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| 26 Apr 2009 - 09:44 | Rosa Ma. Gonzalez
iconografia@hotmail.com
URL: www.artevsfeminicidio.org/images/stories . . .
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Hola:
* Mi nombre es Rosa María González. El 4 de abril de 2009 presenté mi examen para obtener el grado de Maestra en Historia del Arte en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM con la tesis titulada MAR DE INDICIOS. Imágenes de la violencia feminicida y la pornografía sádica en Cd. Juárez, el cual aprobé con mención honorífica. Mis sinodales fueron Rita Eder, Marcela Lagarde, Carmen Aristegui, Griselda Gutierrez y Laura González. Desde esta perspectiva multidisciplinaria, que parte de la historia del Arte, llegué a numerosos e importantes indicios de que la pornografía sádica sí está involucrada en algunos feminicidios ocurridos en Cd. Juárez, situación que las autoridades gubernamentales se han obstinado en negar. Les suplico que consulten la versión para internet que he colocado en la página que estoy construyendo:
www.artevsfeminicidio.org/images/stories/pdf/Tesis_version_intenet.pdf
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* Gracias
* Rosa Ma. González R.
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| 25 Apr 2009 - 10:03 | Movimiento Manuela Ramos
URL: www.manuelaenelcongreso.org
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Boletín Nº 123, 23 de abril de 2009
Producido por el Movimiento Manuela Ramos
¡¡¡NO A LA IMPUNIDAD !!!
PODER JUDICIAL ABSUELVE A MIGUEL TOLEDO DEL DELITO DE VIOLACIÓN SEXUAL
El 17 de abril del 2009, la Cuarta Sala en lo Penal - Reos Libres de la Corte Superior de Lima, emitió una sentencia que absuelve a Miguel Toledo del Delito contra la Libertad-Violación sexual cometida contra Milady Rojas. De esta manera, se revoca la sentencia que fue materia de apelación el 31 de octubre del 2007, que falló condenando a Miguel Toledo por el Delito de violación sexual, a 4 años de pena privativa de libertad, suspendida condicionalmente por el término de tres años.
La reciente sentencia absolutoria, adoptada por dos votos a favor y uno en contra, desestima totalmente las pruebas que sindican a Miguel Toledo como culpable, tal como lo demuestran los testigos, la declaración de Milady Rojas, el análisis de dosaje etílico y los informes psicológicos realizados a la agraviada luego de los ocurridos los hechos. El voto discordante emitido por uno de los vocales de la Corte Superior , dan cuenta de ello.
Cabe destacar que el proceso judicial se ha desarrollado con una serie de irregularidades y vicios procesales, es por ello, que el Movimiento Manuela Ramos quien patrocina a Milady Rojas, rechaza este fallo y esta evaluando llevar el caso ante los organismos Internacionales de Derechos Humanos para obtener justicia.
Al respecto la CIDH en su Informe sobre Acceso a la Justicia para las Mujeres, ha recomendado a los Estados cumplir con su deber de "garantizar la debida diligencia para que todos los casos de violencia por razón de género sean objeto de una investigación oportuna, completa e imparcial, así como la adecuada sanción de los responsables y la reparación de las víctimas"[1]. Asimismo, el Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer , ha emitido una serie de recomendaciones al Estado Peruano en el año 2007, en una de las cuales se insta al estado "aque investigue todos los actos de violencia cometidos contra mujeres, enjuicie a sus autores y conceda reparaciones a título individual a las mujeres que hayan sido víctimas de diversas formas de violencia"[2].
[1]CIDH. Informe sobre Acceso a la Justicia para las mueres víctimas de violencia en las Américas 2007. p. 123.
2Observaciones finales del Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer : Perú, 2007. Pár.21.
manuelaenelcongreso.org
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| 25 Apr 2009 - 09:50 | admin
URL: www.arcadepub.com/book/?GCOI=55970100736 . . .
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New Book,
The Johns
Following up on his scathing indictment of the international sexual enslavement of women in The Natashas, investigative journalist Victor Malarek lays bare the other side of the crisis—the men who fuel the demand.
Each year more than 800,000 women and children are lured, tricked, or forced into prostitution to meet an apparently insatiable demand, joining an estimated 10 million women already ensnared in the $20 billion worldwide sex trade. To date, most research on the subject has focused on the various issues that propel these women into the trade, but little has been investigated, or written, about those who trigger the demand—the "Johns." In this hard-hitting expose, Victor Malarek ranges worldwide, unmasking the kind of men—and organizations—that foster and drive the sex trade, from America to Europe, Brazil to Thailand, Phnom Penh to St. Petersburg and Costa Rica. The Johns is a chilling look into a dark corner of the world that these men have created at the expense of countless women and children.
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| 25 Apr 2009 - 08:49 | Feminist Peace Network
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxx9ASjlJ2I
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Action Alert: Tell Burger King To Quit Airing Hyper Sexualized “Booty Is Booty” Ad Aimed At Children
I’ve never been a Burger King fan, even in my pre-vegetarian phase, something about the monarchal claim to culinary superiority that just didn’t jive with my concept of gastronomical satisfaction, but even being ever so charitable about the merits of their product, you really have to wonder what they had in mind when they came up with this advertisement:
Booty is booty? Measuring square butts? B-grade juvenile humor that at best might appeal to pubescent boys and make young girls feel they need to eat BK to measure up–oh wait, that’s exactly the problem… According the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), the ad has run at various times, including during the recent NCAA national championship.
“It’s bad enough when companies use a beloved media character like SpongeBob to promote junk food to children, but it’s utterly reprehensible when that character simultaneously promotes objectified, sexualized images of women,” said CCFC director Dr. Susan Linn.
“No parent watching a major sporting event with their children should have to worry about being assaulted by sexualized imagery,” said Joe Kelly of The Dad Man, a CCFC Steering Committee Member.
Not something you want your kiddies or anyone else’s kiddies watching? As CCFC puts it, “It’s bad enough when companies use a beloved media character like SpongeBob to promote junk food to children, but it’s utterly reprehensible when that character simultaneously promotes objectified, sexualized images of women.” Click here and help CCFC send a loud and clear message to Burger King that this ad is unacceptable.
View Add Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxx9ASjlJ2I
To Protest this Add
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/ o/621/t/6725/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2 7008
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| 25 Apr 2009 - 08:06 | International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
execinterim@ispcan.org
URL: www.ispcan.org
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JOB--JOB--JOB
Accepting Applications for the Executive Director Position
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)*
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION
We invite qualified candidates to submit their
applications by June 12, 2009.
*Organization: *Located in suburban Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.,* *ISPCAN is a not-for-profit professional membership organization, established in 1977,
focused on providing education, research, practical training and information to protect children from abuse and neglect worldwide. A multidisciplinary organization, ISPCAN members in nearly 180 countries work in areas of
medicine, mental health, law, law enforcement, social services, education, sociology/research, advocacy, NGO leadership, and government. ISPCAN seeks
to promote the protection of every child, in every country, against all
forms of cruelty and exploitation.
*Qualified candidates only*: a resume/CV, letter of interest detailing skill and experience in the essential characteristics and personal qualities listed above, and salary history/requirements should be directed electronically (preferred) or by mail to:
Jon Conte, Chair, Selection Committee
execinterim@ispcan.org
*DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:* *June 12, 2009. Initial interviews will be held in Chicago on June 23 and June 24, 2009 *
Please do not contact ISPCAN by phone
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
245 W. Roosevelt Rd., Bldg 6, Suite 39, West Chicago, IL 60185
E-mail: ispcan@ispcan.org / Phone: 630.876.6913/ Fax: 630.876.6917/
www.ispcan.org
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| 24 Apr 2009 - 13:29 | Amnesty International
URL: takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advoc . . .
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Online Action Center
Amnesty International
End Sexual Violence against Native American and Alaska Native Women
The U.S. Department of Justice’s own statistics indicate that Native American and Alaska Native women are more than two and a half times more likely than women in the United States in general to be raped or sexually assaulted. In order to achieve justice, Native American victims of sexual violence frequently have to navigate a complex maze of federal, state, tribal and local law. In addition, the agencies responsible for responding to this violence are severely underfunded, and their services are far from adequate to ensure that required law enforcement and medical attention are supplied. More than one in three Native women will be raped in their lifetime. On April 22, Sarah Deer, Visiting Professor of Law at the William Mitchell College of Law, and also a member of AIUSA’s Native American and Alaska Native Advisory Council, testified before the same Sub-Committee in the first-ever hearing held specifically on Law Enforcement in Indian Country. With these recent testimonies fresh in the minds of those on Capitol Hill, we have a unique window of opportunity to pressure the appropriators to help end this epidemic of sexual violence.
TAKE ACTION....SEE
takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&aid=12188&ICID=S0904A01&tr=y&auid=4786745
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| 24 Apr 2009 - 09:35 | Alexis Moore
Lexi.Moore@yahoo.com
URL: www.canow.org/canoworg/2009/04/keep-nons . . .
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Keep Non Scientific Theories out of custody cases Support CA AB 612
CA AB 612 - reform for the Family Law Courts..
if you are part of a National or CA Advocacy Group or a Resident of CA please fax in your letters of support to 916. 319-2024. A simple letter does wonders!
Subject: Keep Non Scientific Theories out of custody cases Support CA AB 612
If all of you can spread the word this is good stuff! I hope that CA NOW
will make as big of deal out of this as they have the Ledbetter case this is good news for those who have been abused by the family law courts. I hope next that they disallow the use of psych evals- this is all long over due change!
/www.canow.org/canoworg/2009/04/keep-nonscientific-theories-out-of-custody-cases.html
As you may know, California NOW has spent many years working on issues of family <http://www.canow.org/ca_now_family_law/ >
law, and especially child custody.
One of the most damaging trends in custody cases is the use of
non-scientific theories such as "Parental Alienation Syndrome" which are used to remove custody from fit parents, usually mothers. PAS has even been used in cases of documented abuse to justify giving custody to the abuser.
Now the California state legislature is taking steps to prevent any
non-scientific theory from being used in custody hearings, and the Center for <http://www.centerforjudicialexcellence. org/ >
Judicial Excellence is supporting their efforts. Here is the information:
Assembly Judiciary Committee Hearing - AB 612 (Child Custody: Non-Scientific Theories) <http://www.centerforjudicialexcellence. org/cjeadvocacy.htm >
WHEN: Tuesday, April 28th 8:00am
WHERE: State Capitol Building, Room 4202
*A carpool will leave Marin County at 7:00am - Call Steve with CJE at
415-261-4784 if you would like a ride, or for more details.
The psychologists and attorneys who are making tons of money off of PAS will certainly be there to oppose this bill, so we need as many people as possible to attend this hearing. Come support Assemblyman Jim Beall and AB
612!
There is a lobby day planned following the hearing. Please RSVP as soon as possible so you can be included in the planning process.
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Alexis A. Moore
P.O. Box 4584
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Phone: 916.941.7292
Fax: 916.941.7216
Lexi.Moore@yahoo.com
http://www.AlexisAMoore.blogspot.com
"One Person Can Make a Difference"
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| 24 Apr 2009 - 08:14 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09042308-GDF- . . .
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Mujeres deciden en condiciones de justicia: Mícher
GDF respalda el derecho a la maternidad voluntaria
Por Sandra Torres Pastrana
México DF, 23 abril 09 (CIMAC).- A dos años de que la Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal (ALDF) aprobó la Interrupción Legal del Embarazo (ILE), 23 mil 233 han ejercido este derecho en esta ciudad que sigue siendo la única del país que cumple con los tratados internacionales que el Estado ha suscrito y firmado con organismos internacionales en materia de salud reproductiva, en tanto que grupos conservadores del Gobierno federal imponen una postura frente a una sociedad que reclama el derecho de ejercer la maternidad voluntaria en el interior del país.
En el marco del segundo aniversario de la ILE en la Ciudad de México, Martha Lucía Mícher, directora general del Instituto de las Mujeres del Distrito Federal (Inmujeres DF), la funcionaria declaró que el GDF ha roto con las complicidades de un Estado patriarcal y no impone leyes y juicios que propician la discriminación; ahora favorece el derecho pleno de las mujeres de tomar decisiones importantes en condiciones de equidad y de justicia.
Durante el foro: “Dos años de ejercer nuestros derechos: Interrupción Legal del Embarazo en el Distrito Federal”, convocado a través de la Secretaría de Salud capitalina en coordinación con organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC), Mícher señaló que las mujeres de la Ciudad de México toman sus decisiones libres, informadas y responsables y además cuentan con tres opciones para decidir sobre sus cuerpos: la ILE, continuar con su embarazo o bien dar al bebé en adopción.
En este contexto, la directora general del Inmujeres DF lanzó un llamado para que en cada uno de los estados de la República donde se modificó y en los que está por modificarse la Constitución con el fin de dar personalidad jurídica al producto desde el momento de la concepción, Lucía Mícher pidió a los mexicanos recordar las palabras del magistrado Góngora Pimentel, de que no se puede obligar a que las niñas y a las mujeres a que sean madres.
Por lo pronto, las mujeres de la Ciudad de México conmemoran esta fecha como un día importante, porque en un día como hoy de hace dos años se reconoció el derecho de las mujeres a decidir sobre su cuerpo, sexualidad y maternidad, al otorgarles la opción de interrumpir un embarazo hasta las doce semanas de gestación en condiciones de seguridad, de manera libre, responsable e informada.
PERFIL DE LAS MUJERES QUE RECURRIERON A LA ILE
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09042308-GDF-respalda-el-der.37468.0.html
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| 24 Apr 2009 - 08:06 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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INSTITUTO INTERAMERICANO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS PUBLICÓ DOS LIBROS SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LAS MUJERES Y PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO
San José, Costa Rica.- El Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH) publicó dos nuevas ediciones sobre derechos humanos de las mujeres y perspectiva de género, con el fin de contribuir a la ampliación de conocimientos sobre el tema y brindar herramientas de trabajo a las instituciones de Estado y organizaciones de la sociedad civil, en la promoción y protección de los derechos humanos de las mujeres.
“Interpretación de los principios de igualdad y no discriminación para los derechos humanos de las mujeres en los instrumentos del Sistema Interamericano” (en español e inglés), desglosa parte del catálogo de derechos contenidos en la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos y su Protocolo Adicional en materia de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, mediante una interpretación con perspectiva de género y con base en las violaciones específicas a los derechos humanos de las mujeres.
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| 24 Apr 2009 - 07:58 | Irene Blea
URL: www.myspace.com/ireneblea
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Remains of 12 Women on America's Most Wanted this Weekend
Please be informed that the many bones found on Albuquerque's West Mesa will be featured this weekend on America's Most Wanted television program. Only seven of the victims including an unborn fetus have been identified: six Chicanas and one Native American. Some of the families are anxious to have remains returned to them but the remains are being held as evidence. Thus, you are invited to participate on the 4th of each month in a vigil and Speak-Out at Robinson Park at 7:00 p.m. We need this issue to continue to be an open-for-discussion and justice issue until all the bodies are identified and we know there are no more body bones mixed up, crushed, splintered on the mesa.
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| 23 Apr 2009 - 08:35 | Memphis Commerical Appeal
URL: www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/apr/2 . . .
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4 Memphis police officers indicted after undercover investigation
By Hank Dudding (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Monday, April 20, 2009
James George, 52, an officer since April 1996, most recently assigned to the Mt. Moriah Station as a patrolman, resigned April 9.
He has been charged in three indictments for offenses alleged to have occurred within the past year: taking a 40-year-old prostitute off the street against her will and raping her; kidnapping another prostitute and raping her on Nov. 28, 2008; and kidnapping and raping an underage girl on Sept. 25, 2008, with Daniel Wallace.
Wallace, 44, an officer since December 2003, most recently assigned to the Mt. Moriah Station, resigned April 9.
He is accused of taking part with George in the alleged kidnapping and rape of an underage girl on Sept. 25, 2008.
Thomas Woods, 54, an officer since 1998, assigned as a patrolman in the Mt. Moriah Station, resigned April 9.
He is accused of kidnapping and raping a prostitute sometime in 2008.
Larry Orange, 44, an officer since January 1994, most recently assigned to the police department's DUI unit, is on nonenforcement status pending an administrative hearing.
He is accused of aggravated statutory rape and sexual battery of an underage girl in August or September 2008.
Full Article.....
www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/apr/20/4-memphis-police-officers-indicted-after-undercove/?partner=RSS
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| 23 Apr 2009 - 08:09 | spd noticias
URL: sdpnoticias.com/sdp/contenido/2009/04/14 . . .
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Exhorta Mondragón y Kalb a denunciar acoso sexual en SSPDF
14 de Abril, 2009
México, 14 Abr (Notimex).- El titular de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Distrito Federal (SSPDF), Manuel Mondragón y Kalb, llamó a las mujeres que laboran en esa dependencia para que denuncien cualquier actitud de acoso sexual.
En un mensaje dirigido a todas las mujeres que les fue entregado por escrito junto con su recibo de pago, el funcionario reiteró que el personal jurídico de la SSPDF habrá de prestar apoyo y orientación a las víctimas de ese hecho.
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sdpnoticias.com/sdp/contenido/2009/04/14/375446
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| 23 Apr 2009 - 07:53 | hollykearl, AAUW Blog
URL: blog-aauw.org/2009/04/16/we-need-male-al . . .
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We Need Male Allies
by hollykearl
“Men are essential to feminism and to ending sexual assault. If they weren’t, we’d already have ended it.”
— Jerin Alam, president, Hunter Women’s Rights Coalition, Hunter College, New York, during a workshop presentation
This week I attended Men Can Stop Rape’s first annual conference, focused on men and women as allies in the primary prevention of men’s violence against women. The conference brought together campus activists, crisis center employees, government officials, and nonprofit employees who all are striving to end sexual assault.
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blog-aauw.org/2009/04/16/we-need-male-allies/
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| 22 Apr 2009 - 13:20 | Ilse Knecht, National Center for Victims of Crime
iknecht@ncvc.org
URL: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=pCIARXlPb . . .
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Survey on Law Enforcement Referrals
Please forward~
**Survey on Law Enforcement Referrals**
The National Center for Victims is conducting a survey to learn more
about the effectiveness and role of law enforcement in referring victims
to victim service agencies. Please take a few moments to respond to this very brief survey. Your input will help the National Center develop programs that help ensure that every crime victim has a place to turn in the aftermath of crime. Thank you.
www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=pCIARXlPb7chafC_2bErCksQ_3d_3d
The deadline for responding to this survey is Thursday, April 23, at
5:00pm (ET).
________________________________
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
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| 22 Apr 2009 - 13:14 | from Constance mail group
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Senate confirms Oaklander to Justice Dept. post
By Josh Richman
Monday, April 20th, 2009 at 3:41 pm in General.
The U.S. Senate today voted 82-4 to confirm Oakland attorney Tony West as Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil division, which represents the United States, its departments and agencies, members of Congress, Cabinet officers and other federal employees in a wide range of litigation.
West — most recently a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, and formerly a Clinton Administration Justice Department official; a federal prosecutor; and a special assistant California Attorney General tasked with troubleshooting difficult issues — is expected to be sworn in at the end of this week. Long a Democratic Party activist, he was California finance co-chairman for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
The confirmation comes as little surprise; his Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing last month went off without a hitch, and he tends to get rave reviews from those who know him.
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| 22 Apr 2009 - 08:15 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09042101-En-m . . .
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Oaxaca
En mayo abrirá refugio para mujeres víctimas de violencia
De la redacción
Oaxaca, Oax., 21 abril 09 (CIMAC).- Con la firma de un convenio de colaboración que el viernes pasado suscribieron las asociaciones civiles Mujeres Unidas en torno al Género, la Equidad y la Reivindicación (Muger A C) y Caminos de la Esperanza, en mayo próximo empezará a operar un refugio para mujeres y sus hijas e hijos que sufren violencia familiar, anunció la coordinadora Martina Salazar Contreras.
Indicó que las integrantes de esta asociación cuentan con la capacitación requerida para la operación de un lugar de esta clase, en el cual se desarrollará el Modelo de atención integral con perspectiva de género.
La representante de Mujeres Unidas en torno al Género, la Equidad y la Reivindicación (Muger AC) sostuvo que con el apoyo de Caminos de la Esperanza podrán atender hasta a 40 personas en el refugio, lugar en el que se les brindará protección y atención especializada, a fin de que puedan retomar el control de su propia vida y definir su situación familiar.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09042101-En-mayo-abrira-refu.37425.0.html
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 21:48 | Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority
feministmajority@mail.democracyinaction.org
URL: salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900 . . .
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Dear feminist activist,
The thousands of letters you sent asking Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Afghan ambassador to the U.S. to review the draft of a Shia family law that would strip Afghan women and girls of their basic human rights have made an impact! Karzai has announced that the law will be revised in accordance with the Afghan constitution, which guarantees equal rights for women. Now, make sure Karzai fulfills his pledge. salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=873
Last week, hundreds of Afghan women in Kabul publicly protested the law, even though they were outnumbered by counter protesters and were pelted with small stones. We must stand with these courageous women.
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=873
Afghan women leaders in Parliament, in the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and in non-profit organizations have continued to fight the proposed law as violation of the Afghan constitution and the basic human rights of women. We must lend our voices in support of our Afghan sisters.
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=873
While the Afghan government is revising the law, let President Karzai hear from you and as many people as you can reach. Now that he has pledged to revise the draconian draft law, we need to make sure that revisions to the law fully remove provisions that would restrict women from leaving their homes, working, going to school and obtaining medical care without their husbands' permission. We must also ensure that provisions granting child custody only to men and revoking women's right to refuse sex with their husbands are eliminated.
We must ensure that all provisions that violate human rights are removed from the law or the law is eliminated.
Please send your message to President Karzai while his government is revising this oppressive law to ensure that the basic principals of human rights are maintained. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/140 0/t/900/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY= 873
For Women's Lives,
Eleanor Smeal
President
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 21:15 | Maria
cgarcs133@hotmail.com
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Hola soy una imigrante casada con un americano hace aproximadamente 2 anos, vio en advance North Carolina desde hace ano y medio soy abusada sexual, psicologica,monetarimente y verbal, he hecho 3 repote a la polica. El pasado 15 de marzo tuve que abandonar mi casa con mi dos hijas una de 9 ano y otra de 14 meses y tengo 2 meses de embarazo, le puse una 50B a mi esposo y volvi a mi casa pero a el lo sacron e despues me puso el divorcio fuimos a corte pero como mi marido es de dinero y su padre fue el mayor e el condado de Davie County NC, el es amigo de losjuecs, sheriff ese dia el juez le quito la 50B y asigno la custodia una semana la bebe conmigo una semanan con el papa y lo fvorecio a e en todo ahora volvemos a corte y mi marido y la abogado me quieren sacar de la casa y no me quiere ayudar a darme un sitio donde viir ya qye nosotros no casamos por prenuncial agrement, yo no trabajo desde el tiempo que esoy casada con el me prohibia y no tengo famili aqui ademas el me amenaza con deportarme y quitarme ami bebe, estoy desesperada y no se qe hacer y donde recui. Estoy aqui visitando los sitios de violencia domestica pero ello s poco lo que ofrecen respcto a mi caso y decision del juez, que puede hacer.
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 14:58 | Promsex
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URL: www.promsex.org/news.php?nid=344
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La violencia física y sexual prima en la mayoría de matrimonios limeños
El Instituto Guestalt de Lima revela que el 64% de mujeres casadas sufre estos abusos en los primeros años de convivencia. Esto genera en las víctimas problemas de salud mental.
El director del Instituto Guestalt de Lima (IGL), Manuel Saravia Oliver, alertó hoy que el 64% de las mujeres casadas sufre violencia física y sexual durante los primeros dos años de matrimonio, siendo más frecuente los episodios de maltrato en las parejas más jóvenes.
El especialista dijo, además, que el 23% de las mujeres casadas comenzó a experimentar violencia antes del primer año, el 41% entre el primer y segundo año, y el 21% entre el tercer y el quinto año de unión conyugal.
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www.promsex.org/news.php?nid=344
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 14:52 | Promsex
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Lanzan en Ancash campaña contra la trata de niños, niñas y adolescentes
Una campaña contra la trata de niños, niñas y adolescentes en situación de explotación laboral y sexual, será lanzada por la ONG Acción por los Niños en la ciudad de Huaraz (Áncash).
El objetivo de la campaña es visibilizar el compromiso del gobierno regional, de las instituciones del Estado y de la sociedad civil para enfrentar la problemática de la trata de personas en Áncash, desarrollando acciones para identificar focos del delito.
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 14:34 | Bonnie
Phoenixlakota@gmail.com)
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After being turned down to get copies of 911 calls, and 5 other calls from the cities attorney's office. How does one get copies of the CAD dispatchers report from a call in on domestatic violence? 3 law firms and none of them would get the copies of the calls. City attorney office wrote a letter saying that those records were destroyed due to paper retention.
(In area code 661)
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 14:31 | DI
atsina1@yahoo.com
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There is violence against women on the highways in a form referred to as “road rage” that is being overlooked and far under reported. I and several woman I have talked with have been harassed/threatened with vehicles – tailgating, bright lights, weaving/swerving, horn honking.
When this happens on a country road it is terrifying. Drive to the first police station and you are told it’s another jurisdiction; it was just road rage that means the highway patrol has jurisdiction, etc. But the highway patrol says it happened in such and such city or county it’s their jurisdiction. What ends up happening is no one takes a report. When a woman tries to report this they are treated like they are crazy and given the brush off. If an agency decides it has jurisdiction it means time and money for a report.
All of our police agencies are stretched thin, small rural ones even more so. Regardless, these incidents are crimes, they are being made against women in far greater numbers
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they are going for the most part under or not reported. Recently there is evidence of a man doing this kind of thing to get women to pull over and try to assault them. I’d like to know if anyone else feels this “road rage” aggressive behavior towards women needs attention? And what ways could it this approached? Sometimes it seems the things that are so much in our face are getting tolerated because it’s so common – like hitting a spouse or date rape and so on. I have volunteered and been an advocate of women against rape, domestic violence, making presentations to the police academies about sensitivity and training and so on. I do not believe just because a practice is common means it’s ok and should be tolerated. I believe this “road rage” against women has a deeper meaning and some feel they are ‘allowed’ to target women – this is just another way it’s coming out.
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* I’m interested in ideas to study this issue and raise community awareness and perhaps a grant for law enforcement agencies to track these incidents better.
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 13:14 | LA Times
URL: www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-child-d . . .
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Files detail deaths of 14 children
The abuse cases came from families that had been under scrutiny by L.A. County child welfare officials.
By Garrett Therolf and Kim Christensen
April 21, 2009
Fourteen children died of abuse and neglect in Los Angeles County last year despite coming from families that had been under the scrutiny of child welfare officials, records released Monday show.
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 12:54 | IPS Gender Wire
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AFRICA: Developing Stronger Protection Against Gender-Based Violence
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI, Apr 18 (IPS) - When heads of districts describe efforts to fight sexual violence as a waste of resources, it raises questions about the leadership’s commitment to deal with the matter.
Such is the situation in northern Uganda where district commissioners, have dismissed sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) as non-existent, asking that donor funds for psychosocial support for survivors of SGBV be directed to other sectors.
"They say we are wasting money and that it should go to building roads, and schools destroyed during the war instead. These are government representatives in the districts. What they are telling us is that SGBV is not important, while women and girls have been severely affected by the war," Betty Akulu of the Women and Rural Development Network (WORUDNET) in the northern Ugandan district of Pader told IPS.
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| 21 Apr 2009 - 12:48 | IPS Gender Wire
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Jiyoung LeeAn interviews YUAN FENG, a feminist activist from China.
SEOUL, Apr 20 (IPS) - As an activist in China, Yuan Feng actively advocates women’s rights. Yuan is now the director of Combating Domestic Violence against Women and a leading figure of Gender and Development (GAD) group in China. She visited South Korea to join a newly established feminist network, Network for GloCal Activism and School of Feminism. Excerpts from the interview.
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| 20 Apr 2009 - 08:59 | Doctors Without Borders
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Special Report
Shattered Lives
Immediate medical care vital for sexual violence victims
Press Release
Emergency Medical Aid Vital for Victims of Rape
Through this report, MSF shares its experience in providing medical care, counseling, and other forms of support to thousands of victims of sexual violence in many countries around the world.
The report is partly born out of outrage about the inexcusable acts that these people have been subjected to and the damage inflicted upon their lives. It demonstrates why it is imperative to make immediate care available, and truly accessible, for those who have been sexually assaulted.
MSF hopes that this report will inform and inspire health officials, aid workers and others who should be involved in providing such support.
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| 20 Apr 2009 - 08:50 | IRIN
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SIERRA LEONE: Chiefs ban genital cutting for girls under 18
FREETOWN, 16 April 2009 (IRIN) - In Sierra Leone village chiefs, community members and women who perform female genital cutting have signed an agreement stating that girls in northern Kambia district will not undergo genital mutilation – or ‘cutting’ – before age 18.
The number of girls being cut during the December 2008-January 2009 initiation season in Kambia dropped drastically, according to Finda Fraser, advocacy coordinator at local non-profit Advocacy Movement Network (AMNet), which runs a ‘Say No to Child Bondo’ campaign in the district.
Most Sierra Leonean girls – the World Health Organization estimates 94 percent – are initiated at puberty into ‘Bondo’, also known as the Sande Secret Society. As part of the rite, a woman known as a ‘sowei’ in the Mende language cuts the clitoris and prepares the girl for adulthood through singing, dancing and teaching domestic skills. For the initiation girls spend up to three months in the bush.
Anti-FGM/C campaigner John Marah, chairman of NaMEP, a network of Sierra Leone-based NGOs, told IRIN: “We are against just the cutting, not the training. You can still have a rite of passage. It's just a change of mentality.”
Ban not feasible
Given how deeply embedded genital cutting is in Sierra Leonean culture, many activists say banning the rite would not be feasible in the country. But they say raising the age of cutting and giving girls a choice could reduce the numbers.
While there is no law against FGM/C in Sierra Leone, the 2007 child rights law forbids any practice that “dehumanises or is injurious to the physical and mental welfare of a child”; many activists see FMG/C as falling within that definition.
Amnesty International in Bombali district in the east and the non-profit Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM) in Port Loko in the north are also working with communities to raise the age for cutting and so giving girls a choice.
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| 20 Apr 2009 - 08:35 | Feminist Majority
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Feminist Daily News Wire
April 17, 2009
Afghan Government will Revise Controversial Law, Says Karzai
Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced yesterday that his government will revise a controversial law that would severely restrict women's rights by legalizing rape within marriage, among other provisions. Karzai told CNN that he was unaware of these provisions when he signed the law last month and that he has instructed "that the law be revised and any article that is not in keeping with the Afghan constitution and Islamic Sharia must be removed from this law."
The proposed law has incited international and local outrage. Just this week, hundreds of Afghan women protesting the law in Kabul were outnumbered and pelted with small stones by counterprotesters. In a statement, the groups who organized the protest said that the law "insults dignity of women as fellow human beings and increases ethnocentrism and inequality," The Guardian reported.
Karzai's recent comments confirm statements made last weekend by Said Jawa, Afghan Ambassador to the US. Jawad told Bloomberg that the law "will not become the law because it contradicts some important principles of the Afghan constitution" and that President Karzai does not plan to publish it. Jawad also said Karzai signed the law without being aware of all of its provisions and has sent the likely unconstitutional law to be reviewed by the Afghan Ministry of Justice and the Afghan Supreme Court.
According to The Guardian the law contains provisions that would restrict women from leaving their homes, working, going to school, or obtaining medical care without their husbands' permission. The law also includes a provision that women cannot refuse their husbands sex and a provision that grants child custody only to men. Ustad Mohammad Akbari, leader of the Hazara party, told The Guardian that the law gives women the right to refuse sex with their husbands if they are ill or have a "reasonable excuse" and allows women the right to leave their homes without permission in an emergency.
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| 20 Apr 2009 - 08:06 | Laura Zuleta, Ruta Pacifica
rutapacificaantioquia@gamil.com
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Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres rechaza asesinato de lidereza en Córdoba
Para las mujeres, el gestionar amenazante y asesino de grupos paramilitares continua impune en todo el país.
Laura Zuleta
20/04/2009
La Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres expresó su repudio por el asesinato de la lidereza Ana Isabel Gómez Pérez, quien integraba la junta del Comité de Familiares Víctimas de la Violencia en Córdoba y trabajaba por la reparación, dentro de la Ley de Justicia y Paz, de cuatro mil personas desplazadas.
Para el movimiento pacifista de mujeres, este asesinato es inadmisible por cuanto la lidereza denunció públicamente el pasado 1 de abril, en una reunión de víctimas de los paramilitares y ante delegados de la Comisión Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación, que recibía amenazas continuas por parte de desconocidos que la intimidaban para que desistiera de sus intenciones de agrupar a los desplazados que buscan orientación para acceder a la reparación.
Tras este asesinato, la Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres reiteró la necesidad de un alto a la guerra y a las acciones intimidantes de los grupos al margen de la ley. Asimismo, exigió el respeto a la vida de las mujeres que trabajan por los derechos humanos y la justa reparación de las víctimas de la violencia.
Las mujeres reafirmaron que este accionar violento sólo conlleva a la degradación del conflicto armado en Colombia y a la transgresión total de los derechos de las mujeres a disponer de una vida libre de violencias. La Ruta Pacífica demanda del Estado la investigación de los hechos y a brindar las garantías de protección para que las víctimas puedan exigir los derechos a la Verdad, Justicia y Reparación.
Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres
“Las mujeres no parimos hijos e hijas para la guerra”
LAURA ZULETA
Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres
Regional Antioquia
Correo electrónico: rutapacificaantioquia@gamil.com
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| 20 Apr 2009 - 07:38 | El Pais
URL: www.elpais.com/articulo/ultima/Uso/femen . . .
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Espana
ENTREVISTA: MIGUEL LORENTE Delegado del Gobierno para la Violencia de Género
"Uso el femenino cuando estamos reunidas"
www.elpais.com/articulo/ultima/Uso/femenino/estamos/reunidas/elpepiult/20090419elpepiult_2/Tes
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