahora, igual respaldo del Senado.
El país está dando una tremenda señal a todos aquellos quienes atentan diariamente matando a mujeres, sostuvo Albornoz, cuya dependencia, junto a otras instituciones, trabaja para defender los derechos de las mujeres.
No obstante, persisten numerosas muestras de discriminación sexual heredadas del pasado, que la mandataria chilena abordó en sus más recientes discursos sobre el tema. "Hemos corrido el cerco –dijo-- en el sentido que las mujeres sienten que en este país no hay veto y que, si tienen los talentos, las capacidades y los méritos, van a poder hacer más cosas que a lo mejor en el pasado no eran factibles".
Durante un encuentro con 300 mujeres líderes, Bachelet aseguró que "ya no existen techos para la mujer" y por ello "puede aspirar a lo máximo, porque creo que son muchas las que han demostrado que se puede llegar a los cargos más altos en la política, en el arte, en la universidad, en la ciencia, en las Fuerzas Armadas".
Con todo, la primera presidenta de Chile y una de las pocas de Latinoamérica --quien reseñó en la ocasión los avances de su administración en materia de género-- reconoció sin embargo que "tenemos que seguir oponiéndonos a todas las formas de discriminación a la mujer, desde las más desembozadas hasta las más encubiertas".
"Hasta no hace muchos años había abusos cotidianos de los que prácticamente no se hablaba", como la violencia familiar y la diferencia de salarios entre hombres y mujeres, y añadió que, pese a todo,"la sociedad chilena ha ido avanzando y entiende hoy mejor que ayer, la necesidad de echar abajo todas estas barreras".
Continua...
http://www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08101303-Chilenas-en-lucha-c.35192.0.html
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| 14 Oct 2008 - 09:49 | Battered Mother's Custody Conference
mhannah413@aol.com
URL: WWW.BATTEREDMOTHERSCUSTODYCONFERENCE.ORG
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The Sixth Battered Mothers Custody Conference
Battered Women, Abused Children,
and Child Custody,
A National Crisis VI:
SOLUTIONS
Please see attached Proposal Form if you are interested in presenting a workshop at this year's conference.
The Sixth Annual Battered Mothers
Custody Conference
January 9th, 10th, & 11th, 2009
(Friday evening, 6 p.m. - Sunday afternoon)
Brochure is attached.
Featured Speakers include
ANGELA SHELTON
Reclaiming the Sword
~transitioning from pain and suffering into joy and happiness
WENDY MURPHY, ESQ.
"And Justice for Some"
HOLLY AND JENNIFER COLLINS
An American Family Goes Underground in the Netherlands
and Returns to tell Their Story
and many others
CONFERENCE HOTEL
~New location~
Holiday Inn Turf
205 Wolf Road, Albany, NY
( five minutes away from Albany International Airport)
Call: 1-800-HOLIDAY or 518-458-7250
Ask for Battered Mothers Custody Conference block
Reserve early!
Interested in presenting? Request for Workshop Proposals is Attached.
Visit www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org for further details--coming
soon!
Dr. Mo Therese Hannah
Professor of Psychology, Siena College
CHAIR, BATTERED MOTHERS CUSTODY CONFERENCE
SAVE THE DATES FOR THE BMCC VI!
JANUARY 9TH-11TH, 2009
WWW.BATTEREDMOTHERSCUSTODYCONFEREN CE.ORG
mhannah413@aol.com
518-210-2487
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| 14 Oct 2008 - 09:38 | Women's Feature Services, India
wfsdelhi@vsnl.com
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Philippines: Filipino Women Bring Violence Out Of The Shadows
By Kara Santos
Gender disparity in salary, human rights violations, harsh working
conditions and the threat of trafficking were some of the problems listed by
women's groups in the Women's Legal Bureau (WLB) Shadow Report, recently
presented to an international committee that monitors the Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against all forms of Violence against Women
(CEDAW). Deemed historic for having included the voices of numerous women's
groups, the report sheds light on the reality of violence against Filipino
women.
* The Shadow Report can be used by women's NGOs in so many ways, including
reports for the media and multilateral bodies, for advocacy, campaigning,
lobbying, and even fund-raising.
WFS REF NO: PHIha08
1,000 words
GenderPolicy
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FOR THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE STORIES PLEASE CONTACT
WOMEN'S FEATURE SERVICE AT: wfsdelhi@vsnl.com or wfsdelhi@yahoo.com
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| 14 Oct 2008 - 09:06 | Times of India
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Reproduced from the Times of India October 12, 2008 pg 7
UP cop rapes minor in police station
New Delhi: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an Uttar Pradesh police sub-inspector at the Sahibabad police station in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday.
“The victim in the FIR has alleged that the accused, Shyam Pal, on Friday afternoon took her in a car from her house in Bhajan Pura to the Sahibabad police station. He then took her inside a room in the police station and raped her,” a senior police officer said. “He threatened her not to tell anything to her parents. He then dropped her back home in the evening,” the officer added.
But the girl informed her parents and they complained to the police. While the accused is posted at the Sahibabad police station, the victim is a student of Class VIII at a government school in east Delhi, the police said. The accused is reportedly a friend of the victim’s family.
“The girl revealed that he had taken her out earlier and tried to molest her. He had threatened her with a false case against the family if she informed anyone,” the police officer added. The victim’s medical test has confirmed rape. The police has registered a case against the accused, but no arrests have been made so far. AGENCIES
( Out of 1000s of such cases 1 gets reported in the media, then the police most reluctantly take some action, file a weak case in the Court and the judges oblige by letting the accused go scot free. BECAUSE the police do not just commit such crimes themselves, they provide for Politicians, Judges and other powerful people. (Visit http://www.RoguePolice.com/areyoua.htm ). All this goes on in our country, because the educated people feel, they are insulated from such dastardly acts by the police and such things happen to others, so they refuse to do anything.
Before you sleep tonight, think what if the police sub-inspector, had done the same thing with your own 14 year old daughter or your niece or your sister. Pleease sleep soundly with that thought tonight ... IKC
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| 13 Oct 2008 - 18:26 | Sharon Turner
sharont@standagainstdv.org
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Here is the job description for Executive Director of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence.
Please distribute.
The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (CPEDV) is now
accepting applications for Executive Director.
The application deadline is October 24, 2008
Job Title: Executive Director
Job Type: Full-time
Job Start Date: 1/1/09
Last Date to Submit Applications: 10/24/08
How to Apply: Please send your application materials electronically to
sharont@standagainstdv.org A signed copy of your application should also be mailed to:
Sharon Turner
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
1410 Danzig Plaza
Concord, California 94520
Please call Sharon Turner (925) 603-0197 with any questions.
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| 13 Oct 2008 - 10:57 | The Oregonian
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Good overview of sexual assault in the military
Help for military sexual trauma
Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:09 am (PDT)
Oregon veteran among troops suffering sexual trauma
Thomas Boyd/The OregonianJeff Elizalde shows off a tattoo he got while serving in Okinawa, Japan, with the U.S. Marine Corps. Nearly 30 years after his deployment, he told counselors that he was sexually assaulted by a
fellow Marine. "After the attack," he wrote officials, " I fell apart."
Jeff Elizalde's patriotism is as plain as the U.S. flags in his Salem condo, rescued after parades or blown from car lots. Elizalde has cleaned, pressed and hung them across his windows and walls, next to framed tributes to a World War II radioman -- his dad.
But beyond the stacks of Marine Corps Times and the "USMC" tattoos on each biceps, Elizalde's own military career is nothing to celebrate. He was discharged under conditions "other than honorable" after an incident he says
"set me into a pattern of drinking and ruined my life."
Elizalde says he was an 18-year-old Marine playing spades on an Okinawa, Japan, base in November 1977 when he followed a staff sergeant to look for another party. As they walked through an empty Quonset hut, he says, the
sergeant overpowered and raped him.
"I didn't tell anybody," Elizalde, 49, said. "I didn't know how. How do you
tell someone in the Marine Corps you've been raped?"
As the nation grapples with the aftershocks of two long wars, the Department of Veterans Affairs is confronting a quiet wave of veterans with mental health problems linked to sexual misconduct. New research has uncovered
hundreds of cases among those serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, and found that those combat vets are two to three times likelier to suffer depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and alcohol and drug abuse.
Help for military sexual trauma
Portland VA's Mental Health Access Clinic at 503-273-5058 or outside
Portland at 800-949-1004 ext. 56409
Earlier this year, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced legislation to
provide more money to the VA to treat such cases and strengthen protection for women who seek help. Congress will not consider the matter this year. But Murray said Thursday that she'll relaunch the initiative in January. She said she acted after "women would pull me aside and whisper in my ear" about
being harassed and even raped while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The VA reports that between 2002 and 2007, 59,345 male veterans and 57,637 female veterans screened positive for some sexual trauma during military
service. In April, clinical psychologist and retired Navy Reserve Capt. Connie Lee
Best warned U.S. senators that sexually traumatized veterans will further swell the wave of mental health needs that will hit in years to come.
"To quote a line ... from 'Jaws' when one of the characters saw the shark
for the first time," Best said, "We're going to need a bigger boat."
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In April 2008, nearly 400 women veterans from Oregon, Washington and Idaho gathered in Pendleton to celebrate their military service, dating to World War II. They packed one workshop to trade war stories -- of sexual harassment and rape.
"I have that topic at every conference because it's a huge issue with women in the military, and it's something they don't talk about if they don't feel free or safe," says Valerie Conley, women veterans coordinator for the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Conley was never assaulted. But after joining the Army in 1982, the
27-year-old mother and two other women in their transportation company "took a lot of harassment."
"It was not teasing," Conley said. "It was more vile than teasing. You
didn't walk anywhere alone. I got to the point where I wouldn't even walk to the mess hall by myself."
Most Americans didn't link sexual misconduct to the U.S. military until
Tailhook, the raunchy three-day reunion of Navy and Marine aviators in 1991 at which 83 women and seven men were assaulted. But the scandal shone light on what turned out to be a wider problem.
Until recently, however, the Pentagon's male-dominated leadership, its allies in Congress and interest groups have largely dismissed allegations as
unfounded or exaggerated. Military officials and independent analysts say punishment varies widely, as does how aggressively some accused are prosecuted.
In 2004, the Department of Defense established a Sexual Assault Prevention Response program; all soldiers receive training.
But in September, Brenda S. Farrell, a senior investigator for the
nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, told lawmakers that although
progress has been made, it's impossible to know how much because the right questions aren't being asked, and important data are not being collected. That's led analysts to conclude that the size of the problem is larger than the Pentagon documents.
"At the 14 installations where we administered our survey, 103 service members indicated that they had been sexually assaulted within the preceding 12 months," Farrell told a House Oversight and Governmental Affairs
subcommittee Sept. 10. "Of these, 52 service members indicated that they did not report the sexual assault." GAO investigators said that victims cited "the belief that nothing would be done; fear of ostracism, harassment, or ridicule by peers; and the belief that their peers would gossip about the incident." They also feared hurting
their careers or unit morale and that a report using the restricted
reporting option would not stay confidential.
Portland lawyer Kelly Clark, who has represented victims involving the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts of America, says people underestimate how difficult it is for individuals to challenge a powerful institution to which they've sworn their loyalty and life.
"That's a huge context that cannot be overstated," Clark said. "People don't have a hard time saying to me, 'I was sexually violated by a stranger.' But they have a terrible time saying, 'I was violated by Uncle Don, the family hero, or by my commanding officer or my priest.'"
Psychiatrists say sexual trauma in the military may be so damaging because the victims often continue to live and work alongside the perpetrators and rely on them for safety, basic needs or advancement. Accusing a colleague
also betrays the most sacred tenant of the military: the team.
"In combat, buddies become your brother or sister with whom you live, sleep, shower and share secrets. They become family," says Mandy Martin, an Iraq war veteran and outreach worker with the Portland Vet Center. "So when you tell the secret of a family member, that family now is angry."
Few understand that better than the people around Suzanne Swift. The
21-year-old Army specialist was arrested at her mother's Eugene home in June 2006 after failing to report for her second deployment to Iraq. In a case that shot onto the international stage, Swift claimed she could not face returning to duty because she had been harassed or abused by two colleagues
in Iraq and one at Fort Lewis. Swift said she'd been coerced into a sexual relationship, subjected to humiliating punishments for rebuffing advances and ordered to report for duty to a superior's bed -- naked.
On the eve of a court-martial that would have ended her career, she pleaded guilty to going AWOL. She was busted to the rank of private, sent to jail for 30 days and reassigned to a base in California.
One man she named received a written reprimand and was reassigned. He later left the Army. The Army did not substantiate claims against the others.
Thomas Boyd/The OregonianSara Rich, a Eugene family therapist, has continued to speak on behalf of her daughter, Army Pvt. Suzanne Swift, who said she was sexually harassed in Iraq. "I don't discourage people from joining the military, but I definitely want them to be informed that one in three women will be raped." Rich's T-shirt says, "We will not be silenced."
Swift has declined to speak further. But her mother, Sara Rich, said the
experience was more disheartening than she'd ever imagined. "You can't go up against the military," said Rich, a family therapist who
was the city of Eugene's human rights commissioner for seven years. "If you speak out, you get
punished. It's really hard to survive."
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Susan Avila-Smith, an Enumclaw, Wash., woman who founded one of the largest advocacy groups for women veterans, says cases surface decades later because
most veterans are so busy trying to survive that they compartmentalize or suppress the experience until some event causes the floodgates to open.
Usually when post-traumatic stress disorder keeps people from sleeping and doing their job, "pretty soon, someone who was a functioning person with a
high security clearance is working at a job washing dogs," she said. "I call it hitting the wall.
"Then, after you have no job, no house and nowhere to go, you finally go to the VA."
But VA experts say men often fail to disclose assaults even when they are far along into other mental health treatment. Earlier this year, a lead VA psychiatrist told the International Society for Trauma Studies that many kept their trauma secret for 30 years, even after it destroyed their military careers. She advised caregivers to ask frank questions and look for clues: substance abuse -- often severe -- and lifelong problems with
intimate relationships, authority and anger.
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Photos of Jeff Elizalde show a trim 145-pound rifleman in the late 1970s, hair neatly clipped. He had no disciplinary problems in his first 14 months as a Marine. Then records show an abrupt descent into alcoholism, including
drinking as much as two cases of beer a day, passing out on guard duty, disobeying orders and failing to complete treatment.
"I lost faith in my leaders," Elizalde says. "I had to drink to be in the
same room with them."
Within 18 months of the alleged assault, Elizalde faced a court-martial for five drinking-related or disobedient offenses. A commanding officer recommended that Elizalde accept an other-than-honorable discharge. He agreed.
He worked in his parents' restaurant in California, where he racked up two drunken driving convictions in quick succession. He eventually went to work in construction, following the trades to Salem, where he worked as a union
pipe layer. After a construction accident, he went on 100 percent Social Security disability in 1999.
He never married. "It's hard for me to even be with a gal," he says.
"Believe me, I'm straight, but this has affected me so much mentally."
He was treated for severe depression, anxiety and other symptoms for years. Still, Elizalde never told anyone until he saw an item on television in 2006. It said that if you suffer from severe depression and have a sexual
assault in your background, that will affect diagnosis and treatment.
Documents show that on Feb. 9, 2006, he first disclosed the rape to the Kaiser Permanente mental health counselor he'd seen regularly since 2004.
The counselor and a supervising psychiatrist concluded that his alcoholism, depression, some hallucinations and fear about the security of his home could be the result of the attack. They later wrote that in treating him for five years, "It is our opinion that your PTSD is more than likely the direct
result of personal trauma you experienced on active duty with the United States Marine Corps."
Shortly after disclosing the attack, Elizalde also contacted the Oregon
Department of Veterans' Affairs, where a caseworker helped him file a claim to upgrade his discharge.
In April 2007, the Board for the Correction of Navy Records rejected the claim, saying that the evidence was insufficient to warrant an upgrade given his five disciplinary actions. "Further, there is no evidence in the record to show you were raped or suffered PTSD at the time of your service."
Elizalde appealed, asking that mental health experts review his records. He also called congressional offices and even candidates, and exhausted the
state employees. (The department spokesman declined to discuss his case, even with his permission.) In January, Elizalde was charged with drunken driving -- for the first time since the early 1980s.
Finally, two years after he first spoke out, he tried the federal government, and the Portland VA medical center agreed to see him immediately.
Under a new federal mandate that expands services for potential victims, any veteran is eligible for care for sexual trauma in the military as long as he or she had active service, said Sue Hippe, Psych Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, PTSD Clinical team and sexual trauma coordinator. So a veteran
with a discharge other than honorable is still potentially eligible, based on an evaluation by the regional office.
Elizalde says at the very least, he'd like the VA to cover some of the
mental health care.
"This has been my personal battle for 30 years," he said. "I'm a veteran,
even though I don't feel like one. This has affected every aspect of my
life."
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10 October 2008 – The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today urged European Union (EU) Member States to take practical steps in preventing sexual violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations.
"We are not here for another talking shop, where we lament the terrible and systematic nature of violence," UNIFEM Executive Director Inés Alberdi said at the "From Commitment to Action" meeting organized in collaboration with the European Commission.
"We look forward to supporting practical responses that ensure that sexual violence is no longer dismissed as an inevitable part of conflict," she told participants at the one-day event in Brussels. We look forward to supporting practical responses that ensure that sexual violence is no longer dismissed as an inevitable part of conflict
That gathering came on the heels of an EU-commissioned report which highlights gaps in providing security to women in war zones. Reviews of Security Council resolution 1325, which addresses the impact of war on women, have also found serious failings in preventing of high levels of sexual violence, particularly in continuing conflicts, and in setting up security and justice systems to end impunity.
A joint UNIFEM and UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) conference in May found that UN and African Union (AU) peacekeeping missions’ policies regarding prevention of attacks on women civilians have not been systematically implemented.
These findings led directly to the adoption of Security Council resolution 1820, which demands the "immediate and complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of all acts of sexual violence against civilians" and instructs missions to prevent impunity.
The current French Presidency of the EU "in cooperation with UNIFEM has seized the momentum created by the adoption of SCR 1820 in June 2008 on violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situation to address existing implementation gaps of EU policies in this domain," according to a UNIFEM press release issued today.
UN News Service
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| 13 Oct 2008 - 10:31 | amber
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Hola, me gustaria explicar mi situacion.... en primer lugar quiseiera decir que yo soy ameri/mexicana y me case muy jovencita a los 15 anos. Estuve casad por 14 anos, y despues de mucha violencia domestica,mental y fisica me decidi divorciarme. Tengo bienes con el y 2 hijos de 11 y 12 anos. Yo tenia mucho miedo a la corte por experencias de mi juventud y crei todo lo que me decia mi esposo. Yo no sabia que hacer, el contracto un abogado y yo no hice nada. Me bajaron mi manutencion a casi nada basado en que supuestamente estaba trabajando por cual no fue cierto,ahora no tengo trabajo y casi nada de ingreso. Tenemos una cita con la corte para revision del caso en Diciembre, que debo de hacer mientras? Estoy buscando trabajo, pero no me alcanza lo que tengo. Puedo pedir que regresemos? La juez no me ha querido escuchar pero a su abogado de mi esposo si. Que no tengo derecho de decir mi parte? Gracias por el ayuda
* Amber
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| 13 Oct 2008 - 10:13 | Colectiva para el derecho de decidir
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Pronunciamiento
Consecuencias y secuelas del aborto clandestino en Costa Rica
Ninguna adolescente más tendría que morir.
Los datos de la reciente investigación de la Asociación Demográfica Costarricense
(septiembre 2008) señalan que cada año hay 27000 abortos inducidos en el país, a pesar que este hecho está tipificado como un delito. ¿Que nos dicen estas cifras? Que los abortos se están realizando en situaciones de clandestinidad, lo cual los convierte en abortos inseguros que ponen en riesgo la integridad y la salud de las mujeres.
En reiteradas ocasiones se ha dicho que en Costa Rica el aborto
inseguro no es un problema de salud pública porque no está asociado a la mortalidad materna. No obstante, tenemos que interpretar lo que en nuestro país esto significa. La investigación de la ADC señala que 8086 mujeres son tratadas en Servicios Públicos de Salud por complicaciones derivadas de abortos inducidos. Lo anterior indica que aún y cuando los abortos inseguros estén poco relacionados con casos de mortalidad materna, sí es un hecho que las mujeres están teniendo
complicaciones que requieren hospitalización.
Noticias que han sido divulgadas por los medios de comunicación en
los últimos meses han puesto en evidencia que, debido a este estado de clandestinidad, algunas mujeres han sido obligadas a abortar por sus compañeros y les han realizado procedimientos sin consejería y sin su
consentimiento informado.
La Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir defiende la despenalización
del aborto para que sea la mujer quien, con contando con toda la
información disponible y teniendo en cuenta sus propios valores, tome
la decisión de interrumpir o no su embarazo. Obligarlas,
coercionarlas, manipularlas o engañarlas para abortar es un delito que censuramos enérgicamente.
En otro caso, se denunciaba públicamente que el profesional que daba las prescripciones médicas para el fármaco que les permitiría interrumpir su embarazo, les pedía a cambio a las mujeres una relación sexual.
Este es otro claro ejemplo de cómo la clandestinidad pone a las mujeres en situaciones de vulnerabilidad, ya que tienen que soportar las presiones de proveedores de salud que les ofrecen su ayuda a cambio de
chantajes emocionales, sexuales y/o económicos. Abusos que ellas no pueden denunciar.
Llegar demasiado lejos
La noticia reciente de la adolescente que murió debido a una complicación post-aborto ha consternado a la opinión pública y sin duda alguna es un hecho muy doloroso. El manejo de la información ha apuntado a una madre culpable que, primero obligó
a su hija a abortar y segundo, la dejó morir. Sin embrago, los medios no se han preguntado ¿por qué se puso en riesgo y se perdió la vida de esta muchacha? La sanción moral y legal del aborto obliga a las mujeres a buscar ayuda en personal no capacitado, a seguir procedimientos no
seguros y, finalmente, si ocurren complicaciones, a evitar buscar ayuda en un centro médico ante el temor de ser denunciadas e ir a prisión.
El enfoque de estas noticias ha estado centrado en el terrible
delito del aborto, ignorando por completo los delitos que se comenten contra las mujeres en el contexto de clandestinidad en el cual se realizan los abortos en nuestro país.
La censura moral y legal no ha sido una herramienta eficaz para
evitar que los abortos se realicen en el país, pero si está siendo la
causa de abusos, complicaciones y muerte. Es urgente la definición de
políticas para la prevención de los embarazos no deseados y para la
realización de abortos seguros.
Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir
Teléfono (506) 2272-4963
Fax (506) 2272-2951
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| 13 Oct 2008 - 09:51 | Karen
COLOCHA-08@HOTMAIL.COM
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en realidad tengo tanto miedo en escribir esto pork en realidad no tengo tan claro al 100% ke este sufriendo de esto, pero todo lo ke leo en violencia domestica me pasa a mi, no soy abusada con golpes pero psicologicamente si, y tengo tanto temor de mi persona, tengo una nina de 6 anos y estoy embarazada, ahora mismo no tengo a donde vivir, ando donde una amiga, despues donde otra, siento miedo por todo, de no encontrar trabajo, de no estabilizarme me aterra pensar, ke no voy a estar bien y siempre acudo a el, por lo economico, todos me dicen ke soy abusada pero en este momento siento ke es asi, ayudenme por favor se los voy agradecer..con todo mi alma estoy desesperada y sufro mucho ayudenme por favor.....
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