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| 15 Mar 2009 - 21:29 | Washington Post
URL: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar . . .
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POLICE PERPS -
Efforts by Cops to Keep Their Guns after Domestic Violence Gives Justice ‘A Black Eye’
A Black Eye for Justice
Domestic violence legislation in Maryland should protect victims, not abusive officers.
Washington Post
Monday, February 23, 2009; A18
POLICE OFFICERS ought to be ardent supporters of legislation to take guns away from domestic abuse suspects. After all, it's the officers' responsibility to uphold the law, and abuse suspects use handguns and rifles to break it at alarming rates; half of the 75 domestic-violence-related homicides in Maryland last year involved guns. It is unconscionable, then, that the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police is pushing an exemption for police officers. The union's attempt to shield abusive officers from the consequences of their actions is an insult to countless victims of domestic violence and should be soundly rejected.
The General Assembly is considering two bills that would help protect abuse victims. One would give judges the discretion to take away the guns of abuse suspects subject to a temporary protective order. The other would require judges to take away the guns of abuse suspects after a final protective order has been issued.
The Fraternal Order of Police is promoting a law-enforcement-only exemption in the second bill that would give judges the discretion not to take away an officer's gun. The group argues that the bill attacks the livelihood of officers accused of domestic violence. It seems to us that if officers want to keep their guns, they should follow a simple rule: Don't abuse your significant others.
Some critics claim the legislation leaves officers vulnerable to false accusations of abuse. Backers of the bills acknowledge that this happens, if infrequently. That's why an accuser must present "clear and convincing evidence" of abuse -- hardly an insignificant standard -- to persuade a judge to issue a final protective order.
It's telling that many police chiefs and sheriffs have testified in support of the bills, with or without special treatment for officers. They recognize that in such potentially life-threatening situations, it's better to err on the side of protection.
It may be that the officers-only exemption is a necessary concession to spring the bill from the House Judiciary Committee, which is notoriously biased toward defendants, and secure a modicum of protection for abuse victims. But that doesn't mean it's right.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009 022201650.html
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| 15 Mar 2009 - 16:10 | American Prosecutors' Research Institute
URL: www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/th . . .
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Good overview of Giles, Davis, and Crawford re admissability of unavailable witness statements....
Forfieture by Wrongdoing in a Post-Giles World
by Herb Tanner
National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women
http://www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/the_voice_vol_3_no_2_2009.pdf
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| 15 Mar 2009 - 08:20 | Promsex
URL: www.promsex.org
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PROMSEX - Nuevo Boletin
www.promsex.org
Lo que señalan las evidencias en torno al aborto en el Perú
Susana Chávez A.
PROMSEX
indeci anotado:
En el mundo científico, tres importantes estudios sobre aborto, acaban de salir a la luz, y todos toman como referencia data peruana. El primero, publicado en el Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMJ), en febrero del 2009. Basado en una investigación realizada por un equipo de la Universidad Cayetano Heredia y la Universidad de ...
Solidaridad con los médicos del Centro Integrado de Salud Amaury de Medeiros (CISAM)
El Consorcio Latinoamericano Contra el Aborto Inseguro (CLACAI) es un espacio regional conformado por activistas, investigadores/as, proveedores/as de servicios de salud y profesionales cuyo objetivo es contribuir a la disminución del aborto inseguro en Latinoamérica. El CLACAI promueve el acceso a la información sobre derechos sexuales y reproductivos, así como al uso de ...
‘Médicos decidirán si procede o no un aborto’
Entrevista/Susana Chávez. Directora del Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Promsex) y magíster en Salud Pública.
Consuelo Alonzo C.
¿Dónde está entrampado el protocolo del aborto terapéutico?
Está entrampado a nivel del Ministerio de Salud. Y sabemos de muy buena fuente, que no por la oposición del ...
¿Hay Día Internacional de la Mujer para una niña de 9 años, violada y embarazada?
Cuando estamos cerca del fin de la primera década del siglo 21, y acabamos de conmemorar el 8 de Marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, los hechos cotidianos nos demuestran, una vez más, cuan lejanos están todavía los derechos de las humanas. De hecho, en todo el mundo existe un vergonzoso rezago respecto de su cumplimiento, demostrando que las declaraciones que se han firmado ...
¿Cómo actúa la escuela con un alumno gay?
¿Qué postura toman maestros y profesores ante la posible homosexualidad de un alumno? ¿Por qué no se les permite a niños y niñas en las escuelas expresar una orientación sexual distinta a la heterodominante? Un informe especial en comienzo de clases sobre el primer grupo de docentes que busca reflexionar, investigar y desarrollar iniciativas en relación a la construcción de ...
Muertes anunciadas, derecho a la vida
Por Diego García-Sayán
Mientras Ud. lee este texto, se está produciendo un aborto clandestino en el Perú ya que se practican cerca de 400 mil al año, unos cuarenta cada hora, según los estimados de la Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Obstetricia y Ginecología (FLASOG). En ellos el 15% de las mujeres fallece. Según la OMS, más de 4 millones de mujeres se ...
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| 14 Mar 2009 - 08:34 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09031307-Clie . . .
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Aparecen como actores secundarios: CATWLAC
Clientes, mayores prostituyentes en explotación sexual de mujeres e infancia
Por Heysel Escamilla Alcántara
México, DF, 13 marzo 09 (CIMAC).- Para prevenir, sancionar y erradicar la trata de personas debe considerarse el papel de quienes hacen uso de los servicios sexuales y de quienes consumen los productos derivados de este delito, como la pornografía, pues con ello fortalecen estas actividades.
Esta es la posición de la Coalición Contra el Tráfico de Mujeres y Niñas en América Latina y el Caribe (CATWLAC), instancia que ha denunciado cómo “la explotación de mujeres, de niñas y niños se hace posible sólo gracias al cliente, aunque su participación en este asunto aparezca como secundaria, como secuela de un flagelo o como subproducto de una oferta”.
La Coalición, cuya directora regional es la mexicana Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz, retoma la posición expuesta en el artículo “Hombre que va de putas”, del psicoanalista Juan Carlos Volnovich, quien aborda el tema de trata de personas desde el punto de vista del “cliente”.
Volnovich señala que el papel de cliente se ha invisibilizado en la legislación contra la trata de personas, a pesar de que “es el protagonista principal y el mayor prostituyente”.
Continua....
www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09031307-Clientes-mayores-p.36961.0.html
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| 14 Mar 2009 - 08:28 | LAPD Search Warrant re Chris Brown
URL: i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/03/05/b . . .
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LAPD Detective's Search Warrant petition re Chris Brown's attack on Rihanna
Detective's description of the attack is near the end of the document.
i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/03/05/brown.warrant.pdf
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| 14 Mar 2009 - 08:06 | Newsweek
URL: www.newsweek.com/id/188353
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Domestic Abuse Myths
Five mistakes we make when we talk about Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship.
sEE:
www.newsweek.com/id/188353
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| 14 Mar 2009 - 07:35 | Solangel
solyanrodriguez2006@hotmail.com
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fui victima de violencia domestica por parte del que era mi esposo y aparte de eso de bigamia, me engano y metio mis papeles en inmigracion y alli descubri que era casado. mis papeles se perdieron por eso y con la violencia domestica, que puedo hacer. estoy sola en este pais con mi bebe. soy de venezuela y de paso soy abogada, necesito mas informacion y consejo con respecto a mi problema, que debo hacer????
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| 14 Mar 2009 - 07:31 | Reuters
URL: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/st . . .
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Student facing 20 years in hell
Afghan court secretly sentences student whose cause was taken up by The Independent. His crime? To download article on women's rights
By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
Reuters
An Afghan policeman escorts Pervez Kambaksh from court in Kabul
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence.
The 23-year-old, brought to worldwide attention after an Independent campaign, was praying that Afghanistan's top judges would quash his conviction for lack of evidence, or because he was tried in secret and convicted without a defence lawyer. Instead, almost 18 months after he was arrested for allegedly circulating an article about women's rights, any hope of justice and due process evaporated amid gross irregularities, allegations of corruption and coercion at the Supreme Court. Justices issued their decision in secret, without letting Mr Kambaksh's lawyer submit so much as a word in his defence.
Afzal Nooristani, the legal campaigner representing Mr Kambaksh, accused the judges of behaving "no better than the Taliban". Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into Afghanistan's legal system and 149 British soldiers have died there since 2001, but experts admit that state justice is still beyond the reach of most ordinary Afghans.
Continua....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/student-facing-20-years-in-hell-1643069.html
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 19:30 | Alfredo
elsolitario_9@msnm.com
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ok e leido aca sobre el abuso domestico es poco comun pero en algunas veses tambien existe el abuso a sia los hombres yo en mi persona me considero estar pasando por algo similar y se me hace penoso poder hablarlo con alguien porque en la mayoria de casos siempre son las mujeres las victimas les comento esto porque me gustaria que alguien me dijera que devo hacer aquien devo de acudir estoy en una situacion que no encuetro salida mi pareja me amenasa que si la dejo nunca volvere aver a mi hijas y esa es una arma que eya siempre usa en contra mia cada vez que e intentado irme de la casa pues ella es ciudadana americana y yo no tengo ningun estatus en este paiz y ella me amenaza con relatarme a migracion y que nunca volvere a ver a mis hijas yo me siento que ella abusa de mi en diferentes formas verbal e incluso fisicamente por favor y alguien lee este comentario que mede un consejo que devo de hacer ,alfredo
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 09:21 | Boston Public Health Commission
URL: www.bphc.org/news/press_release_content. . . .
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Media Release
2009 03-12 Public Health Commission Surveys Youths on Teen Dating Violence
Nearly half say Rihanna was responsible for the incident with Chris Brown
BOSTON - A survey conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission on the dating violence incident involving pop music idols Chris Brown and Rihanna revealed that nearly half of Boston youths surveyed said she was “responsible” for what happened while 52 percent said they were both to blame.
“The story of Chris Brown and Rihanna may have happened 3,000 miles away, but it is very much a Boston story,” said Casey Corcoran, director of the Public Health Commission’s new Start Strong program.
The incident, the most high-profile youth dating violence case in memory, has drawn national headlines, even prompting Oprah to devote an entire show today, March 12, to teen dating violence.
Oprah will feature the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships Initiative. Last November, the Boston Public Health Commission received one of the foundation’s $1 million, four-year grants to launch a Boston-based Start Strong effort to prevent and reduce teen dating violence, as part of the nationwide initiative. The goal is to stop teen dating abuse before it starts, specifically focusing on teaching 11 to 14-year olds about healthy relationships. This
includes ensuring that parents, teachers, coaches, older siblings, peers, school nurses, and mentors know what to say to teens and that relationship violence is unacceptable, Corcoran said.
Corcoran’s program, housed in the Commission’s Division of Violence Prevention, surveyed 200 Boston youth ages 12 to 19, between Feb. 13 and 20, using the Chris Brown-Rihanna case to gauge their attitudes toward teen dating violence; 100 percent of those surveyed had heard about the incident.
Among the findings:
71% said arguing was a normal part of a relationship
44% said fighting was a normal part of a relationship
51% said Chris Brown was responsible for the incident
46% said Rihanna was responsible for the incident
52% said both individuals were to blame for the incident, despite knowing at the time that
Rihanna had been beaten badly enough to require hospital treatment
35% said the media were treating Rihanna unfairly
52% said the media were treating Chris Brown unfairly
In addition, a significant number of males and females in the survey said Rihanna was destroying Chris Brown’s career, and females were no less likely than males to come to Rihanna’s defense.
“Boston parents need to be aware that our children are facing a crisis,” said Emily F. Rothman, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, and an advisor to the Boston Start Strong initiative. “Ten percent of Massachusetts youth report having experienced dating violence during their lifetimes. The consequences of dating violence can be severe and long-lasting. Teen dating violence victimization can be a precursor to adult violence victimization, and can increase risky behaviors during adolescence, including substance use, unhealthy dieting and weight control practices, and suicidal behavior,” she said.
Corcoran suggested that parents use the Chris Brown-Rihanna incident as an opportunity to ask their children for their opinions about what happened, and to share their own viewpoints. “The case provides all of us with an opportunity to have this conversation with the young people in our lives, and it should serve as a reminder that no one---not even the rich and famous---are immune to abuse.”
Parents who need help talking to their teen can contact the "Child Witness to Violence Project" at the Boston Medical Center, which offers counseling and advice at (617) 414-4244, or call Casa Myrna Vazquez (877) 785-2020, which can offer tips on talking to teens about dating violence.
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 08:56 | Cristina Gomez
aaangelblanco1@gmail.com
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buenos dias...
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* fui victima de violencia de genero en todo su sentido... verbal, fisica, economica y hasta virtual,,aunque suene extraño...utilizo mis datos para ponerme en paginas de prostitucion... realmente una persona enferma,, abuso de mi..y puso a mi familia en el peor dolor, pues realmente podian hacer poco estando yo en españa y ellos en colombia..
gracias a Dios tuve apoyo moral de ellos y por parte de la embajada y consulado colombiano estuvieron al pendiente siempre..mientras que las organizaciones de la mujer en españa sólo me dieron la espalda....., la linea 116, los juzgados de violencia y hasta los mossos de squadra ( policia de barcelona) simplemente por que mis papeles estaban en tramite en el registro de madrid.. su respuiesta siempre era...es la palabra de una colombiana indocumentada contra la de un español.. realmente quisiera que las mujeres victimas de violencia tuvieramos mas apoyo.. el dolor es grande. y aun mas grande se no
s hace cuando estamos en un pais extraño, si recursos economicos, sin familia, sin amistades ...realmente esperando una respuesta amiga..
alli en espáña me di cuenta que muchas mujeres se dejan maltratar solo por tener una ayuda econimica por parte de sus maltratadores..es triste. pero de eso me di cuenta en el consulado...nosotras valemos mucho....
quisiera poder colaborar en lo que pueda a todas aquellas mujeres que necesitan una voz, una mano amiga...estoy de nuevo en mi pais, pero si en algo puedo colaborar, me ofrezco para ser el oido, la voz, la mano amiga de una victima de violencia.....somos demasiado valiosas..NO DEJEMOS QUE NUESTRA INTEGRIDAD SEA AMENAZADA EN NINGUN SENTIDO.....RESPETEMONOS... DIOS LAS BENDIGA A TODAS..
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 08:45 | Boletin Informativo sobre Derechos Humanos de Mujeres
URL: www.defensoria.org.ar/mujeres/boletin.ht . . .
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Argentina
Boletin Informativo sobre Derechos Humanos de Mujeres y Equidad de Genero
www.defensoria.org.ar/mujeres/bo letin.html
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 07:57 | CAWA (California Women's Agenda
win@win-cawa.org
URL: www.win-cawa.org/cawa/ctaregistration.ht . . .
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CAWA (California Women's Agenda) CALL TO ACTION IN THE VALLEY SPRING 2009
You are invited to join California Women's Agenda (CAWA) and key leaders of California networks, organizations and representatives
from the CAWA Legislators' Council with farmworker and indigenous women for strategic planning and organizinig on policies impacting
all California women.
We are coming together with women of the Central Valley in Tulare County, a historic
region of California and the US.
We are entering a new policy
era with opportunities for moving our agenda forward and for restoring a collective US
women's agenda. As women locally and globally begin preparation for a UN Fifth World Conference on Women, California will kick off our state planning on April 3rd
following the UN CSW 53rd Session, March 1-10, 2009.
You and your organization can register for the Call to Action here
www.win-cawa.org/cawa/ctaregistration.html
We have made this as affordable as possible - so bring your tent and/or sleeping bags, and travel GREEN by train down the Valley to Hanford, just minutes away from Visalia.
WHERE: At the Friends Meeting House, 17208 Avenue 296, Visalia, CA, 93292.
The Summit locale was chosen for it's centrol location between northern California (San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno) and southern California (Bakersfield, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles,San Diego).
Women and supportive men will arrive from all points of California!
WHY:
To include marginalized and indigenous women and girls' voices in state policies afecting their lives and the lives of their families.
To revisit and reaffirm a progressive California Women's Agenda for
review by California women from the ground and from the internet.
To continue building the 'bandwidth' of CAWA's electronic action network through hub counties and partner organizations in California, and on through e-networks in US
Women Connect states that link to Commissions on Women, national and global NGOs.
To assure that all California women have a voice in a US Women's Agenda for the 5th World Conference on Women, 2012.
CO-SPONSORS to date:
CAWA, American Friends Services Committee, Proyecto Campesino; Advocacy Coalition of Tulare County, Female Leadership Academy; SEIU 421 Central Valley Women's Committee, Coalition of Women from Asia and the Middle East, LA; and other CAWA partners.
Join the Co-sponsors on the Registration Form
http://www.win-cawa.org/cawa/ctaregist ration.html
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 07:39 | Claudia
calliceballos@hotmail.com
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quiero participar activamente en esta causa ,atiendo pacientes por otras razones pero en algunos casos salen a relucir estos temas que nos afectan mucho.como puedo hacerlo?
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| 13 Mar 2009 - 07:38 | Marina Salazar
luzma9698@hotmail.com
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soy colombiana,tengo 49 anos, soy sobreviviente de cancer de mama, muy agresivo. no soy y nunca he sido una mujer abusada, tengo 2 ninas, que son mi vida y tienen 10 y 12 anos, vivo en miami, y tengo una vida tranquila, muy tranquila, y estoy convencida que debo ayudar a otros de algunamanera, no me gusta la violencia, ni el abuso de que las mujeres y los ninos son victimas, no se si desde aqui puedo ayudar de alguna manera, me encantaria hacerlo. esperando respuesta. LUZMA.
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| 12 Mar 2009 - 08:20 | GABnet
catherine.m.judge@gmail.com
URL: www.gabnet.og
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GENDER RIGHTS TRAINING FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS OPENS
GABNet of the Mariposa Alliance and the Damayan Migrant Workers Association have initiated a School on Gender Rights for Filipino Domestic Workers. Funded by the New York Foundation, the project is the first of its kind nationally and historically. The first session will be on April 4th, at the North Star Fund Office, 520 Eight Avenue, New York , NY 10018.
Press release
Contact: Ollie Quinto, Education Director, at GABNet: 212 592 3507
or email catherine.m. judge@gmail. com;
GENDER RIGHTS TRAINING FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS OPENS
NEW YORK : When Norma’s quadriplegic employer asked her to use her hands instead of a washcloth to soap and wash certain parts of his body, she was unsure whether this was par for the course or something else altogether. When Marina ’s employer demanded massages, she wondered if this was part of domestic work in the US . Anna, on the other hand, didn’t quite know how to respond to her employer’s predilection for showing her porn websites.
Because of these and other situations encountered by domestic workers, GABNet of the Mariposa Alliance and the Damayan Migrant Workers Association have initiated a School on Gender Rights for Filipino Domestic Workers. Funded by the New York Foundation, the project is the first of its kind nationally and historically. The first session will be on April 4th, at the North Star Fund Office, 520 Eight Avenue, New York , NY 10018.
Those interested are requested to register either with GABNet at 212 592 3507 or with Damayan at 212 564 6057.
“It is a landmark and collaborative project created by im/migrants and second generation Filipina-Americans,” said Catherine Mercedes Judge, coordinator of the GABNet NY/NJ chapter. “When it comes to gender rights, violence against women and gender discrimination, we are not so different from our mothers, aunts, even grandmothers. We have a shared experience on this issue."
Olivia Quinto, GABNet National Education Director, will lead the first session. “From the first batch of participants, we will select those with the potential to be peer counselors." she said. "They will receive further training from Dr. Annalisa Enrile, who is an associate clinical professor of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California .”
Ms. Quinto explained that this was to ensure that the domestic workers were empowered to deal with issues of gender rights themselves. “It is an expression of respect on our part that we consider them perfectly capable of tackling such issues once they are in receipt of knowledge and training.”
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| 12 Mar 2009 - 07:50 | Boletin e-leusis
info@e-leusis.net
URL: www.e-leusis.net
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http://www.e-leusis.net 12 de marzo, 2009
E-leusis se renueva como E-mujeres
Equipo de E-Mujeres
Te presentamos el nuevo portal
e-mujeres, un salto cualitativo en nuestro deseo de convertir este espacio común en un recurso más participativo, a través de la posibilidad de enviar comentarios a todas las noticias, artículos, y reportajes que destacamos en el portal.
Con esta misma idea de participación, inauguramos también una sección de blogs. Si estás interesada en tener tu propio blog, aquí tienes un espacio para dar a conocer a la comunidad todas las opiniones, intereses y sugerencias que desees a través de tu propia página personal. Pueden ser blogs de temática general o específica, de opinión y/o de información, y también de dar a conocer las cosas y los temas que te gustan.
El canal de youtube es otra novedad que hemos incorporado al portal. En nuestro canal de videos tienes acceso a documentos audovisuales relativos a la igualdad y a las mujeres. No dudes en compartir con todas nosotras todos aquellos documentos que tú misma encuentres de interés enviándonos sugerencias.
Hemos mejorado el espacio Alerta Violencia que creamos en el año 2003, con el fin de mostrar de una manera mas gráfica la violencia del compañero íntimo (VCI), un problema no sólo social sino también de salud pública por su creciente incidencia y mortalidad.
El portal está creciendo, ya tenemos 20 millones de entradas y también vamos a crecer en secciones que verás publicadas próximamente.
Insistir una vez más que e-mujeres es un lugar de información y encuentro para mujeres. Te animamos, por tanto, una vez más a la participación, a que compartas con todas nosotras tus ideas e intereses. Con tu participación el trabajo de las personas que estamos en e-mujeres mejora y es más gratificante.
Leer Especial 8 de Marzo 2009
Artículos y actividades en torno al Día Internacional de la Mujer.
Leer 2 años de aplicación de la Ley para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres
El artículo 14 de nuestra Constitución proclama el derecho a la igualdad y a la no discriminación por razón de sexo. Así comienza, en su exposición de motivos, el texto de la Ley Orgánica 3/2007 para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres. La IGUALDAD es un derecho universal, reconocido en diversos textos internacionales sobre derechos humanos, además de ser un principio estrechamente vinculado al ejercicio de la ciudadanía, requisito imprescindible en toda sociedad que se precie de democrática.
Leer
www.e-leusis.net
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| 12 Mar 2009 - 07:43 | Pagina 12, Argentina
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Dos mujeres reconocidas por la Embajada de Estados Unidos
Premio a la lucha contra la violencia
Por Mariana Carbajal
Pagina 12, 11/03/09
Felipa “Nelly” Borquez sufrió la violencia doméstica en su propio cuerpo. Fue hace ya varias décadas. Hoy, a los 62 años, coordina una red de catorce centros de atención a mujeres víctimas de violencia machista en el partido de La Matanza. Por su destacada trayectoria fue ayer premiada por el embajador de Estados Unidos, Earl Anthony Wayne, en el marco de las celebraciones del Día Internacional de la Mujer. También fue distinguida la comisaria Ester Mabel Franco, quien en 1995 creó el primer centro de la Policía Federal destinado a asistir a víctimas de violencia sexual y que desde hace dos años trabaja en forma articulada con el Programa Las Víctimas contra las Violencias, que encabeza Eva Giberti en el Ministerio de Justicia.
La entrega de los dos premios se hizo en la residencia del embajador, en una agasajo a mujeres desta- cadas de distintos ámbitos donde estuvieron presentes desde la ministra de la Corte Suprema Elena Highton de Nolasco y Estela de Carlotto, titular de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, hasta la conductora Mirtha Legrand, varias legisladoras, algunas funcionarias, activistas de ONG y periodistas. Wayne explicó que Borquez y Franco fueron elegidas “por su coraje y liderazgo para fortalecer a las víctimas” y ayudarlas a “vivir una vida libre de violencia doméstica y sexual”.
Borquez fue pionera en La Matanza en el trabajo de prevención y tratamiento de la violencia de género, desde la Casa de la Mujer Roza Chazarreta. “Soy militante cristiana y feminista”, se definió en diálogo con este diario. Alineada con el pensamiento de la Teología de la Liberación, es coordinadora de los seminarios de formación teológica. Se metió con la problemática de la violencia doméstica en 1989, luego de padecerla con su pareja de entonces. “Era la época de la hiperinflación y en el barrio organizamos ollas populares. Ahí empezamos con otras mujeres a hablar de nuestros problemas, de nosotras mismas”, contó. Desde 1993 también “trabaja con varones agresores” derivados de juzgados de menores y de familia. Su labor recibe el apoyo de Unifem, el Fondo de Naciones Unidas para la Mujer. “No es un premio para mí: es para tantas mujeres que quieren salir de situaciones de violencia. Y para que puedan salir necesitamos decisiones políticas”, señaló Borquez cuando recibió el diploma de manos del embajador estadounidense. Se refirió, dijo luego a este diario, a la necesidad de una política integral contra la violencia machista y a una nueva ley que brinde más herramientas para prevenirla y combatirla. El Senado dio media sanción a fin de 2008 a un proyecto de ley que apunta en ese sentido. La iniciativa podría tratarse hoy en la Cámara de Diputados. Borquez coordina catorce centros de atención en La Matanza.
–Según su experiencia, ¿un maltratador deja de maltratar? –le preguntó este diario.
–Hasta el día de hoy estamos convencidas de que la violencia es una conducta aprendida basada en una relación de asimetría. Cuando es excluido del hogar, el maltratador se transforma en un varón soltero que deja de tener obligaciones con sus hijos. Si reconoce que tiene culpa y asume su rol de padre, se pueden obtener cambios. Trabajamos en la reparación del vínculo dañado. Nunca mediamos entre la víctima y el agresor: no hay mediación posible en situaciones de violencia, no se puede mediar entre un torturador y un torturado. Trabajamos para reducir el daño a la mujer y a los hijos. Con las mujeres, fundamentalmente buscamos que recuperen su autoestima.
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| 11 Mar 2009 - 13:54 | Associated Press
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Madera County CA - Detective arrested for spousal rape
Madera County detective arrested for spousal rape
The Associated Press
FRESNO, Calif.—A Clovis police spokeswoman says a spousal rape case against a Madera County Sheriff's detective has been turned over to the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.
Clovis police arrested 37-year-old Jerry Saldivar at his home in Clovis on March 1 after receiving a call for help.
Officers arrested Saldivar on two counts of spousal rape, forcible sexual penetration and false imprisonment. He also was arrested on a misdemeanor count of preventing a 9-1-1 call.
Madera County Sheriff's spokeswoman Erica H. Stuart says Saldivar, who joined the department in 2002, is on paid administrative leave. The department also is conducting an internal affairs investigatio
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| 11 Mar 2009 - 13:47 | Colleen
colleen.parris@jacobs.com
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I am 6 months outside of a 6 year long relationship riddled with Domestic Violence. Today I am still trying to escape the daily torment of my ex-husband and the battle seems endless but not hopeless. He has violated my restraining order 68 times. I am guilty of talking/texting him as well (although I have not done that for months after his last threat on my life) and the Victim Advocate says he'll likely walk. I get phone calls (from restricted numbers or text messages from his friends) all day long even after changing my phone number and all of my contact information. I am embarrassed and humiliated with work my daughter's school because I have to keep "changing" my information. I recently gave a friend emergency contact information in the unfortunate event something bad happens to me. I live in fear same as I did every day that hasn't changed, yet. Someday this will all be over and I'll be able to breathe again. For today I put my faith in God and my own actions that for
my daughter we will be survivors and no longer victims. However, the frustration that comes with feeling abandoned by our "system" is simply overwhelming. I just want to live in peace!
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| 11 Mar 2009 - 10:19 | Connie
URL: www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab . . .
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Hello everyone,
We are delighted that Assembly Member Beall is authoring AB 612.
www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_612_bill_20090225_intr oduced.html
See below for a sample letter of support for this bill, which interestingly has the same number as the previous bill by Assembly Member Ira Ruskin on the same topic. Also, please send this request along to others, if you would.
Best, Connie
The Honorable Jim Beall
California State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SUPPORT AB 612 (Beall), a bill to prohibit reliance upon nonscientific theories in family court.
Dear Mr. Beall:
We want to thank you for sponsoring AB 612, a bill to prohibit family court professionals from using nonscientific theories as a basis for child custody recommendations and decisions.
Our organization’s mission is _____________. We are concerned that child victi ms of violence and sexual abuse are not sufficiently protected in California family courts due to the mistaken use by family court mediators, evaluators, and judicial officers of pseudo-scientific concepts that do not meet evidentiary standards. This is an important child protection bill.
Current research by California State University professor Geraldine Stahly, Ph.D. shows that parents who request protection from family courts for their children from incest or physical abuse by the child’s other parent often lose custody of those children to the accused parent. The study includes 350 respondents so far.
Of these litigants:
· 83% of Protective Parents had custody before they brought their children’s allegations of abuse to the attention of the court.
· Only 16% of those Protective Parents still had custody by the end of the court process. These children were all placed in the custody of their identified abusers.
· 60% of the parents who tried to protect their children were cut off from having any contact with their children at some point in the case.
· 74% of the children continue to disclose abuse even after having been placed in the custody of their identified abusers. Nevertheless, these children have not been protected. Their outcries are still being minimized, rationalized and ignored because the court has already made a determination based discredited alienation theories.
· 67% of the Protective Parents in the study had been labeled by evaluators and other family court professionals as having alienated their children from the accused abuser, despite strong evidence of child physical and sexual abuse.
The Leadership Council (www.leadershipcouncil.org) estimates that U.S. family courts mistakenly place about 58,000 children per year into the custody of their abusers. California has an opportunity to lead the nation in halting this disturbing trend.
AB 612 would prohibit a family court from considering on a nonscientific theory, as defined, in making a determination regarding child custody or visitation with a child. The bill would also prohibit a court from considering or receiving into evidence a report, assessment, evaluation, or investigation prepared pursuant to the provisions described above if it includes a nonscientific theory.
We fully support this critical legislation and thank you so much for authoring AB 612.
Sincerely,
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| 11 Mar 2009 - 09:27 | Lynn Sweet Blog
URL: blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/03/obama_t . . .
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Obama to create White House women's council. Jarrett, Tchen to run new group.
By Lynn Sweeton March 10, 2009
WASHINGTON--White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is adding more to her portfolio: she is chairing a White House Council on Women and Girls, to be created by President Obama on Wednesday. Tina Tchen, director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, will serve as executive director of the group.
Obama will sign an executive order creating the council--run by two high level Chicagoans in the White House--designed to "provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families."
According to the White House, "the Council will begin its work by asking each agency to analyze their current status and ensure that they are focused internally and externally on women."
For the First Lady, Wednesday is about displaying her feminist credentials.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden will attend the signing event at the White House, pegged to National Women's History Month.
Earlier on Wednesday, according to the White House, "Mrs. Obama will celebrate International Women's Day with a visit to the State Department where she will join Secretary Hillary Clinton in presenting the Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage."
According to the White House, when Obama signs the executive order at the White House event, the audience will include "national women's organizations and community groups, professional women, and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders."
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 19:46 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09030906-NOM- . . .
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Podrían ocurrir más casos como el de Paulina
NOM-046 modificada incumple el acuerdo con la CIDH
Por Sandra Torres Pastrana
México DF, 9 marzo 09 (CIMAC).- Podrían ocurrir casos como el de Paulina, niña violada y como consecuencia embarazada, a quien el gobierno panista de Baja California le negó el derecho de interrumpir legalmente la gestación (ILE), pues la Norma Oficial Mexicana sobre violencia familiar, sexual y contra las mujeres (NOM-046) que pretende publicar la Secretaría de Salud (SS) no cumple con el acuerdo de solución amistosa que el Estado Mexicano realizó ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH).
Así dieron a conocer hoy en conferencia de prensa las organizaciones integrantes de la Coalición por la Salud de las Mujeres, quienes cuestionaron la falta de seriedad e irregularidades en que incurrió la SS en el proceso durante el cual se hicieron diversas modificaciones a la Norma, que ya había sido consensuada con las organizaciones civiles y aprobada por expertas y expertos.
Continua....
http://www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09030906-NOM-046-modificada.36884.0.html
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 19:38 | Associacion Mexicana por los Derechos de los Animales
URL: www.amedea.org.mx/inicio.html
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Associacion Mexicana por los Derechos de los Animales
Editorial Marzo de 2009
El movimiento por los derechos de los animales, tanto en México, como en otros países, no sería concebible sin el esfuerzo de las mujeres. El porcentaje de participación en las organizaciones no gubernamentales que luchan contra la crueldad hacia los no humanos, es muyo mayor de mujeres que de hombres.
Desconocemos las razones de ello, pero no es difícil imaginar que la sensibilidad propia de género y, por otro lado, la cultura machista que limita las posibilidades de los hombres para expresar su amor, compasión u otros sentimientos, influye en dicho porcentaje.
AMEDEA hace un reconocimiento a todas esas maravillosas mujeres que han sido luchadoras constantes en la búsqueda de la justicia para los no humanos, denunciando con valor, rescatando, educando y haciendo un sin fin de actividades que han generado una conciencia mucho más evolucionada… Un escenario que permite aún la esperanza en de un México menos violento.
Vivan los no humanos y vivan las mujeres defensoras de esos derechos tan violentados por nuestra especie. El día mundial de las mujeres es solo motivo para expresar nuestra gratitud a su fuerza de espíritu.
GL
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 19:10 | Stop Violence Against Women
URL: www.fgm-cdonor.org/
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from STOPVAW Newsletter:
Launch of New Website Dedicated to Abandonment of FGM/C
On 6 February 2009, the Donors Working Group (DWG) on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) launched a new website aimed at abolishing the practice. The site provides a forum for sharing research, news, and resources, such as community programming ideas that can be implemented worldwide. The DWG's proposed systematic approach for abandoning FGM/C is elaborated in the organization's Platform for Action, available on its website. DWG hopes that the launch of the site will encourage the continued growth of partnerships and consensus, as resources are mobilized to combat FGM/C.
To access the DWG FGM/C website, please click here:
www.fgm-cdonor.org/
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 19:01 | Niambi
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Niambi Jarvis wants you to know about the following
This was forwarded by the Chair of our Public Safety Committe, Commissioner Whiting.
Please call or write Kraft Foods, who is sponsoring the Kid's Choice Awards on March 28th and the Nickelodeon channel, they have REFUSED to remove Chris Brown as a nominee. They stated that they kids nominated him prior to the assault & if they don't want to vote for him they don't have to.
As a reponsible network you would think they would REMOVE him as he has been charged with 2 felony domestic violence charges and they are the adults in this case and not leave it up to our children.
So I took it a step further and contacted the shows sponsors, Kraft / Capri Sun and Kraft was not happy with my call so I think if we the community put pressure on them, they as the sponsors will remove Chris Brown.
PLEASE PLEASE CALL KRAFT FOODS
1-800-323-0768
1-847-646-2000
CALL BOTH NUMBERS IF YOU ARE ABLE
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 18:50 | Mayelli
mystic011484@hotmail.com
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Actualmente estoy en un proceso por la custodia de mi hijo (18 meses) tengo la corte para el 24 de marzo el padre tiene orden de restriccion pues se llevo a mi nino el cual ya recupere.
* El padre tiene abogado y yo no pues no tengo
* dinero y hasta ahora yo he mantenido al nino.
* Que debo hacer? Existe algun lugar u organizacion que me pueda ayudar? Tengo miedo pues el ha ejercido la violencia domestica.
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 09:48 | Loindon Times Online
URL: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/ . . .
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London Times Online
Women should be hit for wearing sexy clothing in public, one in seven believeRichard Ford, Home Correspondent
Alpha Mummy blog: The more things change...
One in seven people believe it is acceptable in some circumstances for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is dressed in “sexy or revealing clothes in public”, according to the findings of a survey released today.
A similar number believed that it was all right for a man to slap his wife or girlfriend if she is “nagging or constantly moaning at him”.
The findings of the poll, conducted for the Home Office, also disclosed about a quarter of people believe that wearing sexy or revealing clothing should lead to a woman being held partly responsible for being raped or sexually assaulted.
Continues...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5875108.ece
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| 10 Mar 2009 - 09:41 | Unknown
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WHY MEN STAY
I get what I want...
I get to tell other people what to do...
I get to control the money...
I get to make the rules...
I get waited on...
* It's Good to be the Dictator
* Violence Works
* No One Knows
* My Neighbors Still Like Me
* Cases Get Dismissed
* Not Held Accountable
* Not Properly Charged
* No EPO or Protective Order Issued
* Low Bond
* It's the Victim's Fault (SHE should leave) (or return)
* Community Does Not Condemn Violence
* It's my responsibility as a man to make and enforce family rules.
* If I leave, I'll be put to the trouble of breaking in a new woman.
or in the military:
~commands protect me
~good for my career (not bad)
~can always continue to keep my housing (after all I am the service member)
~will never be served a protective order
~not good for the outlook of the command so not being served a
military protective order will be a little secret between me and the command
~will not have to provide any support money to my spouse, spouse or child
with the absence of a court order (we all know court orders take time)
~when a court order is issued, I am safe on base and the command
does not like to get into personal affairs...
~abuse..."yeah right"....who is going to believe her?
Also:
* It's *My* House
* Free Sex/Housework on demand
* Her Salary is Convenient
* Only Way to Keep My Kids
* No One Walks Out on Me and Makes Me Look Like a Chump
* I Made Her What She Is Today
* I Can't Handle the Kids
and of course
*I Wuv Her
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| 09 Mar 2009 - 14:30 | Army Times
URL: www.armytimes.com/news/2009/03/military_ . . .
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Battle buddy concept combats sex assaults
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Army Times
Looking out for one’s “battle buddy” while off duty as well as on has emerged as a central element of all four services’ efforts to combat sexual assault within the ranks, service program managers told the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee Friday.
“We believe it is the duty of every soldier to intervene and stop incidents before they occur,” said Carolyn Collins, program manager for the Army’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention program. “Soldiers who fail to intervene and protect their fellow soldier from harassment or the risk of sexual assault have forsaken the warrior ethos to never leave a fallen comrade.”
The Air Force has introduced a similar concept that also targets those who may fail to act in the face of peer pressure. “We … believe the most effective prevention efforts must be focused on airmen who by their participation in peer groups and activities might either actively or passively provide support or camouflage for the sexual predators in their midst,” said Charlene Bradley, the Air Force’s assistant deputy for force management integration.
The issue has now garnered high-level Defense Department interest, particularly in the wake of news such as last year’s Pentagon report that found upwards of three-quarters of all sexual assault victims do not report the crime, and a Government Accountability Office finding that 52 percent of service members at 14 installations who had been sexually assaulted over the previous 12 months had not reported the assaults.
Continues....
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/03/military_sex_assault_030609w/
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| 09 Mar 2009 - 14:06 | UNIFEM
adriana.quinones@unifem.org
URL: www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_ag . . .
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Call for Proposals
The UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women has launched its annual Call for Proposals (2009). The focus of this year’s Call is on closing the gap on the implementation of national and local laws, policies and action plans that address violence against women and girls.
Civil society organizations, governments and UN Country Teams, in partnership with governments and civil society, are invited to submit applications of a maximum US$1 million for duration of up to three years. The deadline for application is April 17, 2009.
The complete Call for Proposals detailing criteria, eligibility requirements and complete guidelines on how to apply is available at: www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_ag ainst_women/trust_fund_guidelines.php or via the UNIFEM homepage.
Contact: UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women: Adriana Quinones, UN Trust Fund Manager adriana.quinones@unifem.org and cc tanya.ghani@unifem.org
Kindly disseminate the UN Trust Fund 2009 Call for Proposals widely among your networks and members.
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| 09 Mar 2009 - 12:29 | Universtiy of Michigan Law School
TouchBaseProductions@yahoo.com
URL: www.TeaAndJustice.com
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For Immediate Release Contact TouchBaseProductions@yahoo.com
(212) 729-0148
"TEA & JUSTICE" – Award-Winning Film On NYPD Asian Women Cops
To Screen at University Of Michigan Law School
March 12
Ann Arbor, MI,
TEA & JUSTICE, a documentary about three petite immigrant Asian women defying stereotypes in the NYPD/New York Police Department will screen at University of Michigan Law School, Thurs., March 12, 5:30 p.m. The film's award-winning Director-Producer Ermena Vinluan will be present for the screening.
TEA & JUSTICE is about 3 petite Asian immigrant women who help change the face of the NYPD – and its soul. Filmmaker Vinluan made the film because “I was intrigued by the image of Asian women in a non-traditional career.”
In the documentary Vinluan also explores her activist ideas and mixed feelings about cops, while honoring the challenges the 3 women embraced and the reforms they accomplished.
The University of Michigan Law Journal on Race is presenting the film to celebrate Women’s History Month. According to Ginni Chen, Film Series Editor at the Michigan Journal of Race And Law at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor: “Since our Journal is committed to furthering exploration and discussion of race, social justice and civil rights issues, Tea & Justice would be enlightening and educational
Kudos for TEA & JUSTICE include: The Hollywood Reporter: "thoughtful and provocative"; also: “Bold, sensitive, passionate, analytical and iconoclastic;” "A heartfelt documentary… delightful", according to Prof. Estella Habal, Asian Studies at San Jose State University and Atty. Rocky Chin, NY State Civil Rights Commission, respectively).
The Film's Stars
Detective Agnes Chan, a 20-year-old Brooklyn college student and garment factory worker became NYPD's first Asian female officer in 1980. She was committed to creating a bridge between the police and the Asian community which was experiencing poor police service. Her graduation from the Police Academy was memorialized in a photo in the New York Daily News. A native of Hong Kong, many of Chan's colleagues and superiors assumed she was under-qualified and hired merely to fulfill NYPD's hiring quotas for women and minorities. Later they were amazed to learn she had scored 98% on her entrance exam.
Detective Christine Leung was born in Hong Kong. Both her parents were restaurant workers in NYC’s Chinatown; and they were strict traditionalists who fought her assimilation as an American teenager. Leung was a student at NYU and a Wall Street secretary before becoming a cop. Early in her career, she was shocked when a middle-age Caucasian woman told her: "I'm paying taxes for a little shit like you!" Leung worked in narcotics, community affairs and on the elite Major Case Squad focusing on kidnappings. She also led sensitivity training classes on race and culture in the NYPD.
Officer Trish Ormsby was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Irish-American father. After her father’s death, her mother remarried a Japanese man and was brought up in Brooklyn in a traditional household. Ormsby was a Wall Street secretary but quit in disgust when ordered to serve tea to her male Japanese bosses. She loved Cagney and Lacey, the 1980s hit TV show about NYPD women detectives, and was inspired by her Irish uncle, a police officer upstate. Ormsby is 5'2" and her mother argued: "You're not going to make it – you're too small!" Ormsby worked undercover in the subway system and made over 70 felony "collars" or arrests. She then transferred to NYPD’s Recruitment division. Trish was active with NYPD's Gay Officers Action League and Asian Jade Society.
Synopsis: In TEA & JUSTICE, Ormsby, Chan and Leung share stories about their careers, their personal lives, the stereotypes they defied and how they persevered. The documentary includes interviews with ordinary New Yorkers especially youth, plus law experts and anti-police abuse activists — some of whom believe that hiring more women cops will reduce police brutality.
The film’s humorous cartoons, lively graphics and potent, original music enhance the three women’s stories and its complex look at race, gender and power.
Admission is Free:
The TEA & JUSTICE screening is Thursday, March 12, 5:30pm.
Location is University of Michigan Law School, 625 So. State Street, Room 120, Ann Arbor.
To RSVP and for more info contact: TouchBaseProductions@yahoo.com, (212) 729-0148.
For more info on the film and to view the film’s trailer, visit www.TeaAndJustice.com
Director Vinluan is available for press interviews by contacting TouchBaseProductions@yahoo.com, 212-729-0148.
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"TEA & JUSTICE is a clear indication that increasing the numbers of women in policing at
all ranks is a strategy to reduce police excessive force, strengthen community policing reform
and improve police response to violence against women.”
Ellie Smeal, publisher-Ms. Magazine; Exec. Dir.-Feminist Majority Foundation
TEA & JUSTICE demonstrates, better than any research study, the critical importance
of diversity and gender equity to successful police work that relies less on force
and more on communication with citizens and respect for their rights…” David A Harris,
Balk Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law
"A heartfelt documentary showing why diversity is critical for society to progress…
delightful… pulls no punches." Rocky Chin, Esq.– New York State Civil Rights Commission;
President, Board of Directors – Asian American Arts Alliance
"Informative and highly engaging… with insight and humor…
Angela Pao, Professor, Indiana University–Bloomington
"… links their profession as defenders of the law to a long line of women warriors.”
Lucy San Pablo Burns, Professor, U.C.L.A. Asian American Studies
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| 09 Mar 2009 - 10:43 | Vancouver Sun
URL: www.vancouversun.com/news/Gallery+Intern . . .
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Gallery of International Women's Day Photos
www.vancouversun.com/news/Gallery+International+Women/1366114/story.html
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| 09 Mar 2009 - 10:25 | Yakin Ertürk, UN Special Raporteur on Violence Against Women
URL: www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/women/rapp . . .
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UNITED NATIONS Press release
On the occasion of International Women's Day (8 March), the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, Yakin Ertürk, issued the following statement:
"The scale and impact of the current crisis is still largely unknown, but it is expected that women and girls in both developed and developing countries will be particularly affected by job cuts, lose of livelihoods, increased responsibilities in all spheres of their life, and an increased risk of societal and domestic violence. A systematic gender analysis of the current economic crisis is critical for developing viable solutions and upholding human rights standards", recommends the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences.
The World Bank predicts that up to 53 million more people will be driven to poverty in developing countries this year, bringing the total number of those living on less than $2 a day to over 1.5 billion. This will seriously jeopardize the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals which aim to slash poverty, hunger, infant and maternal mortality, and illiteracy by 2015. These worrisome signs are likely to result in serious setbacks to the realization of gender equality.
"Studies have shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession related to economic crises, migration, war, foreign occupation or other situations where masculinities compete and power relations are altered in society. This makes it crucial to challenge norms of masculinity in times of global economic and financial crisis" continues Ms. Erturk.
If women are to live a life free of violence, efforts to change attitudes must include strategies to challenge notions of masculinity based on policing women's sexuality and /or on sustaining male supremacy in public and private life. Violence is not only an act of individual men but is embedded in the way manhood is constructed, reinforced and challenged under societal pressures, social approval mechanisms and crisis situations. The struggle for gender equality is not about a battle of the sexes but rather a battle against oppression, which men also have a stake in. Therefore, men and women working together to end violence against women can be a step forward for greater emancipation for all.
"After six years of extraordinary endeavours which took me to some 18 countries and afforded me the privilege of meeting many remarkable women of great courage and resilience, I will be submitting my final report to the 11th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in June this year", states the Special Rapporteur. Appointed by the HRC in August 2003, Ms. Erturk will be completing her term with the submission of her country mission and thematic reports to the HRC in June 2009.
This year the thematic report will focus on the political economy of women's rights and its implications for violence against women. The report discusses the current limitations of human rights discourse and practice in responding to the socioeconomic conditions that produce and sustain gender-based violence. "I believe this report will prove particularly relevant in the current economic and financial crisis that is affecting people worldwide", states Ms. Erturk.
On the occasion of International Women's Day and in anticipation of the upcoming 30th anniversary of CEDAW, the women's bill of rights, the Special Rapporteur takes this opportunity to call on states parties to ensure full compliance with its provisions.
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| 09 Mar 2009 - 10:05 | Beatriz Martinez Cano-Cortes, Embajada de Espana
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EMBAJADA DE ESPAÑA
ALEMANIA
CONSEJERÍA DE TRABAJO E INMIGRACIÓN
ABTEILUNG FÜR ARBEIT UND MIGRATION
Estimados Sres/as
Me complace enviarles información acerca de la Campaña contra la Violencia de Género puesta en marcha por esta Consejería de Trabajo e Inmigración en Alemania, con la colaboración de diversas entidades públicas y privadas españolas y alemanas.
La violencia de género no es un problema que afecte al ámbito privado. Al contrario, se manifiesta como el símbolo más brutal de la desigualdad existente en nuestra sociedad. Se trata de una violencia que se dirige contra las mujeres por el hecho mismo de serlo, por ser consideradas, por sus agresores, carentes de los derechos mínimos de libertad, respeto y capacidad de decisión. Constituye uno de los ataques más flagrantes a derechos fundamentales como la libertad, la igualdad, la vida, la seguridad y la no discriminación.
La campaña se inicia con tres Charlas Informativas durante el próximo mes de marzo:
14 de marzo – Casa de España en Frankfurt. 17h.
21 de marzo – Consulado General de España en Hannover. 17 h.
28 de marzo – Embajada de España en Berlín. 17h.
Impartidas por profesionales alemanas expertas en la materia y dirigidas a hombres y mujeres hispanohablantes en Alemania, ofrecerán información en español acerca de la normativa federal y planes de actuación alemanes, así como de los recursos de información, asesoría y atención a las víctimas (casas de acogida, teléfonos de emergencia, etc.). Se dispondrá de traducción al español y se pondrán a disposición materiales en este idioma.
En el programa adjunto encontrarán toda la información y el programa detallado para cada una de las sesiones.
Nos complace invitarles a acompañarnos en alguna de estas charlas y les agradecemos asimismo la difusión de esta iniciativa.
Para cualquier consulta o información adicional pueden contactar con nosotros en el teléfono 030 254 007 471 / 454
Saludos cordiales
Beatriz Martínez Cano-Cortés
Secretaria General
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