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| 27 Sep 2009 - 20:26 | Jess McCabe, the f word, contemporary UK feminism
URL: www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/09/new_fea . . .
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New feature: How to organise a demonstration
By Jess McCabe
In this case study, Carrie Supple explains how she and Louise Morris organised a protest to support Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein - and how you can use the same techniques to organise a demo for your campaign
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www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/09/new_feature_how_2
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| 27 Sep 2009 - 19:40 | Mujeres a bordo
URL: mujeresabordo.blogspot.com/2009/09/28-de . . .
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28 de septiembre: Día por el Derecho al Aborto de las Mujeres de América Latina y del Caribe
en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
EDUCACIÓN SEXUAL PARA DECIDIR
ANTICONCEPTIVOS PARA NO ABORTAR
ABORTO LEGAL PARA NO MORIR
**POR UN ESTADO LAICO**
**NI UNA MUERTA MÁS POR ABORTO CLANDESTINO**
**NOSOTRAS PARIMOS, NOSOTRAS DECIDIMOS**
**POR LA INMEDIATA SANCIÓN DEL PROYECTO DE LEY PRESENTADO POR LA CAMPAÑA NACIONAL POR EL DERECHO AL ABORTO LEGAL, SEGURO Y GRATUITO**
17:00 Nos encontramos en Plaza de Mayo para luego marchar por Avenida de Mayo hacia Congreso, parando en la calle Perú.
19:00 Concentración en Plaza Congreso
Convocan:
Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito (Ciudad de Buenos Aires) / Mujeres organizadas e independientes CONURBANAS / Campaña “Ni una mujer más víctima de las redes de prostitución” / Pañuelos en Rebeldía - Equipo de Educación Popular / Lesbianas y Feministas por la Descriminalizació n del ABORTO / Foro por los Derechos Reproductivos / Revista Baruyera, una tromba lesbiana feminista / Asoc. Civil "La Casa del Encuentro" / Lesmadres / Juventud Comunista Revolucionaria / Mujeres de Socialismo Libertario / Agrupación de Mujeres Pan y Rosas / Organización de Mujeres Plenario de Trabajadoras / Partido Obrero / Agrupación de Mujeres Las Rojas (MAS e Independientes) / Convergencia de Izquierda / Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas / Agrupación de Mujeres de Izquierda / Secretaría de Género e Igualdad de Oportunidades de CTA Nacional / Partido Comunista de la Argentina. CABA / Amas de Casa del País / Comisión de Mujeres del PCR
mas info, mas eventos:
mujeresabordo.blogspot.com/2009/09/28-de-septiembre-dia-por-el-derecho-al.html
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| 27 Sep 2009 - 19:23 | from Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org/eng/Women-s-Rights-in-the-N . . .
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Killing of women, child "witches" on rise, U.N. told
Source: Reuters
Murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading around the world and destroying the lives of millions of people, experts said Wednesday.
The experts -- United Nations officials, civil society representatives from affected countries and non-governmental organization (NGO) specialists working on the issue -- urged governments to acknowledge the extent of the persecution.
"This is becoming an international problem -- it is a form of persecution and violence that is spreading around the globe," Jeff Crisp of the U.N.'s refugee agency UNHCR told a seminar organized by human rights officials of the world body.
Aides to U.N. special investigators on women's rights and on summary executions said killings and violence against alleged witch women -- often elderly people -- were becoming common events in countries ranging from South Africa to India.
And community workers from Nepal and Papua New Guinea told the seminar, on the fringes of a session of the U.N.'s 47-member Human Rights Council, that "witch-hunting" was now common, both in rural communities and larger population centres.
HOMELESS CHILDREN
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www.awid.org/eng/Women-s-Rights-in-the-News/Women-s-Rights-in-the-News/Killing-of-women-child-witches-on-rise-U.N.-told
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| 26 Sep 2009 - 10:03 | Bill Clinton Global Initiative
URL: www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail. . . .
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New Initiative to Address Sexual Violence Against Girls Launched at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York
Collaboration Among Leading Public and Private Sector Organizations Formed to Bring International Attention to this Injustice
Date: 25 September 2009
New York — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), five United Nations organizations (UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNIFEM, WHO) and private sector supporters will join together later today via the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in a new approach to address the rights violations and health impacts of sexual violence against girls. According to the World Health Organization, in 2002 approximately 150 million girls experienced some form of sexual violence with physical contact.
more info....
www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=934
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| 26 Sep 2009 - 09:51 | Helen Benedict, author
URL: www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=204 . . .
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Book
The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
Author: Helen Benedict
The double war of military women before, during, and after Iraq
More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military's deep-seated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their comrades, and loneliness, instead of the camaraderie that every soldier depends on for comfort and survival. As one female soldier said, "I ended up waging my own war against an enemy dressed in the same uniform as mine."
In The Lonely Soldier, Benedict tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. She follows them from their childhoods to their enlistments, then takes them through their training, to war and home again, all the while setting the war's events in context.
We meet Jen, white and from a working-class town in the heartland, who still shakes from her wartime traumas; Abbie, who rebelled against a household of liberal Democrats by enlisting in the National Guard; Mickiela, a Mexican American who grew up with a family entangled in L.A. gangs; Terris, an African American mother from D.C. whose childhood was torn by violence; and Eli PaintedCrow, who joined the military to follow Native American tradition and to escape a life of Faulknerian hardship. Between these stories, Benedict weaves those of the forty other Iraq War veterans she interviewed, illuminating the complex issues of war and misogyny, class, race, homophobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Each of these stories is unique, yet collectively they add up to a heartbreaking picture of the sacrifices women soldiers are making for this country.
Benedict ends by showing how these women came to face the truth of war and by offering suggestions for how the military can improve conditions for female soldiers-including distributing women more evenly throughout units and rejecting male recruits with records of violence against women. Humanizing, urgent, and powerful, The Lonely Soldier is a clarion call for change.
More info....
www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2044
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| 26 Sep 2009 - 09:22 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9339 . . .
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DDHH-URUGUAY: La esclavitud escondida
Por Silvana Silveira
MONTEVIDEO, sep (IPS) - La explotación sexual de niños, niñas y adolescentes es una situación "bastante cotidiana" en Uruguay, aunque suele pasar inadvertida a causa de múltiples silenciamientos. La práctica, aunque es ilegal, no se encuentra en los márgenes, sino que forma parte del entramado mismo de la sociedad.
Como lo indican estudios realizados por la Red Uruguaya de Autonomías (RUDA) y el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef), este fenómeno no es propio de excluidos ni está asociado a comportamientos desviados de pervertidos o enfermos.
Cifras del gubernamental Comité Nacional para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil indican que 34.000 de los 527.000 uruguayos de entre cinco y 17 años ejercen alguna labor. En ese universo aparece la prostitución, una forma de "esclavitud contemporánea" según la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño aprobada en 1989 y ratificada el año siguiente por este país de 3,3 millones de habitantes.
"Es un secreto a voces, unos lo minimizan y otros lo maximizan", dijo a IPS Andrea Tuana, directora de El Faro, un programa del no gubernamental Foro Juvenil orientado a trabajar con situaciones de violencia doméstica y abuso sexual intrafamiliar, que funciona desde 1997 y hace un par de años empezó a recibir derivaciones de situaciones de explotación sexual comercial.
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www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=93391
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| 26 Sep 2009 - 09:10 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48607
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RIGHTS-AFRICA: Uganda Women Seek Gender Recovery Plan
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA, Sep 26 (IPS) - After two decades of war during which thousands of children were used as child soldiers and many women raped, Northern Uganda’s recovery plan is to be spent on building roads rather than helping the country’s most vulnerable.
Civil society and women parliamentarians are not happy with the government and donors, as there are no concrete measures to meet gender-related concerns over the recovery plan for Northern Uganda.
The over 600 million dollar Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) – of which was 70 percent sponsored by donors and the remained by the Ugandan government – was designed to stabilise and bridge the economic disparities between Northern Uganda and the rest of the country.
Most of the money, to be spent over three years, is to be used to construct feeder roads and infrastructure destroyed during the war.
And while roads were needed, the needs of the women also needed to be met, said Oyam District Member of Parliament, Amongi Beatrice Lagada. "The women took on so many burdens during the war. So unless we recognise those gender roles we shall not restore the gender perspectives which were there before," she said.
An estimated 30,000 to 66,000 children were abducted during the 20 years of conflict. About 90 percent of the LRA ranks were populated by children forced to terrorise civilians by cutting off hands and lips, among other atrocities.
A study conducted by United Nations Children's Fund in 2005 in one of the Pabo displaced-persons camp found that at least 60 percent of women there had suffered sexual or domestic violence.
Monica Amonding, coordinator of The Uganda Women Parliamentarians' Association (UWOPA), says the PRDP has no budget to resettle single mothers, female-headed households, widows, formerly abducted girls, women with disabilities and other vulnerable groups.
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www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48607
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| 25 Sep 2009 - 20:46 | Preda Foundation
URL: www.preda.org/archives/2009/r09090601.ht . . .
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Philippines
Male Police mount Sexual attacks on female cops, recruits
Rep. Emmylou J. Taliño-Mendoza
September 6, 2009
Cotabato Rep. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza has expressed alarm over the mounting sexual attacks on female police officers, trainees and applicants, and wants to find out whether Camp Crame is taking aggressive steps to effectively return the ignition address to the Congress Representatives.
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www.preda.org/archives/2009/r09090601.html
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| 25 Sep 2009 - 09:53 | Because I Am a Girl
URL: www.planusa.org/becauseiamagirl/docs/bec . . .
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Report
Because I Am a Girl
The State of the World's Girls 2009
see report:
www.planusa.org/becauseiamagirl/docs/becauseiamagirl2009.pdf
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| 25 Sep 2009 - 09:38 | (Bill) Clinton Global Initiative
URL: www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeeti . . .
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Annual Meeting 2009: Investing in Girls and Women
(meeting this week)
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is pleased to announce special Annual Meeting programming on the topic of Investing in Girls and Women. President Clinton and CGI members have shown an ongoing interest in this important issue, which cuts across the global challenge areas of education, energy and climate change, global health, and poverty alleviation, and also provides an entry point into CGI’s four Action Areas – Harnessing Innovation for Development, Financing a Sustainable Future, Developing Human Capital, and Strengthening Infrastructure. Through a series of events and sessions, the CGI Annual Meeting program will examine how solutions that support girls and women around the world can improve entire communities and drive economic progress.
Innovative businesses and organizations have recognized that investments in girls and women foster and maintain stable societies and successful markets for the future. Research shows that this is not just a women’s issue. Each year of schooling increases a woman’s income by 10 to 20 percent and closing the gender gap in education adds .5 percent to a country’s per capita GNP – benefits that are shared by boys and men
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www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/meeting_2009_annual_Investing.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=Investing%20in%20Girls%20and%20Women
NOTE: Check out the link to reading materials at the bottom of the page
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| 25 Sep 2009 - 09:33 | Palm Beach Post
URL: www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/loc . . .
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Suburban Boynton Beach security guard arrested in at least 13 savage attacks on prostitutes
By ANDREW MARRA and ELIOT KLEINBERG
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
For months, the prostitutes had turned up bloodied and broken across two counties. One was tossed unconscious into a ditch. Others were missing teeth. Some had to wait days to talk to cops, their mouths swollen shut from the beatings.
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www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2009/09/23/0923beat.html
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| 25 Sep 2009 - 09:20 | Guardian UK
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/22/govern . . .
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Government rape review fails to convince women's groups
Action needed rather than further research, say rape support groups after Harriet Harman announces new review
Amelia Gentleman guardian.co.uk,
Women's groups responded with scepticism to the announcement today of a government review of how rape cases are handled, saying that officials needed to take urgent action on the findings of previous reviews rather than commission new research.
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www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/22/government-rape-review
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| 24 Sep 2009 - 14:03 | Detroit Free Press
URL: www.freep.com/article/20090923/NEWS01/90 . . .
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Could the bias in this report be any more blatant? "Deaths highlight police suicides"????
From beginning to end, the overwhelming concern expressed in this article is for police suicides...not police homicides, not for police domestic violence, and clearly not for the 'other' police officer who was the murdered victim of the police homicide. Of course not, she was female, and we don't find out anything about her until the very end of the article.
admin
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Troubled couple's tragic end reflects existing trend
Deaths highlight police suicides
BY AMBER HUNT and TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
First, the shots rang out. Then came the screams.
A woman's lifeless body lay on the cement. The man who had shot her was down, too, a self-inflicted gunshot to his head, his breathing too shallow to detect.
"Someone's shooting in our parking lot ... please hurry, hurry, hurry!" a caller pleaded with a 911 dispatcher. "Come on, hurry!"
The pleas were useless: Canton police said that 33-year-old Patricia Williams, a Detroit police officer, was already dead, and her killer and husband -- Detroit homicide Detective Edward Williams, 36 -- had fatally turned the gun on himself.
The Tuesday morning deaths were a marriage of two endemic problems plaguing police departments nationwide, experts said: domestic violence and suicides.
"Police officers have unique jobs where they're instructed to keep their family life separate from their work life," said Eric Lambert, a professor with Wayne State University's department of criminal justice. "In reality, that's impossible."
According to data compiled by WSU, Detroit officers face a higher suicide rate than most police, at 28 per 100,000 police officers, nearly twice as many as New York City police.
Also, marriages involving police officers are two to four times more likely to involve domestic violence.
Detroit cops lead nation in suicides
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www.freep.com/article/20090923/NEWS01/909230315/1319/
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| 24 Sep 2009 - 08:56 | National Prison Rape Elimination Commission
URL: www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/226680.pdf
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National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report (pdf)
added 09/18/2009National Prison Rape Elimination Commission
"This report discusses the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission's nine findings on sexual abuse in correctional facilities as well as policies and practices that must be mandatory in remedying these problems; recommendations address what leaders in government outside the corrections profession can do to support solutions
see report:
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/226680.pdf
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| 24 Sep 2009 - 08:50 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2521
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Plataforma de organizaciones de mujeres por la Abolición de la Prostitución
Campaña feminista contra los anuncios de prostitución en los medios
Madrid, 23 sep. 09. AmecoPress.- La Plataforma de Organizaciones de Mujeres por la abolición de la prostitución presentó ayer con motivo del “Día Internacional contra la explotación sexual y contra el tráfico de mujeres, niñas y niños”, la campaña: “Por un tratamiento informativo contra todas las formas de explotación sexual de las mujeres”
Con esta campaña quieren hacer un llamamiento a todos los medios de comunicación social, y especialmente a la prensa escrita para que en cumplimiento de los códigos éticos que regulan su actividad y de la legislación nacional e internacional actualmente vigente en materia de imagen de la mujer y en materia de prostitución y trata, mantengan una posición de coherencia editorial y renuncien en consecuencia con ello a los beneficios económicos que les reporta la oferta de mujeres prostituidas en sus secciones de anuncios de contactos.
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www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2521
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| 24 Sep 2009 - 08:44 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2526
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Trata de personas e impunidad
Sanjuana Martínez
México, DF, 24 sep. 09. AmecoPress/CIMAC.- La trata de personas afecta anualmente a más de dos millones y medio de seres humanos en el mundo y genera alrededor de 7.000 millones de dólares cada año. México ocupa el segundo lugar que más víctimas de este delito envía a Estados Unidos, después de Tailandia.
A pesar de las poderosas redes de trata que operan en el país, la justicia mexicana nunca ha emitido una condena por este delito y la constante es la impunidad. Desde la creación, hace casi dos años, de la Fiscalía Especial para los Delitos de Violencia contra las Mujeres y Trata de Personas (Fevimtra), dirigida por Guadalupe Morfín —quien recientemente dimitió para postularse como Ombudsman nacional—, sólo se han iniciado 30 averiguaciones previas, tres de las cuales han terminado en consignaciones y ninguna en sentencia.
Al celebrarse hoy el Día Internacional contra la explotación sexual y la trata de personas, es necesario recordar que el fracaso de la Fevimtra en el combate a la trata es desalentador y vergonzoso.
La falta de protocolos para atender y apoyar a las víctimas de este delito es la otra gran asignatura pendiente, además de la procuración de justicia. Las personas que han sufrido trata, luego de ser rescatadas se ven en la indefensión porque el Estado carece de mecanismos para atenderlas debidamente y dar seguimiento a su caso. ¿De qué sirve la Comisión Intersecretarial para Prevenir y Sancionar la Trata de Personas, instalada el 16 de julio? ¿Dónde están las políticas públicas para prevenir, investigar, perseguir y sancionar eficazmente la trata de personas
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www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2526
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| 24 Sep 2009 - 08:35 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2525
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La trata, una forma de esclavitud
Ligada al tráfico de migrantes, explotación sexual y trabajo forzoso de mujeres y niñas
Mónica Fernández
Madrid, 24 sep. 09. AmecoPress.- Coacción, humillaciones, amenazas, acoso, golpes, privación ilegal de la libertad, seducción, compra-venta de personas, desaparición, esclavitud y secuestro, son algunos actos que conlleva la trata de mujeres para la prostitución, condiciones que evidencian graves violaciones a sus derechos.
En la Conferencia Mundial de la Coalición contra el Tráfico de Mujeres, que se llevó a cabo en Dhaka, Bangladesh, en 1999, se eligió el 23 de septiembre de cada año como el Día Internacional en contra explotación y Tráfico de Mujeres y Niños, hecho que busca hacer conciencia entre los gobiernos y sociedad civil sobre las causas y consecuencias de este crimen que afecta a todas las regiones del mundo.
Diversos son los tratados que se han adoptado para proteger a las mujeres; entre ellos, la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Eliminación de todas las Formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer, 1979; Convención de Naciones Unidas contra la Delincuencia Organizada Transnacional, 2000; Protocolo para la Prevención, Supresión y Sanción del Tráfico de Personas, especialmente Mujeres y Niños, que viene a complementar a la anterior, y Convención Interamericana para Prevenir, Sancionar y Erradicar la Violencia contra la Mujer, 1994.
Varios estudios señalan que, en el caso de México, el Gobierno confunde la problemática de la trata de personas con el tráfico ilícito de migrantes, lo que plantea tres grandes problemas políticos:
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www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2525
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| 23 Sep 2009 - 08:54 | BRUJAS FEMINISTAS EN MOVIMIENTO
URL: d.yimg.com/kq/groups/14856354/1084736219 . . .
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Nuevo Boletin en linea
BRUJAS FEMINISTAS EN MOVIMIENTO
ver boletin
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| 23 Sep 2009 - 08:46 | International Women's Tribune Blog - UN Sexual Violence session
URL: www.iwtc.org/1820blog
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Excerpt from the International Women's Tribune Center Blog on the Sexual Violence session now taking place at the UN all this week. (For more info on the session and blog, see post that follows this excerpt.)
… women activists from different parts of the globe with varied experiences combating sexual violence in conflict-affected countries and shattering the silence that surrounds it. While the shape of struggles, hopes and victories was drawn by participants in terms of their own country contexts, common threads and questions emerged to weave the sessions together.
Here are 10 burning questions that came up:
How to straddle the yawning divide between traditional, customary and/or religious justice systems and legal ones?
How to raise awareness among community leaders and elders without being perceived as importers of ‘Western ideas’ or being enemies to men?
How to deal with impunity in societies where victims are stigmatized and shamed, and the crime of sexual violence is rather dealt with behind closed doors? Further, how to deal with perpetrators who often receive blanket amnesty as part of community rites of reconciliation?
How to reconcile the need for evidence-based data collection with the need to provide health and medical services to victims of sexual violence?
How to protect women human rights defenders who stand up, speak out and make deep inroads for change, at great cost to themselves and their families?
What happens to the vast funds that are raised for reconstruction? Who decides where they go? Where do they go?
What are the dimensions and roles that countries bring in conflict and its management – as parties to conflict; mediators; troop-contributing countries; refugees-hosting countries… – and how can women’s NGOs collaborate across countries that are playing these different roles?
What can countries who have been at peace (both in the North and South) learn from countries that have already developed national plans? What can countries in the North learn from women’s groups in the South?
What value does an international law like SCR 1820 hold for women who have been advocating in conflict, transitional, post-conflict countries, as well as in those which have been at peace?
How to use existing reporting mechanisms and forums for tracking international human rights conventions, like CEDAW, the Torture Convention, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Human Rights Council, to pin governments down on their compliance with SCR 1820?
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| 23 Sep 2009 - 08:23 | Joe ta Bose, International Women's Tribune Center
joey@iwtc.org
URL: www.iwtc.org/1820blog
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Join IWTC Blog to Track Strategy Session at UN for UNSCR 1820: Sexual Violence
IWTC BLOG TRACKS STRATEGY SESSION ON USING UNSCR 1820 TO
COMBAT SEXUAL VIOLENCE, SEPT 21-25, 2009
The International Women's Tribune Centre is hosting a blog to track the
currents and conversations between participants at a strategy session where
women from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra
Leone, Burma, Nepal, the Netherlands and Canada will come together to share
experiences on their work with implementing international policies like
Security Council Resolution (SCR) 1325 in conflict-affected countries, and
begin a strategic and practical ³grounding² in their work with SCR 1820.
This important resolution recognizes sexual violence as a tactic of war and
links it with the maintenance of international peace and security.
The goal of the session is to develop country- specific strategies and
explore collective strategies for the full implementation of SCR 1820, and
to examine which components of this resolution have relevance to each
participant¹s country.
The blog will include papers and documents on SCR 1820; photographs, video
and mini-interviews with participants; day-to-day updates and blog posts
from participants; and the strategies that emerge as the session unfolds.
Find out more about the session and check online for updates at:
www.iwtc.org/1820blog
Joe ta Bose
Assistant Programme Officer
International Women's Tribune Centre
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 1212-687-8633
Fax: 1212-661-2704
Email: <joey@iwtc.org>
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| 23 Sep 2009 - 08:08 | Equitas, International Human Rights Training Program
ihrtp-pifdh@equitas.org
URL: www.equitas.org/english/programs/IHRTP.p . . .
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31st annual International Human Rights Training Program, June 6 – June 25, 2010
Information about the International Human Rights Training Program
2010 Application Form
Memorandum of Agreement
We are delighted to announce that the application period for the 31st annual International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) is now open and we will be accepting applications until November 21st, 2009. We look forward to another inspiring three-week program and the opportunity to meet more than 120 participants from around the world.
The IHRTP is intended for human rights workers and educators from non-governmental organizations, National Human Rights Institutions, government bodies and educational institutions. The goal of the IHRTP is to strengthen the capacity of human rights organizations to undertake human rights education efforts aimed at building a global culture of human rights. The curriculum is based on principles of adult experiential learning in which participants and facilitators engage in a process of mutual teaching and learning.
“This training program is an important Canadian contribution to the spread of human rights and democratic principles around the world,” says Ian Hamilton, Executive Director of Equitas. “Through the IHRTP, participants gain greater confidence in their abilities as well as the skills and motivation to become effective human rights champions upon their return home”.
If you wish to attend the 2010 IHRTP, find below information about the application process, the application form and the memorandum of agreement. Please note that the application form, the memorandum of agreement and the other supporting documents must be received BEFORE November 21st, 2009.
More info...
www.equitas.org/english/programs/IHRTP.php
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| 22 Sep 2009 - 15:11 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09092202-Insi . . .
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Por sus omisiones y negligencias en el feminicidio en Juárez
Insisten organizaciones civiles en no ratificar a Chávez Chávez
Por Lourdes Godínez Leal
México, 22 sep. 09 (CIMAC).- La Comisión de Justicia del senado de la República determinó ayer que Arturo Chávez Chávez “cumple con los requisitos” para ser Procurador General de la República, pese a los señalamientos nacionales e internacionales documentados en su contra que lo señalan como un funcionario “omiso y negligente” en la impartición de justicia en el tema del feminicidio, ejecuciones extrajudiciales y desapariciones durante su mandato como Procurador de Justicia de Chihuahua.
Durante la comparecencia ante dicha comisión, presidida por el senador Alejandro González Alcocer, que tuvo lugar la tarde-noche de ayer, se acordó que se emitirá el dictamen correspondiente en el que se considera que Chávez cumple con los requisitos que lo hacen elegible al cargo de Procurador General de la República.
El dictamen tendrá que presentarse al pleno del senado, que definirá la ratificación o no de Chávez Chávez como procurador general de justicia durante la próxima sesión ordinaria.
Durante su exposición ante los senadores, el candidato de Felipe Calderón, Arturo Chávez, no pudo evitar el tema del feminicidio en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, en el que, reconoció, “hubo errores, omisiones y negligencias”, pero del cual no se responsabilizó.
PENDIENTES, LOS FEMINICIDIOS DE JUÁREZ
El exprocurador evadió contestar si el feminicidio debe ser tipificado como delito e insistió en presentar “resultados” de “algunos casos resueltos” durante su gestión al frente de la Procuraduría estatal
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09092202-Insisten-organizaci.39402.0.html
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| 22 Sep 2009 - 15:04 | Post Star
URL: www.poststar.com/articles/2009/09/19/new . . .
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Punished for abuse
Domestic abuse victims often face troubles at work
By BLAKE JONES
Domestic violence at the workplace may sound like a contradiction of sorts, but abuse often follows its victims from home to work, spilling over from their personal lives into their professional lives.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of domestic violence victims, 96 percent, experience work-related problems, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control. About 30 percent of victims lose their jobs because of it, the report says.
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www.poststar.com/articles/2009/09/19/news/local/doc4ab59bb199b76087799190.txt
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| 22 Sep 2009 - 09:31 | National Center for State Courts
URL: www.ncsc.org/Web%20Documents/FutureTrend . . .
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Report:
Future Trends in State Courts
National Center for State Courts
see
www.ncsc.org/Web%20Documents/FutureTrends2009.pdf
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| 22 Sep 2009 - 09:17 | Amnesty International
URL: www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/repo . . .
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Maternal death rate in Sierra Leone is a "human rights emergency"
© Amnesty International
21 September 2009
As world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York to discuss increased funding for healthcare in developing countries, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has launched a campaign to reduce maternal deaths in Sierra Leone.
The report Out of Reach: The Cost of Maternal Health in Sierra Leone uses graphic and personal testimonials to show how women and girls are often unable access lifesaving treatment because they are too poor to pay for it.
In Sierra Leone, one in eight women risk dying during pregnancy or childbirth. This is one of the highest maternal death rates in the world.
Thousands of women bleed to death after giving birth. Most die in their homes. Some die on the way to hospital; in taxis, on motorbikes or on foot. In Sierra Leone, less than half of deliveries are attended by a skilled birth attendant and less than one in five are carried out in health facilities.
"These grim statistics reveal that maternal deaths are a human rights emergency in Sierra Leone," said Irene Khan, launching the report in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
"Women and girls are dying in the thousands because they are routinely denied their right to life and health, in spite of promises from the government to provide free healthcare to all pregnant women."
At the United Nations General Assembly meeting on 23 September, access to healthcare in the developing world will be high on the agenda.
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www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/maternal-death-rate-sierra-leone-quothuman-rights-emergencyquot-20090921
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| 22 Sep 2009 - 09:06 | National Organization fro Men Against Sexism
unechristensen@oregonsatf.org
URL: www.sati.oregonsatf.org/roots.html
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National SA Conference 10/28-10/30--Roots of Change: Men, Sex and Justice
*PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY*
Registration for the 34th Annual National Organization for Men Against Sexism's (www.nomas.org) Men and Masculinities Conference and the 21st Men's Studies Association Meeting is now open. The Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force (SATF) is organizing the conference for October 28-30 in partnership with the Portland State University Women's Resource Center. This year's theme is "Roots of Change: Men, Sex and Justice," focusing on the whys, hows and implications of engaging men in the primary prevention of sexual violence.
The conference will feature a plenary addresses and workshops from noted national speakers Luoluo Hong (www.luoluohong.com) and Byron Hurt (www.bhurt.com), and additional workshops from Rus Funk (Men's Work), David Lee (CalCASA), Lydia Guy Ortiz, Vanessa Timmons and many others. Over 30 workshops cover foundational trainings, discussions, and practical applications across five subject tracks: Campus Violence Prevention, Culture and Community, Engaging Men, Sex Industry and Youth Violence Prevention.
We are excited to offer three days of quality of content and programming for a low registration fee of $150, or $75 for students. A limited number of scholarships are available as needed.
For more information, please see the conference website: www.sati.oregonsatf.org/roots.html
Questions about registration, contact June Christensen junechristensen@oregonsatf.org
Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force
859 Liberty St NE
Salem, OR 97301
P: 503.990.6541
F: 503.990.6547
www.oregonsatf.org
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| 22 Sep 2009 - 08:57 | Kimber Nicoletti, Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault (MESA)
mesa@ydae.purdue.edu
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MESA 10th Annual Multicultural Gathering to End Sexual Assault
We hope that you will plan to attend the 10th Anniversary of the Multicultural Gathering.
Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault (MESA)
(formerly under the program name CARe) "Called Together to End Sexual Violence"
10th Annual Multicultural Gathering Co-sponsored by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center
October 6-7, 2009
Adam's Mark Hotel
2544 Executive Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46241
Some of the scheduled presentations:
National Indian Justice Center
Dr. Robert Kirchner
Migrant Clinician Network
Hombres Unidos program
Strong Oak's Speaking in Sacred Circles
Social Marketing: Multicultural Initiatives (Rose Luna from TAASA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Esperanza Project: Legal Initiative for Immigrant Women
About the Gathering:
October 6-7, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana
MESA's 10th Annual Multicultural Gathering: Called Together to End Sexual Violence
Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault (MESA)'s Multicultural Gathering which is co-sponsored by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center is a national event that focuses on developing strategies for sexual violence prevention in under-served and under-represented communities. This gathering continues to focus on ending violence and giving voice to the needs of Latina, Muslim, Asian, African-American/Black, Native American, Indigenous and all Ethnically/Racially diverse Communities.
This Multicultural Gathering will provide people from under-served and under-represented communities from all over the country the opportunity to connect and mobilize around all forms of violence. The Gathering will be held at the Adams Mark Hotel and registration is $50.00. For further information or to register, please contact: mesa@ydae.purdue.edu<mailto:mesa@ydae.pu rdue.edu>! ;
About Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault (MESA)
MESA is a statewide program housed on the Purdue University campus that works to engage and mobilize under-served and under-represented communities in sexual violence prevention efforts. MESA has ongoing efforts in Migrant Farm Worker, Native American, Latino and other Multicultural communities.
For more information or to receive registration information, please contact mesa@ydae.purdue.edu<mailto:mesa@ydae.pu rdue.edu>
Registration: $50.00
Lodging: $94.00 Please request the Purdue University block of rooms to receive conference rate
CEU's will be offered
Kimber J Nicoletti, MSW
Director
Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault(MESA)
Purdue University
231 S. University Street
SERV Bldg Room 32
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765-496-3492 office
765-496-7383 fax
knicolet@purdue.
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| 21 Sep 2009 - 13:06 | Indian Country Today
URL: www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/5933 . . .
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Women warriors take on domestic violence and sexual assault
By Tanya Lee, Today correspondent
Story Published: Sep 18, 2009
From North Dakota to Arizona, strong, talented, accomplished Native American women are taking up the challenge of protecting themselves and their sisters, their mothers and aunts, their grandmothers and granddaughters, from the devastation of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/59339272.html
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| 21 Sep 2009 - 09:21 | Centro Flora Tristan
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URL: www.flora.org.pe/pdfs/seminario_Feminism . . .
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Peru: Flora Tristan
30 anos, Reflexionando nuestros feminismos
En el marco de las celebraciones por su aniversario, el Centro Flora Tristán está organizando el seminario “Reflexionando nuestros feminismos”, los días jueves 24 y viernes 25 de septiembre, de 9 a.m. a 7 p.m
Ver programa seminario:
www.flora.org.pe/pdfs/seminario_Feminismos.pdf
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| 21 Sep 2009 - 09:07 | Intimate and Domestic Violence Homicides
URL: domesticviolencenews.blogspot.com/
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Intimate and Domestic Violence Homicides in the News:
A compilation of daily news articles about intimate violence homicides and suicides from around the United States. I wonder when society is going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
See:
domesticviolencenews.blogspot.com/
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| 21 Sep 2009 - 08:41 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2009/09/02/i . . .
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HOME VISITING PROGRAMS TOUTED BY OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF BOTH WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Programs Have Attracted Attention as Part of Health Care Reform and President’s “Common Ground” Initiative Around Abortion
Home visiting programs that would be significantly expanded under a new initiative proposed by the Obama administration have demonstrated modest but important benefits for children and significant benefits for women, according to a new policy analysis published in the Summer 2009 issue of the Guttmacher Policy Review. Home visiting programs pair new families—particularly low-income, single-parent ones—with trained professionals who provide parenting information, resources and support throughout a child’s first few years.
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www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2009/09/02/index.html
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| 21 Sep 2009 - 08:34 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/12/3/gpr1203 . . .
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Guttmacher Policy Review
Home Visiting for At Risk Families: A Primer On a Major Obama Administration Initiative
By Heather D. Boonstra
See Policy Review
www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/12/3/gpr120311.html
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