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| 31 Oct 2009 - 09:21 | Legal Momentum
URL: legalmomentum.typepad.com/blog/
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New U.S. Crime Reports: Flawed Methodology Sharply Underestimates Rape Rates Against Women and Persons with Disabilities
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| 31 Oct 2009 - 08:31 | National Partnership for Women and Families
URL: www.nationalpartnership.org/site/News2?a . . .
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JOURNAL REVIEW
National Survey Finds Significant Unmet Need for Domestic Violence Services
October 29, 2009 — Summary of "The Dangerous Shortage of Domestic Violence Services," Iyengar/Sabik, Health Affairs, September 2009.
Domestic violence is a preventable but serious public health problem in the U.S., with more than 30 million people in the country experiencing some type of domestic violence each year. However, little information exists about the availability of federally funded services for people who experience domestic violence. Radha Iyengar, an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Lindsay Sabik, a graduate student in health policy at Harvard University, used the National Census of Domestic Violence Services to analyze the services available through domestic violence intervention programs in the U.S. Over a single 24-hour survey period in November 2006, 160 programs responded to service requests from 48,350 people. However, more than 5,000 of those requests could not be met because of a shortage of resources.
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| 31 Oct 2009 - 08:23 | Sally Schaeffer, Family Violence Prevention Fund
sally@fvpf.org
URL: docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pd . . .
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health care reform and domestic violence - First big hurdle done!
Friends: Please note that a provision supported by the Family Violence
Prevention Fund was included in the House's health care reform bill
unveiled yesterday by Speaker Pelosi. I've been speaking to most of you
about this, but I wanted to share the news with some folks who may not
have been following it as closely. Rep. Slaughter successfully got the
provision incorporated for us with the support of Chairman Waxman and
Speaker Pelosi.
It has the HHS Secretary support the need for private insurers and the
new Gateway to reimburse for domestic violence assessment and brief
counseling as part of behavioral health assessment or primary care
visits. This builds on a lot of work done in the field for many years
aimed at improving health care system's response to violence and abuse.
We were able to make the link to chronic health costs and the fact that
a two-min. screening can be effective for the detection of abuse of
pregnant women
Another piece we supported would add domestic violence nondiscrimination
under pre-existing conditions section. Many groups joined us in
supporting this protection and it was in the earlier bill but the
Committee staff suggested having it take effect immediately - Jan. 1,
2010. As you probably know, a lot of the provisions in the bill will
take effect over time.
The next step is to wait for the House bill to be voted on and approved
which is scheduled to happen before Veterans Day on Nov. 11th and then
work to keep it in the final conference bill.
If you want to see the specific language, check out Pages 41 and 109!
docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
Take care, Sally
Sally Schaeffer
Senior Public Policy Advocate
Family Violence Prevention Fund
1101 14th Street, NW | Suite 300 | Washington, DC
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| 30 Oct 2009 - 09:14 | New York Times
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For Runaways, Sex Buys Survival
Monica Almeida/The New York Times
ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran away from her group home in Medford, Ore., and spent weeks sleeping in parks and under bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark, 14 years old, grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would come later.
They had sex, and he soon became her boyfriend. Then one day he threatened to kick her out if she did not have sex with several of his friends in exchange for money.
She agreed, fearing she had no choice. “Where was I going to go?” said Nicole, now 17 and living here, just down the Interstate from Medford. That first exchange of money for sex led to a downward spiral of prostitution that lasted for 14 months, until she escaped last year from a pimp who she said often locked her in his garage apartment for months
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| 30 Oct 2009 - 08:48 | Amana Media Initiative
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Women's Peace Offensive
Written by Beena Sarwar
KABUL, Oct 18 (IPS) - ‘Give peace a chance’ may just be another cliché for many, but for women who have suffered the ravages of war, endless strife and other forms of conflict, joining hands to find meaningful solutions to their collective aspiration lends it a whole new meaning.
Within the South Asian region, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan have for decades been torn by internal and external conflicts that have cried out for, but have not quite found, a lasting resolution.
"We waited for a long time to see what the men would do for peace," Zahira Khattak, a member the think-tank formed by Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP), told IPS.
For Khattak and scores of other women in this region, not only has peace proved elusive, they have also been left out of much of the peace efforts by their respective states.
"Why should this be so?" argued Khattak. "For 5,000 years women have been sitting in ‘jirgas’ (tribal councils), at least in Afghanistan. We have ‘jirgas’ all over Pakistan’s tribal areas also, and we thought why not introduce this concept?" Aware of the repercussions of remaining silent on a host of issues, including peace and security, that affect them as much as men, women today are increasingly raising their voice in a bid to be heard in the corridors of power and at the policymaking levels.
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| 30 Oct 2009 - 08:38 | Vidas Anonimas
URL: joseluiscamara.blogspot.com/2009/10/rede . . .
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Redes de proxenetas de Colombia ofrecen prostitutas menores a jubilados a cambio de sus pensiones
Según el balance de operativos contra la prostitución infantil, en ciudades colombianas como Pereira las redes de proxenetas ofrecen los servicios a señores que reciben sus pagos a fin de mes.
No en vano, el fin de semana pasado la secretaria de Salud y de Gobierno de Pereira realizaron los operativos que permitieron identificar redes de proxenetas que se dedican a explotar sexualmente a menores de edad, principalmente en el centro de la capital risaraldense. "Sabemos que hay redes que se alistan para ofrecerles los servicios a los señores que reciben el pago de su pensión. Tenemos también un trabajo para detectar a las personas que compran estos servicios, pues esta es una manera de acabar con el negocio", reveló Secretario de Gobierno de Pereira, Jhon Diego Molina.
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| 30 Oct 2009 - 08:28 | Sage Publications
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Abstract
Reframing Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation: Evan Stark’s
Coercive Control.*
Libal K, Parekh S. *Violence Against Women* 2009; ePublished October 15, 2009
Evan Stark claims that partner-perpetrated physical abuse and other forms of violence against women ought to be understood as a human rights violation. The authors engage Stark’s rhetorically powerful political and analytical innovation by outlining one theoretical and one practical challenge to shifting the paradigm that researchers, advocates, and policy makers use to describe, explain, and remedy the harms of coercive control from misdemeanor assault to human rights violation. The theoretical challenge involves overcoming the public/private dichotomy that underpins liberal conceptions of human rights. The practical challenge involves using the human rights framework in the United States, given public indifference to human rights rhetoric or law, reluctance of U.S. policy makers to submit to scrutiny or justice-oriented processes under international law on issues of human rights and especially war crimes, and the consequent U.S. legacy of refusal to participate meaningfully in the international human rights process. The authors conclude that employing a human rights framework holds potential in the United States, but the paradigm shift Stark advocates will not materialize without widespread mobilization of interest in and understanding of human rights among domestic violence advocates and the society in general.
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| 30 Oct 2009 - 08:20 | Argenpress
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Violaciones sexuales no se denuncian en Centroamérica
CERIGUA
La violencia sexual contra las mujeres y las violaciones constituyen los delitos que menos se denuncian ante las autoridades, debido principalmente al temor y la vergüenza, así como a los costos sociales y económicos que representan dichos procesos, reveló el Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano para América Central 2009, del Programa de Naciones Unidas para Desarrollo (PNUD).
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| 29 Oct 2009 - 08:33 | Anon
URL: rmott62.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/pimps-l . . .
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Pimp's Language
Blog
rmott62.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/pimps-language/
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| 29 Oct 2009 - 08:16 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article2654
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La violencia de género, tercera causa de ingreso en prisión
La pena media de los maltratadores es de tres años y 10 meses
Madrid, 26 oct. 09. AmecoPress.- El delito por violencia de género se ha convertido en la tercera actividad delictiva que lleva a miles de hombres a prisión en España. Actualmente, hay 3.784 personas internadas en centros penitenciarios por esta causa, es decir el 5,7 por ciento de un total de 66.138 internos, según informó la subdirectora general de Tratamiento y Gestión Penitenciaria, Concepción Yagüe.
En el marco del III Congreso del Observatorio contra la Violencia Doméstica y de Género, que se ha celebrado en el Senado, la responsable de Instituciones Penitenciarias señaló que entre los motivos principales de estos presos por violencia machista destacan los malos tratos en un 34 por ciento de los casos, amenazas (14%) y por quebrantamiento de la pena o medida de alejamiento.
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| 29 Oct 2009 - 08:07 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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CASTIGO A INTERMEDIARIOS DE TRATA DE PERSONAS, UNA FORMA DE PREVENIR Y COMBATIR EL DELITO
Luanda.- Ayer concluyó la Conferencia Nacional sobre el Tráfico de Seres Humanos, realizada por el Ministerio del Interior en colaboración con el Escritorio de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) y el Gobierno de Noruega, celebrada en Angola con el objetivo de sensibilizar a la sociedad de ese país sobre las consecuencias de la trata de personas y de dotar a los participantes de conocimientos sólidos que les permitan prevenir y combatir el problema, informó la agencia de noticias Angola Press.
Durante la conferencia el ministro del Interior, Roberto Leal Ramos Monteiro, "Ngongo", abogó por castigar severamente a los potenciales intermediarios de seres humanos para frenar el fenómeno; además, indicó que varios estudios señalan que mujeres, niñas y niños son las principales víctimas de este flagelo.
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| 29 Oct 2009 - 07:56 | SF Chronicle
URL: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/ . . .
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Police try gentler strategy in tough Rio slums
Juan Forero, Washington Post
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Rio De Janeiro - --
The residents of Santa Marta, one of this violent city's many hillside slums, had never seen someone quite like the new police captain, a woman who strolled its maze of passageways to shake hands and ask residents what services the government might deliver.
They had also not seen officers quite like the ones she commanded. Instead of wearing riot gear, they had on soft blue berets, and instead of storming Santa Marta with guns blazing, a scene common to Rio's shantytowns, they came to generate goodwill with residents normally fearful of police.
The recent arrival of Capt. Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo and her officers was part of a new community-policing strategy that officials in Rio hope will curtail the kind of violence that erupted this month. Street gangs shot down a police helicopter, killing three police officers, and gunfights in the streets left more than 30 dead.
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| 29 Oct 2009 - 07:31 | Nadia Sanchez - Movimiento Manuela Ramos
nvaldivia@manuela.org.pe
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Comunicado Movimiento Manuela Ramos: Autoridades afirman que AOE no
La distribución de la AOE debe ser gratuita
AUTORIDADES AFIRMAN QUE AOE NO ES ABORTIVA
El Movimiento Manuela Ramos saluda las declaraciones hechas por el Ministro de Salud, Oscar Ugarte, quien señala que el Anticonceptivo Oral de Emergencia (AOE) no es abortivo y reafirma la importancia de su distribución gratuita en los servicios públicos de salud.
La AOE está amparada en numerosas investigaciones y en la opinión calificada de organismos científicos; instituciones nacionales como la Defensoría del Pueblo, El Colegio Médico del Perú y la Academia Peruana de la Salud, e internacionales, como Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), las que han puntualizado que la AOE no es abortiva y no impide la implantación del óvulo fecundado ya que no tiene efectos sobre el endometrio.
Durante una conferencia de prensa en el Hall de los Pasos Perdidos del Congreso de la República, hoy por la mañana, la congresista Hilda Guevara calificó de "inconstitucional" la sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional y señaló que los servicios del Ministerio de Salud debe garantizar la oferta de toda la gama de métodos anticonceptivos.
Mientras que mujeres de diferentes organizaciones sociales se pronunciaron contra el fallo del TC. Fidencia Rojas, promotora de Salud de la Casa del Bien-Estar de San Juan de Miraflores y María Temoche, coordinadora de la Asociación de Promotoras de los Derechos de las Mujeres de Comas, manifestaron que la prohibición de la distribución gratuita de la AOE es una vulneración a la salud de las mujeres, y recordaron que la AOE también es utilizada cuando una mujer es víctima de violencia sexual, quedando desamparada por parte del Estado, al no ser facilitada en los centros de salud.
El Movimiento Manuela Ramos reafirma, una vez más, su rechazo a la sentencia del TC que incumple con el compromiso de garantizar los derechos humanos de las mujeres por parte del Estado Peruano.
Lima, 26 de octubre de 2009
CON EL RUEGO DE SU DIFUSIÓN
Mayor información:
Nidia Sánchez - Movimiento Manuela Ramos
Nancy Valdivia - Movimiento Manuela Ramos
T: 4238840 anexos 103/10
Correo: nsanchez@manuela.org.pe / nvaldivia@manuela.org.pe
C: 990337123 / 992762866 / RPM: #362405
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| 28 Oct 2009 - 13:30 | OpEdNews
URL: www.opednews.com/articles/Rape-in-the-Ra . . .
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New Film Documentary
Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within
For OpEdNews: Ann Wright - Writer
Journalists Pascale Bourgaux and Mercedes Gallego in their trips to Iraq as war correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape.
When they left Iraq they decided to investigate the issue of rape in the U.S. military. In 2007, they filmed the stories of four military women who had been raped and made a documentary, “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within.” The documentary was shown for the first time in the United States on October 26 at the New York Independent Film Festival.
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| 28 Oct 2009 - 09:29 | IPS Noticias - Las Mujeres Son Noticia
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9372 . . .
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PERÚ: Mujeres de Cusco doblegan violencia milenaria
Por Milagros Salazar, enviada especial
CUSCO, Perú, oct (IPS) - Para el mundo, Cusco evoca una región milenaria y mítica, pero esta zona de Perú es conocida por los cientistas sociales a raíz de otro hecho menos atractivo: es uno de los puntos del planeta con mayor índice de violencia contra las mujeres.
Pero un grupo de mujeres organizadas de Cusco hace frente desde hace 10 años a las duras estadísticas de agresión física, sexual y de otra índole con un trabajo incansable. "Éramos calladas, hemos despertado. Nunca es tarde para empezar", dijo a IPS Elsa Mamani, una de sus lideresas.
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| 28 Oct 2009 - 09:22 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49024
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BOLIVIA: Politics, a Risky Business for Women
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ, Oct 27 (IPS) - Taking an active part in politics in Bolivia can be a hazardous undertaking. Hundreds of reports of violence against women participating in politics attest to the risk. And while attacks go unpunished, a bill designed to protect the rights of women occupying public office has spent almost a decade in Congress waiting to be approved.
María Eugenia Rojas, leader of the Bolivian Association of Women Town Councillors (ACOBOL), which works for the right of women to hold public office, told IPS that the members of her organisation are in dire need of a law that will protect them and raise awareness on a critical but little known reality.
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| 28 Oct 2009 - 09:17 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49029
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PHILIPPINES: Women's Rights Laws in Place
By Stephen de Tarczynski
Advocates hope that women will benefit fully from the new law.
MANILA, Oct 28 (IPS) - Although the enacting in August of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) - a major law aiming to end discrimination against women across the archipelago - was well-received here, there remain concerns about whether the legislation will be fully implemented.
Mary Joan Guan, executive director of the Centre for Women's Research, a Manila-based advocacy and training organisation, says that the efficacy of the MCW relies on its implementation going against the trend of previous women's rights legislation.
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| 27 Oct 2009 - 09:51 | Colegio de Abogados del Peru
URL: www.congresoderechosreproductivos2009.co . . .
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PRIMER CONGRESO LATIONAMERICANO JURIDICO SOBRE DERECHOS REPRODUCTIVOS
Arequipa, Perú
5, 6, y 7 de noviembre de 2009
El Primer Congreso Latinoamericano Jurídico sobre derechos reproductivos,
organizado por el Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Arequipa y el Colegio de
Abogados de Lima, con el auspicio del Colegio de Abogados del Perú, tendrá
lugar los próximos días 5, 6 y 7 de noviembre de 2009 en la ciudad de
Arequipa, Perú.
El objetivo del Congreso es ofrecer herramientas jurídicas y un espacio de
reflexión sobre los avances en derechos reproductivos en América Latina y el
Caribe dentro de un marco de derechos humanos y de derecho comparado. El
Congreso está dirigido a la comunidad jurídica en general, y a operadoras/es
del sistema de justicia y académicos/as en particular.
Para consultar el programa, ponentes, nuevos costos y otra información
relevante del Congreso, visite la página web:
www.congresoderechosreproductivos2009.com
www.congresoderechosreproductivos2009.com/
Mayores informes:
Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Arequipa - Oficina de Eventos Académicos
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| 27 Oct 2009 - 09:44 | World Health Organization
URL: www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/v . . .
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Violence Prevention, the Evidence
Promoting Gender Equality to Prevent Violence Against Women
www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/gender.pdf
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| 27 Oct 2009 - 09:34 | El Diario de La Pampa
URL: www.eldiariolp.com.ar/index.php?option=c . . .
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Jefe policial vinculado con un cabaré
La policía pampeana vinculada al negocio de la prostitución.
(AW) La Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos denunció complicidad policial con el negocio de la prostitución en la provincia de La Pampa. Se trata de el subcomisario de Lonquimay, el cuál tiene relación con la propietaria y/o regenteadora del cabaré de la localidad de Colonia Barón. La denunciá ya llego a los oidos del ministro de Gobierno, Justicia y Seguridad César Rodríguez, pero hasta ahora no hay noticias de que se hayan tomado cartas en el asunto.
Otra prueba que la trata de personas en nuestro país se debe a la participación y complicidad de politicos e integrantes de la fuerza policial.
(Fuente "El Diario de La Pampa")
EL NEGOCIO DE LA PROSTITUCIóN
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| 27 Oct 2009 - 09:18 | UN Commission on Human Rights
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UN Study on the Status of Women and Religion or Belief and Traditions
www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/religion/docs/E.CN.4.2002.73.Add2.pdf
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| 26 Oct 2009 - 15:17 | Jennifer Nash, Brandeis University
URL: www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/slavery/sl . . .
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Black Women and Rape
A Review of the Literature
Jennifer Nash
Brandeis University Feminist Sexual Ethics Project
SEE:
www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/slavery/slav-us/slav-us-articles/Nash2009-6-12.pdf
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| 26 Oct 2009 - 13:53 | Human Rights Watch
URL: www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/09/chicago-p . . .
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Chicago Police Stonewall on Rape Investigations
by Sarah Tofte
Published in: Chicago's Hyde Park Herald
October 9, 2009
Julie was a graduate student at the University of Chicago when, in 2007, she was raped by a man she had been introduced to that night as a friend's new boyfriend. They were at a bar, and he was "acting weird toward me. He kept touching me and I kept pushing him away." The man's behavior attracted the attention of the club's manager and bouncer, who kicked him out.
Later that night, as Julie slept on her friend's couch, the boyfriend entered the apartment and raped her. Julie reported the rape to the police and went to a hospital for a forensic examination to collect DNA and other evidence from her body. She thought her rapist would be arrested.
Every year in the United States, more than 200,000 people report to the police that they have been raped. Many are asked to submit to the collection of DNA evidence from their bodies, which is stored in a small package called a rape kit. It is an invasive and sometimes traumatic process that takes four to six hours. But the potential benefits are enormous: testing the DNA evidence can identify an unknown rapist, confirm the identity of a known assailant, corroborate the victim's account, and exonerate innocent suspects. When a victim undergoes the examination to collect a rape kit, both she and the public reasonably assume that the kit will be tested. But all too often, that is not the case.
Following media reports in 2003 that the Chicago Police Department had 1,500 untested rape kits in storage, the department promised to send every rape kit to the Illinois State Police for testing. But stories from victims raped in Chicago since then raise disturbing questions about whether this promise is being kept. The police are refusing to answer those questions
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| 26 Oct 2009 - 09:32 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09102301-Canc . . .
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Son “un peligro para la familia”, aducen autoridades
Cancela la derecha hondureña programas de radio feministas
Por Tacuazina Morales
Tegucigalpa, 23 oct 09 (CIMAC/SEMlac).- Como “un avance peligroso de la derecha en Honduras” calificó una realizadora radiofónica el cierre de los programas “Tiempo de Hablar, del Centro de Derechos de Mujeres, y “La Bullaranga”, del Centro de Estudios de la Mujer-Honduras, efectuado el pasado 16 de octubre.
“(El cierre) me hace recordar los campos de concentración nazi, donde por los medios oficiales pasaban videos de campos modelos mientras en realidad se estaba masacrando a la gente”. Ahora, "los medios de acá transmiten que todo es normalidad, mientras se cierran los dos únicos programas que quedaban en la capital, no solo de la resistencia feminista, sino de la resistencia en general", opinó la realizadora.
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| 26 Oct 2009 - 09:27 | theage.com.au
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Australia
Trafficked women 'used as prostitutes
'PETER VENESS
October 23, 2009
Almost all people trafficked into Australia are forced into the sex industry, a new report reveals.
Fully 95 per cent of trafficking victims were females made to work as prostitutes, and most came from Southeast Asia.
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor responded to the report from the Australian Institute of Criminology by saying much was being done to combat people trafficking from Asia and the Pacific.
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| 26 Oct 2009 - 09:20 | Media-Newswire
URL: media-newswire.com/release_1103304.html#
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UK
Between 70-90% rapes thought to go unreported …and 94% of reported cases don't end in a conviction
Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed that commonly-held attitudes towards rape are stopping women reporting incidents of sexual assault and stopping attackers from being convicted.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed that commonly-held attitudes towards rape are stopping women reporting incidents of sexual assault and stopping attackers from being convicted.
Fear of not being believed, not wanting to get their attacker - who is often known to them - into trouble and a sense that they could or should have avoided the assault mean only a fraction of rape cases are being reported. Of those reported, 50-66% are dropped by police, and of the remaining cases that go on to be considered by the Crown Prosecution Service, 33-50% are discontinued.
About 14,000 cases were reported last year to police, but academics suggest there to be seven times as many unreported cases. Professor Jennifer Brown and Dr Miranda Horvath from the University of Surrey’s Department of Psychology have been examining the shocking statistics through funding made available by the British Psychological Society. They assembled a group of international academics to review current research findings relating to the problem of ‘attrition’ – when victims are reluctant to report rape in the first instance, police choose not to pursue cases, prosecutors drop referred cased before trial, and jurors prefer to acquit than find defendants guilty.
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