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| 16 Aug 2009 - 21:26 | Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/08/13/ . . .
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Stamford, RI Marriott Says Woman Who Was Raped In Front Of Her Children In Their Garage Failed To “Exercise Due Care”
According to the Stamford Advocate,
"A downtown hotel being sued by a woman raped at gunpoint in its parking garage is claiming she was careless, negligent and “failed to exercise due care for her own safety and the safety of her children and proper use of her senses and facilities,” according to court documents."
They are blaming the victim for her own rape and lack of adequate security in their garage?? Are they suggesting she was mentally incapable because she did not anticipate being raped while she was putting her child in a carseat?? Jezebel has the full story here.
I frequently stay at Marriott hotels when I travel, but I will not be doing so until they issue an apology and offer a substantive plan for assuring the safety of all and all customers and particularly women and children, and I urge others to do the same. You can also write to them here.
For referenced links go to:
www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/08/13/stamford-ri-marriott-says-woman-who-was-raped-in-front-of-her-children-in-their-garage-failed-to-exercise-due-care/
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| 16 Aug 2009 - 21:11 | summer28
summer28@live.com.ar
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buenos dias desde ya muchas gracias realmente nose por donde empezar soy maltratada psicologicamente por mi esposo y como tengo una nina de 18 meses el me chtanjea que va denunciarme de abandono de hogar para que yo no me separe de el ,me amenaza continuamente para conseguir lo que quiere y sinceramente ya emocionalmente no puedo mas .Mi caso es muy delicado y dificil de hacer entender por este medio ,asi que espero saver pronto de ustedes y otra ves muchas gracias
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| 16 Aug 2009 - 09:09 | Monique
monique.ucros@laposte.net
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obstetra que me exciso y mutilo sin razon clinica
Busco una ONG con quien demandar al obstetra que me exciso y me mutilo mientras atendia mi ultimo parto, en Chambéry, Francia. Tengo toda la documentacion clinica de destruccion y de reconstruccion perineal. La justicia francesa ilegalmente rechaza la demanda penal y solo ha aceptado la administrativa, mientras el hospital pensiono al medico con anticipacion;
Monique
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| 15 Aug 2009 - 10:18 | Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women
URL: www.mcbw.org/files/u1/rosoft_Word_-_Info . . .
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Fact Sheet on Muder/Suicide
www.mcbw.org/files/u1/rosoft_Word_-_Information_on_Murder_Suicides.pdf
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| 15 Aug 2009 - 10:04 | Radio Internacional Feminista
observatoriovirtual@radiofeminista.net
URL: www.radiofeminista.net
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SEMANA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LAS MUJERES EN HONDURAS
DOCUMENTARÁ LAS VIOLACIONES a LOS DDHH DE LAS MUJERES DURANTE EL GOLPE MILITAR
vía Radio Internacional Feminista durante la transmisión en vivo el Miércoles 19 de agosto de 2009. Mas detalles serán publicados en la página www.radiofeminista.net.
Los femicidios y los ataques contra las mujeres se han triplicado desde el golpe
Por RIF – Radio Internacional Feminista
Mientras las protestas contra el golpe militar y la situación de crisis en Honduras continúan, feministas y otras mujeres se encuentran en primera fila con sus estrategias de resistencia pacífica frente a la represión y demandan un regreso a la institucionalidad, un fin a la violencia y el respeto de los derechos humanos.
Para visibilizar los abusos a los derechos humanos cometidos contra mujeres, organizaciones feministas y de derechos humanos han organizado la “Jornada de los derechos humanos de la Mujeres en Honduras” del 17 al 21 de agosto del 2009 y que contará con la presencia de invitadas de Centroamérica, México y los Estados Unidos.
Una de las actividades que se realizará durante la semana es el VII Observatorio de la Transgresión Feminista, cuyo objetivo principal es documentar y recolectar información, evidencias, y testimonios de las mujeres que han sufrido violaciones de sus derechos humanos. Posteriormente se redactará una compilación de información y se presentará un reporte preliminar sobre las violaciones de los derechos humanos de las mujeres durante el golpe de estado del 28 de junio.
También se han planeado espacios para el diálogo con feministas y otras mujeres hondureñas para la reflexión sobre la situación actual en Honduras y el impacto del golpe de estado en sus vidas, en el ejercicicio de los derechos humanos de las mujeres así como sus estrategias de resistencia y sus acciones durante esta crisis.
Las organizaciones que participan en este Observatorio son: Feministas en Resistencia (Honduras), Petateras, Asociadas por lo Justo (JASS), RIF – Radio Internacional Feminista, Iniciativa de Mujeres Premios Nobel de la Paz y el Consorcio para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad (México).
Los reportajes de los medios internacionales han presentado noticias sobre la situación de crisis en Honduras luego del golpe, pero pocos medios han incluído las perspectivas de las mujeres que están en el país, incluyendo numerosas violaciones a los derechos humanos de las mujeres. Los asaltos y los femicidios (asesinatos de mujeres por ser mujeres) se han triplicado durante el golpe y sus repercusiones, según indica Indira Mendoza de Cattarachas en Honduras. Ella mencionó que cuando son cuestionados, la policía dice que las mujeres asesinadas tenían vínculos con el narcotráfico, pero “por qué han incrementado tanto los femicidio desde el golpe?” pregunta Mendoza.
La "Jornada de los Derechos Humanos de la Mujeres en Honduras” tendrá un día de actividades culturales para concientizar y sensibilizar a la sociedad Hondureña sobre la necesidad de prevenir y denunciar toda violación a los derechos humanos de las mujeres.
Las personas interesadas pueden unirse al observatorio feminista virtual vía RIF durante la transmisión en vivo el Miércoles 19 de agosto de 2009. Mas detalles serán publicados en la página www.radiofeminista.net. .
Puede enviar correos electrónicos de solidaridad con las mujeres de Honduras a: observatoriovirtual@radiofeminista.net entre el 17 y el 21 de agosto del 2009.
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| 15 Aug 2009 - 09:47 | Women Make Movies
URL: www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c757.shtml
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New Release from
Women Make Movies
Mrs. Goundo's Daughter
A film by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
U.S./Mali, 2009, 60 minutes, Color, DVD, Bambara, French, English subtitles
Order No. W09974
Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States. But it’s not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali. Threatened with deportation, her two-year-old daughter could be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), like 85 percent of women and girls in Mali. Using rarely cited grounds for political asylum, Goundo must convince an immigration judge that her daughter is in danger.
Sensitive and moving, this important film reveals how women are profoundly affected by the legal struggles surrounding immigration. As issues of asylum, international law and human rights collide with FGM and its devastating health consequences, filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater travel between an FGM ceremony in a Malian village involving dozens of girls to the West African expatriate community of Philadelphia, where Mrs. Goundo challenges beliefs and battles the American legal system for her child’s future.
"An invaluable teaching tool… a 'must-see' for women's rights, human rights, and immigration law teachers, lawyers, students, and organizers.”
Hope Lewis, Professor of Law
Northeastern University
See link to 5 minute video trailer on left side of page:
www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c757.shtml
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| 14 Aug 2009 - 15:15 | laneta
URL: www.laneta.apc.org/index.php?option=com_ . . .
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OSC feministas exigen renuncia de la directora del Imug
Martes, 11 de Agosto de 2009
Por: CIMAC Noticias
Organizaciones feministas y defensoras de derechos humanos de diversos estados del país exigieron la renuncia de la directora del Instituto de la Mujer Guanajuatense (Imug), Luz María Ramírez Villalpando, por atentar contra los derechos humanos, sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres en esta entidad federativa, donde se ha criminalizado la interrupción legal del embarazo (ILE), por violación.
En un desplegado publicado hoy en el periódico El Correo de Guanajuato, las ONG, entre las que se encuentra el Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano del Feminicidio (ONCF), acusaron a Ramírez Villalpando de ejercer violencia institucional contra las organizaciones que defienden y promueven los derechos humanos de las mujeres en Guanajuato, luego de que ésta acusara en días pasados a las ONG de “terroristas” porque “obligan a las mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual para hacer lo que no quieren”.
Cabe recordar que Ramírez Villalpando quien también fuera directora del Instituto de la Mujer de Nuevo León, aplicó durante su paso por esta instancia cuestionarios a sus empleadas para indagar sobre su vida sexual, preferencias sexuales y uso de anticonceptivos.
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www.laneta.apc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=539:osc-feministas-exigen-renuncia-de-la-directora-del-imug&catid=64:noticias
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| 14 Aug 2009 - 14:58 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09081402-Revo . . .
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CAIP ordena abrir expedientes desde 2000
Revocan negativa de PGJ poblana para informar sobre feminicidio
Por Kara Castillo/corresponsal
Puebla, Pue., 14 agosto 09 (CIMAC).- La Comisión de Acceso a la Información (CAIP) obligó a la Procuraduría General de Justicia a abrir sus expedientes y ofrecer la lista de asesinatos de mujeres no resueltos en el estado de Puebla desde el año 2000 y la de mujeres desaparecidas de 2005 a la fecha.
También exigió a la Secretaría de Finanzas revelar los inmuebles rentados por el Gobierno del estado desde febrero de 2005 hasta febrero del 2009 en donde aparezca el monto de la renta, costo mensual de cada uno y el uso al que es destinado.
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| 14 Aug 2009 - 12:40 | Guardian UK
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Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights
Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands
Jon Boone in Kandahar guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 August 2009
Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review.
The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.
"It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying 'blood money' to a girl who was injured when he raped her," the US charity Human Rights Watch said.
In early April, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown joined an international chorus of condemnation when the Guardian revealed that the earlier version of the law legalised rape within marriage, according to the UN.
Although Karzai appeared to back down, activists say the revised version of the law still contains repressive measures and contradicts the Afghan constitution and international treaties signed by the country.
Islamic law experts and human rights activists say that although the language of the original law has been changed, many of the provisions that alarmed women's rights groups remain, including this one: "Tamkeen is the readiness of the wife to submit to her husband's reasonable sexual enjoyment, and her prohibition from going out of the house, except in extreme circumstances, without her husband's permission. If any of the above provisions are not followed by the wife she is considered disobedient."
The law has been backed by the hardline Shia cleric Ayatollah Mohseni, who is thought to have influence over the voting intentions of some of the country's Shias, which make up around 20% of the population. Karzai has assiduously courted such minority leaders in the run up to next Thursday's election, which is likely to be a close run thing, according to a poll released yesterday.
Human Rights Watch, which has obtained a copy of the final law, called on all candidates to pledge to repeal the law, which it says contradicts Afghanistan's own constitution.
The group said that Karzai had "made an unthinkable deal to sell Afghan women out in the support of fundamentalists in the August 20 election".
Brad Adams, the organisation's Asia director, said: "The rights of Afghan women are being ripped up by powerful men who are using women as pawns in manoeuvres to gain power.
"These kinds of barbaric laws were supposed to have been relegated to the past with the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, yet Karzai has revived them and given them his official stamp of approval."
The latest opinion poll by US democracy group the International Republican Institute showed that although Karzai was up 13 points to 44% since the last survey in May, his closest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, had soared from 7% to 26%.
If those numbers prove accurate, it would mean the contest would have to go to a second round run-off vote in early October. In that scenario, 50% of voters said they would vote for Karzai and 29% for Abdullah.
The survey was conducted in mid to late July, so it is not known whether Abdullah has made further gains on Karzai.
He could further increase his chance of victory by joining forces with Ashraf Ghani, the former finance minister who is also running on a platform fiercely critical of Karzai.
Fifty-eight per cent of the 2,400 people polled by IRI said they would like to see an alliance between Abdullah and Ghani, who is polling in fourth place.
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| 14 Aug 2009 - 12:22 | Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/rocky- . . .
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Rocky Mount North Carolina On Edge As 9 Women Vanish
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts and boarded-up homes. Many sold sex to support drug habits or children left in the care of worried, hardworking grandmothers.
Even when they were picked up for drugs or prostitution, nights in jail looming, they called home to let their families know they were OK. Then, one by one, the calls stopped.
Since 2005, nine women who lived at the edges of the poor community in this small North Carolina city have disappeared. Six bodies were found along rural roads just a few miles outside town, most so decomposed that investigators could not tell how they died. At least one of the women was strangled, and all the deaths have been classified as homicides. Three women are still missing.
Police will not say whether they suspect a serial killer, but people in the community about 60 miles northeast of Raleigh do, and they're impatient with law enforcement efforts to investigate the slayings.
After the latest body – that of 31-year-old Jarneice Hargrove – was found in June behind a burnt-out house that was once a crack den, local law enforcement and state police formed a task force. In July, the FBI got involved.
But friends and family say it didn't happen soon enough
"We got someone out here that's snatching up females," said Stephanie Jones, a 28-year-old nursing student. "I mean, next person could be your grandmother, it could be me, it could be my mother, it could be my daughter."
Jones, who knew two of the victims, has founded a group that is raising money to publicize the slayings and search for those still missing. She says the cases are being swept under the rug because of the victims' lifestyles.
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www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/rocky-mount-north-carolin_n_259419.html
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| 12 Aug 2009 - 14:32 | Amecopress/Cimac
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2367
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Pobreza, embarazo, falta de atención médica y abuso sexual
Niñas y mujeres en la de calle
Internacional, Pobreza y género, Salud reproductiva, Violencia de género, Violencia sexual, México DF, Martes 11 de agosto de 2009, por Paulina Rivas Ayala
México DF, 10 agosto 09. AmecoPress/CIMAC.- Las circunstancias de las niñas y mujeres que habitan las calles son doblemente complejas, ya que tanto por ser mujeres, como pobres las coloca en una posición de mayor vulnerabilidad ante la misoginia y el abuso, informa el Capítulo 31 del Diagnóstico de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal, elaborado El Caracol AC y por la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal (CDHDF).
Un aspecto fundamental del Diagnóstico es que las mujeres y niñas, además de no contar con protección legal por la falta de reconocimiento jurídico debido a que pertenecen a las llamadas poblaciones callejeras, también se enfrentan a violación y explotación sexual, embarazos no deseados por abuso y vida sexual sin protección; desconocen su derecho a decidir sobre su cuerpo y no cuentan con atención médica durante el embarazo.
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| 12 Aug 2009 - 13:47 | Common Dreams
URL: www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/12-10
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Femicide: There's Not Enough Outrage
by Antonia Zerbisias
Published on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 by The Toronto Star
`There's not enough outrage," lamented one women's rights activist at a candlelight vigil for the three women cut down last Tuesday night in a Pittsburgh-area aerobics class.
As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted, only 75 people showed up to mourn Heidi Overmier, 46, Elizabeth Gannon, 49, and Jody Billingsley, 38, massacred by a man, who didn't know them, simply because they were women.
That's unusual as the vast majority of femicide victims are killed by their intimate partners or male relatives.
But, as Toronto author Brian Vallee points out in his 2007 book The War on Women, nobody counts the dead, nobody connects the dots, nobody calls out the problem.
"Compare the raw numbers," he writes of the period 2000-06. "In the same seven-year period when 4,588 U.S. soldiers and police officers were killed by hostiles or by accident, more than 8,000 women – nearly twice as many – were shot, stabbed, strangled, or beaten to death by the intimate males in their lives. In Canada, compared to the 101 Canadian soldiers and police officers killed, more than 500 women – nearly five times as many – met the same fate."
There's not enough outrage.
As we all know now, George Sodini, 48 – whose racist and misogynist online diary reads like a terrorist manifesto – couldn't get a date, couldn't get sex, couldn't lure any women to his modest side-split furnished with, as he points out in a spooky video, "Couch and chair; they match. The women will really be impressed."
Well, they weren't.
And so Sodini's "exit plan" was to go down in history in a blaze of gunfire, taking as many women with him as he could.
Just like Marc Lépine, who hated "the feminists" so much he slaughtered 14 women at Montreal's École Polytechnique in 1989, just like Charles Carl Roberts who executed Amish school girls three years ago, and, arguably, even like Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho, a reported stalker of female students who took up-the-skirt photos, yet another violent act of misogyny takes place.
No, no, we say. They were just loners, losers, crazies with guns.
There's not enough outrage.
That only feminist bloggers and a very few mainstream pundits called last week's fitness club massacre the hate crime it was should jolt us out of our sexist complacency.
"We profess to being shocked at one or another of these outlandish crimes, but the shock wears off quickly in an environment in which the rape, murder and humiliation of females is not only a staple of the news, but an important cornerstone of the nation's entertainment," The New York Times's Bob Herbert noted on Friday.
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www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/12-10
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| 12 Aug 2009 - 09:09 | Southern Poverty Law Center
URL: www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=392
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Southern Poverty Law Center Report:
Return of the Militias
SPLC Special Report: After virtually disappearing from public view a decade ago, the antigovernment militia movement is surging across the country – fueled by fears of a black president, the changing demographics of the country and fringe conspiracy theories increasingly spread by mainstream figures
See Report:
www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=392
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| 11 Aug 2009 - 11:39 | NamUs
URL: www.findthemissing.org/documents/NamUsUs . . .
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Online Guide on how to use NamUs - the new , one-stop national missing persons and unidentified remains data base.
Help Guide:
www.findthemissing.org/documents /NamUsUserGuide.pdf
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| 11 Aug 2009 - 11:28 | Washington Post
URL: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar . . .
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New Path To Restore Identities Of Missing
Web Site Combines Details of Remains, Disappearances
Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Authorities in Virginia have identified the body of a teenager who went missing 14 years ago in their first success using a new nationwide database that seeks to put names on thousands of dead people who have gone unidentified, sometimes for decades.
Prosecutors in Maryland hope to use the same system to finally close a homicide case that has resulted in a mistrial and a hung jury.
The U.S. Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, is an online tool aimed at naming the countless John and Jane Does whose remains have been shelved in the offices of medical examiners and police forensic labs across the country. It matches missing persons cases with the nameless bodies or skeletons.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072003540.html?hpid%3Dtopnews
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| 11 Aug 2009 - 10:59 | Victim Assistance Online
URL: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2186189
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The World Society of Victimology now has a group on LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals.
www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2186189
Membership is open to anyone interested in victimology, academic research, victim rights, practical applications, issues advocacy or provision of direct services. Features include discussions and a job posting board.
Randy McCall
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Victim Assistance Online
info@vaonline.org
http://www.vaonline.org/
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| 11 Aug 2009 - 10:55 | The Family Justice Center Alliance
URL: www2.gotomeeting.com/register/779561578
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| 11 Aug 2009 - 10:44 | UPI
URL: www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/10/Military . . .
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Military sex crimes cases on the rise
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The number of sexual-assault cases against Navy sailors and U.S. Marines in the western United States appears to be increasing, court records indicate.
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| 10 Aug 2009 - 17:00 | Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery
URL: www.traffickjamming.org/petition.html
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Hawaii Needs a State Trafficking Law
Sign the Petition to Enact State Law!
(Petition Sign-in Below)
Overview
Hawaii remains 1 of 12 states in the nation that has not passed legislation making Human Trafficking a felony offense while protecting victims of this horrible crime.
200,000 U.S. children are forced or manipulated into the sex-trafficking trade. 1.2 million children worldwide are trafficked. Hawaii sees about 300 runaways per month at high risk for recruitment by pimp/traffickers.
Existing local laws do not adequately address the problem of Human Trafficking.
Please sign this petition to urge Governor Linda Lingle, the Hawaii State Legislature, City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle and Attorney General Mark Bennett to support legislation to create a state Human Trafficking law.
The Petition Letter
To: Governor Linda Lingle, Hawaii State Legislature, City Prosecutor, State Attorney General
The rise in Human Trafficking among international and domestic trafficked persons is increasing in Hawaii, adversely affecting the image of the state and therefore tourism and the economy. Hawaii remains 1 of 12 states in the nation that has not passed legislation making Human Trafficking a felony offense while protecting the victims of this crime.
According to the FBI Innocence Lost Initiative for Operation Cross Country II, Honolulu is 1 of 29 cities recognized as a place with a considerable amount of child sex-trafficking in addition to adult Human Trafficking.
Existing Hawaii laws are ineffective to deter Human Trafficking and protecting victims. Effective deterrents require bringing traffickers, and patrons who solicit services from trafficked persons, to justice. Additionally, current prostitution statutes place both patrons of prostitution and prostituted persons into the same criminal category.
Victims often find it difficult or impossible to report the crimes committed against them or to assist in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes because they are subjected to coercion and intimidation, including physical or psychological control, persecution, debt bondage, and fear of retribution.
The lack of legal definition in our Hawaii statutes creates a deficit of adequate services and facilities in Hawaii to meet the needs of trafficking victims in terms of health care, housing, education, medical services, and legal assistance-- services which safely support the recovery and ability of trafficked persons to regain control of their lives and also to assist with the prosecution of traffickers.
In order to deter Human Trafficking, Hawaii must recognize that Human Trafficking is a serious offense. This can be simply accomplished by prescribing appropriate punishment, giving priority to the prosecution of trafficking offenses, and protecting, rather than punishing, the victims of these offenses.
The residents of Hawaii are asking the State Legislature to enact a Human Trafficking statute compatible with existing state statutes as well as with the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act to allow local law enforcement and city prosecutors to effectively combat the growing problem of Human Trafficking. Trafficking is a contemporary manifestation of slavery. We must ensure the just and effective punishment of traffickers, and protect the human rights of trafficked persons.
We urge the State Legislature, the Governor of Hawaii, the City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle, and the State Attorney General Mark Bennett, and their relevant Departments to support, to enact, and to enforce Human Trafficking legislation. We support leaders who support the passage of state legislation to create a Human Trafficking statute.
Thank you for taking the time to read our petition letter.
Sincerely,
Your Name
To Sign Petition Go To:
www.traffickjamming.org/petition.html
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| 10 Aug 2009 - 14:15 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9296 . . .
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PARAGUAY: Niñas dan la espalda a la explotación sexual
Por Natalia Ruiz Díaz
Explotadas sexuales rescatadas
Crédito: Cortesía del Grupo Luna Nueva.
ASUNCIÓN, ago (IPS) - Claudia tenía 13 años cuando llegó a la capital de Paraguay procedente de una pequeña localidad rural. Apenas unas semanas después deambulaba por las céntricas calles de Asunción, víctima de explotación sexual.
Su historia repite la de otras tantas niñas y adolescentes que cotidianamente caen en las redes del comercio sexual de menores en Paraguay, uno de los países latinoamericanos donde más prospera este urticante delito.
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| 10 Aug 2009 - 14:09 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9294 . . .
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MUJERES-ARGENTINA: Un atajo frente a la penalización del aborto
Por Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, ago (IPS) - Cansadas de reclamar por la despenalización del aborto, principal causa de muerte materna en Argentina, una red de activistas feministas lanzó una línea telefónica que asesora a las mujeres sobre una práctica sin riesgos ni intervención profesional: la interrupción del embarazo con medicamentos.
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| 10 Aug 2009 - 12:53 | Barbara Shaffer, Prevent Child Abuse America
bshaffer@preventchildabuse.org
URL: www.preventchildabuse.org/2010NC/index.h . . .
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Hello,
The Call for Proposals for the 2010 Prevent Child Abuse America National
Conference are now available at the link below.
www.preventchildabuse.org/2010NC/index.html
Feel free to share this information with anyone that might be interested.
Thank you.
Barb
Barbara Shaffer
Senior Director of Chapter Services
Prevent Child Abuse America
500 North Michigan Ave, Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
www.preventchildabuse.org
bshaffer@preventchildabuse.org
312-334-6859 Chicago
970-453-3853 Colorado
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