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| 12 Apr 2009 - 12:01 | SUMEYA
sumeaab@yahoo.com
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I AM A NEW REFUGE/IMMIGRANT TO USA FROM ETHIOPIA AS K-1 FIANCE VISSA AND WE GOT MARRIAD AFTER I CAME HERE,BY GAVING UP MY EDUCATION,JOB AND TOO MAANY SCHOLARSHIP APPURTUNITEIS,FOR THAE SAKE OF OUR MARRAIGE LIFE
* I CAME ON NOVEMBER 16,09.BUT I BEEN AT HOME SINCE THEN B/C MY HUSBAND DOESN'T WANT ME TO GO UOT SIDE ,AND HE BEEN ABUSING ME PSYCOLOGICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY, AND THROUGH VERBAL ABUSE,
* AT THIS TIME HE LEFT AT HOME SINCE MARCH 9,WITH OUT FOOD AND ANYTHING TO DRINK,HE THE DOOR OVER ME ,I DIDN'T KNOW ANY ONE AND I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GET OUT AND NO ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION,
* ON MARCH 23 HE SENT ME DIVORCE PAPER THROUGH COURT ANT I GOT SHOKED AT THAT TIME B/C I NEVER EXPECTED THAT HE COULD DO SUCH A THING TO ME,STILL I AM LIVING ALONE ,HE IS NOT HEPING ME BY ANY MEANS,
* THE GOOD THING IS I HAVE FREINDS IN LA TOWN THE BAD THING IS I AM FAR AWAY FRON EVERYONE I AM LIVING AROUND FOUNTAIN VALLY,CA,
* AT THIS TIME I AM IN ABIG TROUBLE,
* PLEASE CAN YOU ADVICE ME WHAT TO DO
* THAK YOU
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| 11 Apr 2009 - 11:43 | Medicos Sin Fronteras
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLvlFrxiF4
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Nuevo Video sobre Violencia Sexual
7 minutos
por Medicos Sin Fronteras
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLvlFrxiF4
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| 11 Apr 2009 - 11:24 | Vive o Muere
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndmKXvB4lk
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Vive o Muere
Video, Violencia Domestica
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndmKXvB4lk
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| 11 Apr 2009 - 11:24 | Vive o Muere
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndmKXvB4lk
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Vive o Muere
Video, Violencia Domestica
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndmK XvB4lk
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| 11 Apr 2009 - 10:15 | Ellen Goodman - Washington Post Writers Group
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World must fight for Afghan women
By Ellen Goodman - Washington Post Writers Group
April 11, 2009
Maybe it was the sex that caught our attention. Sex has a way of doing that. The lead of the story, after all, was that any Shiite woman in Afghanistan would be required by law “to fulfill the sexual desires of her husband.”
Or maybe it wasn’t the sex. Maybe it was the report that under this religious law, Shiite women could leave their homes alone only for “legitimate purposes.”
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Either way, the story ricocheted around the world as if it were a trailer for a horror movie: “Taliban, The Sequel.”
This time our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai, signed a Personal Status Law that enshrined the lowest personal status on women from the Shiite minority that makes up 10 percent of the Afghan population. He bargained women’s lives like a chit in the struggle for political power, wooing the religious right in the run-up to the summer election.
The international reaction was swift and powerful. The headlines read “Marital Rape” and “Women Sex Slaves to Husbands!” Human rights activists protested. President Obama declared the law to be “abhorrent.”
I was not surprised at the uproar. Ever since the Afghan war began, we assured ourselves that whatever else, we had one moral victory. We’d freed the women from Taliban rule.
Before 9/11, the world had barely squinted at women covered like blue mushrooms under burqas, living under the Taliban’s house arrest. They had no public face, no public voice. They couldn’t work. They couldn’t go to school. They were beaten for an exposed ankle and killed for a supposed violation. They were even forbidden to laugh out loud.
Some saw this as the continuation of an ancient repressive culture, but the truth was far more chilling. Afghan women had slowly gained rights through the 20th century. They helped write their country’s 1964 constitution. They served in parliament and went to universities. They were 40 percent of the doctors and 70 percent of the teachers. Then the Taliban turned their homeland into a patriarchal jail.
After we invaded the country that had given safe haven to al-Qaida, even President Bush repeatedly described the emancipation of women as one thing that made the war worthwhile. In his 2002 state of union speech, he declared: “Today women are free and are part of Afghanistan’s new government.” Mission accomplished?
Indeed, women in Kabul and elsewhere threw off their burqas and girls went to school. The new Afghan constitution enshrined equality and things were far better. But gradually, American attention wandered and the Taliban and warlords began to return.
Taliban, the Sequel? In 2007, 236 schools teaching girls were burned down. In 2008, there were attacks on 256 schools that left 58 dead. Teachers have been killed in front of students and schoolgirls attacked with acid. Honor killings are up, burqas are back in many places. A 75-year-old woman was nailed to a tree and killed, and an Afghan member of parliament had her daughter legally taken away by a husband after he married a second wife.
The list goes on while a weakened Karzai placates the warlords, out of the spotlight.
“The women are the canaries in the coal mine,” says Ellie Smeal of the Feminist Majority, which has focused on Afghan women when they were in fashion and when they were out. “There is a campaign of terror going on by these reactionary Taliban-like forces,” she says, adding, “Now suddenly it’s gotten people’s attention.”
Sometimes it takes a religious law codifying marital rape to jolt us to attention. Sometimes, for that matter, it takes a cell-phone video of a 17-year-old woman in Pakistan being flogged to get us to see what happens when a government tries to trade part of a province for peace. But many everyday dramas remain invisible.
This time the world’s outrage has led Karzai to promise to “review” the law.
But if that Shiite minority is saved from having its repression codified into law, will we again ignore the struggle for all Afghan women?
“Human rights are not a Western concept,” says Sima Samar, chair of the Afghan human rights commission, “but universal, and necessary for all human beings.” Somewhere in southern Afghanistan another little girl is being “protected” from school, another woman shrouded in the anonymity of a burqa is begging permission to walk out her front door. This is happening on our watch. Eyes wide open please.
— Ellen Goodman is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.
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| 11 Apr 2009 - 09:36 | National District Attorneys Association
dukelaw1@hotmail.com
URL: www.ndaa.org/education/ndaa/elder_abuse_ . . .
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Elder Abuse
Prosecuting Elder Abuse Cases
Course Date: June 9-11, 2009
Location: Columbia, SC
Registration
Tuition-Free Training for Prosecutors
The National District Attorneys Association/National College of District Attorneys and the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice (OVW), are pleased to announce a training opportunity on the prosecution of elder abuse and neglect cases for grantees under the OVW Enhanced Training and Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women Later in Life Program (previously known as Training Grants to Stop Abuse and Sexual Assault Against Older Individuals or Individuals with Disabilities). The course, Prosecuting Elder Abuse Cases, will begin Tuesday, June 9, 2009, and end Thursday, June 11. The course will be held at the Ernest F. Hollings National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. Participants will be required to actively participate, supply constructive criticism throughout the course, and attend each session of training.
No fee will be charged for the course, but participants will be expected to pay their travel, hotel, per diem, etc. with OVW grant funds specifically designated for training purposes. (The hotel arrangements provide for a rate of only $92/night, the Federal per diem rate, and includes breakfast and lunch each day.) Submission of an application is not a guarantee of attendance at the course; please DO NOT make travel arrangements unless and until you have been notified that you are accepted for the course.
Applications will be accepted through close of business (5 pm EST) Friday, April 3, 2009. First preference will be given to prosecutor offices participating in the OVW Enhanced Training and Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women Later in Life Program. Second preference will be given to prosecutor offices which receive Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protective Orders, Transitional Housing Assistance Grants, and STOP Violence Against Women Grants through the Office on Violence Against Women (or prosecutor offices which are partnered with organizations that receive such funds). Third preference will be given to designated elder abuse prosecutors not meeting the first or second criteria. All other prosecutors will be considered in the order in which they apply.
www.ndaa.org/education/ndaa/elder_abuse_training_schedule.html
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| 10 Apr 2009 - 11:00 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09040901-PGJE . . .
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Se suicidó, deprimida por su menstruación y pobreza, afirma
PGJEM descarta testimonio de niños en feminicidio de su madre
CIMAC | México DF.- Autoridades de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de México aseguraron que Nadia Alejandra no fue asesinada por su esposo y cuñado, Bernardo e Isidro López Gutiérrez, como lo señalan los testimonios de los hijos de la joven, sino que se suicidó debido a una depresión que sufría a causa de su ciclo menstrual, motivo por el cual, dicen, hallaron sangre en el lugar de los hechos.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09040901-PGJEM-descarta-test.37307.0.html
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| 10 Apr 2009 - 10:53 | Elizabeth Rhodes, Polaris Project
URL: www.change.org/polarisproject/actions/vi . . .
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Is The Washington Post Supporting Brothels?
Dear Supporters,
Katherine Chon, the Co-Founder and President of Polaris Project, posted Part II of her blog The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp?, calling out the paper for its ethically dubious practice of indirectly profiting from brothels.
Change.org, a site that raises awareness about important causes and empowers people to take action, is featuring the article on its home page today. We have also partnered with Change.org so that you can urge the The Washington Post to stop support for and advertising of brothels.
The Washington Post currently accepts advertisements for massage parlors, which The Post's own reporters have shown are often thinly disguised brothels with women trafficked into the country and forced, coerced, or manipulated into prostitution. Because of this frequent connection to human trafficking, The New York Times, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times refuse advertisements for massage parlors. But The Washington Post has turned a blind eye and continues to profit from these ads, making the paper complicit in the sexual violence of women across our nation's capital.
So before you enjoy the rest of your Friday, or your Sunday paper, we strongly recommend you send a letter to The Post and urge them to stop this practice immediately by going to: www.change.org/polarisproject/actions/view/tell_the_washington_post_to_stop_supp orting_brothels
Or, if you want to inspire innovative employee activism, search your network on Facebook, find friends who work at The Post, and kindly ask them to tell their employer to do the right thing and stop accepting these ads immediately. You can search for The Washington Post employees you're connected to on Facebook here: http://tinyurl.com/facebookwashpost.
Elizabeth Rhodes
National Public Outreach Manager
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| 10 Apr 2009 - 10:29 | Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
URL: cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do? . . .
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Survivors with Service Animals in your Shelter
Please register for this meeting.
Meeting Description:
Coalition staff will review the new model protocol on service animals. We'll go over basic information about service animals and the people who use them; the laws that apply to domestic violence shelters and service animals; and suggested policies and procedures. Reading the protocol prior to the audioconference will enhance learning
Date & Time
Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM PDT
Duration: 2 hours
Host(s): Phil Jordan and Summer
Register Online
cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=1v7uaaj830dm3
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| 10 Apr 2009 - 10:24 | Feminist Peace Network
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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Feminist Peace Network news and blog
www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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| 10 Apr 2009 - 09:32 | Kirsten Sherk, IPAS
sherkk@ipas.org
URL: www.notyetrain.org
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NOT YET RAIN - Video
Must see 23 min video available free online at
www.notyetrain.org/
NOT YET RAIN
Explores abortion in Ethiopia through the voices of women who have faced the challenge of finding safe care. Through their stories, we see the important role that safe abortion care plays in the overall health of women and their families.
Every year, millions of women around the world risk their lives to end unintended pregnancies. While a law enacted in 2006 marked great progress toward reproductive freedom in Ethiopia, Not Yet Rain shows that changing the law is just the first step; much more needs to be done as women continue to die from unsafe abortions. Training for health workers and increased availability of care could save the lives of women in Ethiopia and around the world.
The media kit accompanying the video is also excellent and can be accessed by clicking on "Newsroom" in the upper right corner of the NOT YET RAIN page www.notyetrain.org
The film is produced by IPAS,
www.ipas.org
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| 09 Apr 2009 - 11:51 | Siyanda
URL: www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.ht . . .
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Gender and Governance, 2009
Pack Contents:
Governance processes – with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness – should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality, and women are having to struggle to get their voices heard and needs met. This Cutting Edge Pack maps out persistent obstacles to gender equality in governance and offers possible ways forward - including promoting gender balance in positions of authority, making rights central to governance institutions and processes at all levels, and building political will for change.
www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html#Governance
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| 09 Apr 2009 - 10:14 | RAWA
URL: www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/04/02/shar . . .
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TEXT of AFGHAN LAW LEGALIZING RAPE and ENSLAVEMENT of WOMEN
for full coverage of text see:
www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/04/02/sharia-for-shias-legalised-rape.html
Sharia for Shias: ‘Legalised rape’
(4) Obediance, readiness for intercourse and not leaving the house without the permission of the husband are the duties of the wife, violation of every one of them will mean disobediance to the husband.
Ruth Gledhill
Times Online
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| 09 Apr 2009 - 09:29 | Muslim Public Affairs Council
URL: www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-a . . .
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Afghanistan’s “Legal Rape” Law
Against Islamic Human RightsBy Muslim Public Affairs Council , Making Muslims Part of the Solution - April 07, 2009
Late last week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a family law bill that the Afghan parliament passed with an overwhelming majority. The United Nations has stated that this law "legalizes rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands' permission."
The Muslim Public Affairs Council decries the practice of forcing obedience onto women and believes that it is a cultural, patriarchal and un-Islamic practice. This law effectively forces women to get their husband's permission before looking for a job, going to the doctor, or receiving education, and grants custody of children to fathers and grandfathers only. Senator Humaira Namati, a member of the upper house of the Afghan parliament, said the law was "worse than during the Taliban. Anyone who spoke out was accused of being against Islam."
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www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-afghanistans-legal-rape-law-against-islamic-human-rights
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| 08 Apr 2009 - 16:27 | admin
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6TmO7F5A4k&feat . . .
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Convive en igualdad
Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6TmO7F5A4k&feature=related
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| 08 Apr 2009 - 15:52 | Boletin e-mujeres
URL: www.e-mujeres.net/opinion/vergueenza-par . . .
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Vergüenza para Karzai
05/04/2009
Soledad Gallego-Díaz
Lo que está haciendo Occidente en Afganistán es vergonzoso. Es humillante y deshonroso que los mismos Gobiernos que acaban de anunciar una nueva estrategia para "revitalizar los esfuerzos comunes" y ayudar a transformar ese país en un régimen aceptable internacionalmente, se mantengan en completo silencio ante la aprobación de una ley que condena, de nuevo, a las mujeres afganas a la peor de las esclavitudes. "El silencio de Occidente está siendo desastroso para los derechos de las mujeres en Afganistán", protesta la responsable de la Comisión Independiente de Derechos Humanos, Soraya Sobhrang.
La ley que acaba de ser firmada por nuestro gran aliado, el elegante presidente Hamid Karzai, retrotrae a las mujeres a la peor época de los talibanes, pero eso no parece alarmar a nuestros gobernantes, que tienden a considerar a las mujeres afganas, y a sus derechos, como una moneda de cambio razonable a la hora de conseguir apoyo contra el terrorismo. Si Karzai necesita los votos de los shiíes y éstos le exigen la nueva ley, Occidente cierra los ojos y mantiene la boca cerrada.
Conste aquí que los políticos reunidos en la Conferencia de Alto Nivel sobre el futuro de Afganistán, celebrada en La Haya el pasado 31 de marzo, que han sido capaces de negociar con Karzai sin pedir la previa, inmediata y total derogación de esa ley, se han mantenido en un vergonzoso silencio frente a algo que sólo tiene precedentes en la legislación antisemita de la Alemania nazi.
El texto exacto de la ley se mantiene en secreto, pero se sabe que ya ha sido firmada y que obliga a las mujeres afganas a pedir permiso a sus maridos para salir de casa y a depender completamente de ellos para poder recibir ayuda médica, educación o buscar trabajo. Tampoco pueden rehusar tener sexo con sus cónyuges. Los políticos occidentales aceptan, en general, que si una mujer es obligada a tener sexo con su marido se está produciendo una violación, pero ese principio no rige, por algún extraño motivo, para las mujeres afganas, cuyos derechos humanos no tienen nada que ver con los derechos de las mujeres del cualquier otra parte del mundo civilizado.
Es totalmente inaceptable que por ningún motivo, excusa o justificación cultural se abandone a las mujeres de Afganistán y se consienta que las autoridades de ese país sustraigan de cualquier negociación o acuerdo el derecho de las mujeres a ser consideradas seres humanos autónomos. No se trata de la dificultad de luchar contra costumbres arraigadas, sino de algo mucho más simple: de impedir que se aprueben leyes que legalicen, justifiquen y amparen la esclavitud.
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www.e-mujeres.net/opinion/vergueenza-para-karzai
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| 08 Apr 2009 - 15:44 | Denver Post
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Man arrested in Jeffco on suspicion of internet luring
By Kieran Nicholson
The Denver Post
Juan Alberto Ovalle was arrested on suspicion of criminal attempted sexual assault on a child and Internet luring of a child, both felonies. (Jefferson County DA)A man who narrates Christian CDs has been arrested on suspicion of using the Internet to arrange sex with a teenage girl.
Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42, thought he was corresponding with a girl under the age of 15, but instead it was undercover officers with the Jefferson County district attorney's office, according to court documents.
Ovalle works for a Spanish-speaking arm of the Colorado Springs Christian group Focus on the Family and narrates Biblical text for CDs, according to Internet websites that sell the products.
"We're shocked," said Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman with Focus.
Schneeberger said the group "is beginning its own process of looking into the allegations" and that it "will work with authorities" if asked.
Ovalle serves the Trans World Radio ministry and also the Spanish broadcasting department of Focus on the Family, according to one of the sites.
"He founded Spanish Christian Audio in 2001 to help Christian organizations with their audio needs," the site said.
Ovalle was arrested Friday when he drove to Lakewood to meet the young girl, who was actually an undercover officer, to have sex, the DA's office said in a media release.
On Thursday and Friday, Ovalle made "sexually graphic statements in a chat room to a person he believed to be an underage teen," according to the DA.
Ovalle asked the teen specific sexual questions and told her about sex acts he would perform with her, according to an arrest affidavit.
According to the affidavit, during one exchange, Ovalle asked: "Would you like to meet?"
The undercover officer told Ovalle that her "mom" was working and she was home alone.
Ovalle responded by saying he was "horny" and that he'd come to the home.
Investigators gave Ovalle a phone number and address over the Internet. He called the phone number, and a female investigator talked to him, portraying the role of the teenage girl.
Ovalle showed up in Lakewood at about 2 p.m. Friday driving a green BMW, which investigators recognized from his own description, the affidavit said.
Investigators pulled in behind the BMW, turned on lights and sirens, and Ovalle initially didn't stop, but he eventually pulled over and was arrested, the affidavit said.
He is suspected of criminal attempted sexual assault on a child and Internet luring of a child, both felonies.
He appeared in court in Golden today, the DA's office said, and he is set to be formally charged April 9.
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| 08 Apr 2009 - 15:32 | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
URL: www.ncadv.org/sponsors.php
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Helping the Protective Parent Now!
A Facilitated Discussion to Develop Tools to Empower Protective Parents Seeking Custody of Their Children
Dear Friends,
On average, over 50% of non-abusive, protective parents are denied custody of their children when that custody is challenged by an abusive parent. Fighting the Family Court System to secure the needs of their children often leaves the protective parent financially ruined, emotionally exhausted, and mentally depleted. Children continue to be revictimized. While some great resources are available to help, more needs to be done--now.
We invite you join NCADV and the New York Foundling Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection on Thursday, April 23rd for this important, one-day gathering to develop ideas for providing immediate assistance to protective parents seeking custody of their children.
Space is limited, so please register today!
Thank you,
Rita Smith
NCADV Executive Director
Thursday, April 23rd
LOCATION: The New York Foundling
Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection
TIME: 10:00AM-4:00PM
ADDRESS: 27 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014
COST: $60* Per Participant
*coffee, beverages and lunch will be provided
Click here for the agenda
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
www.ncadv.org/sponsors.php
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| 08 Apr 2009 - 15:05 | Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority
feministmajority@mail.democracyinaction.org
URL: salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900 . . .
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Dear feminist activist,
We just heard that President Hamid Karzai has announced he will review the draft of Shia family law that would strip Afghan women and girls of their basic human rights. Karzai is responding to the worldwide outrage over the draft law including President Obama who called the law "abhorrent." Let Karzai hear your voice too.
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=685
Afghan women leaders in Parliament, in the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and in non-profit organizations have been fighting the proposed law as violation of the Afghan constitution and the basic human rights of women. We must lend our voices in support of our Afghan sisters.
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=685
While Karzai is reconsidering, let him hear from you and as many people as you can reach. Urge him to withdraw the draconian draft law that would restrict women from leaving their homes, working, going to school and obtaining medical care without their husbands' permission. The law also includes provisions that grants child custody only to men and revokes women's rights to refuse sex with their husband.
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=685
Please send your message to President Karzai while he is reviewing this oppressive law attacking the basic principals of human rights for all.
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=685
For Women's Lives,
Eleanor Smeal
President
P.S. Please sign up for global alerts to learn more about our Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls. As the Taliban have gained strength in Afghanistan over 1000 girls' schools have been destroyed. Teachers have been murdered - some right in front of their students. Acid is being thrown on girls' faces on their way to or from school. As the US shifts it attention to Afghanistan, we must do all we can to make sure Afghan women and girls are not forgotten! http://www.feminist.org/email/signupDIA. asp
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| 08 Apr 2009 - 15:00 | Men Can Stop Rape
nplayer@mencanstoprape.org
URL: mencanstoprape.org/conference
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nicole Player
202-265-6530 ext. 10 (office)
202-277-5361 (cell)
nplayer@mencanstoprape.org
mencanstoprape.org/conference
Donna Edwards
Catherine Pierce Ritu Sharma Byron Hurt
Groundbreaking National Violence Prevention Conference in DC Tackles Teen Dating Violence, Military
WASHINGTON, DC – Apr 7, 2009 - Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards (D – MD 4th) and Catherine Pierce, Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) will deliver keynote addresses at the first ever National Conference on the Primary Prevention of Men’s Violence Against Women on April 14 and 15 in Washington, DC.
As co-founder of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Rep. Edwards will address over 200 domestic violence, sexual assault, and men’s anti-violence organizations committed to advancing policies and programs that support the prevention of men’s violence against women.
The conference is hosted by Men Can Stop Rape, Inc. (MCSR), an organization internationally renowned for its gender violence prevention messaging and programming for male teens. Themed “Men and Women as Allies,” it is the first national conference to unite men’s and women’s organizations together in a field that that has traditionally assigned violence prevention efforts to women.
“Men Can Stop Rape is excited to facilitate dialogue among men’s, women’s, and government organizations committed to both supporting survivors and ending domestic violence and sexual assault,” says Stephen Glaude, President and CEO of MCSR. “At a time when there is renewed focus on domestic issues and talk of ‘change,’ we think that it is critical to bring people together to learn about new resources and policies that support both prevention and survivors.”
For more info
mencanstoprape.org/conference
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| 07 Apr 2009 - 12:38 | IPS News Gender Wire
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=4 . . .
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MEXICO: Indigenous Woman on the Offensive
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY, Apr 1 (IPS) - Two years ago, Eufrosina Cruz was kept from running for mayor of her home village by the "traditions and customs" of her indigenous community in southern Mexico, just because she is a woman.
But she refused to back down, and challenged the tradition – a decision that brought her death threats, but also dreams and achievements that she had never imagined.
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| 07 Apr 2009 - 12:25 | El Fondo Fiduciario de las Naciones Unidas
URL: www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_ag . . .
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El Fondo Fiduciario de las Naciones Unidas para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres ha abierto el periodo de recepción de solicitudes para el décimo cuarto ciclo (2009) de financiamiento. Se solicitan propuestas de instancias gubernamentales tanto nacionales como locales, organizaciones y redes de la sociedad civil — incluyendo organizaciones y coaliciones no gubernamentales de mujeres y grupos de base comunitarios, así como instituciones de investigación — y Equipos de País de las Naciones Unidas en alianza con entidades gubernamentales y organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Las solicitudes deberán enfocarse en apoyar la implementación de las políticas, leyes y planes de acción nacionales y locales sobre eliminación de la violencia contra las mujeres. El cierre del plazo para la presentación de la Nota Conceptual es el 17 de abril de 2009, 23:59 EDT (hora de Nueva York).
Ver http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_women/trust_fund_guidelines.php?lang=spn
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| 07 Apr 2009 - 12:22 | UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women
URL: www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_ag . . .
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UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women is accepting applications
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women is accepting applications for its 14th grant cycle (2009) from government authorities at the national and local levels, civil society organizations and networks — including non-governmental, women’s and community-based organizations, coalitions and operational research institutions — and UN Country Teams in partnership with governments and civil society organizations. Applications should be centered on supporting implementation of national and local policies, laws and action plans on ending violence against women. The deadline for submissions is 17 April 2009, 23:59 EDT (New York time).
See www.unifem.org/gender_issues/viol ence_against_women/trust_fund_guidelines .php
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| 06 Apr 2009 - 14:43 | admin
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Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, April 6 (Reuters) - Two female Pakistani teachers, a female aid worker and their driver were found shot dead on Monday, police and a doctor said, in an area where Islamists have attacked aid groups.
The four, all Pakistanis, were found in a forest near the town of Mansehra, 70 km (40 miles) north of the capital, Islamabad, police said.
"They were all shot dead," said Mohammad Niaz, a doctor at Mansehra's hospital.
The aid worker belonged to a group promoting education, he said.
While the area is not known for Taliban insurgents, Islamists wary of aid groups, especially those promoting a greater role for women, have threatened groups and attacked their offices.
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| 06 Apr 2009 - 08:23 | Women's e-news
URL: www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/03/31/testin . . .
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LA’s Untested Rape Kits Represent Lost Justice
Human Rights Watch released a report Tuesday finding that Los Angeles County has at least 12,669 untested rape kits sitting in storage facilities. Sarah Tofte, a researcher for that study, calls it a case of major injustice to rape survivors.
Read Full Report Online:
www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/03/31/testing-justice
Catherine, who lives with her young son in Los Angeles, was awakened at midnight by a stranger who raped her, sodomized her and forced her to orally copulate him–repeatedly. When it was over, the police brought her to a rape treatment center. As with all rape victims, her body was a crime scene. She consented to the collection of evidence.
The lab said it would take at least eight months for it to analyze the evidence gathered from Catherine’s body, known as a “rape kit.” For the detective, that was too long to wait. He personally drove the kit to the state lab, where it still sat for months.
When it was finally processed, it generated a “cold hit”–the DNA matched someone in the offender database, and Catherine’s rapist was identified. During the months Catherine’s kit sat on a shelf, unopened, the same rapist attacked at least two other victims; one was a child.
In this age of advanced DNA technology, and a heightened public understanding of how DNA testing can help solve crimes, one might assume Catherine’s story wouldn’t happen.
We know that testing a rape kit can identify a potential assailant, confirm a suspect’s contact with a victim, corroborate the victim’s account of the sexual assault and exonerate innocent defendants. National studies have shown that cases in which a rape kit was collected, tested and contained DNA evidence are more likely to move forward in the criminal justice system.
But today, Human Rights Watch, for which I work as a researcher, released a 68-page report that measures the scale of the neglect in Los Angeles.
Through dozens of interviews with police officers, public officials, DNA analysts, rape treatment providers and rape victims, I found that as of March 1, 2009, there were at least 12,669 untested rape kits sitting in storage facilities. In those cases, officers never sent the kits along for forensic testing.
Of these untested kits, at least 1,218 are from unsolved cases in which the attacker was a stranger to the victim. And 499 kits are attached to cases that have passed the 10-year statute of limitations for rape in California, making it impossible to prosecute the alleged assailants even if they were to be identified. Under California law, if those 499 kits had been opened within two years of the attack, the statute would no longer apply. Thousands more rape kits were destroyed untested.
The backlog grew even as the police and sheriff’s departments received millions of federal dollars from the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant, a program the U.S. Congress created to address rape kit backlogs. But the effect of the program is blunted by the fact that grantees can use the money to test any kind of DNA backlog.
Los Angeles County has the largest known backlog in the United States.
These untested rape kits represent lost justice for the victims who reported their rape to the police, and consented in good faith to the four-to-six hour rape kit collection process.
What makes Catherine’s story unusual is that her rape kit was tested at all.
In New York City, rape survivors stand a much better chance.
New York eliminated its rape kit backlog in 2003 when city officials created a policy that every rape kit would be sent to the laboratory for DNA testing, and the lab built up its DNA testing capacity so that every rape kit would be tested within 60 days.
The lab also created a system in which every time a DNA profile from a rape kit matches a profile in the DNA database, the crime lab, prosecutor’s office and police department are simultaneously notified. To deal with the increase of investigative leads in rape cases because of the testing, the prosecutors and police created a special investigative team. The result has been an increase in arrest and prosecution rates.
Los Angeles officials need to move quickly and decisively to catch up and end its reputation, when it comes to prosecuting rape, as a judicial backwater.
Sarah Tofte is a researcher with the U.S. program for Human Rights Watch and the author of the new report, “Testing Justice: The Rape Kit Backlog in Los Angeles City and County.”
www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=3966
Human Rights Watch called upon the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to:
Enforce policy requiring every booked rape kit to be sent to the crime lab and tested;
Identify the crime lab resources necessary to test every booked rape kit - those currently in the backlog and those collected in the future - in a timely manner;
Identify the police department resources necessary to pursue the investigative leads generated from testing every booked rape kit;
Prioritize funding for the resources necessary to eliminate the rape kit backlog, test every future rape kit, and pursue investigative leads from rape kit testing;
Implement a system to inform sexual violence victims of the status of their rape kit test; and,
Preserve every booked rape kit until it is tested.
To Read Report Online.....
www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/03/31/testing-justice
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| 06 Apr 2009 - 08:10 | kiiitv
URL: www.kiiitv.com/news/42294707.html
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Police: Girl Forced into Prostitution & Stripping
(article and video)
Forced into prostitution and stripping, that's what Corpus Christi Police say a young girl endured but they tell us they have her captor now in custody.
Investigators say Leslie Campbell lured a 14 year old homeless girl into his car up in San Antonio, and then took her to Corpus Christi. They believe 48 year old Campbell might have even pimped out the young girl. The tell us he gave her a fake id, took her to Cheetah's Strip Club on SPID and had her apply for a job.
They know of at least one occasion where she was forced to dance for men. Police say they finally became aware of this case when the young girl escaped from her capture while Campbell was in the shower. They were later able to reunite her with her family.
"Upon arrival to her mother she literally collapsed in her arms," said Valencia as he described the reunion between the victim and her mother. "It was very moving."
Detectives give a lot of credit to a field police supervisor, Lieutenant Chris White. He was reportedly on his lunch break with another plain clothes officer at a Subway when Lt. White who was in uniform was approached by the young girl.
Investigators say Lt. White believed her story and investigators say instead of putting her in foster care and doing some paperwork. He notified the right people to get the ball rolling, putting a successful end to the capture.
Continues, includes video,
www.kiiitv.com/news/42294707.html
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| 06 Apr 2009 - 07:43 | Promsex
URL: www.promsex.org/contents.php?id=464
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Marina separa a cadete por estar embarazada
Su caso es similar al de la cadete de la Policía que fue reincorporada por sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional.
Joven fue internada dos meses en Hospital de la Base Naval del Callao contra su voluntad y ha planteado un recurso de amparo para volver a su institución.
“El embarazo no puede ser la tumba de las aspiraciones laborales, académicas o artísticas de una mujer, en cualquier entidad o espacio donde ella se esté desarrollando”. Las palabras corresponden a la ministra del Interior, Mercedes Cabanillas, y fueron pronunciadas hace sólo unas semanas, luego que la cadete Nidia Yesenia Baca Barturén, quien había sido separada de la Escuela Técnica de la Policía de Chiclayo en el año 2007 por su estado de gestación, fuera repuesta en cumplimiento de una sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional.
Hoy la historia se repite, pero en la Marina de Guerra del Perú, que dio de baja a la cadete Kiana Stephanie Tipula Pillaca (20), quien era alumna del tercer año del Centro de Instrucción Técnica y Entrenamiento Naval (Citen) y estaba a sólo un mes de graduarse como Oficial de Mar cuando fue dada de baja mediante Resolución Directoral Nº0825-2008-MGP-DGE, del 24 de noviembre de 2008, por “incapacidad psicosomática” al “encontrarse en estado de gravidez”.
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| 06 Apr 2009 - 07:32 | Promsex
URL: www.promsex.org/contents.php?id=467
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Declaración de América Latina en la Conferencia de Población y Desarrollo 2009. Cairo +15
Señora Presidenta
Señor Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL
Señoras y Señores Delegados
Señoras y Señores de la sociedad civil
Las organizaciones y redes, feministas y de jóvenes de América Latina y El Caribe presentes en el 42º Período de Sesiones de la Comisión de Población y Desarrollo de la ONU venimos a manifestar que hace quince años por primera vez 179 países se pusieron de acuerdo en un programa de acción de población y desarrollo, en el marco de los derechos humanos Manifestamos nuestra profunda preocupación porque a 15 años del consenso de El CAIRO, América Latina sigue siendo la región más inequitativa del planeta. La mayor parte de la población de nuestros países no cuentan aún con las condiciones necesarias para ejercer sus derechos, particularmente los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Si bien en algunos lugares se han constatado avances, en muchos se registran marcados retrocesos.
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