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| 02 Aug 2009 - 11:46 | Fundacion Isis Internacional
formacion.isis@gmail.com
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CURSO VIRTUAL "VIOLENCIA CONTRA LAS MUJERES Y MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN"
Santiago de Chile.- Convocado por la Fundación Isis Internacional, con el auspicio del Programa de Cooperación Internacional "Mujeres y Desarrollo" y el Instituto de la Mujer de España, se llevará a cabo el curso virtual “Violencia contra las mujeres y medios de comunicación”.
El curso se organizó en respuesta a la necesidad de abordar el feminicidio, la violencia sexual y los procesos de violencia armada, como fenómenos sociales que requieren trascender las lecturas construidas desde el sentido común y desde el "somero conocimiento" generado por los medios masivos de comunicación, impulsando reflexiones, debates y cuestionamientos que se traduzcan en un producto de incidencia social, para contribuir al crecimiento del conocimiento y de acciones en el trabajo en red.
Podrán inscribirse 50 participantes en redes, profesionales, estudiantes y/o activistas comprometidas en acciones contra violencia sexual, femicidio, feminicidio y violencia armada en América Latina y el Caribe. Información e inscripciones del 20 de julio al 20 de agosto de 2009, al telefax: 00 56-2 2353921 o al correo formacion.isis@gmail.com
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| 02 Aug 2009 - 11:26 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09073108-Femi . . .
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Desde mañana CoIDH podría sentenciar al Estado mexicano
Feminicidio: investigaciones “irresponsables”, dice experto
Por Lourdes Godínez Leal
México, 31 julio 09 (CIMAC).- A partir de mañana, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CoIDH) podría emitir su sentencia contra el Estado mexicano por tres casos de feminicidio en Campo Algodonero, predio ubicado en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, cuya investigación gubernamental –al igual que la de otros casos de violencia feminicida en la entidad-- ha sido denunciada en ésa y otras instancias como irregular, impropia o francamente irresponsable.
Ante la denuncia de dichas irregularidades en indagaciones judiciales sobre casos de feminicidio en Chihuahua, y por petición de expertos, las autoridades de la entidad crearon desde 2007 una Unidad Especial de investigación en la que se revisaron once expedientes de mujeres y niñas asesinadas en la entidad.
Los expertos internacionales contratados por la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas (OACNUDH) para tal fin, son: el prefecto Raúl Jofre, experto en policía criminalística de Chile, y Pedro Díaz Romero, ex abogado de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), quien documentó para esta instancia diversos casos de violación a derechos humanos en Colombia.
El informe de la investigación de los expertos fue presentado a principios de este mes ante las autoridades estatales y familiares de las víctimas. Sobre dicha indagación habló el abogado Pedro Díaz Romero a Cimacnoticias, durante su reciente visita a México donde participó en una reunión de la OACNUDH:
-- ¿Qué arroja el Informe presentado a los familiares?
-- En él se concluye que la escena de los hechos fue trabajada “arbitraria y groseramente”, que los cadáveres fueron movidos sin ningún protocolo, hubo insuficientes rastreos, no se hicieron las pruebas de campo necesarias (fijaciones fotográficas, fílmicas o planimétricas exigidas) y los restos fueron levantados “de una manera impropia”.
De esta forma, el experto confirmó lo que el Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense había determinado en su informe: la falta de custodia de las evidencias, la desaparición de restos y el intercambio de ropa de las víctimas.
Hubo, dijo, un caos en el manejo de la evidencia material que llevaba a desdibujar la investigación; pero también en la parte de la criminalística de la investigación policial se encontraron una serie de líneas de investigación absurdas como que las niñas abandonaron su casa para irse con el novio.
Para el ex fiscal de la CIDH, las investigaciones realizadas fueron “totalmente irresponsables” que no quisieron entender lo que sucedía como un “fenómeno”, tratándolas como “investigaciones aisladas” cuando, dijo, fueron hechos que ocurrieron en semanas o meses siguientes, más o menos por los mismos lugares, con perfiles de las víctimas más o menos parecidos.
-- ¿Por qué once expedientes?
-- Parte del trabajo consistió en cómo reorientar las investigaciones de la desaparición y muerte de niñas y mujeres en Chihuahua “en algunos casos tipo”, porque para poder aplicar un método de investigación, darle seguimiento y ver cómo concluye, es necesario hacerlo con casos tipo, por eso es que únicamente se estudiaron once expedientes.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09073108-Feminicidio-invest.38829.0.html
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| 02 Aug 2009 - 10:54 | K. Jaishankar, South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology
URL: www.sascv.edu.tf/
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Launch of the Website of the South
Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV)
Dear Colleague
I am happy to announce the launch of the website of the South Asian Society of Criminology & Victimology (SASCV)
http://www.sascv.edu.tf/
The SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY AND VICTIMOLOGY (SASCV, founded 2009) is a Registered, International Scholarly Association dedicated to the
Advancement of Criminology and Victimology in the South Asian Region.
*I sincerely wish that you will also join the society as a Life member (Fee details in the website) to promote Criminology and Victimology in the South
Asian region. Thanks. *
with warm regards
K. Jaishankar
President - South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV)
http://www.sascv.edu.tf/
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| 01 Aug 2009 - 10:24 | Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/erin-a . . .
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Erin Andrews 911 Call Released
Huff Post
ATLANTA The ESPN reporter surreptitiously videotaped nude in a hotel room expressed frustration at being "treated like Britney Spears" when she called 911 to report paparazzi gathered outside her Atlanta area home.
AUDIO: LISTEN
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/erin-andrews-911-call-rel_n_248224.html
In an audiotape released Wednesday, Erin Andrews is heard speaking with a 911 operator in suburban DeKalb County on July 22 to complain about two people parked in a car outside her home in a gated community.
Andrews identifies herself and tells the operator, "I'm all over the news right now," and describes herself as "the girl that was videotaped in my hotel room in the nude."
Clearly frustrated on the call, Andrews uses expletives to describe the two men whom she says also knocked on her door.
"I did nothing wrong, and I am being treated like (expletive) Britney Spears, and it sucks," Andrews told the operator.
Dunwoo dy police spokesman, Sgt. Mike Carlson, said officers responded to the call but no incident report was filed. Dunwoody is about 14 miles north of Atlanta.
It was not clear when the video of Andrews in the hotel room first appeared on the Internet. The person who first posted the video didn't identify the nude woman, but Andrews' attorney has since confirmed the video was of the 31-year-old reporter.
The blurry, five-minute video shows Andrews standing in front of a hotel room mirror, fixing her hair in the nude. It's unknown when or where it was shot. Andrews' attorney Marshall Grossman said the video was shot without her knowledge and Andrews plans to seek criminal charges and file civil lawsuits against whoever shot the video and anyone who publishes the material.
Andrews, a former University of Florida dance team member, was an Internet sensation even before the video's circulation. Some Web sites have referred to her as "Erin Pageviews" because of the traffic she can generate, and Playboy magazine named her "sexiest sportscaster" in both 2008 and 2009. She has covered numerous sports for the network since 2004, often as a sideline reporter.
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| 01 Aug 2009 - 10:05 | Women'sHealth.gov
URL: www.womenshealth.gov/faq/date-rape-drugs . . .
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Date Rape Drug FAQ's
www.womenshealth.gov/faq/date-rape-drugs.pdf
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| 01 Aug 2009 - 09:06 | NRC Handelsblad
URL: www.nrc.nl/international/Features/articl . . .
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Dutch abortion boat to sail no more
Following changes to the Dutch abortion law, the organisation Women on Waves has decided to cancel all upcoming trips of its so-called abortion boat. Opposition to abortion is growing, says director Rebecca Gomperts.
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www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2311636.ece/Dutch_abortion_boat_to_sail_no_more
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| 31 Jul 2009 - 19:03 | UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency
URL: www.unhcr.org/4a71cbc79.html
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UNHCR uses cinema to spread awareness of sexual violence
News Stories, 30 July 2009
© UNHCR/S.Schulman
MOBA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 30 (UNHCR) –
The cinema has come to this corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for a couple of weeks, and locals are turning up in their droves to watch the nightly fare screened by the UN refugee agency.
The film they come to see has violence, drama, love and humour, but it is no Hollywood blockbuster. "Breaking the Silence" is about sexual violence and abuse of women – major problems in parts of eastern and south-eastern DRC, including South Kivu and Katanga provinces. Forcibly displaced women and girls are particularly vulnerable to abuse, and these are areas of high refugee return.
The film, which is aimed at combatting and raising awareness about the scourge, tells the stories of Congolese women and girls who have been raped, and of the physical and psychological scars they have suffered. The audience also hears from the men in their lives, husbands and fathers, who express emotions ranging from shame to depression.
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www.unhcr.org/4a71cbc79.html
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| 31 Jul 2009 - 10:14 | Anon
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVg6ipDdMH4
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Redondillas, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
Video 4minutos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVg6ipDdMH4
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| 31 Jul 2009 - 09:00 | Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/ru486- . . .
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RU-486 Abortion Drug To Be Allowed In Italy Despite Vatican's Protests
ROME — Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, drawing fierce protests by the Vatican.
The drug, which terminates pregnancy by causing the embryo to detach from the uterine wall, is already available in several other European countries. But approval in Italy had been held up so far by the Catholic Church, which opposes abortion and contraception.
The Italian Drug Agency ruled after a meeting that ended late Thursday that the drug cannot be sold in drug stores but can only be administered by doctors in a hospital.
The agency said in a statement that the pill can only be taken up to the seventh week of pregnancy, and not up to the ninth as is the case in other countries. It also said that women who had used the pill between the seventh and the ninth week of pregnancy incurred more risks and had often needed surgery.
In a nod to the ethical implications associated with the decision and the controversy surrounding it, the agency noted that "the task of protecting the well-being of citizens ... must take precedence over personal convictions." The vote at the agency's executive branch was 4-1, according to news reports.
The Vatican, which has battled in the United Nations and other forums to halt acceptance of the abortion pill, was quick to attack.
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www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/ru486-abortion-drug-to-be_n_248441.html
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| 30 Jul 2009 - 19:31 | ProPublica
URL: www.propublica.org/feature/despite-promi . . .
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Despite Promises, Some Rape Victims Stuck Paying Exam Bills
by Emily Witt, ProPublica, and Ben Protess, Huffington Post Investigative Fund - July 30, 2009
When a woman is raped, police turn to scientific evidence — semen, blood and tissue samples — to identify her attacker. The evidence is collected through a medical exam of the victim, who is not supposed to pay for this crime-solving process.
But 15 years after Congress passed a law to ensure that rape victims would never see a bill, loopholes and bureaucratic tangles still leave some victims paying for hospital expenses and exams, which can cost up to $1,200.
Congress requires state or local authorities to cover these costs, but the state legislatures that regulate the process offer piecemeal guarantees of Congress' mandate, ProPublica and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund found. Some states allow hospitals to bill the victim's insurer. Confusion in California and other states may cause police to occasionally ignore Congress' rules and require victims to cooperate with an investigation before exam costs are covered. Lax enforcement of the law, victims' advocates say, also means some hospitals in Illinois bill victims directly.
Congress created the Violence Against Women Act [2] to protect victims and encourage them to report rapes. The law, known as VAWA, has forced many states to crack down on billing problems.
But ambiguities in the law still allow a remarkable disparity in the legal system: Some rape victims, unlike victims of other crimes, have to pay for basic evidence collection.
"We never ask a robbery victim to pay for the cost of fingerprints," said Sarah Tofte, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, which has been tracking how states comply with VAWA.
As a victim recovers from her assault, the last thing she needs is a bill for her exam, said Katherine Hull, a spokeswoman for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network [3].
After all, she said, "rape is not something you can budget for."
Despite billing concerns, Hull and other advocates encourage victims to get a forensic exam [4]. Many emergency rooms have specially trained nurses who swab, scan and photograph victims' bodies, hunting for evidence.
Yet states vary in how proficiently they process the evidence and medical bills that follow. As we previously reported [5], even if the state pays for an exam, there is no guarantee the evidence will be tested. There are more than 350,000 untested DNA samples backlogged in police departments and crime labs nationwide, according to federal statistics
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www.propublica.org/feature/despite-promises-some-rape-victims-stuck-paying-exam-bills-730
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| 30 Jul 2009 - 09:08 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Iss . . .
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Can Nepal women ‘untouchables’ outlive tired caste systems?
Source: Women News Network
“On March 20, Kumari was accused of practicing witchcraft by the villagers, and was mercilessly beaten up and forced to eat her own excreta in public,” said the Asian Human Rights Commission in an urgent April 2009 appeal letter to Nepal’s leading legislators.
During the incident the local police did not come to Kumari’s aide. She was victimized by a teacher from Gadi Bhanjayang Primary School in the Lalitpur District near Kathmandu.
Dalit women are denied not once but three times in Nepal society – as a woman, as a Dalit, and as a Dalit woman. Discriminated by class, caste and gender they survive in spite of an often cruel and dismissive society. In our 21st Century, in Nepal’s third millennium, if you thought that conflicts of upper-caste and lower-caste were a thing of the past you’re wrong. Stories of Dalit women cruelty are frequently found in Nepali news media. But it hasn’t changed anything. Why?
“Over 20 percent of Nepal’s population is treated as ‘untouchable.’ They are denied access to land, subject to exploitative labor and segregation, and routinely abused and even killed by ‘upper-caste’ communities that enjoy impunity. Their vulnerability is heightened in the current political climate in Nepal,” said a 2005 New York University Office of Public Affairs report.
My Reality – My Nepal
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www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/Can-Nepal-women-untouchables-outlive-tired-caste-systems
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| 30 Jul 2009 - 08:39 | Irene Weiser, Stop Family Violence
URL: www.stopfamilyviolence.org/pages/441
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CA Governor Eliminates State Funding to Domestic Violence Programs
Lives of Domestic Violence Victims and their Children Endangered
NOTE - this action alert is for CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY!
July 28, 2009—Governor Schwarzenegger line item vetoed the Department of Public Health’s Domestic Violence Program, which provides $20.4 million for 94 domestic violence shelters and centers.
Domestic violence shelters are often the only thing standing between victims and grave physical danger, and California’s communities cannot sustain their loss.
Services provided by these agencies include emergency shelter, transitional housing, legal advocacy, assistance with restraining orders, counseling and other vital support services.
“We are appalled to see the Governor eliminate funding to vital programs that save lives,” said Tara Shabazz, Executive Director of The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (CPEDV). “State funding to domestic violence programs has been proven to save lives, and also millions of dollars in health care, law enforcement and other social costs. It is fiscally irresponsible to propose such cuts; the Governor is balancing the budget on the backs of our state’s most vulnerable citizens.”
“If the Governor’s budget cuts are allowed to stand, victims will not have a place to turn for help and lives will inevitably be lost.”
go to...
www.stopfamilyviolence.org/pages/441
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| 30 Jul 2009 - 07:58 | Al Jazeerza
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/07/30/ . . .
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Sex Trafficking Plagues UAE (8 min VIDEO, English)
Al Jazeera.
www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/07/30/human-trafficking-plagues_ws_247586.html
More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, the US state department says.
Its 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report lists more than 170 countries which it claims are not doing enough to tackle the problem.
Al Jazeera met "Svetlana", a Ukrainian forced to work in the sex trade in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 20:43 | Pilar
psicologiainteligente@hotmail.com
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Hola
* Me gustaria saber si pueden atender una solicitud de mi parte, para brindar servicios profesionales como Psicologa, tengo experiencia como Consejera, Conferencista y Entrenadora en Temas de desarrollo humano. Estudios en la UNAM en Mexico.
*
* Saludos y gracias
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 20:05 | Margarita Guille, Red Nacional de Refugios
contemporanea02@yahoo.com
URL: www.rednacionalderefugios.org.mx
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La Red Nacional de Refugios le invita a participar en el Segundo Encuentro Interamericano de Refugios que tendrá lugar en la Ciudad de México, del 9 al 11 de Noviembre de 2009.
Por este medio le hacemos llegar la Convocatoria.
Para mayores informes, puede consultar
www.rednacionalderefugios.org.mx
Si conoce de alguien más que pudiera interesarle participar, mucho le agradeceremos la difusión de este document
Margarita Guille´.
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 11:04 | Periodistas con vision de Genero
redcolmujerperiodista@yahoo.com.co
URL: redintperiodistasconvisiondegenero.blogs . . .
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Bogotá, Colombia será la sede del Tercer Encuentro Internacional de Periodistas con visión de Género durante los días 27-28-29 y 30 de noviembre de 2009 por mandato del segundo Encuentro realizado en Oviedo, España 2007.
Durante el evento profundizaremos sobre el quehacer de la Red en procura de posesionarla con fuerza como una referencia mundial en su campo.
mas info....
redintperiodistasconvisiondegenero.blogspot.com/2009/01/convocatoria-para-el-iii-encuentro.html
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 10:58 | FEMESS
URL: www.femess.org.mx/
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VII Congreso Nacional de Educación Sexual y Sexología FEMESS
Escuchar, sentir, discutir, comprometer, difundir
Del jueves 24 al domingo 27 de septiembre de 2009
En la Unidad de Congresos del Centro Vacacional IMSS Oaxtepec, Morelos,
Agradecemos infinitamente a todas las personas que han dado vida al Congreso enviando sus trabajos.
El periodo para su recepción ha llegado a su término.
Muy pronto te compartiremos información relevante acerca del desarrollo del Congreso.
¡Nos vemos en Oaxtepec 2009!
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 10:31 | Science Direct
URL: www.sciencedirect.com
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Research Abstract
Power over parity: intimate partner violence and issues of fertility control
Rebekah E. Gee MD, MS, MPH, †, , , Nandita Mitra PhD‡, Fei Wan MS‡, Diana E. Chavkin MD§ and Judith A. Long MD†, , ¶
Objective
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between intimate partner violence (IPV), abortion, parity, and contraception use.
Study design
We recruited 1463 women for this written questionnaire study of IPV. Patient demographics, contraceptive history, and reproductive history were obtained in the waiting room from patients presenting for gynecologic care.
Results
Seventy percent of those eligible participated. Twenty-one percent reported a history of IPV. Partner unwillingness to use birth control, partner desirous of conception, partner creating difficulty for subject's use of birth control, and subjects expressing inability to afford contraception were all positively associated with report of IPV. Each additional pregnancy was associated with 10% greater odds of IPV (95% confidence interval, 1.03-1.17).
Conclusion
Contraception is more difficult to navigate for women experiencing IPV. Providers should consider prescribing contraceptive methods for IPV victims that are not partner dependent.
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 10:16 | Center for Anti-Opressive Education
kumashiro@antioppressiveeducation.org
URL: antioppressiveeducation.org/2009conferen . . .
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* CALL FOR PROPOSALS * DUE SEPTEMBER 15th *
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEACHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
Reframing Race, Gender, and Teacher-Education Policy
http://antioppressiveeducation.org/2009conference.html
DATES: 5-6 December 2009
LOCATION: University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), U.S.A.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: What does it mean to prepare teachers to teach toward social justice? Across the United States and around the world, educators face many challenges. Especially troublesome are the economic, social, and political contexts that make difficult our attempts to address differences and oppressions in schools and society. Yet, in the face of these challenges, teacher educators are continuing to produce significant theories, practices, and coalitions. The 6th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice will offer rare opportunities to discuss cutting-edge research, develop innovative resources, build networks, and explore possibilities for new directions in teacher preparation. The Conference draws together hundreds of educators from around the world with diverse experiences but with shared commitments and priorities.
SPECIAL NOTE ON REGISTRATION: The Conference Organizers are pleased to announce that registration is free for the 6th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice. Pre-Registration is required, and will begin after September 15th. Participants are responsible for their own transportation, lodging, and meals. Information on registration is online at the conference website.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Proposals are solicited for presentations about original research on all topics regarding teacher education and social justice. Especially encouraged are proposals on the Conference Theme of "reframing race, gender, and teacher-education policy." Proposal guidelines are online at the conference website. Proposals are due September 15th.
antioppressiveeducation.org/2009conference.html.
CO-SPONSORS: Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, UIC Department of Educational Policy Studies, UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
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Kevin K. Kumashiro, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair,
Department of Educational Policy Studies
Interim Co-Director,
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
University of Illinois-Chicago (http://www.uic.edu)
Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education
antioppressiveeducation.org
kumashiro@antioppressiveeducation.org
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| 29 Jul 2009 - 09:19 | Guardian UK
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/28/rio . . .
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Feminism and M-16s: transforming macho policing in RioFemale drugs unit members on the frontline of battles with gangs in slums
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro guardian.co.uk, this video
A police helicopter rattles through the skies over Rio, black-clad snipers poised at either side.
Below, in the Morro da Mineira shanty town, locals scatter for cover, shop-fronts clatter noisily shut and nearly 200 rifle-toting police operatives begin sprinting up the steep hillside, among them Inspector Santos de Mello, a member of the anti-weapons and explosives unit, better known as DRAE.
It is mid-afternoon in northern Rio and another normal day on the adrenaline-filled frontline of Brazil's war on drugs has just begun.
Normal, that is, apart from one small detail. Inspector Santos de Mello, one of the officers leading the charge, is a woman, part of a growing team of female police officers on the frontline of Rio's drug conflict, and an unlikely flag bearer for Brazil's feminist cause.
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/28/rio-female-drugs-policing-brazil
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| 28 Jul 2009 - 09:09 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09072707-Nica . . .
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Autoridades negaron entrevistarse con el organismo
Nicaragua: prohibición de ILE deriva en muerte, dice informe de AI
Por Lourdes Godínez Leal
México DF, 27 julio 09 (CIMAC).- En Nicaragua, más del 50 por ciento de los casos de violación reportados hasta 2008 fueron en menores de 18 años de edad, mil 247 niñas fueron víctimas de violación e incesto, el 16 por ciento de ellas resultaron embarazadas mientras que el 87 por ciento de las víctimas que resultaron embarazadas por violación o incesto, tenían entre 10 y 14 años de edad, reportó hoy Amnistía Internacional (AI).
En su informe titulado La prohibición total del aborto en Nicaragua, la vida y salud de las mujeres en peligro, los profesionales de la medicina criminalizados; AI refiere que entre 1999 y 2005, aproximadamente 7 mil 99 mujeres sufrieron complicaciones en el embarazo que terminaron en abortos espontáneos o inducidos.
En las primeras semanas de este año, 33 mujeres murieron como consecuencia de complicaciones en el embarazo, en comparación con 20 registradas el año anterior, informó Kate Gilmore, secretaria adjunta de AI, durante la conferencia de prensa para presentar dicho informe.
Una de las peores consecuencias que ha traído esta legislación, aprobada por el Congreso nicaragüense en octubre de 2006 que terminó con el derecho de las nicaragüenses a un aborto terapéutico, es el incremento de muertes maternas, todas ellas evitables si las mujeres tuvieran acceso a servicios de salud que les salven la vida, sobre todo las más pobres, jóvenes, niñas y las mujeres aisladas y enfermas, quienes han sido más perjudicadas.
AI reporta que mientras en 2008 no se registró en el país ninguna muerte materna, en lo que va de este año, el 16 por ciento de las muertes maternas fue por abortos inseguros.
Kate Gilmore lamentó la “indiferencia de las autoridades” nicaragüenses quienes se negaron a entrevistarse con la delegación de AI que visitó Nicaragua para la elaboración del informe.
Denunció que el informe no pudo ser presentado en ese país por la censura del propio gobierno de Ortega, por lo que hoy lo presentaron en la Ciudad de México.
La funcionaria de AI dijo que centraron su atención en este país centroamericano por ser de los más pobres de la región, según la organización de los 5.8 millones de habitantes, el 48 por ciento vive en condiciones de pobreza, mientras que el 17 por ciento vive en pobreza extrema.
Además de que es un país de jóvenes, ya que el 53 por ciento son menores de 18 años.
“Nos estamos enfocando en la situación de Nicaragua porque es un ejemplo mundial, se encuentra en el 3 por ciento de los países en el mundo que cuentan con una prohibición total al aborto, pero se encuentra en riesgo de ser un país olvidado por lo que hoy y los meses que sigan.
AI seguirá enfocando su atención sobre las condiciones en las que viven las mujeres y niñas nicaragüenses para poder usar como ejemplo que los estándares de derechos humanos que describimos aquí se aplican generalmente no sólo en Centroamérica también en América Latina”, dijo Gilmore.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09072707-Nicaragua-prohibic.38679.0.html
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| 28 Jul 2009 - 08:47 | Center for Reproductive Rights
URL: org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5971/t/6770 . . .
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Report Spotlights Harassment and Threats Against Abortion Providers
Videos and Online Report
org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5971/t/6770/signUp.jsp?key=1103
This week, the Center for Reproductive Rights released Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment, a report examining harassment and state laws targeting abortion providers in six states.
Investigation Shows Threats, Restrictions Impose Severe Obstacles for Abortion Providers, Women Seeking Abortions
Center for Reproductive Rights Urges Governments, Public, Medical Community to Support Abortion Providers as Human Rights Defenders
Reporting on Rights07.22.09 - Aggressive harassment, discriminatory legal restrictions and serious stigma are reducing the number of abortion providers and making abortions more difficult for women to obtain, according to a report released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights, a leading reproductive rights advocacy group.
The report, Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment, documents a four-month investigation of challenges facing abortion doctors and clinics in six states: Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Texas. The research chronicles the death threats, break-ins at homes and offices and physical assaults providers face as they protect women’s reproductive health.
“Dr. Tiller’s murder focused attention on this problem for a moment, but people don’t realize that abortion providers operate under siege, legal and physical, every single day,” explained Nancy Northup, the Center’s president.
In addition to harassment, abortion providers face a web of discriminatory legal restrictions that have no medical justification, but make abortions more costly and difficult to provide, the Center’s research found. Among these are laws that require a mandatory “waiting period” before a woman can obtain an abortion, counseling requirements that force doctors to present a biased and sometimes inaccurate description of abortion and its consequences, and Ambulatory Surgical Center laws that serve no purpose other than to mandate costly and sometimes impossible facilities renovations.
The Center unveiled the report in a Washington, D.C. briefing for members of Congress and staff, accompanied by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), abortion providers and representatives of major human rights organizations.
Amy Hagstrom Miller, the president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health in Texas, welcomed the report. “For more than 35 years, abortion providers have provided an oasis for women needing to contemplate the most fundamental of decisions safe from the stigma surrounding abortion,” she said. “Women have always had and will always have abortions. The question is whether safe and legal providers are available to them.”
The report also argues that because abortion providers enable women to realize basic human rights such as the rights to health, equality, life, and privacy, they should be recognized as human rights defenders. It urges the state and federal government to adopt international standards for protecting and supporting clinic workers.
The report describes the international legal framework for ensuring that human rights defenders can function safely and effectively. In addition to international agreements on international human rights, including reproductive rights, the United Nations adopted a Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in 1998 with the support of the United States. Recognizing that human rights defenders often face stigma and opposition, the Declaration requires States to protect these workers.
“As this important report makes clear, preserving the legal right to abortion is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for making women’s reproductive rights effective in the United States,” said Meghan Rhoad, researcher for the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. “Every day, medical professionals struggle against tremendous odds and at personal cost to give these rights meaning by ensuring access to abortion services. It is time for the government to stand with these human rights defenders.”
Instead, the Center’s research shows that state and local governments often work against abortion providers. For example, in the 2009 state legislative session alone, 23 bills restricting abortion were introduced in Texas and 18 were introduced in Mississippi.
“The result,” said Northup, “is not just endangerment and marginalization of abortion providers, but a denial of rights for the one in three American women who will seek an abortion in their lifetimes. The number of abortion providers in the United States fell by 25% just between 1992 and 2005. Without providers, the right to abortion is meaningless.”
Two of the states featured in the report, North Dakota and Mississippi, have only a single abortion provider. Nationwide, 87 percent of counties in the country lack an abortion provider, and nearly a quarter of the women in the U.S. must travel more than 50 miles to reach one.
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| 28 Jul 2009 - 08:38 | Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice
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Protect Reproductive-Health Coverage in Health Reform
Anti-choice members of Congress continue to use health-care reform as a way to restrict access to abortion and other reproductive-health care. Women could lose coverage for abortion care -- even if their private health insurance already covers it!
The good news is that a Senate committee has put forward a health-care plan that actually improves women's access to family planning, and won't jeopardize women's access to abortion. In fact, the committee had to beat several anti-choice amendments, all by one vote.
We must call on the Senate to support this particular plan, put forward by Sen. Dodd and his colleagues in the HELP committee. Please contact your senators today -- just fill out your address to the left and use our pre-written message.
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| 27 Jul 2009 - 11:02 | Polaris Project
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Dear Supporters,
With the reauthorization of Trafficking Victims' Protection Act (TVPA) in 2005, the Department of Labor was mandated by Congress to compile a list of goods produced by forced labor or child labor. It is now four years later and the department has yet to release this list to the public.
The list is designed to identify problem products (seafood, steel, textiles, etc.) and the countries where they were produced. Its release would enable consumers and shareholders to apply leverage to fight slavery worldwide. Empowered by this information, individuals could hold companies accountable and pressure them to rid their supply chains of slave labor.
In December, the newest reauthorization of the TVPA, the William Wilberforce Reauthorization Act, gave the Department until the end of this year to finally comply with the mandate. However, due to the foot-dragging of the last adminstration's Secretary of Labor, the list is already long overdue. We must hold this administration to its promise of transparency, and demand the release of this list to the public now.
Let the Department of Labor know that we will not wait any longer, and urge them to take the steps toward eliminating modern-day slavery. Please take action by signing a message of urgent concern to Secretary Solis on Change.Org today! An influx of messages from the public in her inbox will force the Department of Labor to take more notice of this delayed list of goods.
To take immediate action, visit www.change.org/polarisproject/actions/view/tell_the_department_of_labor_to_release_its_list_of_goods_tainted_by_slave_labor today!
Encourage your friends on Facebook and Twitter to take action today! To visit our Facebook page, go to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8 844273&ref=profile#/polarisproject and to visit our Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/polaris_project. To read more on the issue, visit the North Star blog at http://www.polarisproject.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,108/
Thank you for all your support!
Andrea Austin
Program Manager
Public Outreach and Communications
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| 27 Jul 2009 - 10:37 | Star-Bulletin
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Marines charged in rape of girl, 12
By Star-Bulletin staff and the Lawton (Okla.) Constitution
A Kaneohe Marine and two other Marines on the mainland have been charged in Oklahoma with first-degree rape of a 12-year-old girl.
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| 27 Jul 2009 - 10:05 | Nancy
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Yo fui victima de violencia Domestica, entiendo como te sientes, ahora estoy sola me libere de esta situacion y con la ayuda de muchas entidades de este pais estoy saliendo adelante.
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| 27 Jul 2009 - 09:59 | SF Chronicle
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Cambodia struggles with domestic-violence tradition
Joel Brinkley
(07-26) 04:00 PDT Phnom Penh, Cambodia --
Ing Kantha Phavi is an impressive woman. She's a medical doctor, a specialist in tropical diseases, but also Cambodia's minister of women's affairs.
Male-hierarchical societies dominate Asia, and Cambodia is no exception. In this region, women's affairs offices are generally showpiece ministries.
Presidents and prime ministers parade their women's affairs ministers before visiting Western leaders as unconvincing demonstrations of their interest in gender equality.
If Ing were the sort of person who could accept that, her ministry would fit nicely into this paradigm. But she's not. Still, her challenges are Herculean. As she told an interviewer last year: "When you come up against these male dinosaurs, do you sometimes feel like giving up? I feel like giving up always." Nonetheless, four years ago, she pushed a bill through the national assembly that, for the first time, made it illegal for men to beat their wives and children. Domestic violence is an endemic problem here. Arguing for the legislation then, she cited statistics showing that almost one-quarter of the nation's women are beaten or otherwise abused by their husbands - sometimes even murdered. But that's a family matter, the male legislators argued. Why are you bringing us another one of those liberal Western fads? "They treated me like a revolutionary," she said.
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