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| 05 Dec 2009 - 09:35 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues- . . .
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Mexico's Abortion Wars
In 2007, Mexico City decriminalized first-trimester terminations. That decision triggered a backlash that has pro-choice activists on the defensive.
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awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/Mexico-s-Abortion-Wars
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| 05 Dec 2009 - 09:24 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Library . . .
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The pitfalls of monitoring and evaluation: Do current frameworks really serve us?
Source: AWID
A summary of Part I “Capturing change in women’s realities: The challenges of monitoring and evaluating our work” a paper by Srilatha Batliwala* and Alexandra Pittman.**
By Kathambi Kinoti and Sanushka Mudaliar
Monitoring and evaluation now form an integral part of women’s rights and gender equality programmes as we attempt to measure how effectively we work. But are the frameworks we use able to perform this ambitious task?
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awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Library/The-pitfalls-of-monitoring-and-evaluation-Do-current-frameworks-really-serve-us
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| 04 Dec 2009 - 11:59 | Ann Bartow, Feminist Law Professors
URL: feministlawprofessors.com/
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“It’s very reminiscent where we were 30 years ago on the domestic violence stuff …. People just don’t get it yet.” So spoke a District Attorney, commenting on the lack of sex trafficking prosecutions in NY.
December 3rd, 2009
From this NYT article:
Despite a highly trumpeted New York State law in 2007 that enacted tough penalties for sex or labor trafficking, very few people have been prosecuted since it went into effect, according to state statistics.
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| 04 Dec 2009 - 11:20 | New England Law
URL: www.nesl.edu/centers/clsr_svln.cfm
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Sexual Violence Legal News Online
Sexual Violence Legal News is an on-line subscription service that keeps service providers like hot-lines and shelters aware of the latest changes in relevant law as a result of court decisions. Students involved in this project summarize new cases. The summaries are then sent to subscribers across the country as email alerts. They are also kept on-line in a searchable database. Most of the cases currently in the database involve issues of criminal law and procedure or of evidence.
View Sexual Violence Legal News Online
Submit Case to SVNews (password needed)
Subscribe to email alert service
See:
www.nesl.edu/centers/clsr_svln.cfm
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| 04 Dec 2009 - 11:14 | Artemisa Noticias
URL: www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.a . . .
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Mujeres que se encuentran
Por Amanda Alma y Paula Lorenzo
Amanda Alma y Paula Lorenzo hacen en este libro una recuperación histórica de los Encuentros de Mujeres en Argentina desde 1986 al 2005. Ofrecemos un adelanto.
Este libro es el fruto del aporte colectivo de quienes contribuyeron con su granito de arena para recuperar una parte de la historia de las mujeres argentinas. Es la suma de múltiples y diferentes voces, experiencias y vivencias, pensamientos, alegrías y tristezas, ideas, ecos, batallas y rebeldías. A todas ellas, mujeres luchadoras, sólo nos queda agradecerles. Agradecerles las enseñanzas que recibimos en las charlas, las mateadas y los encuentros.
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www.artemisanoticias.com.ar/site/notas.asp?id=14&idnota=6801
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| 04 Dec 2009 - 11:00 | Tamara Thompson
URL: scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_sear . . .
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State and Federal Case Law Now On Google
By Tamara Thompson
Google Scholar is indexing the case law in all 50 states - Court of Appeals and Supreme Court - and the federal courts.
As with the other Google search engines, Google Scholar makes use of its own advanced search operators. Search by keywords, personal names, inclusive dates, and specify one or more states in a single search. Options on a single search are limited to 1) Search all legal opinions and journals; 2) Search only US federal court opinions or, 3) Search only court opinions from self-selected states.
Wondering which courts are included and the inclusive dates? Ask Google Scholar Help:
Which court opinions do you include?
Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read opinions for US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and US Supreme Court cases since 1791 (please check back periodically for updates to coverage information). In addition, it includes citations for cases cited by indexed opinions or journal articles which allows you to find influential cases (usually older or international) which are not yet online or publicly available. Legal opinions in Google Scholar are provided for informational purposes only and should not be relied on as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed lawyer. Google does not warrant that the information is complete or accurate.
View a list of search results with citations and a 2-line summary of text where some or all of the keywords appear. From here you can select to read an entire case or view case summaries that have cited the selected case
Go to this page and scroll down for legal searches:
scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&as_sdt=2000
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| 04 Dec 2009 - 10:51 | SAFER Students Active For Ending Rape
URL: safercampus.org/campus-accountability-pr . . .
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Students Active for Ending Rape
Campus Accountability Project
V-Day and SAFER are proud to partner to bring a transformative policy reform initiative to college campuses. With your help, we can make colleges and universities across the United States safer for all students.
V-DAY & SAFER
Campus Accountability Project:
A Demand for College Sexual Assault Policy
More Info
safercampus.org/campus-accountability-project
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| 03 Dec 2009 - 10:05 | Women of Color Network
URL: womenofcolornetwork.org/events/index.php
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Women of Color Network
UPDATES
Conference
Calls to Action
Trainings
Events
see:
womenofcolornetwork.org/events/index.php
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| 03 Dec 2009 - 09:36 | MNI Boletin de la Mujer
URL: www.mni.org.pe/MNI/boletin_de_la_MUJER.p . . .
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Peru
MNI Boletin de la Mujer - Diciembre
www.mni.org.pe/MNI/boletin_de_la_MUJER.pdf
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| 03 Dec 2009 - 09:29 | Genero con Clase, Campamento Latinoamericano de Mujeres
URL: generoconclase.blogspot.com/2009/12/camp . . .
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Declaracion de Campamento Latinoamericano de Mujeres de Movimientos Populares
Con el fin de articular y fortalecer las luchas de las mujeres en América Latina y reivindicar los aportes de la mujer que realiza todos los días para que otro mundo sea posible, pero sobre todo desde la esperanza de construir otra sociedad, una mas justa, no patriarcal y en armonía con la naturaleza, se llevó a cabo la realización del Primer Campamento Latinoamericano de Mujeres, Capítulo Venezuela, durante los días del 25 al 29 de noviembre.
A continuación, el texto completo de la Declaración Final:
Campamento Latinoamericano de Mujeres de Movimientos Populare
generoconclase.blogspot.com/2009/12/campamento-latinoamericano-de-mujeres.html
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| 03 Dec 2009 - 08:35 | Casey Gwinn
URL: familyjusticecenter.com/blog/?p=34#more- . . .
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Making Misdemeanors Matter
Casey Gwinn
I didn’t plan to spend 25 years in the domestic violence movement. I didn’t even start my career knowing what domestic violence was. I went through Stanford and UCLA and never heard the phrase. I started my career as a prosecutor with every intention of doing some misdemeanors and then working my way up to felonies and then becoming a homicide prosecutor. After all, it is “just a misdemeanor.” It is “only a misdemeanor.” Cops, detectives, prosecutors, probation officers, and judges get treated as important when they handle the big cases not the little ones. If you want to be somebody in the criminal justice system in America, you need to do the “big cases.” If you want to be somebody, you need to handle the big felonies. Anybody who has been around a long time should be doing felonies or there is something wrong with them, right?
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| 03 Dec 2009 - 08:25 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: community.icontact.com/p/default46/newsl . . .
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Targeted Investments Can Also Radically Reduce Unintended Pregnancies and Unsafe Abortion, and Lower Poverty Levels
3 DECEMBER 2009, LONDON – Maternal deaths in developing countries could be slashed by 70% and newborn deaths cut nearly in half if the world doubled investment in family planning and pregnancy-related care, shows a new report by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Currently, more than half a million maternal deaths and 3.5 million newborn deaths, many of them easily preventable, occur each year, in developing countries.
The new report, Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health, also found that investments in family planning boost the overall effectiveness of every dollar spent on the provision of pregnancy-related and newborn health care. Simultaneously investing in both family planning and maternal and newborn services can achieve the same dramatic outcomes for $1.5 billion less than investing in maternal and newborn health services alone.
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community.icontact.com/p/default46/newsletters/update/posts/new-study-finds-70-reduction-in-maternal-deaths-and-nearly-50-decline-in-newborn
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| 02 Dec 2009 - 19:44 | Marcelo Salgado, Subsecretario de Derechos Humans/Provincia Chaco
subseddhh.chaco@gmail.com
URL: subseddhhchaco.blogspot.com/
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Estimados:
Queremos compartir con ustedes una animación que es parte de la campaña "Cuando la Limosna es grande....", destinada a prevenir la Trata de Personas, particularmente, informar sobre la principal forma de captación en nuestra zona, que es el engaño.
Asimismo nos gustaría poder conocer vuestras opiniones, sugerencias y criticas.
Saludos
Marcelo Salgado
Subsecretario de Derechos Humanos
Provincia del Chaco
subseddhh.chaco@gmail.com
les dejamos el link:
subseddhhchaco.blogspot.com/
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| 02 Dec 2009 - 19:33 | Tribune Newspapers
URL: www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-ch . . .
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Child prostitution: Children rescued from sex trade struggle to find care in U.S.
Tribune Newspapers
WASHINGTON - -- When the FBI announced a nationwide crackdown on child prostitution last month as part of a long-term initiative to combat domestic sex trafficking, it noted that 52 children had been rescued from "sexual slavery."
"It is repugnant that children in these times could be subjected to the great pain, suffering and indignity of being forced into sexual slavery for someone else's profit," Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer said at the time.
But a month later, none of those children is receiving the kind of help that experts say they require to overcome the trauma of their experiences, and some are still languishing in local juvenile detention centers, according to a Tribune Newspapers check of the children's situation.
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www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-child-prostitution-112nov29,0,7382909.story
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| 02 Dec 2009 - 11:21 | Planeta Sedna
URL: www.portalplanetasedna.com.ar/prostituci . . .
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Prostitution Infantil
Informe de Planeta Sedna
www.portalplanetasedna.com.ar/prostitucion_infantil.htm
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| 02 Dec 2009 - 10:25 | Center for Public Integrity
URL: www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/c . . .
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Investigative Report
Sexual Assault on Campus,
A Frustrating Search for Justice
see report:
www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/campus_assault/#
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| 01 Dec 2009 - 08:35 | Cimac Mx
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09113011-Ases . . .
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Guerra sin estrategia implementada por Calderón, acentúa violencia contra mujeres
Asesinan a sobrina de activista de Justicia para Nuestras Hijas
Por Gladis Torres Ruiz
México DF, 30 nov 09 (CIMAC).- Con la guerra sin estrategia alguna, que implementó Felipe Calderón contra el narcotráfico en Ciudad Juárez, reina la impunidad y cualquier “hombre armado”, puede asesinar a las mujeres, una de las más recientes víctimas fue Flor Alicia Gómez Mijares de 23 años de edad, sobrina de la portavoz de Justicia para Nuestras Hijas, Alma Gómez.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09113011-Asesinan-a-sobrina.40247.0.html
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| 01 Dec 2009 - 08:27 | Christian Science Monitor
URL: www.csmonitor.com/2009/1120/p90s01-woam. . . .
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Guatemala slowly confronts widespread rape of women
In Guatemala, drug trafficking, gang violence, and a climate of impunity lead to widespread rape of women. At least 10,000 women were victims of sexual violence last year
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| 01 Dec 2009 - 08:24 | News 34
URL: www.newschannel34.com/content/developing . . .
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New York to Become First State to Provide On-Line Victim Notification System in Spanish Statewide
New York will soon become the first state to provide the on-line version of its victim information and notification system in Spanish statewide for any concerned citizen.
With U.S. Census data showing that more than three million New Yorkers speak Spanish as their primary language at home, the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) is making VINELink, the online version of VINEâ (Victim Information and Notification Everyday), available in Spanish in an effort to eliminate language barriers for Spanish-speaking crime victims and concerned citizens. The Spanish-language service is scheduled to begin December 8, 2009.
New York Statewide VINE is a free, anonymous and confidential phone and Web system that allows crime victims and other concerned citizens to track the custody status of offenders in jail or prison and register to be notified by phone or e-mail when an offender is released, transferred from a local facility to DOCS, or escapes.
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www.newschannel34.com/content/developingnews/story/New-York-to-Become-First-State-to-Provide-On-Line/MBcoDXMOH0WF9FBVNioAlA.cspx
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| 01 Dec 2009 - 08:19 | My Shingle
URL: www.myshingle.com/2009/11/articles/legal . . .
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Free Legal Research by Google & What It Means
by Carolyn Elefant
Trackbacks What do I think about Google's recent launch of a free, online legal research tool as part of Google Scholar? (disclosure: my husband works for Google, but isn't involved with the legal research project)
Funny you should ask, because I've been tracking, evaluating and most of all, patiently awaiting the arrival of a functional, robust online research tool for nearly a decade. Back in 2000, I wrote my first piece for the Washington Legal Times, entitled How I Researched A Legal Brief Online for Free (now only available behind fee wall, here) And when I started MyShingle in 2002, I set up a category for "Legal Research & Writing" to track various bar associations' adoption of Casemaker, which at that time was one of few free resources for legal research. In short, I've been around the block long enough to put Google's new tool in perspective -- a welcome step worth celebrating, but far from the game changer that many are predicting. At least yet. Here are my quick thoughts
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www.myshingle.com/2009/11/articles/legal-research-and-writing/free-legal-research-by-google-what-it-means/
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| 30 Nov 2009 - 19:11 | Orange County Register
URL: www.ocregister.com/articles/leonard-2209 . . .
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Criminologist helped get sex slave out of prison
By YVETTE CABRERA
Highlights
A child trafficking victim was kept in a "house of horrors," only to be imprisoned as an adult for the murder of her batterer.
The case of Maria Suarez, a sex trafficking victim who was unjustly imprisoned by her abuser – then unjustly imprisoned for 22 years in the California Institution for Women for the 1981 death of her abuser – is notable for many reasons.
Hers is a case that has left many asking: How did this happen?
Maria Suarez reacts with joy at a party to celebrate her release from a government detention facility. Though she was paroled from prison in 2004, she was immediately taken into custody by immigration officials. As a legal resident with a felony on her record, the law required that Suarez be deported. In May, 2004 she was granted a temporary visa for victims of human trafficking and was released from detention.
Suarez's horrifying experience — imprisoned from the age of 16 for five years in the home of a 67-year-old Azusa man who repeatedly raped her — reveals how she slipped through several cracks. It also shows how, subsequently, she was betrayed by a justice system that instead of aiding her put her behind bars for life.
But her case also reveals a ray of hope. That's because someone – Elizabeth Dermody Leonard – was paying attention. And she helped kick off the process that would eventually free Suarez, now 49.
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www.ocregister.com/articles/leonard-220903-suarez-women.html
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| 30 Nov 2009 - 18:57 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9406 . . .
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MUJERES-NICARAGUA: Desarmar al agresor
Por José Adán Silva
MANAGUA, 26 nov (IPS) - Las marcadas diferencias políticas que dividen a la sociedad nicaragüense no impidieron que agrupaciones de mujeres salieran a las calles y paseos públicos a exigir a la policía mayor presencia para apresar a los culpables de violencia contra las mujeres.
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| 30 Nov 2009 - 18:51 | IPS Noticias
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MUJERES-AMÉRICA LATINA: La batalla cotidiana en la prensa
Por Ángel Páez
LIMA, 28 nov (IPS) - "La prensa cambiará cuando deje de informar sólo en masculino", dijo la viceministra de la Mujer de Perú, Norma Añaños, ante los y las participantes del seminario internacional para periodistas "Mujeres trabajando, Mujeres liderando", que se realiza en esta capital
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| 30 Nov 2009 - 18:41 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49436
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GUATEMALA: Sex Education, Family Planning Finally Available
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 26 (IPS) - Social organisations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher sex education into the country's classrooms and facilitate access to birth control methods, as a victory in the fight against the country's high birth and maternal and infant mortality rates
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| 30 Nov 2009 - 18:27 | Ni Una Victima Mas de las Redes de Prostitucion
URL: www.jornadasabolicionistas2009.blogspot. . . .
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“PRIMERAS JORNADAS NACIONALES ABOLICIONISTAS SOBRE PROSTITUCIÓN Y TRATA DE MUJERES NIÑAS/OS”
ESTAS JORNADAS FUERON DECLARADAS DE INTERÉS SOCIAL Y CULTURAL POR LA LEGISLATURA DE LA CIUDAD DE BS AS
PROGRAMA DE ACTIVIDADES
Mas Informacion:
www.jornadasabolicionistas2009.blogspot.com/
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