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| 09 Aug 2009 - 17:23 | Rosa Manas, Diario Feminino
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La violencia sexual contra las mujeres y los viajes de Colón
Escrito por Rosa Mañas
Quizás muchos piensan que la violencia es un mal de los tiempos que corren y en realidad es tan antigua como el hombre mismo. Las mujeres, en particular, hemos sido víctima de esas bajas pasiones desde tiempo ha, como se diría en castellano antiguo.
Estas reflexiones me llegan a propósito de un libro que ha caído en mis manos, Cronistas de Indias: antología, que recoge testimonios de Cristóbal Colón y varios de sus acompañantes en su segundo viaje a América (septiembre 1493-junio 1496). Me ha sorprendido una historia en particular por la naturalidad con que describe la violencia sexual contra una de las mujeres de la tribu Caribe que habitaban las islas de la región homónima.
Relato de violencia sexual contra las mujer en viaje de Colón
Mientras estaba en la barca —dice Michel de Cúneo, uno de los hombres de la tripulación de Colón— hice cautiva a una hermosísima mujer caribe, que el susodicho Almirante me regaló, y después que la hube llevado a mi camarote, y estando ella desnuda según es su costumbre, sentí deseos de holgar con ella. Quise cumplir mi deseo pero ella no lo consintió y me dio tal trato con sus uñas que hubiera preferido no haber empezado nunca. Pero al ver esto (y para contártelo todo hasta el final), tomé una cuerda y le di de azotes, después de los cuales echó grandes gritos, tales que no hubieras podido creer tus oídos. Finalmente llegamos a estar tan de acuerdo que puedo decirte que parecía haber sido criada en una escuela de putas.
La escena, si cambiamos el ropaje de los personajes, encaja perfectamente en el perfil machista de muchos hombres que conocemos hoy, que no solo serían capaces de ser violentos, sino también de contarlo con placer para terminar culpando a la mujer.
La violencia es solo un método, tras ella se ocultan los verdaderos intereses de dominación, ya sea económica, cultural, psicológica o sexual de una persona o comunidad frente a otra. Remediarla es una de las grandes utopías del mundo moderno que tomará muchos más años de los que ha costado al hombre desarrollarse.
Afortunadamente hoy tenemos mucho más que uñas para defendernos, algunas naciones han aprobado leyes que sancionan severamente no ya la violencia sexual contra la mujer sino también el acoso; pero existen otras, en cambio, donde el nacimiento de una niña se convierte en motivo de burlas e insatisfacciones familiares, y el pronóstico de su vida pasa por la sumisión absoluta, las ablaciones (extirpación del clítoris) y las posibles lapidaciones (muerte a pedradas) y violaciones.
Nos queda mucho por conseguir aún, es cierto, pero saber del tema es ya un primer paso para enfrentarlo con inteligencia.
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| 09 Aug 2009 - 12:20 | Feminist Peace Network
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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Feminist Peace Network Boletins
www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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| 09 Aug 2009 - 12:04 | New York Times - Op Ed
URL: www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08her . . .
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Women at Risk
Bob Herbert
“I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me,” wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week’s shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women, wounded nine others and then killed himself.
We’ve seen this tragic ritual so often that it has the feel of a formula. A guy is filled with a seething rage toward women and has easy access to guns. The result: mass slaughter.
Back in the fall of 2006, a fiend invaded an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, separated the girls from the boys, and then shot 10 of the girls, killing five.
I wrote, at the time, that there would have been thunderous outrage if someone had separated potential victims by race or religion and then shot, say, only the blacks, or only the whites, or only the Jews. But if you shoot only the girls or only the women — not so much of an uproar.
According to police accounts, Sodini walked into a dance-aerobics class of about 30 women who were being led by a pregnant instructor. He turned out the lights and opened fire. The instructor was among the wounded.
We have become so accustomed to living in a society saturated with misogyny that the barbaric treatment of women and girls has come to be more or less expected.
We profess to being shocked at one or another of these outlandish crimes, but the shock wears off quickly in an environment in which the rape, murder and humiliation of females is not only a staple of the news, but an important cornerstone of the nation’s entertainment.
Continues...
www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08herbert.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=herbert&st=cse
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| 08 Aug 2009 - 12:18 | Barricada, Argentina
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prd0b_KTPU0
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Argentina
NO A LA RED DE TRATA
nuevo video - 4 minutos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prd0b_KTPU0
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| 08 Aug 2009 - 11:57 | Safe Start Center
URL: www.safestartcenter.org/pdf/caregiver.pd . . .
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Healing the Invisible Wounds,
Children's Exposure to Violence
A Guide for Families
www.safestartcenter.org/pdf/caregiver.pdf
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| 08 Aug 2009 - 11:50 | Safe Start Center
URL: www.safestartcenter.org/pdf/caregiver-sp . . .
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Sanemos las Heridas Invisibles,
Ninos Expuestos a Violencia
Guia para familias
www.safestartcenter.org/pdf/caregiver-spanish.pdf
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| 08 Aug 2009 - 11:37 | Free the Slaves
freedomawards@freetheslaves.net
URL: www.comminit.com/en/node/265684/348
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William Wilberforce Award
Deadline Date
December 1, 2009
Free the Slaves is accepting nominations for their 2009 Freedom Awards. These awards are open to organisations and individuals who are working to eradicate human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The Freedom Awards were created to celebrate the vision and courage of community-based organisations, survivors of slavery, individual leaders, and young adult anti-slavery activists who are showing the way to a world without slavery. The Awards also honour past heroes who inspire the anti-slavery movement today.
The William Wilberforce Award will be given to an individual who has moved a major institution, a business, or large groups of people to significant action to fight slavery. It will award the winning individual a total of US$10,000 over two years, to be used as he or she feels is appropriate.
Both nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Individuals in any part of the world are eligible for nomination for this award.
The individual must:
Be willing to travel to the United States (Free the Slaves will cover travel costs and assist with travel documents).
Be willing to speak out about his or her experiences (Free the Slaves will also arrange interpretation).
Application Information
Nominations must be made on the appropriate form. Click here for more information and access to a downloadable nomination form in MS Word format.
Previous Winners
Click here to read about previous winners.
Contact
Free the Slaves
1012 14th St, NW, Suite 600
Washington DC
20005
United States
Tel: 202 638 1865
Free the Slaves
freedomawards@freetheslaves.net
www.comminit.com/en/node/265684/348
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| 07 Aug 2009 - 15:31 | Village Voice
URL: blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/arch . . .
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Pittsburgh Shooter George Sodini and his "Dating Young Women" Guru: R. Don Steele
By Tony Ortega in Featured, WTF?Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 9:16AM
A shock of recognition went down my spine as I watched Pittsburgh gym shooter George Sodini giving a video tour of his house.
Now that Sodini has killed three women and himself in Tuesday's horrific shooting, we're all ghoulishly picking over his Internet corpse. The man's diary, for example, revealed that he felt emotionally crippled by his domineering mother and bullying older brother, and blamed them for his inability to have relationships with women.
Today, we get the video tour of his house (above), which, judging from the way he narrated it, was made for fellow loners to get some feedback from them about his bachelor pad and whether a woman would find it acceptable.
About halfway into the video, Sodini pans down with his camera to catch a brief glimpse of the material on his coffee table, and that's when the hairs on the back of my neck stood up: one of the books he shows is none other than How to Date Young Women: For Men Over 35 by R. Don Steele.
Continues....
blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/08/pittsburgh_shoo.php
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| 07 Aug 2009 - 14:13 | Ben Atherton
benazeman@hotmail.com
URL: www.voicesofmen.org
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"Men's Monologues Against Violence"
Hello, friends! Many of you know me as the author and performer of the one-man play, "Voices of Men." I'm working on a new piece called the "Men's Monologues Against Violence" and I could use some help!
The "Men's Monologues" are inspired by Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues." I am creating a performance that will showcase real men doing specific actions to stop men's violence against women - domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, etc. I had the honor of performing some of the Monologues at the Men Can Stop Rape national conference this past Spring.
Ideally, the specific actions in the Monologues would be things most men could imagine doing. For example, writing a one-man play and performing it in 43 states would be a bad example. Creating a T-shirt design that celebrates conflict resolution and girl's empowerment (in response to a sexist T-shirt seen at K-Mart) as 9 year old David did in Maine, would be a good example.
Do you know of a boy or a man who has done something to stop men's violence against women? Are you such a boy or a man? Then please contact me - I'd love to interview you for possible inclusion in the Monologues.
I'm looking in particular for men of color, gay and bisexual men, transgender men and men with disabilities. But I'd love to hear from any man, or from anyone who knows such a man.
Please help spread the word. Thanks!
Until the violence stops, Ben.
Ben Atherton-Zeman, Maynard, MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," www.voicesofmen.org
(video clips available)
For booking information, please call 978-897-3619
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| 06 Aug 2009 - 19:36 | National Organization for Women
URL: www.now.org/press/07-09/07-31.html
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NOW Outraged at House Vote on Abortion Coverage -- Women's Rights Traded Away
July 31, 2009
NOW is outraged to learn that the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment excluding abortion services from the "essential" health benefits package as defined by the government. Under this amendment, subsidies used to help pay insurance premiums for low-income people could not be used for abortion services. The New York Times reports that "insurers must use money from private sources to pay for any abortions."
"Reproductive health care is a fundamental right. Any health care plan that does not cover the full range of reproductive services, including abortion, discriminates against women," said NOW President Terry O'Neill. "Once again, our representatives are giving in to the right wing by trading away women's rights. Well, I have a message for them, our reproductive rights are not theirs to give away."
O'Neill noted that a majority of voters support coverage for abortion services, with only about a quarter opposed to using tax dollars to pay for abortion. In addition, a recent study found that most people in the U.S. with employer-based insurance currently have coverage for abortion. "Don't low-income people deserve the same level of coverage as other people in this country?" asked O'Neill. "Our lawmakers should be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating class-based and gender-based biases as they attempt to 'reform' our broken health care system."
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Mai Shiozaki, 202-628-8669, ext. 116; cell 202-641-1906
OUTRAGED? PROTEST! go to...
www.now.org/press/07-09/07-31.html
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| 06 Aug 2009 - 10:44 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2351
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Estudio de la OIT
Desentendimiento ante la explotación sexual de menores
La investigación abarca a Centroamérica, República Dominicana y Panamá
Internacional, Debates, Derechos humanos, Violencia sexual, Miércoles 5 de agosto de 2009, por Mirta Rodríguez Calderón
Santo Domingo, 4 agosto 09 AmecoPress/SEMlac.- Los alarmantes altos índices de desentendimiento social acerca de la explotación sexual y el abuso de niñas y niños en Centroamérica y parte del Caribe quedó confirmado con un estudio de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), presentado en esta capital.
El documento refleja que 22,4 por ciento de las personas entrevistadas no denunciaría a los agresores, aun cuando tuviese conocimiento de un hecho de esta naturaleza.
continua....
www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2351
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| 06 Aug 2009 - 10:33 | Tamar Eylon, Vancouver Rape Relief
URL: www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/
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Aug 5 2009
To the Women of Pennsylvania,
We want to send our condolences to the friends and family of the dead women in Pennsylvania. We send our best wishes to the wounded. Women live with so many normalized threats to our lives that we hardly notice how much we do to
avoid sexist violence. What a brutal reawakening that there is no safe place for women.
The numbers of women killed by men continue to rise mostly one at a time but they are not isolated. This year is the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre and feminists said then as we repeat now "The Motive is Misogyny".
This "lone gunman" shares a fear and hatred of women with the men who beat their wives, rape, harass and prostitute women and children. Although he did not target women as feminists, as was the case with the Montreal Massacre, George Sodini was determined to send a message to all women. But we refuse to listen and we refuse to obey.
The day after the Montreal Massacre on behalf of the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centers, the collective of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's
Shelter sent a message to the women in Montreal. It is a no coincidence that the same words apply in this Pennsylvania Femicide.
"We will not excuse his acts when we know of the sadness and failure of his life. We will not blame his mother or lover or the women who refused to be his lovers. We will not blame the women he names in his letter from the dead. (Internet in this case) We will not blame the feminists who fought for women's liberties.
We hold responsible the men who taught him to expect women to fill his every need. We hold responsible the men who failed to teach him to live with
moments of disappointment and anger without reprisals."
From our rape crisis line and transition house for battered women and their children in Vancouver, Canada, we brave on. We find reassurance in the other
feminists struggling for equality and freedom everywhere in the world. We have to continue to stand together and we must continue.
Tamar Eylon,
On behalf of the Collective of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
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| 06 Aug 2009 - 10:17 | Aparna Mehrotra, UN Focus on Women
staffing@un.org.
URL: jobs.un.org.
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Dear All,
In our efforts to disseminate UN vacancy announcements to reach as many senior qualified professional women as possible, please find enclosed the latest list of vacancies at the senior levels. I would be grateful if you could distribute this to your network so that we can reach as many women candidates as possible.
For requirements, eligibility and application deadlines, please visit
the United Nations website at UN Human Resources ‘Galaxy’ e-Staffing
System at http://jobs.un.org.
IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU FIRST IDENTIFY A VACANT POST AND THEN APPLY AS INDICATED IN THE
ANNOUNCEMENT. The system provides instructions on application
procedures. Please follow them. Kindly be aware that online
applications are strongly encouraged to enable the UN to place your resume into a permanent database. It is most important that you observe the deadlines for applications. The website provides also
information on vacant post in the UN common system.
In addition, to find more information on vacancies in the UN common
system, please visit the following websites for instructions on how to
apply (if you are not able to open directly, please type the
corresponding website):
International Atomic Energy Agency : http://www.iaea.org/About/Jobs/index.htm l
Inter-American Development Bank: http://www.iadb.org/hrd/800x600i.asp?go= jobs
Food and Agriculture Organization: http://www.fao.org/VA/Employ.htm
High Commissioner for Human Rights:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/ WorkStudyOpportunities.aspx
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Job Opportunities
http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/J obs/default.asp
United Nations Development Programme Job Shop: http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm
United Nations Population Fund:
http://www.unfpa.org/about/employment/ index.htm
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Employment homepage
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/ind ex.html
World Food Programme
http://www.wfp.org/contact_wfp/vacanci es/index.asp?section=8&sub_section=5
International Civil Service Commission: http://icsc.un.org/joblinks.asp
United Nations Development Group:
http://www.undg.org/search.cfm?by=keyw ords&q=vacancies&country=§ion=1
For external applicants who do not have access to Internet facilities,
you can either complete a UN Personal History Form (P.11) available at
UN offices and/or forward a detailed summary that should contain:
ï‚· date of birth
ï‚· nationality
ï‚· educational qualifications
ï‚· a summary of professional skills and/or expertise
ï‚· a summary of relevant work experience
ï‚· publications written, and
ï‚· languages spoken
The summary should be forwarded to the Staffing Support Section,
Office of the Human Resources Management, Room S-2475, United Nations,
New York, 10017. Fax no. 212-963 3134, email address: staffing@un.org.
Please indicate the vacancy announcement number on the envelope or the
fax, and on the application. Should you require additional
information, kindly contact OHRM directly.
With regard to peacekeeping mission assignments, the Department for
Peacekeeping Operations is committed to increasing the number of women
working in peacekeeping missions, particularly at the senior and
managerial levels. Striving to redress the current imbalance, the
Department is looking at expanding its recruitment sources and at
developing its gender network. All vacancies are advertised on the
Galaxy system. It would be much appreciated if you could disseminate
this information within your organization.
Thank you.
Aparna Mehrotra,
Focal Point for Women
United Nations
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| 06 Aug 2009 - 10:11 | Mysogynists on Rampage - Discussion
URL: www.rabble.ca/babble/body-and-soul/misog . . .
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Mysogynists on Rampage:
Discussion page on George Sordini August 4 shooting rampage of women at fitness center
www.rabble.ca/babble/body-and-soul/misogynists-rampage
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| 06 Aug 2009 - 09:05 | Huff Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/clinto . . .
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Clinton Suggests US Could Join International Criminal Court
NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is a "great regret" that the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court.
Clinton spoke Thursday in Kenya during a seven-nation tour of Africa.
The court is the first permanent institution authorized to try individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when national courts are unable or unwilling to do so.
The U.S. formally rejected U.S. participation in May 2002. A main concern was that American servicemen hunting down terrorists abroad might not be safe from politically motivated prosecutions.
Clinton said it is "a great regret but it is a fact that we are not yet a signatory. But we have supported the court and continue to do so."
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| 05 Aug 2009 - 18:12 | Donald Steinberg, OSCE
URL: www.osce.org/publications/sg/2009/06/383 . . .
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Peace Missions and Gender,
Full Engagement of Women Holds the Key
July-August 2009
By DonalD SteinBerg
The argument goes that women and women’s issues should be at the forefront of conflict resolution and post-conflict stability operations because women are the main victims of conflict, because they make up more than half the population, and because they
are inherently more peaceful and collaborative and less corrupt than men. But for me, the real question is effectiveness: Put simply, peace processes and peace-building are more likely to work, to enjoy support from civil society, and to address the “make or break” issues if there is full participation of women as planners, implementers and beneficiaries.
See PDF
www.osce.org/publications/sg/2009/06/38315_1342_en.pdf
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| 05 Aug 2009 - 17:42 | Adriana
adriben@hotmail.com
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Hola
* me dio mucha alegria ver esta pagina y necesito desahogar mi situacion
* Llege a este pais con una visa K1 de fianze pero ya tenia dos hijos con el peticionario y uno mas de una relacion anterior
* cuando llegue comenzo mi calvario.. bueno ya en colombia me habia golpeado pero me decia que yo era la culpable por que era una mozoquista..siempre me ha hecho sentir culpable.. bueno yo llevo 3 anos aca en texas y solo hasta ahora pude enviar la solicitud para mi residencia permanente y permiso de trabajo , el caso es que desde q llege me golpea y me obliga a tener sexo con el con la disculpa de que el es el que trae todo a la casa( solo el trabaja) y que yo no trabajo, obviamente tenemos dos nenes muy pequenos que solo este ano puede uno ir al colegio y nunca tuve dinero para pagar un day care, el caso es que se la pasa diciendome que en compensacion de todo lo que me ha dado desde q nos casamos yo le debo dar dos veces sexo por semana y asi no le debo nada... y yo me pregunto hay que pagar por ser ama de casa y no tener un permiso de trabajo aun?
* me golpea cada vez que quiere me dice palabras sucias delante de mis hijos y siempre que trato de defenderme asume el papel de victima.a mi hijo mayor que no es de el lo trata muy mal.. no tengo a donde ir no tengo familia , solo mis hijos en la casa ya no va a dar mas nada y debemos todo, dice que yo tengo q resolver por que el ya se canso de resolver y me pregunto es que ser padre de familia es un problema a el nadie lo obligo.. el trato que me da me ha llebado varias veces a pensar en suicidarme pero mis hijos me ayudan y el les habla muy mala a los ninos de mi, cosas muy sucias. cosas que ningun nino debe escuchar.
* gracias y dejeneme saber a quien puedo acudir por que nos dejo sin comida sin carro sin casa y sin posibilidades de regresar a nuestro pais por que alla se endeudo me hizo dar la cara a mi y nunca pago.
* y ni que hablar de la familia de el. nos odia a mis nenes y a mi.
* gracias por escucharme
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| 05 Aug 2009 - 10:08 | womensphere
URL: womensphere.wordpress.com/
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womensphere
Third Wave Feminism – Drowning in the Shallow End (Comment from USA)
… I’ve puzzled for most of my adult life about the third wave of feminism, longing for a connection with an organized and active women’s movement that always seemed just beyond my vantage point. I searched diligently for it in my undergraduate and graduate careers, in quests that led me to join women’s groups and co-found a feminist blog. I read countless collections and many first-person essays. And after almost 15 years of searching, I’ve finally come to the disappointing conclusion that the designation third wave is a profound misnomer, and that looking for a groundswell is a fool’s errand. Even as I had that thought last year, calls for the fourth wave began in earnest, though again, as of this writing, no feminist tsunamis are evident.
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womensphere.wordpress.com/
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 16:06 | Maria
jazzycab@yahoo.com
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Hola me llamo Maria, durante este verano mi pareja me llevo con engaños a Mexico a pasar nuestras vacasiones con nuestra familia.Al llegar a Mexico empesaron a surgir varios problemas intrafamiliares entre cuales uvo violencia domestica departe de el asia mi.Los problemas se empeoraron y tambien los golpes hasta que con trampas fui encarcelada injustamente.Cuando sali de la carcel mi pareja lla se avia llebado a mi hijo y me negaba verlo.Entonces acudi aun abogado para pelear por la custodia de mi hijo,cuando el radicalmente se huyo para Estados Unidos.El niño es nacido en Estados Unidos pero mi pareja y llo somos immigrantes.El se fue par alla illegalmente pero llo me encuentro atrapada en Mexico sin poder viajar a Estados Unidos para saber del paradero de mi hijo.El y su padre se encuentran en Atlanta,Georgia en este momento , eh logrado contacterame con mi ex parega y me amenasa de que jamas vere a mi hijo y de que se quedara con la custodia.En estos casos que puedo hacer? Necesito ayuda!!!!! Por favor contactense con migo lo mas pronto possible. Se los ruego.
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 15:08 | Radio Pachamama
URL: www.radiopachamama.com/noticias01.php?cl . . .
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“NO SEAS CÓMPLICE, DENUNCIA LA VIOLENCIA SEXUAL” ES EL LEMA DE LA CAMPAÑA CONTRA LA VIOLENCIA SEXUAL
COCHABAMBA, jul 27.- Este nueve de agosto se celebra el día de solidaridad con las victimas de la violencia sexual y en contra de as agresiones sexuales a niños, niñas y adolescentes por lo que varias instituciones junto a la prefectura de Cochabamba llevaran adelante la campaña contra este tipo de violencia bajo el lema “no seas cómplice, denuncia la violencia sexual”.
“Una forma de gritarle a la sociedad que no vamos a tolerar mas que continúe reproduciéndose esta violencia contra la niñez, también es un llamado de atención al sistema judicial para que pueda abrir las puertas a la justicia a uno de los delitos que se mantuvo impune de una forma cruel, injusta para las victimas” dijo el responsable de la red contra la violencia sexual a niños, niñas y adolescentes.
Una marcha contra la violencia se llevara acabo el lunes 10 de agosto, como parte de las actividades que se realizaran en esta jornada contra la violencia sexual a menores de edad.
A su turno la responsable de la oficina jurídica de la mujer, Julieta Montaño manifestó que lamentablemente los casos de impunidad por este delito se incrementaron de forma alarmante “no necesitamos modificar las leyes o incrementar las penas, con las que existen necesitamos que se las apliquen y que se las pongan en funcionamiento para sancionar a los autores de estos crímenes”.
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 14:57 | Guttmacher Institute
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State Policies in Brief,
Minors' Access to Contraceptives
August, 2009
www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_MACS.pdf
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 14:31 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/12/2/gpr1202 . . .
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The Challenge in Helping Young Adults Better Manage Their Reproductive Lives
By Heather D. Boonstra
In recent years, social scientists, the popular media and parents alike have become increasingly interested in the health and lives of “20- somethings.” According to a range of experts, the life of a young adult today is very different from the life of a young adult just a generation ago. Today’s 20-somethings are taking longer to graduate from college, settle into a career, live independently and start a family. Indeed, researchers have suggested that there is a new and definable phase in life, spanning the decade between the late teens and late 20s, when young Americans experience their “odyssey years”—a time of wandering on the path to maturity.
Part and parcel of this new interest in 20-somethings is a focus on their sexual behavior. Much attention has been given of late to the fact that the unplanned pregnancy and abortion rates of women in their 20s are high, considerably higher than those of teenagers. This has led some to conclude that young adults are doing "worse" than teenagers in managing their sexual behavior. After years of focusing on interventions aimed at meeting the needs of teenagers, the nation has made extraordinary progress in reducing rates of teen pregnancy and childbearing. Observing this, some experts have suggested that it is now time to do the same for young adults.
Continues...
www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/12/2/gpr120213.html
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 09:01 | Joan Zorza
URL: www.sagepublications.com/promos/1092003J . . .
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Periodically Sage Publications allows people to download many of its recent journals for free (like Violence Against Women, the Journal of Interpersonal
Violence). Here is the URL to do it. This offer is good August 1 - Sept
30.
www.sagepublications.com/promos/1092003JA1.htm?WT.mc_id=1092003JA1
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Domestic Violence Report / Sexual Assault Report
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 08:57 | Traumatology Journal
buttell@tulane.edu
URL: tmt.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/ . . .
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Traumatology Journal
Examining the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Police Responses to Domestic Violence
Frederick P. Buttell
School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, buttell@tulane.edu
Michelle Mohr Carney
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
The purpose of this study was to investigate the New Orleans Police Department's (NOPD) responses to domestic violence both pre— and post—Hurricane Katrina. This study employed a secondary analysis of data collected by the NOPD in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 2002 through 2006. Analysis indicated that the NOPD actively responded to domestic violence calls following Hurricane Katrina and that domestic violence did not get relegated to secondary status as a consequence of rising demand for police intervention in the city following the crisis precipitated by the hurricane. This article concludes with a discussion of the NOPD's response to the community need for more intensive policing following the storm, particularly to the increase in domestic violence calls, and of the rate of domestic violence occurring in New Orleans following the hurricane.
Key Words: interpersonal violence • natural disaster
Traumatology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 6-9 (2009)
tmt.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/2/6
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| 04 Aug 2009 - 08:31 | Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/lubna- . . .
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Huffpost - Lubna Hussein Trial: Police Beat Women Opposing Sudan Dress Code
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court Tuesday during the trial of a female journalist accused of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public.
Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former U.N. worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of "indecent dressing." Some of the women demonstrators wore trousers in solidarity with Hussein.
Trousers are considered indecent under the strict interpretation of Islamic law, adopted by Sudan's Islamic regime which came to power after a coup led by President Omar al-Bashir in 1989. But activists and lawyers say the implementation of the law is arbitrary.
"We are here to protest against this law that oppresses women and debases them," said one of the protesters, Amal Habani, a female columnist for the daily Ajraas Al Hurria, or Bells of Freedom in
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www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/lubna-hussein-trial-polic_n_250705.html
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| 03 Aug 2009 - 09:44 | National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
URL: www.ncdsv.org/ncd_fundingaward.html
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Upcoming Violence Against Women Grants and Awards
www.ncdsv.org/ncd_fundingaward.html
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| 03 Aug 2009 - 09:37 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2337
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Peru: El índice de mortalidad materna es uno de los más altos de América Latina
Muertes maternas: cuando la salud deja de ser un derecho
La mayoría de las muertes son de mujeres del medio rural, pobres e indígenas
Lunes 3 de agosto de 2009, por Julia Vicuña Yacarine
Lima, 3 agosto 09. AmecoPress/SEMlac.- En los medios rurales pobres e indígenas del Perú, el 45 por ciento de mujeres mueren en los 60 días siguientes de haber dado a luz, mientras que las mujeres embarazadas fallecen debido a distintos factores que el gobierno debería contemplar, como falta de acceso a atención obstétrica de urgencia, falta de información sobre salud materna y personal del servicio de salud que conozca y hable en lengua indígena.
Estos son solo algunas de las novedades que trae el informe "Deficiencias fatales. Las barreras a la salud materna en Perú", que Amnistía Internacional dio a conocer el 5 de julio.
El documento analiza los elevados niveles de mortalidad materna y evalúa el impacto de las últimas políticas adoptadas por el gobierno para hacer frente a esta problemática.
Las cinco causas principales de la muerte asociada al embarazo en Perú son: hemorragia, preeclampsia, infección, complicaciones tras un aborto o un parto obstruido.
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www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2337
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| 03 Aug 2009 - 09:06 | Sonke Gender Justice Network
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3BaX3LbX1A&feat . . .
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Sexual Violence and HIV/AIDS in South Africa
4 Minute Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3BaX3LbX1A&feature=channel_page
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