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| 20 Apr 2008 - 20:31 | julia
homphonjulia@163.com
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Estimados señores, somos estudiante e Cooperación Internacional en España, estamos investigando el estado de las mujeres de Guatemala, nos falta muchos documentos de la Sensibilización en género, ¿Podrian ofrecernos unos? Gracias por su atención
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| 20 Apr 2008 - 20:28 | mujeresred-violencia
mujeresred-violencia-bounces@listas.nodo50.org
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Femicidio y discriminación
Publicado en "Página 12" el 18/04/2008
Costo agregado
A Santa la golpearon y la apuñalaron en una pensión de 20 habitaciones. No hubo quien escuchara los gritos, quien interviniera en su favor. La encontraron varios días después, cuando su cuerpo hedía. Dominicana, era una de las tantas mujeres que desde hace dos décadas llegan a la Argentina buscando un futuro, aunque aquí les ofrecen prostitución y violencia.
Por Roxana Sanda
”Ya está. Lo encontraron.” El anuncio de la mayor, una dominicana de cuerpo macizo y sonrisa ancha, les contrajo el pecho a las demás, que habían acordado establecer una guardia de boca en boca para hallar al hombre que a mediados de marzo asesinó a su compañera, Santa Uceta Contreras, en un hotel de San Cristóbal. Al atardecer del domingo último, precisamente cuando el frío volvió a revelarles la crudeza de ese destino de esquinas que las atrapa hace años, fundieron abrazos de emoción profunda al calor de una esperanza que creían perdida. Por primera vez, acaso en décadas, un grupo de migrantes dominicanas rompió el silencio y logró que sus reclamos hicieran efecto sobre la Justicia argentina.
El presunto detenido, Alejandro César Rojas, un desocupado joven, en ocasiones taxista, huyó hasta el Paraguay en un viaje relámpago que pudo concretarse gracias a algún dinero guardado y al silencio cómplice de otros que lo vieron el 16 de marzo a la noche, de copas por varios boliches de Constitución y con las prendas ensangrentadas. Este último dato, que se desprende de una investigación periodística de lavaca.org, resulta central, no sólo porque compromete seriamente a Rojas en el femicidio de Santa sino, y acaso lo más grave, porque demuestra la impunidad que tiñó el hecho desde un rincipio. “Tenemos tantas preguntas como miedo”, dice Alina G., una compañera dominicana de Santa, que ejerce la prostitución cerca de Cochabamba y Sáenz Peña, a pocas cuadras de la pensión donde hallaron el cuerpo destrozado a puñaladas y trompadas. “Sabemos que había sangre por todas partes, que la corrieron, que le pegaron hasta deformarle el rostro y la apuñalaron muchas veces. ¿Cómo puede ser que en una pensión de pasajeros nadie haya visto ni oído nada? ¿Por qué nadie se acercó más tarde al lugar donde quedó encerrada, o esa noche o al día siguiente? La policía allanó la pieza el 18 de marzo, porque los vecinos y los encargados de la pensión ya no aguantaban el olor a podrido. Si no hubiera sido por eso, estoy segura de que hoy seguiríamos preguntándonos por su desaparición.”
Santa Uceta Contreras llegó a Buenos Aires tres años atrás, empujada por la pobreza que estrangula a su país y animada por su hermana, Yaniris, que desembarcó antes para escaparle al mismo infortunio. Desde un primer momento “La Yani”, como la llama Alina, ayudó a Santa en lo que pudo, con ropa y dinero, “pero en el fondo las viajeras, como nos llaman en la isla a las que emigramos, sabemos que si pasado un tiempo no conseguimos trabajo ni fregando, terminamos prostituyéndonos”. De día, porque las noches son de las travestis y prostitutas argentinas, y más precarizadas que aquéllas frente al control policial y el pago de “peajes” por los arribos clandestinos al país y la falta de documentación. “A algunas nos traen engañadas con contratos falsos de trabajo que firmamos en el lugar de origen y otras vienen resignadas a ejercer la prostitución. Pero en ningún caso esperamos que nos maltraten o nos asesinen.”
Luego de conocerse y entablar lo que Santa anhelaba como una vida en pareja, Rojas cambió el papel de novio por el de cafisho disciplinador a golpes e insultos, sin importar demasiado el embarazo reciente de su mujer ni los anteriores que había perdido. “Cada dos días muere una mujer a manos de su pareja, conocido o familiar. A esto se le agrega una combinación reestigmatizante por ser mujer, pobre, extranjera, migrante y prostituta, y la posibilidad de que exista una red de proxenetas detrás”, advierte María José Lubertino, titular del Instituto Nacional Contra la Discriminación (Inadi), uno de los organismos que promueven acciones para la regularización ciudadana de las comunidades extranjeras más postergadas en la Argentina.
Según los datos de entrada a Ezeiza y sondeos de la Organización Internacional de las Migraciones (OIM), unas 10.000 mujeres dominicanas pueblan este territorio. La primera oleada se registró en apenas dos meses de 1998, cuando ingresaron cerca de 5000 en una búsqueda de trabajo que se frustró por la escasez de recursos para sostenerse y las posibilidades nulas de regresar a su país. Llegaron a representar el 80% de las prostitutas extranjeras en la Argentina.
“Es un tema que abordamos en cada reunión. La migración tiene cara de mujer porque las jefas de hogar son las que salen para ayudar a sus familias. Y la violencia contra las migrantes parece un costo obligado. Pero la Justicia tampoco responde y las comisarías no escuchan los reclamos ni las denuncias”, sostiene la peruana Lourdes Rivadeneira, que coordina el Foro de Migrantes y Refugiados del Inadi.
Las extranjeras reclaman la instrumentación del acceso a los mismos derechos que las mujeres argentinas.
–Faltan herramientas, pero también es cierto que entre las organizaciones de migrantes hay un desconocimiento generalizado de recursos y derechos. Una salida posible son talleres y capacitación.
–¿Desde el Foro tienen contacto con los grupos de dominicanas en situación de prostitución?
–Sólo con algunas mujeres. La mayoría se siente estigmatizada, tiene miedo y considera invasivas las intervenciones. De todos modos, venimos batallando el tema de la trata con fines de explotación sexual: cerca del 70% de mujeres en esta situación son latinoamericanas de países limítrofes.
–¿Qué factores se relacionan con la estigmatización de las migrantes en los países receptores?
–Tiene que ver con la pobreza y el aspecto físico. No es lo mismo una migrante con dinero y blanca. A partir de ahí nacen todas las diferencias, y los padecimientos están cortados por la misma tijera para ellas y sus hijos e hijas. Por eso es necesario reclamar la ciudadanía plena para vivir dignamente y también para poder votar: somos el 6% de la población, que podría definir muchas situaciones, y sólo diciendo basta a la discriminación y la xenofobia podremos recuperar el poder perdido.
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| 19 Apr 2008 - 22:30 | Leticia - Hispanic Family Services
hispanicfamilyservices@yahoo.com
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Hi my name is Leticia, I live in Northern Alabama. It saddens me to say that our Hispanic community, our friends, our own race, are limited to resources in this state. My supervisor is trying to come up with funds for the above named center. We are currently "brain storming" and have asked some of our Hispanic members to help with any ideas or needs that can benefit our Hispanics. I am so excited to think that we can make a difference and give the victim/Hispanics the opportunity to voice their needs, whatever they might be and actually get a response in a language they understand and most important the justice they deserve. Just like any other person here in Alabama...
We want to make a difference and it is going to be hard and might get harder along the way, but I feel that we the young generation need to step up and let every victim/Hispanics voice be heard! I was searching for ideas when I came across your page and it motivates me even more to help out.
Please, if you have any information or contacts that might have ideas or links that could benefit with assisting our Hispanic friends in the state of Alabama, I would really appericiate the help. I am also interested in the trainings Women's Justice Center offers and would like more information on it. Thank you for taking your time to read this.
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* Thank you,
* Leticia
* Hispanic Advocate
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| 19 Apr 2008 - 11:07 | feministpeacenetwork
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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New feministpeacenetwork boletin
www.feministpeacenetwork.org/
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| 19 Apr 2008 - 10:57 | Women Living Under Muslim Laws
URL: www.wluml.org/english/index.shtml
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Women Living Under Muslim Laws
News Update
www.wluml.org/english/index.shtm l
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| 19 Apr 2008 - 10:50 | feministpeacenetwork
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/04/17/ . . .
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National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights Newsletter and Update
Excerpts
www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/04/17/national-coalition-for-immigrant-women%e2%80%99s-rights-newsletter-and-update/
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| 19 Apr 2008 - 10:43 | David Clohessy - SNAP
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SNAP STATEMENT RE: Boston Victims Meeting With the Pope
Today
Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, SNAP southwestern regional
director (949 322 7434)
This is a small, long-over due step forward on a very long road. We're
confident the meeting was meaningful for the participants and we're grateful that these victims have had the courage to come forward and speak up.
But fundamentally it won't change things. Kids need action. Catholics
deserve action. Action produces reform and reform, real reform, is sorely needed in the church hierachy.
Some talk is OK. A meeting is better. Decisive reform is crucial.
We do vulnerable children a severe disservice if we set extraordinarily low expectations for a brilliant, experienced, powerful global leader like the Pope.
In the Gospel of Luke, we're told "To whom much is given, much is expected." The Pope has been given the reins of a vast, wealthy, powerful global monarchy. He must use those reins to safeguard the vulnerable.
We cannot confuse words - even sincere, eloquent ones - with deeds. The stakes are too high.
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the nation's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We've been around for 17 years and have more than 8,000 members across the country. Despite
the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by
religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and
Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contact David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, 314-645-5915 home), Barbara
Blaine (312-399-4747), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688), Mary Grant
(626-419-2930), Mark Serrano (703-727-4940)
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
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| 19 Apr 2008 - 10:36 | Rita Smith
rsmith@ncadv.org
URL: pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/4-28regform.pdf
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CALL TO ACTION FOR WOC ADVOCATES AND ACTIVISTS
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY:
CALL TO ACTION FOR WOMEN OF COLOR ADVOCATES AND ACTIVISTS
Monday, April 28, 2008
1:00-3:00 pm EST
This call is for women of color specifically of Asian/Pacific Islander,
Arab/Middle-Eastern, Black/African, Native/Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latin descent only.
PURPOSE OF THE CALL: a) To continue working on a collective Call to Action Statement; b) To discuss plans for a national Call to Action conference; and c) To discuss other emerging issues and potential approaches in addressing
them.
REGISTRATION: To participate in the call, please go to the link below and complete the registration form by Friday, April 25, 2008:
http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/4-28 regform.pdf
Looking forward to our call.
In solidarity,
Women of Color Network
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| 18 Apr 2008 - 11:08 | CIMACnoticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08041711-Reco . . .
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A un año de su aprobación en Ciudad de México
Reconocimiento a la autoridad moral de las mujeres, ILE
Por Guadalupe Cruz Jaimes
México DF, 17 abril 08 (CIMAC).- A un año de la aprobación de la Interrupción Legal del Embarazo (ILE) en el Distrito Federal, la asociación civil Católicas por el Derecho Decidir (CDD) ratificó su posición por la defensa y la preservación de la calidad de vida, el respeto a la libertad de conciencia, el reconocimiento a la capacidad moral de las mujeres, un acompañamiento sin juicio y la defensa del Estado laico.
“Católicas por el Derecho a decidir reitera que esta ley constituye un reconocimiento a la autoridad moral de las mujeres para tomar decisiones en todos los aspectos de su vida así como el triunfo de la democracia”, así se pronunció María Consuelo Mejía, directora de esta OSC desde 1994, durante el foro Reflexiones y Diálogo Ético-religioso a un año de la despenalización del aborto en el Distrito Federal.
Durante el acto, que se llevó a cabo en la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, en el centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, Consuelo Mejía refirió que es necesario respetar el Estado laico, ya que “es esencial para garantizar a la ciudadanía el ejercicio de la libertad de conciencia y el derecho a tomar decisiones libres responsables e informadas”.
La directora de CDD dijo que “a un falta mucho por hacer” con respecto a la ILE: difundirla, manteniendo la cautela necesaria en la prestación de los servicios; protegerla demostrando los beneficios que ha traído a la salud de las mujeres capitalinas, y defenderla “ya que su práctica ha significado para más de 7 mil mujeres una experiencia de libertad”.
Asimismo, mencionó que la ILE beneficiará principalmente a las mujeres más pobres, “para el respeto de sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos y la protección de sus derechos humanos”.
A un año de la despenalización del aborto, se han presentado 14 mil mujeres a solicitar este servicio que es “totalmente confidencial”, de las cuales sólo poco más de 7 mil lo han llevado a cabo, señaló.
RESPETO A LIBERTAD DE CONCIENCIA
mas....
www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08041711-Reconocimiento-a-la.32833.0.html
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| 18 Apr 2008 - 10:55 | National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
iortiz@dvalianza.org
URL: www.dvalianza.org
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Dear Colleagues:
Through an OVW grant, The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) created the Curriculum and Supplemental Guide for Conducting Support and Empowerment Groups with Latina Survivors of Domestic Violence in 2005. We are gearing up to conduct a second round of regional trainings focused on OVW grantees, but also for community based and main stream organizations carrying out or interested in working on domestic violence. The trainings, to be conducted bilingually during the fall and winter of 2008-09, will be in the use of this curriculum guide. Alianza will provide the curriculum and the supplemental guide to all participants.
We wish to tailor these trainings to the facilitator's needs. Our goal is to provide practical and culturally proficient tools to enhance and further develop their skills facilitating support groups for Latina survivors of domestic violence. We are asking your help in distributing this survey to OVW grantees and domestic violence programs in your state. Please fill out the survey and return to Ivonne Ortiz, iortiz@dvalianza.org or by fax, 1-252-237-2396, by May 5, 2008 or mail to Ivonne Ortiz, Alianza, P.O. Box 7305, Wilson, NC 27895. The information you provide is vital to ensure the trainings fulfill the needs of many facilitators throughout the country. Thank you in advance for your interest and support. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Ivonne Ortiz
Program Coordinator
National Latino Alliance for the
Elimination of Domestic Violence
P.O. Box 7305
Wilson, NC 27895
Phone: 252-315-5480 Fax: 252-237-2396
Website: dvalianza.org
iortiz@dvalianza.org
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| 18 Apr 2008 - 10:36 | Sisters in Spirit
URL: www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/SISLiteratu . . .
| Sisters in Spirit Literature Review
www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/SISLiteratureReview_March2008_Final.pdf
The overall vision of the Sisters in Spirit initiative is to increase the personal safety and security of all Aboriginal women and girls in Canada. In support of this vision, the literature review process identifies relevant literature and synthesizes the findings from this literature to inform the research, policy, and communications and education activities of the Sisters in
Spirit initiative.
Key Research Questions
The Sisters in Spirit initiative resulted from a two year consultation and development process in communities across Canada. As part of this development, four key research questions
were identified to guide the initiative at a broad level. These key questions were designed to
assist NWAC in understanding the social context of the current situation of missing and
murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. The key research questions are:
1. What are the circumstances, root causes and trends leading racialized, sexualized
violence against Aboriginal women in Canada?
2. How has the justice system responded to family and community reports of
missing/murdered Aboriginal women in Canada? What issues, challenges and gaps
exist?
3. What changes need to be implemented in order to improve the safety and well-being
of Aboriginal women in Canada, particularly related to this issue?
4. How should these changes be implemented in order to reduce or prevent the
racialized sexualized violence against Aboriginal women, particularly that which
results in their disappearance or murder?
Strategic Policy Agenda
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| 18 Apr 2008 - 09:53 | The New Nation ~~ Bangladesh
URL: nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/04/10/new . . .
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"I've been harmed physically, socially due to the rape. But the way
the defence counsel asked me obscene questions it was more harmful and disgraceful for me. Now I rather wish to die. It's a sin to be born as a girl," Hasna says.
~~~~~ Teen Rape Victim, Bangladesh
Cross-examination of rape victims nothing but mental torture
The New Nation ~~ Bangladesh ~~ April 10, 2008
Snigdha Madhuri
Jerin Rahman, a pretty but meek schoolgirl, is full of dreams. Why
not? After all she is a good student. Her mother wants to achieve
through her what she could not do in her student life. But one day,
some local goons shattered all of their dreams.
The wayward youths who had long been teasing Jerin (not her real name) picked up her on her way to school and gang-raped her in an abandoned house of Mohammadpur area barely six months ago.
Upset, Jerin's parents filed a case with a Women and Children
Repression Prevention special court seeking justice only to see they are awaiting another humiliation.
During the trial, the defence lawyer asked Jerin a volley of
insensitive questions what she found indecent. In a crowded court, the lawyer asked the distressed girl to describe how she was raped.
At one stage of the trial, Jerin became mentally ill and attempted to commit suicide.
Jerin, who was a student of class IX when the worst thing happened to
her, never visited her school since then.
Another girl, Hasna Banu (name changed to protect privacy) from
Manikganj fell victim to a rapist, Rahim Miah, a few months back.
Hasna Banu filed a case against Rahim, seeking justice. During the
trial, the teenager became mentally ill and began considering herself
guilty of the rape.
"I've been harmed physically, socially due to the rape. But the way
the defence counsel asked me obscene questions it was more harmful and disgraceful for me. Now I rather wish to die. It's a sin to be born as a girl," Hasna says.
Undoubtedly, rape is the most terrible thing for a woman. Due to rape, a woman is harmed not only physically and socially, but also mentally as the victim is haunted by trauma. Her bahaviour changes and she starts hating herself and distrusting others.
Ishrat Jahan Bithi, a psychologist of Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre
for Trauma Victims, says, "After being raped, a woman develops a
number of psychological problems along with physical problems. She
loses her confidence all together. She is embarrassed when she is
asked filthy questions in court. In such a situation, a victim may
even try to commit suicide."
Kaniz Fatema, programme officer of human rights organisation Odhikar,
says, "It's a legal process that in a rape case the defence lawyer
will question the victim. But, in court such indecent questions and
gestures are asked and made in presence of many, which mentally
devastate a victim. In many cases, many victims withdraw their cases
to avoid this type of unwarranted situation."
continues...
nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/04/10/news0045.htm
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| 17 Apr 2008 - 21:35 | UNIFEM
URL: www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php . . .
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Violence against women is the theme of Women on the Frontline, a
series of seven films being broadcast for the first time tomorrow Friday night by BBC World at 1930 GMT to about 300 million households to help peel away the silence surrounding the brutality of gender-based violence
that crosses all borders.
"On the Frontline has gone behind the lines with rebels and filmed among violent street gangs but this time we've taken the frontline mostly into the home, where even after 20 years in production, I'm still shocked to see how many obstacles lie between women and equality, and the violence
they must still endure," said Robert Lamb, Executive Director of the series.
The seven films cover Nepal, where thousands of women are trafficked
each year; Turkey, where killing in the name of honour continues;
Morocco, where women political activists who have survived torture and imprisonment testify before a government truth and reconciliation
commission; the DRC, where women bear the brunt of a 10-year war in the eastern provinces; Colombia, where women have been tortured in the shadow of a guerilla war; Mauritania, where women who have been raped
may go to prison; and Austria, where, under a new law, perpetrators of domestic violence are forced to leave home.
For more information, see the series brochure. Consult
the broadcast schedules on dev.tv and BBC World.
The series is being broadcast first on BBC World for seven weeks starting 18 April 2008, 19:30 GMT. Consult the broadcast schedules on dev.tv and BBC World.
www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php?ProductID=111
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| 17 Apr 2008 - 07:51 | Eleanor Smeal
feministmajority@mail.democracyinaction.org
URL: salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1269/t/184/ca . . .
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Urgent: Senate Votes on Fair Pay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear feminist activist,
Urge your senators to support the Fair Pay Restoration Act (S. 1843). It will be on the Senate floor for a vote early next week -- there is not a moment left to lose! The House has already passed the companion bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to correct the recent Supreme Court decision that guts the ability of women workers to sue for wage discrimination. Celebrate Equal Pay Day, April 22nd, by contacting your senators today!
salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1269/t/184/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2133
Tell your senators to support fair pay!
Lilly Ledbetter worked at Goodyear for nearly 20 years before she discovered that men in the same job were paid more. The Supreme Court ruled that wage discrimination complaints must be filed within 180 days of the initial discriminatory salary decision, even if the victim is unaware of the discrimination until much later. This 5-4 decision by the Bush Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent un wage discrimination cases decided under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
It is imperative that the Senate pass the Fair Pay Restoration Act, introduced by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), with Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Arlen Spector (R-PA).
Tell your Senators to reverse the Supreme Court's assault on women's right to sue by voting for the Fair Pay Restoration Act.
For Equality,
Eleanor Smeal
President
Celebrate Equal Pay Day by Contacting your Senators Today!
Urgent Deadline: Senate Floor Vote on Ledbetter Expected Early Next Week!
We must correct the Supreme Court ruling in Ledbetter gutting women workers' ability to sue for wage discrimination.
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| 16 Apr 2008 - 14:30 | Lisa Frydman
frydmanl@uchastings.edu
URL: cgrs.uchastings.edu/campaigns/matterofat . . .
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Background:
On September 27, 2007, the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board), the highest immigration court in the country, denied protection to Alima Traore, a 28 year-old woman from Mali who was subjected to female genital cutting (FGC) as a child, and who fears a forced marriage should she be sent back to her home country. Ms. Traore had requested asylum based on her past FGC and the ongoing harms it has caused her, as well as her fear of being forced to marry her cousin.
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Dear colleagues,
Please contact your Senator today to urge that he/she sign onto a letter
cgrs.uchastings.edu/documents/advocacy/matterofat_senate_letter_Mukasey.pdf
requesting that the Attorney General review a devastating decision, known as In re A-T-, denying protection to Alima Traore, who was subjected to female genital cutting mutilation (FGM) as a child and fears a forced marriage should she be sent back to Mali.
In September 2007, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied Ms. Traore's request for asylum. Ms. Traore continues to endure the
consequences of her genital cutting, including ongoing medical,
psychological, and sexual problems. Despite this, the BIA ruled that past FGM is generally not a basis for asylum because it happens to a woman only once, and is therefore not a "continuing harm." However, the BIA had previously recognized forced reproductive sterilization, which
also happens only once, as a permanent and continuing harm. Contrary to international law, the BIA also rejected Ms. Traore's forced marriage claim, characterizing the practice as harmless family tradition rather than persecution.
Since its 1996 decision - In re Kasinga - the BIA has recognized FGM as persecution. In re A-T- marks a significant departure from Kasinga and other earlier advances made for women's rights.
A bi-partisan sign on effort, sponsored by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), is underway in the Senate to request that the Attorney General reconsider the outrageous denial of protection to Ms. Traore. The more Senators that sign on, the greater the pressure will be on the Attorney General to review the case.
Your support is needed! To email your Senator click here
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/8 04/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23940
**View the sign on letter
<http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/documents/ advocacy/matterofat_senate_letter_Mukase y.pdf > to Attorney General Mukasey
For more information about the campaign to reverse A-T-, visit CGRS's
campaign webpage: http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/campaigns/mat terofat.php
<http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/campaigns/ matterofat.php > .
Sincerely,
Lisa Frydman
Staff Attorney
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
UC Hastings College of the Law
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Ph: (415) 565-4791
Fax: (415) 581-8824
frydmanl@uchastings.edu
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| 16 Apr 2008 - 10:31 | Fely
felygarcia59@hotmail.com
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Buen dia necesito hayuda como hacer la carta o declaracion de violencia domestica que he sufrido desde hace 6 anos que me case con un americano tengo 3 hijos estoy separada ahora que nacio la bebe y quiero arreglar mi situacion migratoria por medio del VAWA yo trabajo gano poco pero el no me da nada para sus hijos es drogadicto yno trabaja vive con su mama y me piden que haga mi testimonio pero no se como comenzas ha hacerlo PUEDEN HAYUDARME POR FAVOR DIOS LES BENDIGA.
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| 16 Apr 2008 - 10:15 | CIMACnoticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08041506-BREV . . .
| AUMENTA LA VIOLENCIA EN LAS RELACIONES DE NOVIAZGO EN EL DF, SEÑALAN ENCUESTAS
México DF.- En la inauguración del Séptimo Diplomado en Violencia Familiar y Derechos Humanos, en el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), la Comisión de los Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal informó de un alarmante aumento de la violencia en las relaciones de noviazgo en el DF, de acuerdo con encuestas recientes.
Los datos refieren a que cuatro de cada 10 mujeres sufrieron alguna agresión por parte de su pareja en su relación, en un entorno donde siete de cada 10 mujeres mexicanas mayores de 15 años han sufrido violencia comunitaria, familiar, patrimonial, escolar, laboral y de pareja.
En la conferencia Violencia contra las mujeres desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos, Emilio Álvarez Icaza, presidente de la CDHDF, resaltó que de acuerdo con el Informe Mundial sobre brechas entre Género 2007, que compara la oportunidad económica, el poder político, la educación y el acceso a la salud entre hombres y mujeres, México ocupa el lugar 93 de 128 países.
En términos de desigualdad de género, indicó, las mujeres representan casi 40 por ciento de la Población Económicamente Activa (PEA), pero sólo 3 por ciento tienen puestos directivos; sobre los derechos políticos de esta población, sólo 18 por ciento de las y los integrantes del Senado de la República son mujeres (23 de 128); en la Cámara de Diputados representan 23.4 por ciento (117 de 500); y en los 2 mil 439 municipio del país y 16 delegaciones políticas sólo gobiernan 85 ayuntamientos, lo que representa 3.5 por ciento.
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| 16 Apr 2008 - 09:39 | greenowl
greenowl77@yahoo.com
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After ONE act of violence against only myself I left my husband, filed protective orders and pressed charges.
* CPS came after me!
* I had to undergo counselling 1 a week and my children that were not even present at the time of abuse had to go as well.
* CPS tried to devide and conquor my family as I could see that my husband was activly seeking help for his depression and drinking.(Which he sought immediately after he learned what he'd done)
* They threatened me with the removal of my four children into state custody if I refused to cooperate or say that I or my husband was innocent of any violence towards or in the prescence of our children. They came on several occasions to tell me how they could come and take my unborn child away to be adopted if they succeded in terminating my parental rights which I believe was always thier goal: A beautiful baby girl that anyone would want to adopt and give the agency mere revenue.
* The legal advice that was given to me was to admit wrong! This would show CPS that I was willing to seek help and agreed with them thus preventing the removal of my children. That worked. However my husband was not allowed to see his children for over a year and had not ever hurt any of them. AND he had to plead guilty to abuse and neglect.
* I was ordered to take a full psycological battery of teste including an IQ test! My husband was not ordered to take anything of the sort, only to attend counselling and therepy as well as AA meetings. My worker was very aggitated with the findings of those tests especially my 130 average IQ. Honestly her demenor was atrocious.
* They really fished for anything that could make me an incapable parent.
* Only after they realized that the judge and guardian were on our sides did the abuse of their power dwindle. It was then that they offered us access to so many programs to help, including a blessed assistance to find housing. They actually paid our first and last mo. rent in order that our family could be reunited.
* After 18 mo. of CPS rule my family was freed from thier vile clutches, and the sad thing is that if they had come into the situation trying to help, we would have wasted less of the government's time and money.
* Don't trust CPS. They WILL lie in court as well as deny they did things to you-such as threaten, when accused. If you try to report them to their superiors they practically slam the door in your face and then tell your worker so that further abuse by the system in retaliation can occur.
* I only know now that we managed to hang on to each other, which they hated as they told us each different things. We recorded everything they said or did and always had witnesses present during ALL home visits.(I would have lost my kids as my worker claimed that I denied her access to the house on one visit)She had officers in place to take my kids at the next court date, thank god I had witnesses. We also kept every shred of paperwork they gave us and hounded them for copies of every little note we could including the initial report and accusation.
* Don't let your gaurd down where these people are concerned and if they come after you the only way you can defend yourself is to do as I said above as well as agree with everything they say-at least to their faces.
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| 15 Apr 2008 - 09:48 | admin
URL: www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/04/13/12 . . .
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War Without Freedom
by Waleed Aly
The Age, Australia
.............A recent report by British-based women's rights group Womankind has concluded that Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. Around 80% of women are affected by domestic violence; over 60% of marriages are forced, some of them between elderly men and girls as young as eight; half of Afghanistan's girls are married before the age of 16.
The parade of statistics is numbing, but it gets worse: so bad is the brutality that Afghan women are setting themselves on fire to escape it.
There have been some gains, mostly on paper. But Womankind's snapshot is explicit: "Seven years after the US and the UK 'freed' Afghan women from the oppressive Taliban regime … life is just as bad for most, and worse in some cases."
We have no right to be surprised about this. Certainly, the Taliban's resurgence has not helped, but the truth is that if we had bothered to familiarise ourselves with the experiences of Afghan women before we championed their cause, this would have been sadly predictable.
Indeed, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) — the organisation bravely responsible for bringing horrific images of Taliban brutality to the world — opposed the US-led invasion because it understood that their suffering was too complex and deeply rooted to be sheeted home to a singular villainous organism called the Taliban. It is the product of a nation ravaged by decades of war, with all the feudal social structures, entrenched poverty, illiteracy and corrosive brutality that this nurtures. Such dynamics cannot simply be excised militarily. The Taliban was a symptom as much as a cause.
RAWA tried to tell us that Afghan women had already been "crushed and brutalised … under the chains and atrocities of the Northern Alliance fundamentalists". That is probably an understatement. The Northern Alliance had killed 50,000 civilians during its rule in the 1990s, systematically raping thousands of women and girls and causing others to commit suicide.
Yet it was the Northern Alliance that would be our proxies in Afghanistan. These were the good guys; our fellow liberators of Afghan women. We should not have been surprised when, soon after the invasion, an international NGO worker told Amnesty International that "during the Taliban era, if a woman went to market and showed an inch of flesh she would have been flogged; now she's raped".
That is the reality for the symbolic faces of this war: the women whose images and struggles we appropriated in our righteousness. But it is a reality we no longer acknowledge. Our mainstream political narrative begins with the Taliban's brutal misogyny and ends with our liberating venture. We imagine no prequels and sequels to this ghastly drama.
This exposes the political opportunism of so much pre-war benevolence. The unthinking construction of the Taliban as the singular source of Afghan misogyny was obviously misguided, but it was undoubtedly convenient. For a moment in 2001, Western foreign policy became a feminist enterprise. US President George Bush took action for these "women of cover", while then secretary of state Colin Powell assured us their rights "will not be negotiable". Even Laura Bush and Cherie Blair, very much in their capacity as women, spruiked extraordinarily for the war. That feminist zeal has since dimmed considerably.
Let us now admit the women of Afghanistan were used for their rhetorical potency. Now, their political utility is spent and so is our concern for them. Such cynical politicking was unnecessary. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Western governments had perfectly legitimate security grounds for taking action. Whatever your view of the war, that position at least had some integrity. But let us not pretend our political classes ever cared greatly for the people of Afghanistan. Whatever the soaring rhetoric, we did not truly have liberation on our minds.
Gender equality in Afghanistan is not ultimately about defeating the Taliban; it's about rebuilding civil society. Without investing heavily in women's health and education, and, most importantly, nurturing the rule of law, misogyny will flourish forever. That process will take decades, but if we are serious about improving the lives of Afghan women that is what it means, in Kevin Rudd's phrase, to be in it for the "long haul".
more...
www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/04/13/1208024986249.html
Waleed Aly is the author of People Like Us: how arrogance is dividing Islam and the West (Picador).
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| 15 Apr 2008 - 09:33 | boletin e-leusis
URL: www.e-leusis.net/noticia.asp?id_noticia= . . .
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Espana
Las organizaciones feministas aplauden la creación del Ministerio de Igualdad
Las organizaciones feministas aplauden la creación de un Ministerio de Igualdad que da respuesta a la medida 203 de la Plataforma de Acción de Pekín, que recomienda a los estados la configuración de organismos de igualdad con el máximo rango gubernamental. También consideran positivo el aumento del número de ministras y el reparto de carteras, aunque esperan con cautela la designación de las secretarías de Estado y las direcciones generales, donde confían en que la representación también sea paritaria.
mas...
www.e-leusis.net/n oticia.asp?id_noticia=3770
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| 15 Apr 2008 - 09:23 | Boletin e-leusis
URL: www.e-leusis.net/
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del nuevo boletin e-leusis
Por fin una ley contra el femicidio
El movimiento de mujeres en Guatemala, tuvo hoy por fin, una respuesta a la lucha inclaudicable que llevan a cabo desde hace varios años, al contar con una legislación que penaliza el femicidio y otras formas de violencia contra las mujeres.
Hilda Morales Trujillo
En una experiencia inusitada, las diputadas de todos los partidos políticos se unieron para hacer presión ante sus colegas hombres, a fin de que se aprobara la iniciativa que considera como delitos el femicidio y otras formas de violencia contra las mujeres, como la violencia física, psicológica y económica que se comete en contra de ellas.
Las diputadas demostraron que cuando se tiene voluntad política, a pesar de ser una minoría en el Congreso de la República, pueden obtener que sus propuestas de ley sean aprobadas.
Después de más de 10 años en que empezó la lucha de la Red de la No Violencia contra las Mujeres y otras organizaciones y coordinaciones de organizaciones de mujeres, como el Sector de Mujeres, para reformar el Código Penal en cuanto a los delitos que se cometen en contra de las mujeres, la tipificación del acoso sexual y la violencia intrafamiliar como delitos, desde el año pasado se elaboraron proyectos de ley para abordar desde el punto de vista legal, el problema de los femicidios. Esas últimas propuestas, buscaban que se concibiera como delitos las manifestaciones de violencia contra las mujeres, no sólo en las relaciones familiares sino en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad.
Las mujeres en Guatemala, se chocan con un muro de impunidad y con la falta de acceso a la justicia cuando son víctimas de violencia y los femicidios en un alto porcentaje quedan en la impunidad; a partir del año 2000 y hasta finales del año pasado, se han producido alrededor de 3500 femicidios y el Organismo Judicial, sólo en ese mismo año, recibió 42000 denuncias de violencia intrafamiliar. Ante ese flajelo, se impulsaba desde los últimos meses de 2007, una ley marco de violencia contra las mujeres.
Las diputadas que estrenaron su período legislativo el 14 de enero de este año, plantearon una iniciativa de ley contra el femicidio el mes pasado, a la cual se acogieron distintas organizaciones de mujeres y algunas instituciones del Estado, como la Coordinadora Nacional para la Prevención de la Violencia Intrafamiliar y contra las Mujeres –CONAPREVI- y la Defensoría de la Mujer Indígena. Después de un trabajo intenso y coordinado, se logró consensuar el texto que el día de hoy quedó aprobado como Decreto Legislativo 22-2008.
Esta nueva ley luego de la sanción del Presidente de la República, entrará en vigor 8 días después de su publicación en el Diario Oficial, que esperamos sea lo más pronto posible.
Representa un espaldarazo para las acciones de prevención que ha impulsado la Red de la No Violencia contra las Mujeres desde inicios de los años 90 del Siglo recién pasado y para las acciones que plantea la CONAPREVI en el marco del Plan Nacional para la Prevención y Erradicación de la Violencia Intrafamiliar y contra las Mujeres –PLANOVI 2004/2014.
Todavía queda mucho por recorrer para impedir que se siga matando a las mujeres y que los femicidios queden en la impunidad. Sin embargo, la ley ahora aprobada, es un punto de partida para que las mujeres cuenten con una herramienta legal que podrán hacer valer a través del sistema de justicia. Por eso hoy es un día para que celebremos por la dignidad, la integridad y la vida de las mujeres guatemaltecas.
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| 15 Apr 2008 - 09:04 | Randy McCall
URL: www.victimlaw.info
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VictimLaw is a public database of U.S. crime victims' rights laws. It includes federal, state and territorial, and tribal systems, and includes constitutional provisions, statutes, court rules, and
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Find out the current extent of crime victims rights to be informed, to be
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We are very proud of this resource, funded by the Office for Victims of
Crime. VictimLaw is user-friendly, and we believe will be a great help to advocates, policymakers, researchers, and anyone else interested in crime victims' rights.
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| 14 Apr 2008 - 16:12 | RAINN
evelynf@rainn.org
URL: www.rainn.org
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YOU ARE INVITED TO AN APRIL 17th BRIEFING:
Learn What Really Happens In A Rape Investigation
Because April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, I am writing to encourage you and your staff to attend an educational briefing sponsored by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). RAINN, the nation's
largest anti-sexual assault organization, created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotlines (accessible at 800-656-HOPE and RAINN.org) and
carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
This informational event will take place on Thursday, April 17th from 9:30– 10:30 am in 1116 Longworth. Learn what happens in a rape investigation, including:
* What is CODIS, and how is DNA analysis used to solve open rape cases?
* Are we making progress in ending sexual assault?
* What is it like for a victim in the criminal justice system?
* What federal programs, such as the Crime Victims Fund and the Sexual
Assault Services Program, exist to support a victim in the aftermath of a
rape?
* What federally-supported services, such as the National Sexual Assault
Hotline, exist to benefit victims of sexual violence?
Presenters will include:
- Jeffrey Sedgwick, Acting Assistant Attorney General at DOJ's Office of
Justice Programs and the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Amanda Sandberg, a college student and survivor of rape
- Evelyn Fortier and Smita Satiani of RAINN
- Kim Day, a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
- Pete Marone, Virginia State Crime Lab Director.
Coffee and light refreshments will be available for those in attendance.
To RSVP, please contact me or Evelyn Fortier at 202-544-5537.
Evelyn Fortier
Vice President of Policy
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
2000 L Street, N.W., Suite 406
Washington, D.C.
202-544-5537 (o)
202-281-0701 (cell)
evelynf@rainn.org
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| 14 Apr 2008 - 16:08 | admin
URL: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/ . . .
| John school takes a bite out of prostitution
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, April 14, 2008
Every two months, Valentina visits about 30 men enrolled in San Francisco's "john school" to tell them a sex story they don't want to hear.
The men are part of the city's First Offender Prostitution Program because they've been arrested for soliciting a prostitute, usually in the Mission or Tenderloin. If they agree to pay a $1,000 fee and spend a Saturday afternoon listening to sex-trafficking experts, neighborhood activists and doctors who subject them to photographs of venereal diseases, the district attorney's office will drop the misdemeanor charge.
Valentina, a striking Russian woman with jet-black hair (to protect her privacy, her full name is not given in this article), explains how she was molested from age 8 to 13 by a cousin; how she was a full-blown alcoholic and heroin addict at 21; how she became an "escort" a year later, and by age 25 was working Mission Street.
She hated every interaction with every client.
"Sometimes I see it register on their faces," said Valentina, 37, a mother and San Francisco resident who's been off the streets and sober for 10 years. "The fantasy isn't what they thought. ... I don't get much feedback from them. I do my presentation and go about my day."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/ 4/MNGE102OK5.DTL
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| 14 Apr 2008 - 14:30 | admin
URL: www.justicewomen.com/cj_sr_prostitution_ . . .
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Prostitution Links Updated
www.justicewomen.com/cj_sr_pros titution_links.html
Enlaces acerca de prostitucion puesto al corriente
http://www.justicewomen.com/c j_sr_prostitution_links.html
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