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| 12 Jun 2010 - 17:57 | Women's Law Project Blog
URL: womenslawproject.wordpress.com/2010/05/2 . . .
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May 27, 2010
Few Female Police Officers in Pittsburgh’s Suburbs
There are approximately 1,555,770 sworn police officers in the United States. So if the national workforce is 53% male, 47% female (according to the 2008 U.S. Census, though recent estimates have women breaking the 50% mark), then it would reasonable to deduce that we would have approximately 824,560 male officers and at least 731,210 female officers, right?
Instead, there are only 110,670 women (15.5% of all officers) wearing state or local badges in America. This disparity in law enforcement is additional evidence that gender stereotyping of occupations still exists and is just a portion of the bigger picture that demonstrates an overwhelming number of women being employed in educational services, health care and social assistance industries while being underrepresented in other fields.
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| 12 Jun 2010 - 08:58 | NYT Magazine
URL: www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13do . . .
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The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome
By CHARLES SIEBERT
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www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.html?emc=eta1
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| 12 Jun 2010 - 08:27 | Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, South Africa
URL: www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/letters/arti . . .
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Don't let sex slavery turn South Africa into a pimp state
Jun 6, 2010 12:00 AM | By Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge
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Let's welcome the world but keep out human traffickers, says Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge in this edited version of an open letter to President Jacob Zuma
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As we prepare to host the world's biggest sporting event , large numbers of visitors have begun to arrive in South Africa.
You have appealed to South Africans to welcome our visitors and to make this World Cup the best ever. We agree.
However, large sporting events are known to increase levels of sex trafficking. From research conducted with our partners, we believe this World Cup will be no different.
The United Nations estimates that some 80% of persons trafficked are trafficked for sexual exploitation and that the majority are women and children. South Africa is a prime destination for trafficking. One trafficked woman or child is one too many.
Our constitution promotes human rights, human dignity, gender equality, women's rights and children's rights.
Women joined the liberation movement so that we too could enjoy the fruits of freedom. We sacrificed, were imprisoned, exiled and some killed.
We kept the home fires burning. We built South Africa with our sweat and blood. We scrubbed floors, ironed, cooked and nursed small children - some not our own.
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| 11 Jun 2010 - 10:03 | FBI Law Enforcement Magazine
URL: www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2010/may201 . . .
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Options for Reporting Sexual Violence
Developments Over the Past Decade
By Sabrina Garcia, M.A., and Margaret Henderson, M.P.A.
“Blind reporting can give victims of sexual violence, and other sensitive crimes, a safe haven to file a report at the same time that it removes that refuge from their assailants.”1 For the victim, the benefit of such a system lies in having time to build trust with the law enforcement officer and to consider all of the implications of participating in reporting, investigating, or prosecuting the case before making a decision whether to proceed. For the law enforcement agency, this type of reporting can help gain intelligence about the local incidence and perpetration of all sexual violence in the community, as well as build trust and credibility with populations vulnerable to assault.
Developments in the field and changing social expectations have made law enforcement agencies reconsider and refine their processes for working with victims of sexual violence. Careful thought, clear direction, and institutional commitment are required to set up graduated reporting systems that respect the circumstances and challenges of victims, provide consistent response by investigators over time, and gather intelligence and evidence that will ultimately achieve law enforcement’s primary goal: to protect and serve.
MAJOR CHANGES
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| 11 Jun 2010 - 09:40 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Adolescents-S . . .
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Resumen
Datos Sobre la Satisfaccion de la Necesidad Anticonceptiva en los Paises en Desarollo
www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Adolescents-SRH-SP.pdf
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| 11 Jun 2010 - 09:14 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Adolescents-S . . .
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Resumen
Datos Sobre la Salud Sexual y Reproductiva de Mujeres Adolescentes en el Mundo en Desarollo
www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Adolescents-SRH-SP.pdf
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| 11 Jun 2010 - 09:06 | Guttmacher Institute
URL: www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2010/06/07/i . . .
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MEETING UNMET NEED FOR CONTRACEPTION AND PREVENTING TEEN PREGNANCIES SAVES MONEY AND LIVES
Women Deliver Conference, Washington, DC: The International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Guttmacher Institute today released two new fact sheets, one highlighting the sexual and reproductive health needs of young women worldwide and the other documenting the unmet need for contraception in developing countries.
Facts on the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Women in the Developing World compiles new analyses of data on young women’s lives, marriages, childbearing, education and contraceptive needs, and discusses the need to help them avoid unintended pregnancies and obtain appropriate methods of contraception. Each year, an estimated 6.1 million adolescent women in the developing world become pregnant unintentionally, the large majority after having used no method of contraception.
Facts on Satisfying the Need for Contraception in Developing Countries takes an in-depth look at the need for improved contraceptive services worldwide and the global benefits of meeting those needs. About 818 million women of reproductive age want to avoid pregnancy; 140 million of these women are not using any form of contraception, and 75 million rely on less effective traditional methods.
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| 10 Jun 2010 - 20:18 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org
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Mexico: Supreme Court Protects Rape Victims
6/10/10
In a landmark decision today, Mexico’s Supreme Court required all of the country’s states to distribute emergency contraception and to provide access to abortion for rape victims. The decision affirms women’s rights to health and life by enabling rape victims to avoid forced pregnancies, Human Rights Watch said.
“The Supreme Court’s decision protects women’s rights,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “The state should not force rape victims to suffer an imposed pregnancy.”
The Supreme Court’s decision came in response to a challenge brought by the state of Jalisco to a February 2009 federal health directive (NOM-046-SSA2-2005) that requires health workers to offer emergency contraception and legal abortion to rape victims.
In a report released in 2006, “The Second Assault,” Human Rights Watch documented the severe mental distress and suffering of women and girls who became pregnant as the result of rape. The distress deepened as rape victims routinely found little support for their plight in the justice and health systems, the report found.
AWID
www.awid.org
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| 10 Jun 2010 - 10:12 | CIMAC Mx
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URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10060901-Vale . . .
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Cuando pudo acceder al servicio, el doctor “no quiso problemas con militares”
Valentina Rosendo no recibió atención médica por violación
Por Anayeli García Martínez
México, D.F. 09 jun 10 (CIMAC).- Valentina Rosendo Cantú no sólo ha enfrentado obstáculos para acceder a la justicia, también para recibir los servicios de salud, pues a pesar de que se contagió del Virus del Papiloma Humano (VPH) después de ser golpeada y violada por dos soldados del Ejército mexicano, no recibió ninguna atención médica.
A ocho años de la agresión que vivió Valentina en la comunidad de Barranca Bejuco, municipio de Acatepec, en el estado de Guerrero, el sistema de salud de la entidad sólo cuenta con Módulos de atención Psicológica en algunos Hospitales y Centros de Salud, pero no con Unidades de Salud, exclusivas para atender casos de violencia sexual.
De acuerdo con información del área de Prevención y Atención a la Violencia Familiar, Sexual y de Género, de la Secretaría de Salud estatal, los casos de violencia contra las mujeres se atienden con base en “los lineamientos que establece el Manual de Operación del Modelo Integrado para la Prevención y Atención a la Violencia Familiar y Sexual y en la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-046 Violencia Familiar, Sexual y contra las Mujeres”.
Cabe mencionar que el Manual de Operación es un instrumento elaborado en 2006 por el Centro Nacional de Equidad de Género y Salud Reproductiva, mientras que la NOM-046 entró en vigor en 2009. Ambos obligan a los prestadores de servicios de salud a brindar atención médica y psicológica a las víctimas de violencia sexual y familiar.
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| 10 Jun 2010 - 09:40 | New York Times
URL: www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/nyregion/03ra . . .
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Panel Seeks More Police Training on Sex Crimes
By JOHN ELIGON
Responding to concerns that sexual assault complaints have been mishandled by the police in New York, a task force appointed by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has recommended new training protocols for officers dealing with sex crime victims.
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| 10 Jun 2010 - 09:11 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51748
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Female Migrants Charge Sexual Abuse in Detention
By William Fisher
NEW YORK, Jun 7, 2010 (IPS) - In the wake of allegations that a male guard at a central Texas detention facility sexually assaulted female detainees on their way to being deported, immigrant advocacy groups say stronger oversight and accountability is urgently needed to prevent further abuse of female detainees.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said last week that the guard has been fired. It added that Corrections Corporation of America, the private prison company that manages the Hutto facility, has been placed on probation pending the investigation's outcome. The consequences of probation were not immediately clear.
ICE said that several women who were held at Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas, were groped while being patted down and at least one was propositioned for sex.
"We understand that this employee was able to commit these alleged crimes because ICE-mandated transport policies and procedures were not followed," David Sanders, DHS's contracting officer, said in a letter to Corrections Corporation of America obtained by The Associated Press.
ICE has ordered Corrections Corporation of America to take corrective actions. Among them is forbidding male guards from being alone with female detainees.
"Hutto is not an isolated incident," Jacki Esposito of Detention Watch Network, a coalition of organisations that monitors ICE treatment of detainees, told IPS. "Allegations of sexual assault have plagued other facilities where immigrants are being held by the federal government."
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| 10 Jun 2010 - 08:47 | Caroline Flint, The Independent, UK
URL: www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato . . .
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Anonymity is an enemy of justice
Rape trials
Every 34 minutes a rape is reported to the police in the UK. Many more go unreported. Rape devastates women's lives. It destroys communities and damages society. And yet tens of thousands of rapists are getting away with it every year – going uncaught and unpunished, denying their victims dignity and justice.
So what does our coalition's programme for government plan to do about it? Its solution is to protect the identities of defendants in rape trials – a policy that appeared in neither the Conservative nor the Liberal Democrat election manifesto. In just nine blunt words they exposed the true nature of their relentlessly vaunted modern, progressive credentials – no mention of increasing convictions rates, no plan of action for delivering justice for rape victims, just one short, sinister sentence about protecting the rights of those accused of rape.
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| 09 Jun 2010 - 10:08 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article4167
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Mientras el Gobierno estudia el posible efecto de imitación en la violencia de género
El Injuve pide a la juventud que denuncie las relaciones machistas
Madrid, 09 jun (10). AmecoPress Según estudios del Injuve, el 15 por ciento de la juventud justifica la violencia de género, lo cual parece tener una estrecha relación con la idea que tiene el 17,7 por ciento de los hombres menores de 30 años, que está convencido de que el varón agresivo es más atractivo. La difusión de estos datos coincide con un momento en el que, ante los reiterados casos de muertes por violencia machista registrados en nuestro país en el último mes, el Gobierno evalúa la posibilidad de que algunos casos de violencia de género se lleven a cabo por el efecto de imitación.
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| 09 Jun 2010 - 09:33 | Pagina 12, Ar
URL: www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-14 . . .
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CARMEN BARROSO ALERTA SOBRE EL AUMENTO EN AMERICA LATINA DE LA MATERNIDAD ADOLESCENTE
“Un problema que no está visibilizado”
Es la directora regional de la Federación Internacional de Planificación Familiar. En la Women Deliver 2010, que finaliza hoy en Washington, expuso sobre las adolescentes madres en la región. En esta entrevista repasa ese fenómeno y el problema del aborto inseguro.
Por Mariana Carbajal
Desde Washington DC
“América latina es la única región del mundo donde sigue aumentando la proporción de adolescentes que se convierten en madres”, advirtió la brasileña Carmen Barroso, directora regional de la Federación Internacional de Planificación Familiar (IPPF), una de las organizaciones más importantes a nivel mundial en la promoción de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos.
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| 09 Jun 2010 - 09:16 | Rosalind Houghton
URL: researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1 . . .
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New Zealand - Agency Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Disasters
researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1159
"We Had to Cope With What We Had": Agency Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Disasters in New Zealand.
Author:Houghton, Rosalind Margaret Elise
Copyright:2010
Abstract: Under an over-arching feminist framework, this thesis utilises disaster sociology and domestic violence theory to examine the complex and multi-faceted relationship between domestic violence and disasters. The applicability of previously published theories was tested through a postal survey of communities affected by 17 Civil Defence emergencies in New Zealand and in 5 detailed case studies (taken from the 17 surveyed communities) relating to the impact of Civil Defence emergencies on domestic violence and disaster response agencies in New Zealand. The case studies involved the collection of reporting statistics from Women's Refuge, interviews with representatives of agencies working in domestic violence response and disaster management, and analyses of case file summaries from the Women's Refuge national database across the five affected geographic areas. These methods provided both quantitative and qualitative data on domestic violence reporting during disasters in New Zealand. In almost all of the communities studied there was an increase in reporting of domestic violence following the Civil Defence emergencies. Pre-existing theory and interviews within the case studies were used to examine significant factors and demographics that were common across the women seeking assistance during the disasters in order to provide coherent generalisations that may be applied in other contexts.
The research concluded that domestic violence reporting did increase during disasters. Whilst it was not possible to determine whether it was only domestic violence reporting or domestic violence itself that had increased, interviews with key agency representatives revealed some of the possible causes of their increased workload. Confirming the findings of international studies, agency representatives stated that prior abuse and financial strain were some of the main factors behind the reported increases in domestic violence. Agency representatives reported a range of issues concerning the official responses to increased domestic violence reporting during disasters, many of which were structural issues regarding procedures set out in current Civil Defence policies.
These procedural problems are examined in line with the feminist goals guiding this work and a case is made for policy changes that should lead to improved handling of increased domestic violence reporting during disasters and lead to the development of a more co-ordinated approach to the social impacts of disasters. In order to address the needs of domestic violence victims, the degree of gender mainstreaming within Civil Defence and Emergency Management policy and practice should also be reviewed.
New Zealand is subject to both national and international obligations to address the impact that gender norms have on the outcomes of those experiencing disasters. It is currently not meeting these obligations. These lacunae in policy and planning are placing already vulnerable women and children at heightened risk during disasters. As a country that prides itself on progressive social policy, New Zealand can do better.
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| 09 Jun 2010 - 09:10 | Chiara Sabina
sabina@psu.edu
URL: www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/23044 . . .
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SEXUAL ASSAULT AMONG LATINAS - STUDY
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past couple of years we have been working on the Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) study. This was a three-year project funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to study victimization and help-seeking among Latino women. As the study comes to a close, we are looking to disseminate the information to as many individuals as possible. Hence, in addition to our report to NIJ and various publications in peer reviewed journals, we are sending out a brief report that summarizes the highlights of our study (attached to this e-mail). This report is intended for a broader audience, including service providers, victim advocates, and those working in the criminal justice and mental health systems. Our hope is that we can get this information to practitioners who serve the Latino community and provide awareness surrounding the scope of victimization among Latino women, as well as their use of formal and informal help and services.
We hope that this research may be useful to you or that you may forward it along to others who can benefit from this information. In addition, for those of you who are further interested in this research, you can read the full NIJ research
report at
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/230445.pdf
You can also expect to see publications in peer reviewed journals in the future. Feel free to contact myself or my colleague, Dr. Carlos Cuevas, with any questions about the study.
Sincerely,
Chiara Sabina, Ph.D.
Carlos A. Cuevas, Ph.D.
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Chiara Sabina, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Sciences
School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Penn State Harrisburg
777 West Harrisburg Pike
Olmsted Building W-311
Middletown, PA 17057
Phone: 717-948-6066
Fax: 717-948-6519
Email: sabina@psu.edu
Carlos A. Cuevas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Criminal Justice
204 Churchill Hall
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-373-7462
fax: 617-373-8998
c.cuevas@neu.edu
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