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| 19 Apr 2009 - 15:24 | Feminist Peace Network
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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New Feminist Peace Network Boletin
www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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| 19 Apr 2009 - 14:52 | Guardian UK
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/ap . . .
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It is a national disgrace that in 2009 rape almost always goes unpunished.
Today's measures can have little impact in the face of a culture that systematically neglects victims of sexual assault
by Libby Brooks
Guardian UK
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| 19 Apr 2009 - 09:50 | Women's Rights.change.org
URL: womensrights.change.org/blog/view/spotte . . .
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Spotted: Fake Abortion Clinics in SoCal
by Jen Nedeu
Tina Dupuy shares her undercover investigation of Avenues Pregnancy Clinic located in Southern California which professes "to help teens and women who are experiencing unplanned pregnancy situations."
Seems like a good idea, right?
Well, not really.
Check out this story from Tina's friend who went in for a pregnancy test, but instead, got subjected to an anti-abortion exorcism:
Maggie, as we'll call her, is 23 years old. She's what I call a yoga twinkie (not to her face): sweet, open-minded and sometimes naïve. Maggie just moved in with her new boyfriend. It's the first time she's lived with anyone. She's elated, she's in love, and now she's late. Just by a couple of days, but she's worried. Maggie is proudly paying her own way through college. There's a sign in a medical office complex on the way home from her job touting "Free Pregnancy Test."
So she goes. To her relief, her test comes back negative. To her surprise, she's kept in what she describes as a backroom, where several women, dressed as nurses, want to speak with her about her life decisions. Maggie is far too polite to try to leave or question her detention.
The women talk to her about "living in sin." They ask her if she believes in God. Yeah, sure, she tells them, she believes in God (and Allah and Buddha and the Master Cleanse). After two-and-a-half hours the nurses ask Maggie if she would like to give her life to Jesus Christ and pray with them. Maggie is blindsided. All she wanted was to know if she was pregnant.
She leaves with a Bible and an existential crisis. "They were so convincing; they said all this stuff," Maggie tells me, in tears, after her ordeal. "I don't know. Is it wrong that I'm living with Mike?"
Her voice seems earnestly stressed about the answer.
"Tina, do you think I'm going to hell?"
Look I understand that when you go to the doctor, you aren't always going to hear what you want to hear. But can we please remove the "morality" prescriptions within women's health care and get rid of these fake clinics? Here's more background from Tina:
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womensrights.change.org/blog/view/spotted_fake_abortion_clinics_in_socal
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| 18 Apr 2009 - 09:08 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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Se los permite el nuevo sistema de justicia penal
Chihuahua: acusados de feminicidio pasan proceso penal en su casa
Por Dora Villalobos Mendoza/corresponsal
Chihuahua, Chih., 17 abril 09 (CIMAC).- José Raymundo Quezada Sandoval, presunto asesino de la joven Paulina Elizabeth Luján Morales, saldrá de la cárcel porque el Tribunal de Juicio Oral decidió que siga el proceso penal en arraigo domiciliario.
Esta decisión causó indignación en la población chihuahuense, especialmente en los familiares de Paulina Elizabeth, porque el crimen de la muchacha ha sido uno de los más cruentos entre muchos que han ocurrido en esta ciudad.
Recientemente otro implicado en el caso, Carlos Alonso Altamirano García, fue sentenciado a 25 años de cárcel, tras confesar que participó en el asesinato y aceptar el juicio abreviado que contempla el nuevo sistema de justicia penal.
La defensa de José Raymundo Quezada Sandoval solicitó el arraigo domiciliario porque ya cumplió un año en proceso penal y de acuerdo con el nuevo sistema es el tiempo máximo en que un imputado puede estar en prisión preventiva.
El caso de Paulina Elizabeth causó conmoción en la sociedad desde el día que desapareció, el 10 de marzo del 2007. La joven estudiaba en el Plantel 2 del Colegio de Bachilleres. Al salir de la escuela se fue con José Raymundo y Carlos Alonso y no regresó nunca.
Varios días después fue encontrada muerta en una brecha a la altura del Kilómetro 7 de la carretera a Aldama, rumbo donde han sido encontradas otras jóvenes asesinadas.
Inicialmente los familiares pensaron que el culpable era un muchacho con el que Paulina Elizabeth mantenía contacto a través de Internet, pero después de la investigación que hizo la Policía Ministerial se supo que la estudiante se subió al vehículo con dos jóvenes cuando salió de la escuela.
La clave para dar con el paradero de los responsables fue el número que la muchacha escribió en su brazo antes de morir y que resultó ser el engomado del vehículo donde la mataron. A Paulina Elizabeth la asesinaron a golpes y la remataron pasándole por encima de su cuerpo el automóvil.
Este no es el único feminicidio donde el presunto responsable enfrenta el proceso penal en su domicilio. En las mismas condiciones está Samuel Isidro Duarte, acusado de la desaparición de Cecilia Jazmín Chavarría.
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| 18 Apr 2009 - 08:40 | Pedro
pedroantoniomarinmarin@hotmail.com
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Hola que tal como están de antemano les agradezco que me pueden colaborar,
* Mi caso es el siguiente mi novia de 28 años de edad fue abusada sexualmente desde los 6 años hasta aproximadamente los 14 ò 15 y lo peor fue que esto fue realizado por un miembro de su familia, esto afecto bruscamente en su comportamiento y por supuesto es de entender, me dicen que hay muchos factores que pueden influir en la colaboración del caso, como que el abuso sexual fue realizado dentro de su casa y que su madre nunca estuvo hay para ayudar y por tanto ella siente un rencor hacia ella tanto por el hecho de que no estuvo hay como por el hecho de que nunca la trato como niña nunca la peino ni nada de esas cosas que le hacían a las niñas normalmente, y lo de la casa pues por el hecho de que es el lugar donde supuestamente nos céntimos protegido y tener que seguir viviendo hay y seguir viendo constantemente a la persona que nos abusa.
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* Ella me ha contado todo esto con suma confianza pues no se lo ha dicho a nadie, acudo a ustedes porque ella no quiere ir donde un psicólogo ni nadie sepa como orientarla, y se que esto ha influido mucho en su vida por lo menos es un comienzo que yo haya sido la primera persona en contárselo después de haber acallado esto por tanto tiempo.
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* De nuevo muchas gracias por la ayuda que me puedan prestar.
* Cordial abrazo.
* Pedro Antonio Marín Marín.
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* COLOMBIA
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| 17 Apr 2009 - 20:53 | Associated Press, Heidi Vogt
URL: www.realclearworld.com/news/ap/internati . . .
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April 16, 2009
A key to women's rights in Afghanistan: men
Heidi Vogt
There are a handful of them at every women's rights gathering in Afghanistan: men.
Even though crowds of men threw stones and shouted insults at women protesting a law that critics say legalizes marital rape, a few men marched and chanted alongside the women this week.
These are the men — many of them politicians and intellectuals — who are taking up the battle for women's rights and calling for change in this patriarchal society. Activists say men's support for women's rights is vital in a country where men hold sway in government and in families.
Many people working on women's issues in Afghanistan agree: to empower women, you first need to enlist the men.
Sherwali Wardak, who runs women's literacy and business training programs, said the key to getting women involved is to persuade the men in their lives to allow it.
"The most important factor of working with women is to encourage the men to allow their women to enroll in the rehabilitation or development project," he said.
Wardak said some men won't let their wives or daughters go to training centers he sets up. And he says he's received threats.
"They write, 'Close this project because it is working for Christianity,'" he said. It's a common accusation of those who support women's rights in Afghanistan — that the advocates are stooges of the Christian West.
On Wednesday, the crowds of men who swamped men and women protesting a law they say legalizes marital rape were full of vitriol. The law gives a husband the right to demand sex every four days and regulates when a woman can leave the house. The law is not being enforced pending a judicial review ordered by the president.
"Death to you dogs!" and "Death to the slaves of the Christians!" the men shouted at the protesters. Some threw small stones at the demonstrators.
There is a degree of risk for men who support women's freedoms in this conservative country. In Afghanistan, anyone who opposes the clerics who back such laws can quickly become a political and social pariah.
But some male lawmakers and Cabinet ministers have denounced the law — along with many prominent women. Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta drafted a petition against the law that was signed by more than 100 officials and public figures, including six government ministers and 22 lawmakers.
Spanta said he might have more signatures but he wanted to get the petition out quickly.
The minister of women's affairs did not sign the petition; a spokesman for her office said she was waiting for the review to be completed before taking a position.
"They can write about me what they will but I will work for equality," Spanta said. "I will sign a declaration like this even if I am alone in this country to do that. I know this is a dangerous approach."
President Hamid Karzai has long been a vocal supporter of women's rights, but he signed the controversial bill into law. His administration has said Karzai was not aware of its full implications.
Zia Moballegh, who advises the government on family law reform, said the justice minister told him not to expect the review to be completed before the end of Karzai's current term. That adds fuel to accusations that Karzai signed the law to court conservative votes in the August election.
Justice Minister Mohammad Sarwar Danish said no timetable has been established for the review and he would not predict when it might be completed.
Many men and women who support women's rights in Afghanistan are young or have lived abroad — adding fuel to conservative arguments that the cry for equality comes from people corrupted by the West.
Spanta, for example, says he became a women's rights advocate while living in Germany.
Some of those working on programs to help women say Afghanistan's young men have been neglected in the push to help women after years of Taliban rule. Under the Taliban, girls were banned from school and women could not leave home unless accompanied by a male relative.
Hassina Sherjan, who runs learning programs for children, said she initially opened girls' programs because she could get funding for them. She's recently received funding for boys' programs.
"They're still focusing on women, which is crazy because women's lives will not get better until we educate the men and find jobs for the men," Sherjan said.
At Wednesday's protest, one young man — who had taken two hours off from his office job for the demonstration — said he could see shock in the eyes of the counter-protesters because he was on the other side of the police cordon.
"I believe in freedom and equality. For me, men and women are the same," he said. Still, he didn't want to give his name out of concern he would be harassed.
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| 17 Apr 2009 - 13:11 | UN Division for the Advancement of Women
daw@un.org
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Words to Action
Issue #3
UN violence against women newsletter
April 2009
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/Words%20to%20Action%20Issue%20No.%203.pdf
The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women is pleased to bring to your attention the third issue of Words to Action, an electronic newsletter on violence against women.
We would be grateful if you could widely share this information.
Please visit our website, at
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/index.htm
Division for the Advancement of Women
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
2 UN Plaza, DC-2-1250
New York, NY 10017
USA
E-mail: daw@un.org
Internet location: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
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| 17 Apr 2009 - 08:11 | USDOJ
URL: www.csom.org/pubs/twenty_strategies.pdf
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Twenty Strategies for Managing Sex Offenders
USDOJ publication
www.csom.org/pubs/twenty_strategies.pdf
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| 16 Apr 2009 - 16:15 | Manuel
manjosevas51@hotmail.com
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Deseo comunicarme con una organizacion en quito ecuador para denunciar el maltrato fisico y emocional que vive mi hija y su pequena nina de 4 anos. deseo un telefono o persona con quien yo pueda hablar, soy el padre de mi hija. Necesito ayuda
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| 16 Apr 2009 - 10:20 | Polaris Project
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An End to R-E-S-P-E-C-T for P-I-M-P-S
by Ambassador Mark P. Lagon
At the Karma Nightclub in Minneapolis a few days ago, April 5, there was a Players Ball.
Let’s stop for a minute. That’s a publicly-advertised wild bash at a nightclub, celebrating pimps’ business… What’s wrong with this picture?
It’s bad enough that we look at the record of arrests related to prostitution and we find that manifold more prostituted females are arrested and punished than pimping males. That is one reason the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2008 aptly requires statistics on those arrested in prostitution to separate the numbers of arrests for prostituted people from the johns and pimps.
Pimps regularly engage in the force, fraud, and coercion that under the law qualify them as sex traffickers – whether or not the females they victimize are foreign nationals or U.S. citizens. But what’s worse is a culture which lionizes pimps. Pimps are celebrated as hip – in film, in television, in music lyrics. They are seen as cool for “sticking it to the man.” They are treated like they are admirable iconoclasts rebelling against the Establishment.
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| 16 Apr 2009 - 09:17 | Jessica Slavin, Feminist Law Professors
URL: www.feministlawprofessors.com
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Brave Afghani Women Protest Law Change
April 15th, 2009
Did you see this article in the New York Times this morning, about the 300 women protesting a new law that would give men in the Shiite minority community virtually complete control over the lives of their wives? The NYT describes the law this way:
.......The law, approved by both houses of Parliament and signed by President Hamid Karzai, applies to the Shiite minority only, essentially giving clerics authority over intimate matters between women and men. Women here and governments and rights groups abroad have protested three parts of the law especially.
One provision makes it illegal for a woman to resist her husband’s sexual advances. A second provision requires a husband’s permission for a woman to work outside the home or go to school. And a third makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.
And the protest itself:
............The women who protested Wednesday began their demonstration with what appeared to be a deliberately provocative act. They gathered in front of the School of the Last Prophet, a madrassa run by Ayatollah Asif Mohsini, the country’s most powerful Shiite cleric. He and the scholars around him played an important role in the drafting of the new law.
“We are here to campaign for our rights,” one woman said into a loudspeaker. Then the women held their banners aloft and began to chant.
The reaction was immediate. Hundreds of students from the madrassa, most but not all of them men, poured into the streets to confront the demonstrators.
“Death to the enemies of Islam!” the counterdemonstrators cried, encircling the women. “We want Islamic law!”
The women stared ahead and kept walking.
A phalanx of police, some of them women, held the crowds apart.
As a refugee law professor, dramatic confrontations like this one always lead my thoughts back to the legal definition of “refugee,” and the absence of ”gender” among the enumerated categories of persecution. For instance, the U.S. defines “refugee” as a person “unable or unwilling to return to . . . [his or her home] country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion . . . .” I have considered the arguments, legal and practical, against trying to add “gender” to the Refugee Convention’s definition as a separate ground. But I think I disagree. For that reason and so many others, it seems like time to revisit the convention and protocol that established the international definition of “refugee.”
Back to the main point, the courage of these Afghani women is inspiring. And the NYT article suggests that the law change might possibly be halted before becoming enforceable.
–Jessica E. Slavin
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| 16 Apr 2009 - 08:29 | La Patria
URL: lapatriaenlinea.com/index.php?option=com . . .
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Una de cada dos mujeres policías sufre acoso sexual en Bolivia
Mujeres policías afirman haber sido víctimas de acoso sexual Una de cada dos mujeres policías afirma haber sido víctima de acoso sexual y una de cada cinco denuncian casos graves de acuerdo a denuncias que recibió la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Cámara de Diputados, que presentó un proyecto de Ley para frenar esta situación que se da en la institución verde olivo.
La presidenta de esta comisión, Elizabeth Salguero dijo que el proyecto denominado “Fortalecimiento de los Derechos Específicos de las Mujeres en la Policía Boliviana”, busca frenar esta situación que se torna preocupante, porque esta instancia parlamentaria registró, de enero a la fecha, 75 de estas denuncias dentro de la Policía Nacional.
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| 16 Apr 2009 - 08:25 | El Universal
URL: erradiquemosladiscrimin acin.blogspot.c . . .
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Erradiquemos la discriminacion
Policía concientiza para denunciar discriminación por género
Fernando Martínez
El Universal Ciudad de México
Miércoles 01 de abril de 2009
Nora Frías, Subsecretaria de Participación Ciudadana y Prevención del Delito, dijo que se han presentado 12 denuncias de mujeres que trabajan en la corporación por haber recibido hostigamiento o abuso sexual
La Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del DF puso en marcha un programa de concientización al interior de su corporación para que las mujeres denuncien casos de discriminación, hostigamiento y abuso sexual en su contra.
De acuerdo con el titular de la SSP-DF, Manuel Mondragón y Kalb, se trata de una serie de medidas para inhibir los ataques sexuales y discriminatorios contra las mujeres, ya sea por parte de hombres o de las propias oficiales mujeres.
De acuerdo con Nora Frías, Subsecretaria de Participación Ciudadana y Prevención del Delito, de 2007 al mes de marzo pasado se han presentado 12 denuncias de mujeres que trabajan al interior de esta corporación por haber recibido hostigamiento o abuso sexual; nueve de ellas son policías preventivas, mientras que las otras tres se trata de personal administrativo.
El secretario Manuel Mondragón señaló que la intención es difundir entre las mujeres, principalmente, la capacidad y confianza para que denuncien estos actos que pongan en riesgo su seguridad y trabajo, por eso ofreció que las mujeres que se pongan en contacto a la oficina del secretario, al área interna de Derechos Humanos, o que se pongan en contacto a través del teléfono 52089898.
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http://erradiquemosladiscriminacin.blogspot.com/2009/04/policia-concientiza-para-denunciar.html
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| 16 Apr 2009 - 08:05 | Women's Media Center
URL: womensmediacenter.com/ex/041609.html
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New Report Indicates that Rape Kit Backlog Likely a National Crisis
By Courtney E. Martin
A study of crime labs in Los Angeles indicates that many sexual assault victims wait in vain for prosecution of rapists. The lead investigator for Human Rights Watch, Sarah Tofte, now wants to study backlogs at labs in cities across the country.
April 16, 2009
According to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) at least 12,669 untested sexual assault kits have been languishing in police storage facilities and crime labs in Los Angeles County. Rape kits can include critical DNA evidence that make a conviction possible; the Los Angeles Police Department had a 25 percent rape arrest rate in 2007.
At a time when Take Back the Night marches ignite most college campuses and community and nonprofit organizations across the country specialize in sexual assault prevention and first responder services for rape victims, it’s a real wake up call to learn that there has been little progress on the legislative end. Sarah Tofte, the lead investigator on the report, explains: “We are essentially at the same place we were thirty years ago in terms of prosecutions and convictions of rape.”
A rape kit is essentially a collection of evidence that medical providers, usually nurse practitioners, amass following a sexual assault. The processing cost, between $500 and $1000, has proven well worth it in the pursuit of justice; multiple studies confirm that rape kits lead to more arrests, prosecutions and convictions.
But when rape kits are collected and then unprocessed, a conviction is difficult to come by and confusion ensues. A sexual assault nurse examiner told HRW: “My clients seem to assume that if they have not heard back from the police, it is not because testing was not done; it was because testing was done but there was no DNA in the kit. Not hearing from the police can contribute to the self-blame and doubt that victims are feeling about the rape.”
It also robs them of the opportunity to advocate. If they assume, as one might, that their local police department is functional and following up on all investigations, they would see no reason to check on the status of their kit or seek out someone who could advocate for them. Tofte explains, “When I started to look at what distinguished the kits that did get tested from those that didn’t, it was usually the presence of a victim’s rights advocate.”
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 17:02 | Australian Institute of Criminology
URL: www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi . . .
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Career trajectories of women in policing in Australia
Rachelle Irving
Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice, no. 370
ISBN 978 1 921532 22 1 ; ISSN 1836-2206
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, February 2009
At 30 June 2006, 23 percent of Australian police were women, almost double the percentage in 1996. Despite this change, the issues relevant a decade earlier remain today, namely difficulties in recruitment and deployment and the low representation of women within senior ranks. This paper examines the career paths of one cohort of police sworn in during 1991 in a number of jurisdictions, to examine what differences, if any, exist between the male and female personnel in terms of recruitment, rank attainment, departures and deployment. The findings indicate that recruitment of women in policing in Australia has generally doubled in the decade, but that a higher proportion of men than of women have attained the more senior ranks. Women, however, attained promotions more quickly than did men. Some states also had higher departure rates of female officers than others, and there are gender disparities in reasons for departure and in some areas of policing. National, continuous monitoring is required to track these trends, and research in greater depth is needed to investigate reasons for the differences identified between male and female police and between jurisdictions.
Judy Putt
General Manager, Research
See Study:
www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi370t.html
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 16:27 | New Vision News, Uganda
URL: allafrica.com/stories/200904130492.html
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"We (female police officers in Uganda) are being sexually harassed, oppressed, marginalised and demoralised, especially by those 'God Fathers' at the headquarters and our immediate supervisors," Nalongo Leila Dralo said.
Uganda: Police Women Cite Sexual Abuse
Eddie Ssejjoba
12 April 2009
Kampala — WOMEN Police officers have complained that they are sexually harassed by their male bosses in order to be deployed or promoted.
Some of the women officers said they had been denied promotions for rejecting sexual advances from their superiors, with some stuck at the same rank for over 27 years.
The officers disclosed their plight during a meeting with the Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, at the Kibuli Police Training School playground on Friday.
The women officers were from the Kampala metropolitan area that covers Kampala, Wakiso and Mpigi districts.
Some of the female officers sobbed as their colleagues narrated the ordeal they had gone through under their brutal male bosses.
The complaints included poor personal and general conditions in the force.
Many cited sexual harassment, victimisation over simple mistakes, poor housing and living conditions, failure by their supervisors to recognise their plight especially when pregnant, lack of uniforms, missing salaries and failure to be promoted.
They said bosses refuse to deploy them for 'juicy' assignments after disagreements with them.
Some said they had been deliberately undeployed for years for small mistakes, while others had discovered malicious reports in their confidential files.
At least 45 women aired out their complaints as the Police chief, who braved the scorching sun, jotted down notes.
He overruled the police spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba, who had suggested that some of the complaints were too personal and needed to be communicated in privacy.
Detective Nora Asiimwe said many of her colleagues were sexually abused and contracted the HIV virus.
"Due to sexual harassment, many of our colleagues get infected with HIV/Aids and can't be admitted for refresher courses. They end up getting frustrated, which has discouraged many other young women from joining the force," she said.
She also reported that pregnant officers are maliciously assigned duties that require physically fit personnel.
More tears flowed as Sgt. Shellie Namita Onega of the police band narrated that her bosses forced her to pay for a music instrument she accidentally broke while on duty and that since 2007, she has neither been deployed nor transferred.
"I have been victimised for no good reason. I'm not deployed yet I'm a single mother with five orphans to look after. I have never been promoted for the 27 years I have served the force," she said.
Another police woman, Lokisa Sande, also wondered why she had never been promoted yet she had served for over 35 years.
Catherine Nampindi, who is attached to the Police Standards Unit, said although Kayihura had directed that she is promoted after serving for 12 years, her name was again deleted from the list of candidates.
Kayihura had ordered her promotion following her petition last year. Nampindi joined the force in 1994 with a diploma.
Baker Isabirye, in charge of the family protection unit at Wandegeya, said she had been victimised for filing a case against the former Mukono Police commander, James Aurien, over defiling her housegirl.
Aurien is currently facing charges of murdering his wife.
"I discovered several blackmail letters in my file," she said, adding that she had not been promoted for 15 years. She said many male Police officers above the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police commit serious offences but are not prosecuted.
ASP Womagye, attached to Mpigi police station, said her boss declared her a "deserter" on her return from a military training course at Kyankwanzi last year.
"We are being sexually harassed, oppressed, marginalised and demoralised, especially by those 'God Fathers' at the headquarters and our immediate supervisors," Nalongo Leila Dralo said.
Some said they had been forced to share rooms in the barracks with men.
The Police women said following up their missing salaries was a nightmare and wondered how the force would attract educated women when those serving were being subjected to inhuman treatment.
Another police woman confessed it was her first time to speak to the Police chief, saying she had been scared by others that Kayihura would never listen to any complaint.
"This is an Easter gift to allow us to express ourselves without the presence of our bosses who have oppressed us for a long time," another said.
Kayihura said he would not tolerate such acts in the force and vowed to dismiss any officer who demands sexual favours from his juniors. "Anybody who demands sexual favours from any woman officer will be dismissed."
He promised to investigate all the cases presented to him for appropriate action.
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 09:28 | National Center for Victims of Crime
iknecht@ncvc.org
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Spotlight on Violence Against Women at NCVC Conference
Dear Colleague:
The National Center for Victims of Crime will hold its 2009 National Conference, June 22-24, in Washington, DC. Register at http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbID= DB_2005NationalConference571. Our conference will feature more than 130 leading experts and 72 skill-building workshops with key presentations on violence against women. OVW grantees may use their OVW grant funds to attend the conference.
Violence against Women: Why It Matters
* More than 3.4 million women are stalked annually in the United States.
* One woman is victimized by an intimate partner every 1.3 minutes.
* Nearly 1 in 4 American women between the ages of 18 and 65 has experienced domestic violence.
Come and learn from the nation's leading experts about current violence against women trends and how to enhance your services.
Workshops on Violence Against Women Include:
* The Stalking Report 2008: Implications for the Field
* Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Trends in American Muslim Communities
* Forensic and Clinical Management of Sexual Assault: A Virtual Practicum
* Using Threat Assessment to Techniques to Evaluate and Manage High Lethality Domestic Violence
* Domestic Violence and Human Rights: Intersections and Applications
* Victims' Rights for Military Sexual Assault Cases
* Sexual Assault Behind Bars: The Unique Nature of Sexual Violence in Detention
* Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence
For more workshops, information, a full agenda, and registration costs, visit http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbID= DB_2005NationalConference571.
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Ilse Knecht
Deputy Director, Public Policy
National Center for Victims of Crime
2000 M Street, NW, Suite 480
Washington, D.C.
Cell: 703-732-2446
202-467-8700
202-467-8701
www.ncvc.org
Registration Now Open for the 2009 National Conference, June 22-24, Washington, DC!
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 09:03 | Kathy Maguina, Movimientoelpozo
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Esclavitud Infantil (16 abril)
Radioclip
Cercanos al 16 de Abril, Día Mundial contra la Esclavitud Infantil, difundimos este material contra la trata de niñas y niños elaborado por Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados. No sólo es sensibilizar, sino reflexionar y tomar acción sobre una problemática que cada día crece ante nuestros ojos.
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Kathy Maguiña
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Área de Sensibilización e Incidencia
MOVIMIENTO EL POZO
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 08:19 | Movimiento el Pozo
URL: www.movimientoelpozo.org/prostitucion.pd . . .
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Creencias y Realidades Sobre la Prostitucion
www.movimientoelpozo.org/prostitucion.pdf
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 07:48 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/_focus/metas_milenio . . .
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Mujeres en Voz Alta
El silencio ya no es aceptable cuando se trata de los derechos de la mitad de la humanidad. En todos lados, las mujeres se hacen oír. Escuche aquí los reportajes de IPS sobre la equidad de género y la lucha contra la discriminación y las voces de sus protagonistas.
www.ipsnoticias.net/_focus/metas_milenio/MVA-radio/index.asp
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 07:40 | IPS
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9182 . . .
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SALUD-ESPAÑA: Pese a Iglesia Católica, avanza la ley de aborto
Por Tito Drago
MADRID, 14 abr (IPS) - El jefe del gobierno de España, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, aseguró este martes en el Parlamento que antes de finalizar el año enviará los proyectos de ley de regulación de la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo, de libertad religiosa, de igualdad de trato y de no discriminación, sea del tipo que sea.
Continua....
www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=91820
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| 15 Apr 2009 - 07:20 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46436
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Q&A: 'Women Are Not Equals in Our Society'
Mel Frykberg interviews MASHOOR BASISSY, director of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MOWA).
Mashoor Basissy: ‘Lots still needs to be done’
Credit: Mel Frykberg/IPS
RAMALLAH, Apr 8 (IPS) - As a man in a patriarchal society, an outspoken advocate of women’s rights and a harsh critic of the way Palestinian women are treated, Mashoor Basissy, MOWA’s director in the West Bank, brings a fresh male perspective to the growing problem of domestic violence against Palestinian women.
IPS: What laws cover domestic violence and honour killings in the Palestinian territories?
Mashoor Basissy: The Gaza Strip falls under the Egyptian Penal Code while the West Bank falls under the Jordanian Penal code.
Men convicted of honour killings get a maximum sentence of six-months imprisonment if caught and prosecuted. There are no specific domestic violence laws only general assault charges. A woman has to be hospitalised for at least 10 days to press serious assault charges and she requires the testimony of two witnesses who are not related. Furthermore, rape is not recognised as a crime within marriage.
IPS: What action can the police take if her husband beats a woman?
Continues...
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46436
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| 14 Apr 2009 - 09:26 | Toronto Star
URL: www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/article/ . . .
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Afghan women's rights activist slain
Toronto Star
April 13, 2009
A member of Kandahar's provincial council, Achakzai was vocal in encouraging women to take jobs and fight for equal rights
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan– A female provincial official known for fighting for women's rights was gunned down in southern Afghanistan yesterday, following a day of fighting in the region that left 22 militants dead, officials said.
A Taliban spokesperson, Qari Yousef Ahmedi, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Gunmen killed Sitara Achakzai outside her home in Kandahar city and then drove off, said Matiullah Khan Qateh, police chief of Kandahar province. He said the four men drove up on two motorcycles and shot Achakzai as she was getting out of her car.
Achakzai, a dual German-Afghan citizen, spent the years of Taliban rule in Germany and returned to her native country to fight for women's rights, said Shahida Bibi, a member of the Kandahar women's association who worked with Achakzai.
A member of Kandahar's provincial council, Achakzai was vocal in encouraging women to take jobs and fight for equal rights, Bibi said.
Achakzai had several relatives living in the GTA and was expecting to visit here this summer, nephew Ajmal Maiwand told the Star's Henry Stancu last night.
"She had her tickets, and she was busy picking out and buying gifts for family members," the nephew said.
"She is about people, she was a leader," he said. "We are very proud of what she tried to do, and the whole family misses her so much."
Maiwand said family members fled Afghanistan some 20 years ago, after the Taliban came to power, with some family members settling in Canada, and others, including Achakzai, fleeing to Germany.
She met her husband, Darweza, there and recently the two decided to go back to Afghanistan to help the country develop, the nephew said.
"My mother begged her not to go back, but she insisted. She and her husband felt their place was there. They were adamant about rebuilding the country and had great faith things were going to change," he said.
The day before in neighbouring Zabul province, Afghan soldiers and police killed 22 militants in a nighttime gun battle, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
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| 14 Apr 2009 - 09:01 | Daily Times, Pakistan
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Pakistan: Honour Killing books reveal a face of patriarchy with inherent violence against women
Book review: Woman, die for my honour!
By Khaled Ahmed
Honour: Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence against Women
Edited by Lynn Welchman & Sara Hossain
OUP 2005; Pp384; price Rs 595
Honour Killing: Dilemma, Ritual, Understanding
By Amir H Jafri;
OUP 2008; Pp160; Price Rs 295
Two books have clarified the situation with regard to the social sense of honour in Pakistan, the first telling us how law has dealt with the crimes of honour, the second informing us how far the function of theorising on the issue has advanced. In the first book, Sohail Akbar Warraich in his paper Honour Killing and the Law in Pakistan says that in the year ending 2004 Pakistan had seen 4,000 killed for honour out of whom 2,774 were women, meaning that when honour was at stake women were sure to be killed.
Warraich also tells us that in 1994 the Lahore High Court established the norm of mitigating murder done under the spur of honour in the light of Hadith (p.90). Nazand Begikhani in her paper Honour-based Violence among the Kurds: the case of Iraqi Kurdistan writes that the Penal Code in Kurdistan says if a man kills his wife after finding her in a compromising position will be punished for no more than three years (p.212). Maria Gabriella Gettiga Boukerout, in her paper Crimes of Honour in the Italian Penal Code: an Analysis of History and Reform, says honour killing was mitigated under an old Rocco Code but that this mitigation was abolished in 1975 (p.239).
In the second book, author Amir H Jafri applies fascinating theory to the 1999 honour killing of a lady from the NWFP who was shot dead in the offices of the human rights lawyers Hina Jilani and Asma Jahangir, the murder prompted by her own mother because the girl wanted a divorce from her husband. The case became a cause célèbre and our Senate did not cover itself with glory when senators like Ilyas Bilour opposed a resolution of condemnation because it went against the Pashtun tradition of honour. Nothing happened to the killers and the two lawyers in whose office she was killed were condemned by agitators who came out in defence of honour killing.
Author Jafri says an understanding of the concept of ‘honour’ is vital for comprehending why men in certain societies address any real or perceived breach in their honour in such extreme fashion.
“The conception of honour used to rationalise killings is founded on the notion that a person’s honour depends on the behaviour of others and that behaviour, therefore, becomes a key component of one’s own self-esteem and community regard. It is important to note that this view is different from saying it should be the individual’s own behaviour which should be linked with his or her honour.”
Honour in terms of power should be understood as “the ideology of the power-holding group which struggles to define, enlarge, and protect its patrimony in a competitive area”. Apart from shoring up the identity of a group, honour defines the group’s social boundaries and defends against the claims of competing groups.
“Concern for honour arises when the definition of the group is problematic; when social boundaries are difficult to maintain, and internal loyalties are questionable”. In collective societies like Pakistan, definitions of the group encroachments of social boundaries and concepts such as loyalty among the kin are of central nature and are naturally linked with notions of honour.
Jafri writes: “Honour concepts are only another way of understanding the operation of patriarchy which is anchored in the assumption of male authority over women and male definition and expectation of ‘appropriate’ female behaviour”. (p.21) “Central to this theory of patriarchy is male sexual violence, a mechanism by which men maintain control over women. Patriarchal oppression, like other forms of oppression, may manifest itself in legal and economic discrimination, but like all oppressive structures, it is rooted in violence”.
This violence often results in ‘femicide’ as a form of capital punishment facilitating men in treating women as a sex class and maintaining the patriarchal status quo. Curiously enough, it is often the battered or the killed woman’s behaviour that is scrutinised and blamed when measured against men’s idealised constructions of femininity and standards of female behaviour.
Jafri adds: “This was apparent in Pakistan in Samia’s death. Senator Bilour, addressing an open session of the Pakistan senate, after establishing his family connection with and avuncular fondness for Samia, questioned her conduct and the fate of her killer rather than the other way around. And it is not unique to any part of the world. The male defence, for example, in case of a reported date rape or similar violence often has been a casual ‘She asked for it’.”
Once the family honour is tarnished, it becomes imperative on the male members to re-store the honour; blood must be shed (p.22). Anthropology literature is replete with connections of honour with family. Of the community norms, sexual purity of women is the most important reflection of a family’s reputation (p.22). ‘One’s honour is involved only in particularised relations in which each actor is a well-defined social persona. When the actors are anonymous, honour is not involved’. (p.23).
Montesquieu’s distinction between monarchy, whose operative principle is honour, and republic, whose operative principle is virtue, demonstrates the primal nature of honour and its archaic overtones. The fundamental notion of the difference between ‘honour’ and ‘virtue’ is important to note here: Honour is more entrenched, something not intellectually understood and transmitted over generations with subtle behaviours. It is acutely felt and reflexively responded to. The exigency around it is pointed and the immediacy personal, but it permeates the community; virtue has a bureaucratic ring to it, a civic function, something utilitarian, intellectually understood to be of ‘use’ for the larger good.
Virtues such as honesty can be adopted as matter of potentially profitable policy as the English so famously taught humanity. Honour, on the other hand, can never be a policy matter. Its drive is sparked from the marrow of one’s existence and thus its demands are non-negotiable. As Nietzsche puts it, ‘A man’s virtues are called good depending on their probable consequences, not for him but for us and society’ (p.24).
The idea of virtue is more modern than that of honour. “The idea of virtue is mythic, but in its utilitarian dimension it can be cognitively apprehended; honour and its loss can only be felt”. Since possession of virtue imbibes one with a rhetorical force, sophists would work to claim it for their arsenal; honour is more a Socratic deal. One could be virtuous in a certain matter and not quite so in another or virtuous at a certain time and not so at another.
On the other hand, one either has honour or does not have it. Unlike virtue, honour cannot be demonstrated selectively; it informs all conduct. Once lost it resists all claims to being recaptured. If virtuous behaviour can be learned in institutions, a sense of honour is imbibed only at the feet of elders, from the context of one’s lived life. Behaviour can be rationally demonstrated to be virtuous or otherwise. Honour incontestably belongs to the mythic realm. ‘Virtue is civilised behaviour, an achievement of culture; honour is mired in the primal, in nature’ (p.26). *
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| 14 Apr 2009 - 08:07 | Boletin e-mujeres
URL: www.e-mujeres.net
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UNICEF pide la anulación del matrimonio de una niña de 8 años y un hombre de 47
Ha ocurrido en Arabia Saudí. Un juez de este país rechaza anular la unión pese a las peticiones de la madre de la menor.
Cadena Ser
La directora ejecutiva de UNICEF, Anne M. Veneman, lamentó que "independientemente de las circunstancias de cada marco legal, el matrimonio de un menor es una violación de los derechos de la infancia", según un comunicado de la ONU. "UNICEF se une a las numerosas voces preocupadas porque el matrimonio infantil contraviene los estándares internacionales de Derechos Humanos".
En este sentido, Veneman recordó que la propia Declaración Universal recoge que el matrimonio debe ser libre y consentido, algo que a su juicio no se puede dar cuando una de las partes implicadas "es demasiado joven para tomar una decisión informada". La directora de UNICEF advirtió de que si esta situación no se corrige la niña podría sufrir daños emocionales, físicos y psicológicos a largo plazo.
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| 14 Apr 2009 - 07:56 | e-mujeres
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpVP4M2Ids
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Nuevo Video- Tenemos Derecho
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| 13 Apr 2009 - 13:48 | Stop Violence Against Women
URL: eaves4women.co.uk/POPPY_Project/Document . . .
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U.K. Based Eaves Group Releases Report on Mail-Order Bride Industry
In March 2009, Eaves, a London-based charity that conducts research on human trafficking and prostitution, released the report Male Ordered: The Mail-Order Bride Industry and Trafficking in Women for Sexual and Labour Exploitation. This report provides extensive research of the mail-order bride industry in the UK: an industry that is inextricably linked to the promotion of trafficking, prostitution, pornography and slavery. The report suggests that this industry not only exploits vulnerable groups of women but also reinforces racial and ethnic stereotypes.
The research was gathered through a survey of more than 150 mail-order bride websites, such as GoodWife.com. The survey collected information with regard to ethnicity, religion, site ownership, images, rankings, role descriptions and information presented within the profiles of the “brides to be”. The report found that this industry, based on the market and sale of human beings, is inherently an example of degradation and exploitation of women. The findings support the increased risk of sexual and labor exploitation, sex trafficking and domestic violence for women in servile marriages.
The report argues that the mail-order bride industry can be more realistically understood as a modern form of slavery, in violation of numerous international conventions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Convention on the Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration for Marriages (1964), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1968), and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
Recommendations were given regarding changes in government research with regard to violence against women, particularly immigrant women; increased law enforcement; additional legal services for women who have experienced domestic violence and sexual exploitation; and regulations for the companies that participate in the mail-order bride industry.
To read the full report,
eaves4women.co.uk/POPPY_Project/Documents/Recent_Reports/Male-ordered.pdf
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