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| 31 Jan 2010 - 19:37 | IPS Gender Wire
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Q&A: "U.S. Should Invest in New U.N. Women's Agency"
Christine Ahn interviews CHARLOTTE BUNCH, Founder of the Center for Global Women's Leadership
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 25, 2010 (IPS) - One year after U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration, how has his administration fared in terms of advancing an agenda for women's rights around the world?
Charlotte Bunch, founding director of the Center for Global Women's Leadership at Rutgers University and a longtime feminist scholar activist, as well as a board member of the Global Fund for Women, spoke with Christine Ahn about her assessment of the U.S. president's achievements, and what remains to be done.
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| 31 Jan 2010 - 19:04 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article3093
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Un año del plan contra la trata de seres humanos para su explotación sexual en España
Las asociaciones exigen que la prioridad sea proteger a las víctimas de uno de los más lucrativos negocios ilícitos del mundo
Madrid, Viernes 29 de enero de 2010, por Gloria López
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| 30 Jan 2010 - 22:50 | The Independent, UK
URL: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/america . . .
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UN sets up women-only food aid in Haiti
World Food Programme measure designed to ensure vital supplies get through to everyone
By Paisley Dodds and Ramon Espinosa in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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| 30 Jan 2010 - 11:24 | Daniel Saunders
saunddan@umich.edu
URL: www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=130696
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CUSTODY EVALUATIONS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE INTO NEW EMAIL AND FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS
Dear Colleague -
My name is Dr. Daniel Saunders and I am a professor at the
University of Michigan. My colleagues and I invite you to share your
thoughts and experiences on custody evaluations and domestic violence in a
survey sponsored by the United States Department of Justice. The survey
asks about beliefs regarding domestic violence and custody, and about
attorney's training on the topic of family violence.
The results will add to our knowledge of custody evaluations and be
used to improve trainings. You will be sent a web link to the research
report when it is completed.
To take this anonymous, online survey click HERE
www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=130696
or enter https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=1306 96
into the address box on your browser.
If you have questions about the survey, please contact me at
1-734-763-6415 or respond to this email (saunddan@umich.edu) .
We hope that you find your participation a meaningful way to
contribute to the development of new knowledge about custody evaluations.
Sincerely,
Daniel G. Saunders, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work
University of Michigan, 1080 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1106
USA
Email: saunddan@umich.edu Telephone: 734-763-6415
FAX: 734-763-3372
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| 30 Jan 2010 - 11:06 | Alysia
alysiaandres@msn.com
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To whom this may concern;
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* I was hoping that you could look into this story of a 6 year old girl who was the victim of a serious offense. I would like you to help me find out what her rights are. I would hope that everyone in the Treasure Valley would come together and fight for this innocent child.
* The offender, Fabian Omar Alvarez, who is 24 years of age, is facing charges right now for Lewid & Lascivious conduct with a minor under the age of 16. Why does he get away with such a small punishment like probation, as the little girl has to live with these sick memories, and he just gets to walk away? Just because this is his first offense doesn’t mean his punishment should be any less severe. Does that make it right for a first-time murder to get a lesser charge because it’s his/her first time?
* On May 31, 2008, the day after the victim’s 5th birthday, on a cozy night at her home, the victim told her dad what happened while having a cup of hot chocolate. It is not clear when the crime was actually committed, but from the victim’s statement to her father, it is clear a crime was committed.
* She says that one day at daycare; one of her friend’s dads (Fabian Alvarez) took her into another room separate from the other children and had her take off her clothes, and was touching her in private places. She told him to stop, and her friend was banging on the door. She asked what they were doing, and then told the victim to put her clothes back on. He told the other young girl to enter the room and close the door, but the victim and the other girl quickly fled. The daycare owner showed up shortly after the incident. The victim claims she told her daycare provider. The caregiver kept the child’s secret, and later claims the child didn’t even tell her.
* The Health and Welfare license states in section 3, “Please list…caregivers, volunteers, frequent visitors, and all others who have unsupervised contact with the children in the setting.” The victim’s caregiver did not list multiple people who had contact with the children and even the people who lived with her including her husband and stepson.
* Nampa Police Department went to the residence to speak with the suspect (Alvarez) and asked him to be questioned on the incident. Alvarez asked the police officers if there were any classes he could take so he didn’t have to go to jail, yet he plead not guilty to the later charges. The police had to let him go, because they can only hold suspects for twenty-four hours.
* In the meantime, the victim’s parents brought her to the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and the victim had a video taped statement giving the detectives a warrant for Alvarez’s arrest.
* When the police went to arrest Alvarez, they discovered he had fled to California, where he lived for a year, when one fateful day, his friend’s car broke down on the side of the road. An officer ran his driver’s license and found that Alvarez was a wanted fugitive in the state of Idaho.
* Alvarez was expedited back to Idaho in October 2009. He was arraigned on October 1, 2009 with Lewid & Lascivious Conduct. He was then assigned a free public prosecuting attorney. On October 16, 2009, Alvarez plead not guilty to the charges of Lewid and Lascivious Conduct.
* Alvarez had hired a personal Attorney and they are asking “Felony injury to a child”. There for he will not be put on a Sex a Offenders list and jail time.
* On Monday, January 12, 2010, Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney notified the victim’s parents of Alvarez’s plea bargain. The Victim Witness Coordinator told the victim’s mother and father that if Alvarez pleads guilty, he will not have to register as a sex offender and might receive probation.
* This is a very minor punishment for the crime that he committed. He will only have two years of punishment, as the victim will have to live with these memories and shame for the rest of her life.
* As a Good Samaritan, I am asking if you could help me put Alvarez in his place, and not just give criminals a slap on the hand. What Alvarez did was very wrong, and he deserves to know that. This little girl had no chance of defending herself against a full grown man, and he is hardly being punished for what he did. Please contact me when you have thought this over, and tell me what we should do to make the children in our community safe.
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* E-mail me at: Alysiaandres@msn.com
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Alysia (alysiaandres@msn.com)
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| 30 Jan 2010 - 10:55 | Mother Jones
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KBR Calls Jamie Leigh Jones A Liar
— By Stephanie Mencimer
| Mon Jan. 25, 2010 11:38 AM PSTEver since its contract employee Jamie Leigh Jones went public with allegations that in 2005, she was drugged and gang raped by some of her co-workers in Iraq and then detained in a storage container, KBR/Halliburton has fought her efforts to sue in a public courtroom. Jones had been forced to sign a mandatory arbitration agreement as part of her employment contract, which required her to bring any work-related claims before a private arbitrator hired by KBR rather than a jury. Jones fought the agreement and in September, prevailed in one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country. Her story persuaded Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to pass legislation to ban defense contractors from using arbitration agreements in cases of sexual assault.
But last week, KBR signaled its intention to continue fighting Jones, no matter how bad it makes the company look.
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| 29 Jan 2010 - 09:54 | Human Rights Watch
URL: www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/01/28/state- . . .
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ACCESS TO ABORTION FOR WOMEN IN IRELAND
Direct Link to Full 57-Page Report:
www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/ireland0110webwcover.pdf
Dublin, January 28, 2010 - The Irish government actively seeks to restrict access to abortion services and information both within Ireland and for its residents seeking care abroad, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 57-page report, "A State of Isolation: Access to Abortion for Women in Ireland," details how women struggle to overcome the financial, logistical, physical, and emotional burdens imposed by restrictive laws and policies that force them to seek care abroad, without support from the state. Every year thousands of women and girls travel from Ireland to other European countries for abortions.
"Women in need of abortion services should, as a matter of international law and - frankly -human decency, be able to count on support from their government as they face a difficult situation," said Marianne Mollmann, women's rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "But in Ireland they are actively stonewalled, stigmatized, and written out."
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| 29 Jan 2010 - 08:00 | Rick Goings, Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-goings/repor . . .
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Report From The World Economic Forum: Moving Beyond Aid And Empowering Women
Rick Goings
see:
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| 28 Jan 2010 - 09:26 | Philly Daily News
URL: www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/828 . . .
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The litany of male officers arrested for violence against women in this one article should be clue enuf - hire female officers! ---- WJC
City cop faces domestic-abuse charges
By WILLIAM BENDER & DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News
A Philadelphia cop was arrested yesterday for allegedly beating his girlfriend and threatening to kill her family during an early-morning domestic dispute in Upper Darby.
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| 28 Jan 2010 - 09:07 | Stairway Foundation
URL: www.stairwayfoundation.org/stairway/inde . . .
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Daughter - A Story of Incest
and other animated videos for the prevention of child abuse
www.stairwayfoundation.org/stairway/index.php/resources/animation-film-toolkits/daughter
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| 28 Jan 2010 - 08:46 | Hombres por la equidad
hxe@hombresporlaequidad.org.mx
URL: www.hombresporlaequidad.org
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Buen dia a todas y todos. Espero se encuentren muy bien.
Quiero hacerles una cordial invitación al Diplomado que en Hombres por la Equidad impartiremos este año. Les envió la información, esperando sea de su interés. Igualmente les agradecería si la hicieran llegar a quienes consideren pueda interesarle. Nuevamente muchas gracias.
Reciban saludos fraternos.
Alejandro García Gutiérrez
Subdirección Terapéutica
Hombres por la Equidd A. C.
Ciudad de México
Tel. 1107-7797
www.hombresporlaequidad.org
Hombres por la Equidad. Centro de intervención con hombres e investigación
sobre género y masculinidades A.C.
Les invita cordialmente a participar en el:
Diplomado en Masculinidades y Atención a Hombres que Ejercen Violencia en la Relación de Pareja
Este diplomado está dirigido a profesionales y personal que trabajan con
hombres que ejercen violencia o que tengan intenciones de realizar
intervención con esta población. Al finalizar el diplomado las personas
asistentes tendrán los recursos teóricos y prácticos necesarios para diseñar un trabajo de
intervención con hombres que ejercen violencia y adquirirán las herramientas
básicas necesarias para la práctica profesional frente al trabajo en grupo
con esta población.
Consta de 11 módulos, dividido en tres sesiones por cada uno y,
tiene una duración de 11 meses. Comenzando en marzo de 2010 y finalizando en enero de 2011.
Se les invita a las sesiones informativas el día viernes 29 de enero
o viernes 12 de febrero, que se realizarán a las 16:00 horas en las instalaciones de Hombres por la Equidad.
En dónde se abordarán temas tales como: ¿Quiénes son
los ponentes? ¿Cuál es el contenido de los módulos? ¿Duración de diplomado?
¿Cuáles son las fechas exactas? ¿Cuáles son las características del proyecto
individual a realizar para la terminación de diplomado? ¿Cuál es el costo y
cuáles son las posibilidades de pago? y cualquier otra duda que surja
respecto a esta invitación.
Para mayores informes comunicarse al tel. 1107 7797 o escribir a
hxe@hombresporlaequidad.org.mx
Ni colás San Juan 525-9 Col. Del Valle. Del. Benito Juárez. México D.F.
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| 28 Jan 2010 - 08:28 | UNIFEM
URL: www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail. . . .
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AFGHANISTAN PEACE IS IMPOSSIBLE IF WOMEN, HALF THE
POPULATION, ARE EXCLUDED FROM DISCUSSIONS
AFGHANISTAN WOMEN RIGHTS DEFENDERS MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
STABILIZATION, RECONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT OF AFGHANISTAN
A day ahead of the London Conference, women's groups make strong recommendations for reconstruction and development.
27 January 2010
Oisika Chakrabarti, UNIFEM Media Specialist, oisika.chakrabarti@unifem.org
London - In the lead-up to the 28 January London Conference on Afghanistan hosted by the UK Government, Afghan women human rights defenders today released strong, specific recommendations on security, development and governance priorities for their country. These recommendations provide the only concrete input from consultation with Afghan women into the key decisions affecting the future of their country that will be set in London by international actors.
Deeply concerned about the exclusion of Afghan women's perspectives from the dialogue surrounding the London Conference, the statement issued today by the women activists comes as a result of broad-based consultations with Afghan women civil society leaders at the Dubai Women's Dialogue and London Dialogue over the last week, involving the Afghan Women's Network and supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Institute for Inclusive Security.
"As the global community knows, nowhere are women's human rights more at stake than in Afghanistan. Therefore it is of grave concern that women's voices and perspectives are largely missing from this London conference on Afghanistan's future. The international community should stand behind the women of Afghanistan and elevate their voices, not barter away their rights in the name of short-term peace and stabilization," said Wazma Frogh, Afghan Gender and Development Specialist.
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| 27 Jan 2010 - 10:26 | Medpage
URL: www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Domesti . . .
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Domestic Abuse May Affect Reproductive Freedom
By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
In a cross-sectional study of women treated at five family clinics across northern California, about 20% of women said that their partner tried to coerce them into having a child, Elizabeth Miller, MD, of the University of California Davis, and colleagues reported online in the journal Contraception.
Beyond outright coercion, abusive partners also engaged in birth control sabotage, for example, poking holes in condoms and flushing birth control pills down the toilet.
"It was stunning to have this many women seeking reproductive health services saying, 'this has happened to me,'" Miller said.
To investigate a possible link between domestic violence and forced pregnancy, the researchers conducted a survey of 1,278 women ages 16 to 29 who sought care at the five family planning clinics in northern California.
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| 27 Jan 2010 - 10:17 | Ansa
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TRATA DE PERSONAS: LEGISLACION DISIMIL EN EL AREA
Por MARIA ZACCO BUENOS AIRES, 23 (ANSA) - Argentina, Bolivia y México son los únicos países latinoamericanos que cuentan con una ley contra la trata de personas, mientras el resto sólo cuenta con legislación que contempla algunos modos de esa práctica y otros ni siquiera tienen normas que tipifiquen ese delito.
La falta de protocolos de acción conjunta es una asignatura pendiente en la región, donde la trata crece de modo alarmante. Según la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM), en base a datos de embajadas, el 85% de las víctimas son mujeres, cuyas edades oscilan entre los 14 y 30 años, destinadas a la explotación sexual. El 15% restante son hombres y niños sometidos a esclavitud laboral. En los últimos años, la comunidad internacional estableció algunas claves jurídicas y programáticas para combatir la trata. Entre ellas, la Convención de Naciones Unidas contra la delincuencia organizada transnacional, firmada por 124 países en noviembre de 2000, en Palermo, Italia ¿más conocida como "Convención de Palermo"-, junto a la que se firmaron protocolos adicionales a los que adhirieron países de América Latina.
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| 27 Jan 2010 - 10:09 | NOMAS National Organization for Men against Sexism
URL: www.nomas.org/node/222
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A Request to Men's Organizations and Allies for Support of Protective Child Custody (with Spanish & French Translations)
Filed under Child Custody, News.
From the NOMAS Child Custody Task Group
Male supremacist groups (“Father’s Rights”) have caused unspeakable harm to our country and to our children by encouraging abusive fathers, often with little past involvement with their children, to seek custody as a tactic to pressure a mother to return or to punish her for leaving. "Shared parenting", "friendly parent", involvement of both parents and other concepts that seem fair and benevolent have instead been used to manipulate courts and legislatures to help abusive fathers. For instance, women are routinely denied custody of their children after being classified as "unfriendly" for asserting that the husband has abused them or their children.
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| 26 Jan 2010 - 08:58 | Cimac Mx
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10012503-Muje . . .
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Definirán acciones para articular apoyo a mujeres haitianas
Mujeres de 9 países de LA en la agenda feminista de 2010
Por María Suárez Toro
Costa Rica, 25 ene 10 (RIF/CIMAC).- Mujeres latinoamericanas y del Caribe se reunirán el 26 y 27 de enero en República Dominicana para conmemorar cuatro acontecimientos históricos de la agenda feminista, y para diseñar acciones conjuntas de apoyo para las haitianas y sus organizaciones, frente a las difíciles condiciones sociales que dejó el terremoto en esa nación.
De acuerdo con la agenda feminista, este año se cumplen 30 años de la Convención sobre la Eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer (CEDAW) por sus siglas en inglés; los 15 años de la IV Conferencia Mundial de la Mujer (Beijing 1995), los 15 años de la Convención de Belém do Pará contra la violencia de género y, la Organización de Estados Americanos declaró 2010 como Año Interamericano de las Mujeres.
La reunión contará con la asistencia de feministas de Bolivia, Brasil, Costa Rica, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, y tal vez de Haití, coordinadas por la Colectiva Mujer y Salud y el Centro de Investigación para la Acción Femenina –CIPAF.
HAITÍ EN LA REFLEXIÓN DEL ENCUENTRO FEMINISTA
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| 26 Jan 2010 - 08:44 | Association for Women in Psychology
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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Concerns about DSM-V
Mission: To provide information for people (including but not limited to professionals and journalists) about biases and other problems in psychiatric diagnosis, an especially important goal in light of the American Psychiatric Association's preparation for the 2013 publication of the next edition of the psychiatric diagnostic manual.
info, organizing tools, and more...
www.awpsych.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=126
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| 26 Jan 2010 - 08:32 | Cooperativa la alameda
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKin2b3O7o
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El lado oscuro de la feliz
video 6 minutos
Segundo Video inédito por denuncia red prostibuaria en Mar del Plata:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKin2b3O7o
Acá va la convocatoria que están realizando organizaciones de la sociedad civil para respaldar la denuncia:
Convocamos a personas, organizaciones, instituciones, agrupaciones y medios de comunicación a acompañar el día martes 26 de enero a las 10 hs en la sede de la Fiscalía General de Mar del Plata, ubicada en la calle Viamonte entre Colón y Almirante Brown, la presentación de la denuncia basada en una investigación realizada en la ciudad de Mar del Plata en torno a la trata de personas con fines de explotación sexual.
Dicha denuncia será presentada por la Cooperativa La Alameda (www.laalameda.wordpress.com), organización de larga trayectoria en la investigación y denuncia de la trata de personas con fines de explotación sexual y laboral.
La prostitución organizada, en un contexto cultural y social donde se encuentra naturalizada la violencia hacia mujeres, niñas y niños se encuentra actualmente asociada – entre otros hechos delictivos y consecuencias nefastas para las víctimas y la sociedad toda -, al tráfico de personas privadas de su libertad e identidad, a la violencia física y psicológica ejercida sobre estas personas y al tráfico de drogas.
Al constituir esta nueva forma de esclavitud una violación de los derechos humanos fundamentales, se impone nuestra activa participación y compromiso en la construcción de una sociedad sin temores, renunciando a la complicidad que se deriva del silenciamiento de estos delitos.
A la salida de la audiencia con el fiscal Gustavo Vera hará declaraciones al respecto.
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| 26 Jan 2010 - 08:17 | Guttmacher Institute
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Teen pregnancy increases after decade-long decline
Following a steep decline in the 1990s and a flattening out in the early 2000s, teen pregnancy rates increased in 2006—reflected in both increased birth and abortion rates. The significant drop in teen pregnancy rates in the 1990s was overwhelmingly due to more and better contraceptive use by sexually active teens. However, this downward trend flattened out and then reversed itself at the same time that programs aimed exclusively at promoting abstinence—which are prohibited from discussing the benefits of contraception—became increasingly widespread, and teens’ use of contraceptives declined…
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| 25 Jan 2010 - 10:01 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Cri . . .
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HAITI
The Association for Women's Rights in Development has put together a great set of information, updates, resources, and solidarity actions for Haiti and women.
As a first step please pass this link to others.
"Women in Haiti have long been at the forefront of resistance and reform in Haiti yet women are often overlooked in post-disaster relief and reconstruction efforts."
see:
www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Crisis-in-Haiti-Strengthening-Solidarity/Impact-of-the-Crisis-on-Women
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| 25 Jan 2010 - 09:45 | Voice Male
URL: voicemalemagazine.org/pdfs/voice_male_wi . . .
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Voice Male Winter Issue now online
Changing Men, Changing Times
voicemalemagazine.org/pdfs/voice_male_winter_10/
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| 25 Jan 2010 - 09:20 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50087
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Q&A: ‘With More Political Space, Women Can Do More as Peacemakers’
Ashfaq Yusufzai interviews ZAHIRA KHATTAK, a women’s rights advocate
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 25, 2010 (IPS) - As a political activist and president of the women’s wing of the Awami National Party (ANP), Zahira Khattak has been working relentlessly for the empowerment of women in the war-torn North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan. She believes that by empowering them, they can contribute more to the peace efforts in the region.
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| 25 Jan 2010 - 09:08 | canadian Resource Center for Victims of Crime
URL: crcvc.ca/njn/NJN_Jan2010.pdf
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January Issue
National Justice Network Update
Canadian Resource Center for Victims of Crime
crcvc.ca/njn/NJN_Jan2010.pdf
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| 25 Jan 2010 - 08:54 | Cronica de hoy
URL: www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=4819 . . .
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Mexico
Lagunas jurídicas ahogan persecución de trata de personas
José Contreras
La Laura, su esposo y el resto de supuestos tratantes de personas que han sido detenidos durante los operativos que ha llevado a cabo la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Distrito Federal en los últimos días, podrían quedar libres.
Y no necesariamente porque no sean responsables, sino porque las lagunas jurídicas que existen en torno a la trata de personas generan condiciones propicias para que impere la impunidad.
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