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| 30 Aug 2009 - 09:23 | Gordon Brown and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/gordon-brown/taki . . .
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Taking Women's Rights Seriously
by Gordon Brown and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The sustained degradation and subjugation of girls and women remains the world's most pervasive human rights violation.
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| 29 Aug 2009 - 09:51 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2411
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Dictan sentencia a favor de Lydia Cacho
La demanda del pederasta Jean Succar Kuri pedía resarcir “daño moral”
Lourdes Godínez Leal
México, 28 agosto 09. AmecoPress/CIMAC.- Lydia Cacho periodista, y defensora de derechos humanos de las mujeres, ganó el juicio civil por el que en 2007 la demandara Edith Encalada Cetina, una de las primeras víctimas del pederasta preso Jean Succar Kuri y quien le exigía una indemnización por daño moral por haber narrado su vida en Los Demonios del Edén.
En entrevista telefónica, la periodista, detenida y torturada durante su traslado de Cancún a Puebla en 2005, tras haber publicado este libro donde revela una red de pornografía y pederastia que involucra a políticos y empresarios encabezados por Jean Succar Kuri, informó que el viernes pasado la jueza del Juzgado 17 de lo civil en el Distrito Federal, Rosario Mancera le notificó que había ganado el juicio.
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| 29 Aug 2009 - 09:38 | Catalyst
URL: www.catalyst.org/file/304/woc_law-report . . .
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Report
Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms
See...
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| 29 Aug 2009 - 09:27 | Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
URL: www.wcsap.org/pdf/IPSV%20Booklet%202nd%2 . . .
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New from the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
Intimate Partner Sexual Assault
Sexual Assault in the Context of Domestic Violence
See...
www.wcsap.org/pdf/IPSV%20Booklet%202nd%20Edition%20Summer%2009.pdf
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| 29 Aug 2009 - 09:04 | Guardian UK
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/28/w . . .
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Women three times more likely to be arrested for domestic violence
Guardian, UK
While the vast majority of perpetrators of domestic violence are men, women are arrested in three of every 10 incidents and men in only one of 10, a study says
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| 28 Aug 2009 - 21:55 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09082802-Pide . . .
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Ante la indiferencia del Ombudsman yucateco
Piden organismos de DH “salvaguardar” derechos sexuales y reproductivos
De la Redacción
México, 28 agosto 09 (CIMAC).- La Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos (AMDH), a través del Vigía ciudadano del Ombudsman, exhortó al presidente de la Comisión estatal de Derechos Humanos de Yucatán, Jorge Victoria Maldonado, para que presente “el recurso legal” correspondiente tras las reformas constitucionales que protegen la vida desde el momento de la concepción (sic) y que van en detrimento de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres.
Este es el segundo exhorto en menos de un mes que las organizaciones civiles le hacen al Ombudsman yucateco, que a la fecha aun no fija su postura al respecto.
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| 28 Aug 2009 - 21:48 | Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault
URL: www.iowacasa.org
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Friends of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault,
We have openings for several new positions. We would very much
appreciate your help in disseminating these widely. The Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a vibrant organization working to unite people and organizations to promote a society free from sexual violence and to meet the diverse needs of survivors. IowaCASA has a commitment to working with communities of color, immigrant, and other underserved
communities to address sexual assault issues.
For more complete details please visit our website at www.iowacasa.org
For all positions - Position open until filled by qualified applicant.
Email inquires only, please.
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| 28 Aug 2009 - 09:31 | Orlando Sentinel
URL: www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/break . . .
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Orlando police fire 911 dispatcher who took calls in January murder-suicide
Alan F. Ballard, 60, says in his rebuttal that he couldn't have done anything to alter the outcome.
From Staff Reports
Orlando police fired a 911 dispatcher Thursday who handled calls seeking help for a kidnapped woman who was found slain hours later, a department spokeswoman said.
Police ruled Alan F. Ballard, 60, made several mistakes in the case of Loyta Sloley, 24, who was found Jan. 27 on the floor of a downtown Orlando hotel room, shot at least four times. Her ex-boyfriend James Clayton, 46, was collapsed on top of her, dead of a single gunshot to the head.
The morning of Sloley's death, Ballard told her she was making police "do a lot of work that we don't need to be doing," according to a recording of the call. He also failed to warn his supervisor that the case was urgent, an internal investigation found.
"Our employees have to be held accountable for their actions," police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said
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| 28 Aug 2009 - 09:22 | Michael Flood
mflood@vichealth.vic.gov.au
URL: www.xyonline.net
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Dear friends and colleagues,
I am thrilled to launch the new XY website. As you may know, XY represents one of the most substantial resources on men, masculinities, and gender on the internet. XY is comprehensive, cutting-edge, and global. You can find the site at the same address as before, www.xyonline.net.
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
michael flood.
Dr Michael Flood
Research Leader
Violence Against Women Program
VicHealth & La Trobe University Partnership
Email: mflood@vichealth.vic.gov.au
Web: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/staff/m ichael_flood.htm
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 16:14 | Human Rights Education Associates
URL: www.hrea.org
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UNITED NATIONS Press Release
27/08/2009
GENEVA – South African lawyer Rashida Manjoo, advocate of the High Court of South Africa and academic in the field of human rights, assumed her mandate as the new UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences.
"Violence against women violates human dignity as well as numerous rights, including the right to equality, physical integrity, freedom and non-discrimination" said Ms. Manjoo, who was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council for an initial period of three years at the 11th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2009.
"I believe that equality and equal protection doctrines demand that we address violence against women, in all its manifestations, as discrimination against women. It is my hope to work within this framework during my mandate," she stressed.
The new UN independent expert has taught and conducted research at a number of universities. Most recently she was the Des Lee Distinguished Visiting Professor at Webster University, USA where she taught courses in human rights with a particular focus on women's human rights and transitional justice.
Ms. Manjoo has also served as a clinical instructor and as the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. She is also a Research Associate in the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
In addition to her academic credentials, the new Special Rapporteur is the former Parliamentary Commissioner of the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE), a constitutional body mandated to oversee the promotion and protection of gender equality. Prior to this appointment she was involved in training programs for judges and lawyers at the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
The new independent expert was also involved in setting up both a national and a provincial network on violence against women and is the founder of the Gender Unit at the Law Clinic at the University of Natal as well as the Domestic Violence Assistance Programme at the Durban Magistrates Court (the first such project in a court in South Africa).
Ms. Manjoo succeeds Dr. Yakin Ertürk (Turkey), who served from August 2003 - July 2009, and Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy (Sri Lanka), 1994 - July 2003.
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HREA - www.hrea.org
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies.
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 15:55 | Jurie austin
jurieaustin@yahoo.com
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Hello,
i am writing for advice for my mother who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for pouring grease on my setp-dad while he was trying to kill her. So many things went wrong during her trail. The lawyer missed deadlines, didn't present certain evidence, and people on the jury knew my mother as well as my step-father. I was also told that a couple of the guys on the jury voted not guilty changed their verdict due to them having tocome back the next day and the couldn't afford to mix another day at work. My step father was also abusive to my brothers and I.
Many people who knew what was going on didn't even get a chance to testify or tell their story about what was going on. SO on so many different levels this was an unfair case. I am looking for ways to get my mother out of prison because she is innocent. My mother was only defending us and herself. What kind of message are we sending by letting a the abusers go free? Our justice system is their to protect people like my mom and so many other people. This time they failed us. Anyone who is able to help, please help me and my family.
jurie austin
jurieaustin@yahoo.com
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 15:36 | Malcolm Potts, LA Times
URL: www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-potts . . .
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Opinion
The war for Afghanistan's women
It's not worth risking U.S. lives unless we raise the status of Afghan women.
By Malcolm Potts
There are two wars going on in Afghanistan. One is to defeat the Taliban, and that war is not going well. The other is to liberate women, and that war has hardly begun. If the first war is won but the second is lost, Afghanistan will turn into a failed state -- a caldron of violence and misery, home to extremism and totally outside the Western orbit of influence.
Last week's election, however imperfect, is welcome, but it means little as long as women remain enslaved in this patriarchal, tradition-bound culture. In most of the country, a woman needs her husband's permission to leave her home. Domestic violence is tragically common. Indeed, the government elected in 2004 passed, and President Hamid Karzai signed into law, legislation legalizing marital rape. Older men use their wealth and power to marry young women. In April, according to news reports, when a teenage Afghan girl called Gulsima eloped with a boy her own age instead of marrying an older man, she and the boyfriend were shot to death in front of the mosque in the southwest province of Nimrod.
Currently, Afghanistan is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman, and -- as is the case everywhere women's rights are nonexistent or in decline -- the birthrate is high. Afghan women have an average of about seven children, and the population has been doubling about every 20 years. Today it is 34 million. According to U.N. estimates, by 2050 it could reach a staggering 90 million. That rapid population growth and the demographics that go with it drive most of Afghanistan's worst problems.
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 08:43 | National Women's Law Center
URL: www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3631§ion . . .
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Dear Friend,
"I want to have what my parents didn't ... I want to be someone in life."
This is the voice of just one of the many Latina girls we interviewed for our new report Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation
www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3631§ion=education
Many Latina girls are dreaming big. They're aspiring to become doctors, lawyers, nurses, and scientists. But far too many face serious barriers to graduation.
Latinas are dropping out of school in alarming numbers. Forty-one percent of Latina students do not graduate with their class in four years -- if they graduate at all. Many Latina students face challenges related to poverty, immigration status, limited English proficiency, and damaging gender and ethnic stereotypes. And Latinas, who have the highest teen pregnancy rate of any ethnic group, are at a
high risk of dropping out because of pregnancy and parenting responsibilities.
To help keep girls in school and on track for success, the National Women's Law Center and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund went straight to the source: Latina students and the adults who work with them every day. Our new report, Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation, explores the causes of the dropout crisis for Latinas and identifies the actions needed to improve their graduation rates and get them ready for college.
Download the report today -- and find out how you can get involved.
http://action.nwlc.org/site/R?i=VTtaXP 4k8Pf2WkdKWbGcyQ..
Particularly in today's global economy, our nation cannot afford to leave any of our children behind. We must ensure that every girl and every boy can achieve their dreams and that our nation can benefit from their talents.
Sincerely,
Fatima Goss Graves,
Vice President for Education and Employment,
National Women's Law Center
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 08:35 | Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center
brookeg@866uswomen.org
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Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center Press Release
American Domestic Violence Crisis Line Announces Name Change &
Redesigned Website with New Features
The American Domestic Violence Crisis Line has a new name: The Americans
Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center. The organization's scope and
continuum of services was not reflected in the previous name. According
to Paula Lucas, Founder & Executive Director, "We have evolved from an
advocacy and referral hotline to an organization that provides holistic
services to Americans abused abroad including case management, danger to
safety relocation, legal consultations for mothers seeking divorce and
custody, payment of initial legal retainers, housing assistance and
funds to help with emergency needs such as issuing American passports.
We often work with families for years before they are able to be safe
either back in the USA or in the foreign country."
Americans experiencing domestic violence overseas seeking the
organization's help can see immediately on the home page the three ways
to contact domestic violence advocates trained on international issues
facing Americans abroad: call internationally toll free 24/6, email, or
go onto live chat.
The website address, www.866uswomen.org <http://www.866uswomen.org/> ,
remains the same, as does the international toll free hotline number,
866-USWOMEN, and all other phone numbers and email addresses.
Live Chat Now Available
Our new live chat feature will add an additional secure, confidential
method of contact for abuse victims who may not be ready to email or
pick up the phone and call the Crisis Center. Having such an option may
add a comfort level of anonymity that will encourage more American
victims overseas to reach out for help.
In this initial launch, Live Chat will be available M-F, 9am - 4pm, PST.
Additional hours will be incrementally added and will be posted on the
website, www.866uswomen.org <http://www.866uswomen.org/>
Washingt on DC Information Session - Friday, September 18th, 9:30A
Join us at the office of NNEDV for a one hour information session about
the services the Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center
offers to American domestic violence victims overseas and those who have
fled back home for safety.
National Network to End Domestic Violence, NNEDV
2001 S Street NW, Suite 400
Washington DC 20009
Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP Brooke Galloway, brookeg@866uswomen.org
<mailto:brookeg@ 866uswomen.org> or visit DC Information Session for
more information.
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 08:30 | Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center
help@866uswomen.org
URL: www.866uswomen.org/Docs/Toolkit.pdf
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Toolkit
American Family Violence in Foreign Countries
www.866uswomen.org/Docs/Toolkit.pdf
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| 27 Aug 2009 - 07:23 | Huffington Post
URL: online.wsj.com/article/SB125132812733462 . . .
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Abortion Is New Front in Health Battle Article Comments
By FAWN JOHNSON and LAURA MECKLER
WASHINGTON -- Anti-abortion groups are gearing up for a battle in the fall over health-care legislation, another headache for Democrats who already face concerns about the measure's cost and reach.
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| 26 Aug 2009 - 08:50 | Sandra, Chaher, Artemisa Noticias
URL: www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.a . . .
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Golpeada hasta la inconciencia
Por Sandra Chaher | 20.8.2009
Una periodista del estado de Guerrero, en México, es la víctima de un caso de violencia de género en el que habría negligencia médica y encubrimiento de las autoridades.
Carmen Santiago fue terriblemente golpeada por su ex pareja el 25 de julio. Aunque su estado era grave, el hombre la retiró de la institución y la escondió. El caso podría haber sido un femicidio si las colegas de ella no hubieran presionado por su aparición. Hoy Carmen se recupera con pronóstico complicado en una institución médica del DF mientras su ex pareja fue liberado bajo fianza.
El caso de Carmen Santiago Hernández, de 35 años, es tan grave como cualquier otro de violencia de género. Pero ella es periodista y eso fue quizá lo que la salvó de la muerte aunque no de un futuro muy comprometido.
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| 26 Aug 2009 - 08:25 | Gabriela Barcaglioni, Artemisa Noticias
URL: www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.a . . .
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Las cuentas de la violencia
Por Gabriela Barcaglioni | 26.8.2009
A partir de cuatro historias de vida, cinco escritoras trabajaron la violencia de género. El resultado fue un libro que denuncia la violencia machista en España poniendo en palabras el dolor y la tragedia de cualquier mujer víctima de violencia.
Cinco escritoras españolas comprometidas contra la violencia de género -Ángeles Caso, Espido Freire, Rosa Regàs, Eugenia Rico y Lourdes Ventura- escucharon el relato en primera persona de cuatro mujeres que en algún momento de sus vidas, en ocasiones a lo largo de muchos años, sufrieron malos tratos por parte de sus parejas y amalgamaron esos testimonios con sus comentarios. La palabra de la quinta de esas mujeres, asesinada por su maltratador, cobró vida en boca de su hijo que tenía dos años cuando se produjo el crimen.
5x2=9 (Editorial Península) es una reflexión narrativa y documental sobre la violencia que maridos, ex maridos, parejas o ex parejas, amantes o ex amantes ejercen sobre las mujeres en una sociedad donde las relaciones entre varones y mujeres siguen pautadas por el patriarcado. El título no expresa una operación matemática sino la tragedia que encierra la violencia contra las mujeres, porque 2x5 es 10, sin embargo el error pone de manifiesto que una de esas mujeres no está, Maricarmen asesinada por su ex marido en 1972.
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www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.asp?id=26&idnota=6673
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| 25 Aug 2009 - 18:56 | California Administrative Office of Courts, Office of Court Research
URL: www.courtinfo.ca.gov/reference/batintsys . . .
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Batterer Intervention Systems in California - an Evaluation
California Office of Court Research
www.courtinfo.ca.gov/reference/batintsys.htm
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| 25 Aug 2009 - 18:33 | American Probation and Parole Association
URL: www.appa-net.org/eweb/docs/APPA/pubs/CCR . . .
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Community Corrections Manual on Domestic Violence:
Guidelines for Practice
American Proabtion and Parole Association
www.appa-net.org/eweb/docs/APPA/pubs/CCRDV.pdf
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| 25 Aug 2009 - 09:23 | Paula.cl
URL: www.paula.cl/blog/reportaje/2009/08/24/r . . .
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Rehabilitando al macho chileno
Reportajes
Cuatro terapeutas han desarrollado una fórmula revolucionaria para detener la violencia contra las mujeres en Cerro Navia: no se enfocan en tratar a las víctimas, sino en rehabilitar a los hombres que las agreden haciendo que se conecten con sus emociones. El proyecto, que ha tenido un éxito nunca visto en el país, apuesta a crear un nuevo tipo de macho chileno.
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| 25 Aug 2009 - 09:10 | Dia a Dia
URL: www.comfia.info/noticias/51292.html
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El acoso sexual en el trabajo. Por fin sancionado
Uruguay se convirtió esta semana en uno de los pocos países latinoamericanos que penalizan el acoso sexual en el ámbito laboral y educativo, público o privado.
21-08-2009 - El proyecto, aprobado de manera definitiva el martes 18 en el parlamento luego de dos años de haber sido presentado, identifica bajo esa figura "todo comportamiento de naturaleza sexual, realizado por persona de igual o distinto sexo, no deseado por la persona a que va dirigido y cuyo rechazo le produzca o amenace a producirle un perjuicio en su situación laboral o de relación docente".
El acoso sexual constituye un “abuso de poder” y "una lesión a los derechos fundamentales de trabajadores y trabajadoras: el derecho a la no discriminación y el derecho a la intimidad, relacionado con el derecho a la dignidad, el derecho a la seguridad y a la salud en el trabajo, el derecho a la libertad sexual y el derecho a trabajar en un ambiente libre de violencia”. Genera asimismo "profundas distorsiones en la salud física y mental" de sus víctimas, señala igualmente la ley, promovida por los ministerios de Trabajo, Educación y Cultura y Desarrollo Social.
El texto prevé sanciones tanto para quien cometiera el acto como, para la empresa en el que se produjo, bajo determinadas circunstancias, contempla asimismo distintos niveles de indemnizaciones para la víctima y castiga al igual “la promesa o la amenaza, implícita o explícita” de una mejoría de la situación actual del acosado a cambio de un “favor sexual”.
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| 25 Aug 2009 - 08:58 | Mas Voces
URL: masvoces.org/Colombia-la-violencia-contr . . .
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Colombia: la violencia contra la mujer en el conflicto armado
La Fiscalía colombiana ha revelado la existencia de 183 procesos por abuso sexual a más de 500 mujeres durante el conflicto armado. Entre los vinculados por violación aparecen ex jefes paramilitares que ya habían sido extraditados a Estados Unidos, entre ellos Salvatore Mancuso y Rodrigo Tovar. Ambos estarían vinculados a actos de violación perpetrados en los departamentos Sucre y Bolívar.
Además a los dos ex paramilitares se les imputa torturas y homicidios. La Fiscalía colombiana investiga si los mismos delitos fueron cometidos por las fuerzas policiales o miembros del Ejército.
Durante el conflicto armado, paramilitares y fuerzas del Ejército, policía y guerrilla han cometido violaciones contra los derechos humanos. El uso de la violencia contra la población civil es constante y se usa la violencia sexual como arma de guerra. Las violaciones de mujeres jóvenes y niñas han servido para atemorizar a la población civil y obligarla a abandonar sus hogares o tierras.
Descargar audio
masvoces.org/Colombia-la-violencia-contra-la-mujer-en-el-conflicto
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| 24 Aug 2009 - 09:58 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: community.icontact.com/p/default46/newsl . . .
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EXPECTATIONS THAT ABORTION PILL WOULD DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE ABORTION ACCESS HAVE NOT BEEN REALIZED
While Becoming an Integral Part of Abortion Provision,
Mifepristone Has Not Expanded Geographic Access
Prior to FDA approval in 2000, mifepristone for medication abortion was described as having the potential to change the nature of abortion provision in the United States. There was an expectation that abortion would become more easily accessible, particularly in rural areas without a surgical abortion provider. But new research published in the September 2009 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology suggests that, although use of mifepristone has become widespread and has contributed to the shift toward earlier abortions, its use has not improved women’s geographic access to abortion services.
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