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| 06 Sep 2009 - 12:20 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48337
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RIGHTS: U.N. May Shelve Creation of New Women's Body
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 5 (IPS) - A coalition of over 300 international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is "outraged" that an impending decision to create a new women's entity at the United Nations is being postponed once again.
"If the General Assembly fails to act, it will send a very negative signal to women around the world who are now beginning to engage in national and regional reviews of the 1995 Bejing Platform for Action for Women," says Charlotte Bunch, executive director of the Centre for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University.
The proposal to set up a new gender entity, to be headed by an under-secretary-general, was expected to be approved by the 192-member General Assembly before it concludes its current sessions on Sep. 14.
But the longstanding proposal is now expected to be passed onto the next session of the General Assembly beginning Sep.15 through September 2010.
"NGOs are outraged that this would continue to be postponed," Bunch told IPS. "No further delay is justified when no government has said they are opposed to taking this step."
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www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48337
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| 06 Sep 2009 - 12:10 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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LA FEDERACIÓN DE ASOCIACIONES DE PERIODISTAS DE ESPAÑA (FAPE) APLAUDE LA ABSOLUCIÓN DE LA PERIODISTA MEXICANA LYDIA CACHO
Madrid, España.- La Federación de Asociaciones de Periodistas de España (FAPE) manifiesta su satisfacción por la absolución de la periodista mexicana Lydia Cacho, quien había sido demanda por publicar la historia de una niña violada en el libro Los Demonios del Edén, mismo que desató un escándalo político pues se inculpaba de los delitos de corrupción y pederastia a personalidades con importante responsabilidad pública.
El pasado viernes 21 de agosto de 2009, tras más de dos años de juicio, la Justicia mexicana exoneró a la periodista de la divulgación de dicha investigación en la que develaba una red de pornografía infantil y trata de menores de edad en México. Por dicho trabajo Lydia padeció secuestro y encarcelamiento injusto.
Ante esta situación, la Fundación que lleva su nombre dio a conocer al mundo el caso Lydia Cacho, cuyo objetivo era financiar el proceso de defensa judicial en el Tribunal Internacional de La Haya.
La FAPE siempre ha estado muy ligada al caso de la periodista mexicana, quien es su asociada. El pasado junio, la presidenta de la Federación, Magis Iglesias, y el secretario general de la organización, Javier Arenas, y el presidente de la Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid (APM), Fernando González Urbaneja, hicieron entrega al embajador mexicano de una carta dirigida a Felipe Calderón, en la que le exigen mayores medidas de protección para los periodistas mexicanos víctimas de amenazas a consecuencia de su trabajo, como es el reincidente caso de Lydia Cacho.
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| 06 Sep 2009 - 11:44 | YouTube
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM
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Buffy vs. Edward
Twilight: The Feminist Remix
Video 6 min
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM
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| 06 Sep 2009 - 11:19 | Excelsior
URL: www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/prime . . .
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Van por policías torturadores
Lemic Madrid
La Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) concluyó que existen elementos de prueba para acusar y detener a 30 servidores públicos del gobierno del Estado de México involucrados en los hechos violentos de San Salvador Atenco, del 3 y 4 de mayo de 2006.
En breve se solicitará a un juez federal las órdenes de aprehensión por su probable responsabilidad en actos de tortura y delitos sexuales, en agravio de varias mujeres que se encontraban en la población mexiquense durante la aplicación de un operativo de seguridad.
Fuentes de primer nivel de la PGR informaron que la investigación del caso está bajo responsabilidad de la Fiscalía Especial para los Delitos de Violencia contra las Mujeres y Trata de Personas (Fevimtra); tras tres años de diversas diligencias, este organismo sustenta las acusaciones en diferentes pruebas testimoniales, periciales y de reconocimiento ocular.
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www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/primera/pulsonacional/van_por_policias_torturadores/710133
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| 06 Sep 2009 - 11:06 | Google Books
URL: books.google.com/books?id=py3LvNCNXTEC&d . . .
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Book
Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics
By Andrew Linzey›
Book overview
How we treat animals arouses strong emotions. Many people are repulsed by photographs of cruelty to animals and respond passionately to how we make animals suffer for food, commerce, and sport. But is this, as some argue, a purely emotional issue? Are there really no rational grounds for opposing our current treatment of animals?
In Why Animal Suffering Matters, Andrew Linzey argues that when analyzed impartially the rational case for extending moral solicitude to all sentient beings is much stronger than many suppose. Indeed, Linzey shows that many of the justifications for inflicting animal suffering in fact provide grounds for protecting them. Because animals, the argument goes, lack reason or souls or language, harming them is not an offense. Linzey suggests that just the opposite is true, that the inability of animals to give or withhold consent, their inability to represent their interests, their moral innocence, and their relative defenselessness all compel us not to harm them.
Andrew Linzey further shows that the arguments in favor of three controversial practices--hunting with dogs, fur farming, and commercial sealing--cannot withstand rational critique. He considers the economic, legal, and political issues surrounding each of these practices, appealing not to our emotions but to our reason, and shows that they are rationally unsupportable and morally repugnant.
In this superbly argued and deeply engaging book, Linzey pioneers a new theory about why animal suffering matters, maintaining that sentient animals, like infants and young children, should be accorded a special moral status.
See
books.google.com/books?id=py3LvNCNXTEC&dq=animal+abuse+domestic+violence+august+2009&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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| 05 Sep 2009 - 21:23 | Frieda Werden, Women's International News Gathering Service
URL: www.iawrt.org/awards
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Female documentarians invited to submit works on women
https://www.ijnet.org/ijnet/training_opportunities/female_documentarian s_invited_to_submit_works_on_women
Female documentary makers from around the world can submit works about
women who are making a difference, in their own lives or on the lives
of other women, to a contest. Deadline: October 16.
The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT)
is sponsoring the awards, which IAWRT President Olya Booyar said will
set the scene for the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action on equality and opportunity for women.
Entries must be between 20 and 90 minutes long for television, or 15
to 60 minutes for radio, and have been broadcast during the period
November 2007 to October 2009.
Winners will be announced in Cambodia at a conference from November 17
to 21. A cash prize of US$750 will be awarded to the most outstanding
documentary in each medium.
For more information, go to www.iawrt.org/awards
--
Frieda Werden, Producer
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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| 04 Sep 2009 - 09:40 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9321 . . .
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SUDÁFRICA: Lesbianas sometidas a "violación curativa"
Por Nathalie Rosa Bucher
CIUDAD DEL CABO, sep (IPS) - "Están matando mujeres en Ciudad del Cabo", aseguró Ndumie Funda, directora de un proyecto de apoyo a lesbianas en el vecindario pobre de Gugulethu, cerca de esta meridional ciudad sudafricana.
Su novia, Nosizwe Nomsa Bizana, fue atacada y violada por cinco hombres al igual que su amiga Luleka Makiwane. La primera murió de meningitis criptocócica y la segunda contrajo el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) y falleció a causa del síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (sida).
En honor a ellas, Funda llamó al proyecto LulekiSizwe, dedicado a atender principalmente a adolescentes y jóvenes de ese distrito, la mayoría a punto de terminar sus estudios secundarios.
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www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=93212
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| 04 Sep 2009 - 09:34 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48279
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SOUTH AFRICA: Law Failing Lesbians on "Corrective Rape"
By Nathalie Rosa Bucher
The 07-07-07 Campaign, named after the gruesome double murder of Salome Masooa and Sizakele Sigaza in 2007 seeks to end the targeting of lesbian women for their sexuality.
CAPE TOWN, Aug 31 (IPS) - "Women are getting killed in the Western Cape," says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her "cabin" in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town.
The project is named after her late fiancée, Nosizwe Nomsa Bizana, who was gang-raped by five men and subsequently succumbed to crypto meningitis, and Bizana's friend Luleka Makiwane, who contracted HIV when she was raped and later died of AIDS.
The initiative provides support for lesbian women in the township, most of them teenagers and young adults, many in their final years of high school. According to Funda, young lesbian women aged between 16 and 25 are most vulnerable and often get evicted by their families.
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ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48279
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| 04 Sep 2009 - 09:27 | Stop Family Violence
URL: www.stopfamilyviolence.org/get-involved/ . . .
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ACT NOW!
Protective Mother Faces Legal Catch-22
system favors abuser, punishes mother - lives at risk
In June 2009 Iowa's family court gave Hanna Newberry full legal and physical custody of her son based on her ex-husband's long record of documented domestic violence. Soon, all that could change. Because of a legal catch 22, Newberry's abuser is poised to regain custody, while Ms. Newberry is sent to jail.
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www.stopfamilyviolence.org/get-involved/take-action-now/mother-faces-legal-catch-22
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| 04 Sep 2009 - 09:12 | IPS Gender Masala
URL: www.ips.org/blog/mdg3/2009/08/re-inventi . . .
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Re-inventing the Warrior
Old and new values in contemporary masculinities
Guest post by Trevor Davies, Director, African Fathers Initiative
This week I’ve been trying to get to grips with what at first glance seemed a real backward step in the struggle for gender equity.
For a long time, in my work around masculinities based on feminist analysis, I’ve opposed the idea that there was some golden age of manhood when men were strong and women were weak and needed to be looked after.
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www.ips.org/blog/mdg3/2009/08/re-inventing-the-warrior/
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| 02 Sep 2009 - 09:09 | Violence Against Women Net
URL: new.vawnet.org/category/Documents.php?do . . .
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The Effectiveness of Sexual Assault Services in Multi-Service Agencies
The Effectiveness of Sexual Assault Services in Multi-Service Agencies by Debra Patterson with contributions from Sally Laskey (September 2009).
In Brief:
Rape crisis centers began as organizations that were intentionally independent (termed free-standing) from other agencies, but overtime, many RCCs either folded, merged, or were implemented by other organizations such as domestic violence shelters or social service systems. While the freestanding programs tend to be autonomous in their operations and functioning, RCCs housed within other organizations vary in their level of autonomy over budgetary or service delivery decisions. As such, there have been concerns that merging RCCs into other organizations might affect the availability and substance of services. This paper reviews the literature to examine whether organizational affiliation and structure affect the quantity and quality of sexual assault services. This paper concludes with recommendations for future research evaluating the effectiveness of RCCs within multiple organizational affiliations and structures.
The literature suggests that free-standing RCCs had moderate budgets and staff, served a high number of survivors, and were more likely to express concern about meeting the needs of underserved populations than affiliated RCCs. Free-standing programs also received more referrals from law enforcement and hospitals than affiliated RCCs. In addition, free-standing RCCs regularly collaborated with other organizations on social change initiatives and developed strategies to improve the responses to sexual assault survivors.
RCCs affiliated with domestic violence programs had the least amount of funding and staff allocated to sexual assault services and served far fewer survivors. These RCCs engaged in social change efforts, but these efforts were moderate compared to free-standing programs. Further, RCCs affiliated with domestic violence programs were more likely to view sexual assault within the context of domestic violence such as with intimate partner rapes. However, a more recent study found four patterns of organizational structures among these programs that range greatly in their service delivery. Empirical studies are needed to compare the effectiveness of these different structures.
RCCs affiliated with hospitals and county services had the largest budgets with a similar staff size as free-standing programs. These programs served a higher number of survivors but often limit services to crisis-oriented counseling to meet the short-term needs of survivors. These RCCs also had minimal involvement in collaborative social change activities. RCCs associated with the criminal justice system, community mental health organizations, and universities had small budgets and staff and served far fewer survivors. RCCs affiliated with CMH and county services provided the least amount of prevention/education activities while those affiliated with the criminal justice system and universities were highly involved in these activities.
Overall, the literature suggests that free-standing programs provide more accessible and comprehensive services than the affiliated programs. If RCCs need to merge, the literature suggests that domestic violence programs hold the most advantages because of their similar organizational missions and goals. However, these conclusions are tentative because the current research is sparse, with the majority of studies occurring up to two decades ago.
Full Report:
new.vawnet.org/category/Documents.php?docid=2078
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| 02 Sep 2009 - 09:01 | Violence Against Women Net
URL: new.vawnet.org/category/Documen ts.php? . . .
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Update of the 'Battered Woman Syndrome'
Critique by Mary Ann Dutton with contributions from Sue Osthoff and Melissa Dichter (August 2009)
This paper reviews the definition, evolution, and utilization of "battered
woman syndrome" in the courts and offers a critique of its framework and its use.
new.vawnet.org/category/Documen ts.php?docid=2061
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| 02 Sep 2009 - 08:41 | First Nation Women's Alliance
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Two full time job openings:
POSITION TITLE: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EDUCATION COORDIANTOR
POSITION TITLE: SEXUAL ASSAULT EDUCATION COORDIANTOR
First Nations Women's Alliance
PO Box 162 Tokio, ND 58379
701-294-2081
First Nations Women's Alliance is a private non-profit working within North
Dakota. Our mission is: to strengthen our communities by creating forum for
leaders to come together to address the issues of domestic violence and
sexual assault. First Nations Women's Alliance is committed to ending all
forms of violence by providing culturally relevant services and resources.
This position requires in state and nationwide travel.
First Nations Women's Alliance
PO Box 162
Tokio, ND 58379
If you have questions please call FNWA @ 701-294-2081
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| 02 Sep 2009 - 08:11 | Jane Devin, Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-devin/18-yea . . .
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18 Years of Failed Parole in Dugard Kidnapping
Jane DevinWriter-Essayist
There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about a woman I knew only by way of polished misinformation, poorly written news stories, and a shoddy investigation that left her murderer free.
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www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-devin/18-years-of-failed-parole_b_272317.html
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| 01 Sep 2009 - 09:30 | Associacion para los derechos de la mujer y desarollo
URL: www.awid.org/esl/Temas-y-Analisis/Temas- . . .
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¿Está Google violando los derechos de las mujeres?
Source: AWID
28/08/2009
Las recientes restricciones de Google Inc. a los anuncios sobre servicios de aborto en 15 países dan lugar a preguntas respecto a la influencia que las políticas de los proveedores de motores de búsqueda tienen en la libertad de información. ¿Se están violando los derechos de las mujeres al restringir el acceso a este tipo de información?
Por Masum Momaya
El 17 de septiembre de 2008, Google Inc., el gigante de Internet, emitió una actualización de la política publicitaria de su programa AdWords, en la cual declara que ya no aceptará anuncios que promocionen servicios de aborto en 15 países: Alemania, Argentina, Brasil, España Filipinas, Francia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italia, Malasia, México, Perú, Polonia, Singapur y Taiwán. Cuando se hace una búsqueda introduciendo palabras clave en un navegador, junto a los resultados de ésta aparecen “resultados patrocinados” que son una fuente de ingresos para la empresa del motor de búsqueda.
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www.awid.org/esl/Temas-y-Analisis/Temas-y-Analisis2/Esta-Google-violando-los-derechos-de-las-mujeres
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| 01 Sep 2009 - 09:19 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Iss . . .
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Interview with Audrey Huntly of No More Silence
Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women: A shameful indifference
Indigenous women are far more likely likely to die from violence than other women in Canada. Over the years many indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered without the perpetrators being brought to justice. Audrey Huntley, who is of mixed indigenous and settler ancestry, is a co-founder of the coalition group No More Silence which addresses the injustice and impunity surrounding the murders and disappearances. In an interview with AWID, she shed light on the situation.
See...
www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/Audrey-Huntley-on-murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women
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| 01 Sep 2009 - 09:00 | National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys
URL: www.navra.org/index.php
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National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys
About NAVRA
The National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys (NAVRA) is a membership alliance of attorneys and advocates committed to the protection, enforcement, and advancement of crime victims' rights nationwide. NAVRA is affiliated with the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI), a non profit research and educational organization that actively promotes balance and fairness in the justice system through crime victim centered legal advocacy, education, and resource sharing. To learn more about NCVLI, please visit www.ncvli.org.
Through increased communication and coordination of attorneys and advocates working in victim law, NAVRA hopes to increase the availability of expert services for crime victims. Membership is open to attorneys, non-attorney victim advocates, crime victims, law students, and individuals interested in legal developments that affect crime victims.
www.navra.org/index.php
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| 01 Sep 2009 - 08:48 | Vanessa
chenza143@verizon.net
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I am writting in regards to the injustice woman face within the police department. Last year my husband became suicidal and had a knife, he was totally intoxicated. I pulled my weapon out, police responded, I was the one that was arrested and charged, my husband was taken into police station to make statement against me, police lied on the DSVR reports, I still have the knife my husband used that night in my possession, I fought the Justice System and my charges were amended and my weapons were returned. I lost my job, my civil rights were violated by the law enforcement. What scared me the most was I just graduated from the Citizens Police Academy from same police station. I currently hold a degree in Criminal Justice, and I'm a peer educator to Domestic Violence. I'm not giving up, I'm not gonna stop until I get answers to why I was treated like I was the aggressor when infact I was the victim. I'm not gonna stop until someone listens, and I make sure that the same thing that
happened to me never happens again to another innocent victim.
vanessa
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| 01 Sep 2009 - 08:29 | New York Times
URL: www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/nyregion/01gu . . .
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Soldier’s Service Leads to a Custody Battle at Home
TEANECK, N.J. — During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could think of to ease her longing for the year-old daughter she had left back home.
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www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/nyregion/01guard.html?_r=2&hp
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| 01 Sep 2009 - 08:19 | Huffington Post
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Obama Admin Planning To Revive High-Impact Civil Rights Enforcement
CommentsWASHINGTON — The Justice Department is moving forward with plans to expand its civil rights division, pursuing cases of discrimination in the workplace, housing and voting rights.
From his first day on the job, Attorney General Eric Holder has pledged to strengthen the Civil Rights Division he inherited from the Bush administration.
A scathing internal Justice Department report earlier this year found Bush administration officials politicized hiring and job assignments within the division, favoring conservatives whom one official called "real Americans."
At his confirmation hearing, Holder called the allegations disturbing and said the Obama administration was committed to an energetic and nonpartisan approach to the nation's civil rights laws.
He underscored those points in an interview in Tuesday's editions of The New York Times.
As part of the effort, the Obama administration is boosting funding to hire more staff for civil rights, and Holder said earlier this year that the effort will take years, not months.
The attorney general has said he wants to return to the traditions of civil rights legal work that existed at the Department before the Bush administration, calling the effort a reconstruction of how the division used to work.
The civil rights division was formed in the late 1950s, and has often been at the center of contentious debates over racial equality in the years since, from voting rights to busing to affirmative action
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| 31 Aug 2009 - 10:53 | Guatemala Human Rights Commission
URL: www.ghrc-usa.org/Publications/Femicide_L . . .
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Report:
Guatemala's Femicide Law,
Progress Against Impunity?
Report
www.ghrc-usa.org/Publications/Femicide_Law_ProgressAgainstImpunity.pdf
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| 31 Aug 2009 - 09:20 | Ann Bartow, Feminist Law Professors Blog
URL: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract . . .
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Dan Kahan, “Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases” – A Request for Input
Prof. Dan Kahan has written a paper that reports the results of an experimental study of perceptions of consent and other facts in a hypothetical date rape case (patterned closely on Commonwealth v. Berkowitz [court stated that the legislature intended the term forcible compulsion to mean “something more than a lack of consent”]) and the impact of various legal standards on how mock jurors of diverse backgrounds would decide such a case. The paper is in draft form, and he is very interested in comments, suggestions and criticisms from a law and feminism perspective. The abstract is as follows:
This paper uses the theory of cultural cognition to examine the debate over rape-law reform. Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals to conform their perceptions of legally consequential facts to their defining group commitments. Results of an original experimental study (N = 1,500) confirmed the impact of cultural cognition on perceptions of fact in a controversial acquaintance-rape case. The major finding was that a hierarchical worldview, as opposed to an egalitarian one, inclined individuals to perceive that the defendant reasonably understood the complainant as consenting to sex despite her repeated verbal objections. The effect of hierarchy in inclining subjects to favor acquittal was greatest among women; this finding was consistent with the hypothesis that hierarchical women have a distinctive interest in stigmatizing rape complainants whose behavior deviates from hierarchical gender norms. The study also found that cultural predispositions have a much larger impact on outcome judgments than do legal definitions, variations in which had either no or a small impact on the likelihood subjects would support or oppose conviction. The paper links date-rape reform to a class of controversies in law that reflect symbolic status competition between opposing cultural groups, and addresses the normative implications of this conclusion.
The draft paper can be downloaded here. His contact information is here, if you have suggestions about the draft.
Draft Paper Download
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1437742
For anyone interested, a ruling in a case that followed Commonwealth v. Berkowitz can be read here; the facts are recounted in fairly graphic detail.
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| 31 Aug 2009 - 08:57 | Jennifer McLune
URL: hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/07/ . . .
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Make Her Say (Poke Her Face): Un-conscious Hip Hop, Oral Rape and the Silencing of Women
Author Jennifer McLune
Author’s Note: The following essay represents my attempt at articulating a response to Kid Cudi’s “Make Her Say (Poke Her Face),” featuring Common and Kanye West. I’d like to be honest in stating upfront that, during the process of writing this piece I only listened to the song and read over its lyrics on an absolutely-as-needed basis. The words & the images these contempt-ridden lyrics created in my mind left me feeling physically sick and emotionally depleted, even at times to the point of being traumatized
See Jennifer's essay....
hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/make-her-say-poke-her-face%E2%80%9D-un-conscious-hip-hop-oral-rape-and-the-silencing-of-women/
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