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| 11 Jul 2010 - 15:09 | CA Protective Parents Association
cppa001@aol.com
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Dear Friends:
1. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) conference is in Anaheim CA the end of July and beginning of August 2010. http://www.ncadv.org/
NCADV gets it - they are presenting an entire track on family court!
On Monday, August 2 the Plenary Session is on Child Custody and Domestic Violence.
FROM DISGRUNTLED LITIGANTS TO THE CANARIES OF THE CUSTODY COURT SYSTEM: Protective Mothers Were Right-They Are Being Mistreated by the Courts
Opening remarks from Ms. Joye E. Frost, Director, Office on Victims of Crime. The new book, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABUSE and CHILD CUSTODY establishes that the routine use of outdated and discredited practices has resulted in thousands of children being sent to live with abusers. The research is now readily available to challenge and prevent the common mistakes that so often harm children. The success of the abuser tactic seeking custody to maintain control over their victims and failure of the courts to recognize this tactic undermine the work of our movement and have led to an increase in domestic violence homicides after many years of declines. Mo Therese Hannah will discuss the research available to help protective mothers. Judge Mike Brigner will explain how judges are getting it wrong so often. Garland Waller exposes the failure of the media to report this scandal. You will want to stay until the end because Barry Goldstein will explain how to use this information in your home communities as we use the research in the book to reform the broken custody court system, prevent the unfair attacks on protective mothers and make sure no child has to cry herself to sleep because a court separated her from her safe, courageous, protective mother.
On Tuesday August 3 CA Protective Parents Association and Center for Judicial Excellence will present a workshop titled "Action: Let's Roll" from 10:15 to noon.
2. Kathie Justi, a wonderful protective mom who was instrumental in bringing down a judge and changing the culture of the Santa Clara California family court to better protect battered women and children, is interested in compiling testimonials about your journey through this ordeal. Let me know if you would like her contact information.
Her vision: "Many mother's have lost custody, some regained their child(ren), some didn't until they were 18, and able to try to establish a relationship. Many mothers have written their custody story, but this is about you! Not about your dear children. This story is about your own journey, your struggles, your successes, your triumphs, your losses. Coping, not coping. You didn't give up, because you are here now."
3. New resource: Safe Child International: www.causes.com/causes/497298?m=71bb3202&recruiter_id=84515530
4. New book: Sexual Sabotage by Judith Reisman PhD about Alfred Kinsey's early junk science that underlies the current junk science that encourages sex offenders to get custody of their victims.
5. September 12-15, 2010. The International Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) conference is being held in San Diego http://www.ivatcenters.org/ There is an excellent training from September 10-12 by Child Abuse Solutions www.childabusesolutions.com in the Affiliated Training section which is designed for evaluators and other court related professionals.
6. Keep Friday October 1, 2010 open for another exciting demonstration at the White House with a parade to the U.S. Dept of Justice and the U.S. Senate!
Best, Connie
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| 09 Jul 2010 - 09:11 | SAVE, Women Without Borders
URL: www.women-without-borders.org/news/207
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Documentary: Women Know How! SAVE Sisters and their Vision for SAVE
A short documentary by Silja Strasser
In May 2010, activists, scholars, and decision makers from Pakistan, India, Yemen, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Somalia, Israel, Palestine, and Bosnia came together to develop an implementation strategy for Mothers for Change!, SAVE’s first global campaign that takes the bold step to mobilizing women around the world to challenge violent extremism in their homes and communities.
This film captures the mission of SAVE through the eyes of some of the participants and trainers from the week of workshops. The courage and determination of these women are the driving forces for standing up against radical ideologies, and Women Know How! illustrates the spirit that moves this innovative campaign forward on the ground.
See
www.women-without-borders.org/news/207
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| 09 Jul 2010 - 09:01 | Muskie Series 2010
URL: conferences.bwjp.org/webconferencedetail . . .
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Muskie Series 2010: Batterers and Intervention Strategies,
Session 7
12 July 2010
Webinar: Involving men in the work to end violence against women
Registration Ends 7/11/2010
Date: Monday, July 12, 2010
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm EDT
Location: Your Desk
A webinar is an on-line seminar and requires access to the internet to connect.
Audio options are:
1) Teleconference (cost of calling long distance to New York is your responsibility);
2) VoIP (free audio through the internet, speakers are required).
Speakers: Ben Atherton-Zeman, is a spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (www.nomas.org) and is a public speaker on issues of violence prevention. For the past seventeen years, Ben has worked as a prevention educator for rape crisis centers, domestic violence programs, and state coalitions. Joseph Samalin is the Campus Strength Coordinator for Men Can Stop Rape in NYC. Joe Samalin has been working on issues of gender-based violence for over 15 years. Recently, he was a trainer with the Anti-Stalking Program at Safe Horizon where he developed curricula and conducted trainings on stalking. Hosted by: Barbara Hart, J.D., Director of Strategic Justice Initiatives, Muskie School of Public Service.
Topic: Involving men in the work to end violence against women. Faculty will explore strategies to engage men in cultural and social change discourse/action to confront/ eliminate violence against women and the privilege and power of men to subordinate women through sexual, physical, psychological, economic and cultural abuse. Accountability of men to the leadership of women in the movement to end VAW will be examined. Faculty will share their respective experience in formulating their philosophy and history in the movement.
more info and registration
conferences.bwjp.org/webconferencedetail.aspx?confid=155
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| 09 Jul 2010 - 08:55 | Women'said
URL: www.womensaid.ie/newsevents/news/2010/06 . . .
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Ireland
Increase in numbers of women being abused, controlled and stalked through technology
Women's Aid today (Wednesday, 23rd June 2010) announced details of calls to its Domestic Violence National Freephone Helpline and its Support Services in 2009. Callers to the Women's Aid National Freephone Helpline disclosed over 14,613 incidents of physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse in 2009. Women's Aid has noted an increase in disclosures of women being abused, controlled and stalked through technology. Many callers disclosed that their current or former boyfriends, husbands and partners were using many forms of technology - old and new - to control, coerce, and intimidate them. This included a variety of telephone, surveillance, and computer technologies. Women disclosed that their home and mobile phone calls were monitored, as well as all of their texts. Some spoke of how their phone conversations were being recorded. Others found cameras secretly installed to monitor their every movement at home.
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www.womensaid.ie/newsevents/news/2010/06/23/increase-in-numbers-of-women-being-abused-controll/
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| 08 Jul 2010 - 09:53 | CIMAC Mx
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10070709-Conv . . .
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Firmado en 2008, a ejecutarse en un periodo de dos años
Convenio CE y México por cerca de 11 mdp para prevenir violencia de género
Por Anayeli García Martínez
México, DF. 7 jul 10 (CIMAC).- Desde hace dos años México y la Comisión Europea (CE) , suscribieron un Convenio de cooperación por un monto de 700 mil euros (aproximadamente 11 millones y medio de pesos), para la protección de los Derechos Humanos (DH) y para prevenir la violencia de género, el cual se modificó en febrero pasado, para apoyar el cumplimiento de la sentencia de “Campo Algodonero”.
Cabe recordar que la sentencia es por el feminicidio de tres de 8 mujeres en Ciudad Juárez, cuyos cuerpos fueron encontrados en el predio conocido como “Campo Algodonero”, en noviembre de 2001.
El 5 de febrero de 2010 – dos meses después de que se publicó la sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CoIDH) sobre el caso “Campo Algodonero”- se modificaron las metas de este Convenio para incluir la creación de un grupo de trabajo que dé cumplimiento al párrafo 18 de la sentencia el cual dice textualmente:
“El Estado deberá, en un plazo razonable, continuar con la estandarización de todos sus protocolos, manuales, criterios ministeriales de investigación, servicios periciales y de impartición de justicia, utilizados para investigar todos los delitos que se relacionen con desapariciones, violencia sexual y homicidios de mujeres, conforme al Protocolo de Estambul, el Manual sobre la Prevención e Investigación Efectiva de Ejecuciones Extrajudiciales, Arbitrarias y Sumarias de Naciones Unidas, y los estándares internacionales de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas, con base en una perspectiva de género, conforme a lo dispuesto en los párrafos 497 a 502 de esta sentencia. Al respecto, se deberá rendir un informe anual durante tres años.”
Cabe mencionar que la Cámara de Diputados, y la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), han argumentado desde hace unos meses, la falta de recursos para cumplir esta sentencia.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10070709-Convenio-CE-y-Mexic.43159.0.html
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| 08 Jul 2010 - 09:34 | Amecopress
URL: /www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article4237
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Entrevista a Francesca Filippi, responsable del Centro Antiviolencia en la provincia de Roma y gestora de la asociación Differenza Donna
"La prostitución no es una elección"
AmecoPress/Artemisa.- Francesca Filippi, responsable del Centro Antiviolencia en la provincia de Roma que gestiona su asociación Differenza Donna, participó el viernes en el Encuentro Internacional sobre la Violencia de Género que tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. ’Son 12 millones las víctimas de trata en Europa y no se habla de ello’, denunció.
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/www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article4237
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| 08 Jul 2010 - 09:07 | Say NO - Unite
URL: www.youtube.com/SayNoToViolence
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21 min video
focus on Justice and Violence Against Women in Colombia
www.youtube.com/SayNoToViolence
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| 08 Jul 2010 - 08:52 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
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URL: www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Iss . . .
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Mexico's Distressed-Migrant Visas Reach Few Women
Source: Women's eNews
Central American female migrants seeking a better life in the United States risk huge dangers as they pass through Mexico. Human rights researchers say their chances of getting a humanitarian visa for what they suffer are almost non-existent.
By Amy Lieberman
When Mexico decriminalized undocumented migration from the nations south of its border through its country two years ago, it also started allowing migrant victims of violence access to humanitarian visas.
However, the visas are rarely issued and the process is so slow it's nearly useless.
"They can try to file a report and wait all they want, but for most, the need to get to the U.S. is greater than the need for justice," said Leticia Bouteirra, an organizer with the Pastoral Commission of Human Mobility, a migrant rights and aid organization with offices across Mexico. She spoke through a Spanish translator. "This is outrageous, but this is the truth. There has never been a response from the government and the women are not going to wait for that."
The vast majority of women who survive sexual violence just keep going, she said.
Women constitute half the migrants making the journey from Central America all the way to the United States, said Emilio Chavez, acting director of Sin Fonteras, or Without Borders, a human rights organization based in Mexico City that aids migrants.
Women, he said, are disproportionately subject to abuse along the way.
"Violence against women is the most consistent pattern we see," he said. "Still, we see no kind of government response. These crimes go continually unnoticed. There is no protection for these migrant women. Nothing at all."
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www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/Mexico-s-Distressed-Migrant-Visas-Reach-Few-Women
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| 07 Jul 2010 - 09:27 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52026
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URUGUAY
Women Join Forces in the Parliamentary Trenches
By Silvana Silveira
MONTEVIDEO, Jul 1, 2010 (IPS) - Women lawmakers in Uruguay have joined forces across party lines, in spite of criticism from colleagues in their own parties, and have built majorities to approve laws in favour of gender equality and other rights that have been denied for years.
It all started in 2000, when the few women elected to the lower house of parliament decided that together, they had a chance of advancing an agenda for women without regard for party loyalties. They formed the women's caucus, which in 2005 became the Bicameral Women's Caucus (BBF) when some women were elected to the senate.
Thanks to pressure and support from the BBF, laws were enacted allowing women to choose a person to be present when they give birth, ending the description of murders resulting from domestic violence as "crimes of passion", providing sex education in primary schools, giving domestic employees the same labour rights as other workers, and penalising sexual harassment in the workplace.
Diana González, a lawyer who specialises in gender issues, emphasised that the women's caucus achieved parliamentary approval of a bill on sexual and reproductive health, which was ultimately vetoed by then president Tabaré Vázquez (2005-2010) because he personally disagreed with the article that decriminalised abortion.
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ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52026
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| 07 Jul 2010 - 09:08 | Rebecca Project
URL: www.prostitutionresearch.com/
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5 min video
Craigslist "Cyber Slave Market"
see
www.prostitutionresearch.com/
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| 07 Jul 2010 - 08:59 | Irinnews
URL: www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89 . . .
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DRC: Behind bars for rape
GOMA, 7 July 2010 (IRIN) - In a country known as the most dangerous in the world to be female, the most unusual aspect of the story of convicted rapist Eleka Amungu is that he is behind bars.
In 2009 he raped a 15-year-old, one of thousands of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who were sexually assaulted last year. Amungu says he loved the girl very much but couldn’t afford to marry her.
“As I was poor I decided to take her by force,” he said. “I invited her to my room, and when she refused I forced her.”
Amungu says he knew before committing the rape that it was illegal. So why did he do it? “I was excited and know others who’ve done it and got away with it.”
The girl told her parents.
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www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89761
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| 07 Jul 2010 - 08:50 | Venezuela, Ministerio de poder popular
URL: www.vtv.gov.ve/noticias-ciencia-y-salud/ . . .
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Proponen reforma de la Código Penal y de la Lopna
Venezuela blindará legalmente la lucha contra la prostitución, trata de personas y pornografía
Organismos nacionales e internacionales trabajan junto a la Asamblea Nacional para crear un instrumento que regule la materia La Comisión de Familia, Mujer y Juventud del Parlamento adelanta mesas técnicas de trabajo con entes ministeriales e instituciones como la Unicef
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www.vtv.gov.ve/noticias-ciencia-y-salud/39047
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| 06 Jul 2010 - 10:07 | Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
URL: www.apiahf.org/images/stories/Documents/ . . .
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Domestic Violence Materials in Asian and Pacific Islander Languages
June 2010
see,
www.apiahf.org/images/stories/Documents/publications_database/dv_translated_materials.pdf
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| 06 Jul 2010 - 09:48 | New York Times
URL: www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/01iht-p . . .
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Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but ...
By VICTORIA SHANNON
People around the world say they firmly support equal rights for men and women, but many still believe men should get preference when it comes to good jobs, higher education or even in some cases the simple right to work outside the home, according to a new survey of 22 nations.
Half or more of those asked in India, Pakistan and Egypt say a university education is more important for a boy. Pakistani women in Islamabad.
High Ideals, Harsh Reality
The poll, conducted in April and May by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project in association with the International Herald Tribune, shows that in both developing countries and wealthy ones, there is a pronounced gap between a belief in the equality of the sexes and how that translates into reality.
In nations where equal rights are already mandated, women seem stymied by a lack of real progress, the poll found.
“Women in the United States and Europe are shouldering major responsibilities at home and at work simultaneously, and this makes for stress and a low quality of life,” said Prof. Herminia Ibarra, co-author of the 2010 Corporate Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum.
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www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/01iht-poll.html?_r=1
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| 06 Jul 2010 - 09:37 | El Clarin
URL: www.clarin.com/sociedad/fuerte-polemica- . . .
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En medio de una fuerte polémica, ya entró en vigencia la legalización del aborto en España
En Madrid, Murcia y Galicia, que gobierna el Partido Popular, se resisten a aplicar la ley.
PorJuan Carlos Algañaraz
Madrid. Corresponsal
España En tres comunidades autónomas gobernadas por el Partido Popular (PP) las mujeres que acudieron a una clínica u hospital para someterse a una interrupción del embarazo se encontraron que la ley de aborto libre, que comenzaba a regir a partir de ayer, no se aplicaba como en el resto de España.
Se trata de una rebelión de la derecha, con el Partido Popular tratando de que el Tribunal Constitucional (órgano español encargado de ser el intérprete supremo de la Constitución) anule varios artículos esenciales de la nueva legislación o suspenda su aplicación. Lo de ayer fue una tormenta de declaraciones en contra de la ley, incluidos los obispos y una cincuentena de organizaciones católicas que se unieron a los recursos del Partido Popular y la Comunidad de Navarra.
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www.clarin.com/sociedad/fuerte-polemica-vigencia-legalizacion-Esp_0_293370748.html
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| 06 Jul 2010 - 09:32 | Yo decido ser differente
URL: hombrescontralaviolencia.blogspot.com/20 . . .
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Yo decido ser diferente
La campaña “Yo decido ser diferente” fue presentada ayer por Save the Children y la Organización Hombres contra la Violencia, Con ella se busca prevenir el delito de la trata de personas, al concienciar a hombres jóvenes y adultos sobre el ejercicio de la masculinidad.
Según Iván Jiménez, director de Hombres contra la Violencia, la idea surge porque recientemente se descubrió que son las personas del sexo masculino quienes prestan mayoritariamente servicios sexuales, motivados por patrones de comportamiento de masculinidad hegemónica.
La mayoría de las víctimas de la trata de personas son requeridas para la explotación sexual comercial, ya que es uno de los principales fines del delito.
Otro de los objetivos de la campaña es ofrecer nuevas alternativas en el ejercicio de la masculinidad, ya que con esto se busca reducir la demanda de comercio sexual y por ende el número de víctimas de trata.
Dicha campaña es financiada por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional y contempla la realización de tres foros a escala nacional, que tienen como fin incidir en sectores claves como policías, jóvenes universitarios y jueces, entre otros.
La acción también es parte de los esfuerzos que Save the Children desarrolla en El Salvador para reducir el índice de la trata de personas, ya que viola los derechos de la niñez.
hombrescontralaviolencia.blogspot.com/2010/06/lanzan-campana-contra-trata-de-personas.html
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