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| 02 Jan 2010 - 21:07 | Pagina 12, Argentina
URL: m.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-1379 . . .
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El misterio de las dos mujeres
Dos mujeres que habrían sido obligadas a prostituirse en Plaza Huincul, Neuquén, pidieron ayuda mediante cartas. La Justicia allanó los cabarets de la ciudad y constató la veracidad de lo que habían relatado. Pero no pudo dar con ellas.
› Por Mariana Carbajal
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m.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-137917-2010-01-02.html
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| 02 Jan 2010 - 20:53 | Human Rights Blog
URL: www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?ter . . .
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Con Amor ~Esther Chavez dies at 76; activist decried murders of women in Ciudad Juarez
OBITUARIES
Esther Chavez dies at 76; activist decried murders of women in Ciudad Juarez
Chavez drew attention to the 1990s killings of several hundred women, which were largely ignored by Mexican authorities, and founded her region's first rape crisis center.
By Tracy Wilkinson
December 27, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City. LA Times
Esther Chavez, a vocal champion of human rights who against enormous odds drew attention to the killings and rapes of hundreds of women in the violent border city of Juarez, has died. She was 76.
Chavez died early Christmas morning of cancer, her hometown newspaper El Diario reported Saturday on its website.
Chavez is widely acknowledged as a pioneer, the first activist to document and decry the 1990s murders of several hundred women. Most were young, poor workers in U.S.-owned assembly plants in the border city whose deaths were largely ignored by authorities.
A former accountant for an American food-processing company, Chavez began compiling files in 1993 on women whose bloodied, battered bodies kept turning up in the harsh desert surrounding Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. She badgered officials, pressured police, comforted victims' families, led street demonstrations and, in 1999, founded the first rape crisis center in the region.
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| 02 Jan 2010 - 13:52 | Minnesota American Indian Women's Resource Center
URL: www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/traffick . . .
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Report:
Shattered Hearts: Sexual Trafficking of American Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota
See Report
www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/trafficking-and-prostitution/shattered-hearts-sexual-trafficking-of-american-indian-women-and-girls-in-minnesota
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| 02 Jan 2010 - 13:10 | Feminist Law Professor Blog
URL: feministlawprofessors.com/?p=14220
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More Commentary on Ciudad Juarez Case
Earlier this week, Feminist Law Prof Caroline Bettinger-Lopez (Columbia) summarized the Ciudad Juarez case (see here and here) for members of the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network. Here is Professor Bettinger-Lopez’s e-mail (reprinted with permission):
Dear BHRH Network Members,
As you know, on December 10, 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an important decision (in Spanish) in the Campo Algodonero case, concerning three in a series of hundreds of unsolved and poorly investigated disappearances, rapes, and murders of young (predominantly migrant) women and girls in Ciudad Juarez (on the US-Mexico border) over the past fifteen years. (See here for more information on the case, including a nice quote from BHRH member Ariel Dulitzky). The Court found Mexico in violation of the American Convention of Human Rights and the Convention Belém do Pará (Inter-American Convention on The Prevention, Punishment And Eradication of Violence Against Women) and ordered Mexico to comply with a broad set of remedial measures including a national memorial, renewed investigations and reparations of over $200,000 each to the families in the suit. The decision and concurrences can be found here. The decision is important for a number of reasons, including the fact that, for the first time, the Court considers States’ affirmative obligations to respond to violence against women by private actors, looks at the cases at issue in the context of mass violence against women and structural discrimination, and finds that gender-based violence can constitute gender discrimination.
Since this decision is so important, I wanted to circulate a summary of some key points (note that this is just quick-and-dirty summary, and only focuses on select parts of the decision that seem most relevant to BHRH members; I hope to develop a more substantial piece on the decision in the future. Others should feel free to add their impressions as well). We have been told to expect an English-language version of the decision by mid-January.
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| 02 Jan 2010 - 11:47 | KRQE.com
URL: www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/father-raise . . .
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Father raises new west mesa memorial (story with video)
Reporter: Maria Medina
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The father of a victim in the west mesa murder investigation said Monday he set up a new memorial that can be seen far from his home.
"This is the first Christmas that all the families will know for sure that their daughters aren't coming home anymore," Dan Valdez said.
His daughter, Michelle Valdez, was four months pregnant when a serial killer murdered her and then buried her body on Albuquerque's west mesa. Police found 10 other women in the massive grave site after a woman walking her dog in February found a human bone.
continues with video:
www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/father-raises-new-west-mesa-memorial
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| 31 Dec 2009 - 08:17 | Women's Justice Center
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ryWd5aFw
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Feliz Ano Nuevo!
Video
Un día cualquiera de mercado, la música empieza a sonar entre los puestos de frutas y verduras. Fragmentos de la Traviata de Verdi interpretados en pleno Mercado ...
Ver Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ryWd5aFw
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| 31 Dec 2009 - 08:11 | Women's Justice Center
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ryWd5aFw
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Happy New Year!
Video
Opera singers disguised as shopkeepers were selling produce at various stalls last month at the central market in Valencia, Spain. Suddenly Verdi's Il Travatore started playing over the loudspeakers, and watch what happened.
See Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ryWd5aFw
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| 30 Dec 2009 - 09:18 | CIMAC noticias
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MÉXICO, PRINCIPAL PRODUCTOR DE PORNOGRAFÍA INFANTIL EN EL MUNDO
México.- Gerardo Sauri, director Ejecutivo de la Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México señaló que México, junto con España y Argentina son los principales productores de pornografía infantil.
De acuerdo con una investigación de la Fundación Aliados, en México se ubicaron más de 2 mil archivos susceptibles de ser pornografía infantil, pues de acuerdo con el más reciente reporte de la Policía Cibernética, hasta julio de 2009, se logró desmantelar 40 sitios de pornografía infantil, comunicó Gerardo Sauri.
Asimismo, Sauri, explicó que México está muy lejos de reducir la producción de pornografía infantil, ya que en el país no existen mapas sobre delincuencia organizada dedicada a trata de explotación de niñas y niños y por ello no se avanza en erradicar este delito.
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| 30 Dec 2009 - 08:49 | Eve Ensler, Huff Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/the-fo . . .
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The Four Months Since Hillary
Excerpt
....These horrific acts and thousands more happened in the four months since Secretary Clinton promised action and money, the UN promised protection and claimed it delivered it, and the international community approved their plan. All this happened under the watch of an American President, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, who has yet to make the destruction of the female species of the Congo anything more than a one-line reference in a speech. As this femicide is spreading to other countries and will continue to spread if he does not make this a front and center issue. In the months where the minerals of the Congo continue to be exploited by the world, where the surrounding countries of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi have yet to be held accountable for waging a regional war in the Congo for those minerals.
Full article....
www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/the-four-months-since-hil_b_406494.html
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| 30 Dec 2009 - 08:35 | University of Bristol
URL: www.bristolpct.nhs.uk/PublicHealth/Domes . . .
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England, Domestic Violence, Public Health Powerpoint
The Impact of Domestic Violence and Abuse on the Health and Well Being of Adults
See:
www.bristolpct.nhs.uk/PublicHealth/DomesticAbuse/Conference/Hitting%20where%20it%20hurts%20GF.pdf
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| 29 Dec 2009 - 09:52 | Amecopress
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Libro
El feminismo que no llegó al poder
Un libro de Paloma Uría Ríos
Madrid, López
Madrid, 29 dic. 09. "Esta es la historia del inusitado protagonismo que, a la muerte del dictador, adquirieron las mujeres en nuestro país. Durante casi tres décadas, cientos de mujeres se reunieron, discutieron, se organizaron y actuaron dando lugar a uno de los movimientos sociales más activos e innovadores de la transición democrática". Así comienza el prólogo del libro "El feminismo que no llegó al poder"(Talasa Ediciones), escrito por Paloma Uría Ríos.
"Estas mujeres", continúa el prólogo, "crearon asambleas unitarias en pueblos y ciudades que se vincularon entre sí por medio de la Coordinadora de Organizaciones Feministas del Estado Español. Su entusiasmo y decisión cambió definitivamente el papel de las mujeres en la sociedad que se estaba configurando, así como la propia conciencia de sí mismas, su subjetividad".
No se puede, pues, hablar de pensamiento crítico sin valorar en su justa medida la activa contribución del pensamiento feminista. Este libro pretende recoger algunos de estos debates, tal como se dieron en el movimiento feminista que se organizó en la Coordinadora de Organizaciones Feministas del Estado Español y que convocó a miles de mujeres en sucesivas jornadas. Las ponencias de estas jornadas, así como variadas experiencias personales, alimentan interesantes polémicas, y dan testimonio de ellas, en torno a cuestiones tan relevantes para el feminismo como la sexualidad, la violencia, el trabajo, el poder, la igualdad y la libertad.
La autora
Paloma Uría Ríos es doctora por la Universidad de Oviedo y profesora jubilada de lengua y literatura castellana en IES. Cofundadora de la Asociación Feminista de Asturias, ha participado activamente en las diversas jornadas de debate del movimiento feminista y actualmente se integra en la corriente de opinión Otras Voces Feministas. Militante del MC desde sus orígenes, contribuyó a impulsar el feminismo en su seno. Forma parte del colectivo asturiano Liberación, vinculado a accionenred, y ha sido diputada por IU en el Parlamento de Asturias. Dos temas han ocupado su actividad investigadora y divulgadora, el literario y el feminista.
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| 29 Dec 2009 - 09:39 | Institute of War and Peace Reporting
URL: www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=358612&apc_sta . . .
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Democratic Republic of Congo
Children Born of Rape Face Dismal Future
Often rejected by family and society, they end up fending for themselves on the street
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www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=358612&apc_state=henh
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| 29 Dec 2009 - 09:31 | US State Dept, Office of Global Women's Issues
sgwipublic@state.gov
URL: www.state.gov/s/gwi/index.htm
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US State Dept, Office of Global Women's Issues;
Window Dressing or Substance?
The US State Dept., Office of Global Women's Issues now has a web page at www.state.gov/s/gwi/index.htm
Trouble is it looks like window dressing. If this office's page lack of content and it's anemic twitter activity is any indication of what this office is doing for women, we seriously need to light a fire under this office. At the very least, the page needs real content. As it is, this page sends a terrible message that women don't count for much at all.
-- WJC admin
So here's the page address and contact info:
contact: sgwipublic@state.gov
web page: www.state.gov/s/gwi/index.htm
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| 28 Dec 2009 - 19:36 | El Nuevo Diario - Nicaragua
URL: www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/6332 . . .
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Sólo 7 de 53 procesados han salido culpables
Denuncias sobre trata de blancas son “invisibles”
* Muchos casos se caen por falta de elementos y terminan como proxenetismo, que cambia tipificación del delito * Mayoría de víctimas son menores de edad, utilizados para explotación sexual y muy pocos adultos
Rafael Lara
De 2004 hasta el primer semestre de 2009, el Ministerio Público únicamente han procesado 53 casos por el delito de trata de personas en Nicaragua, de las cuales sólo siete fueron declarados culpables.
continua....
www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/63326
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| 28 Dec 2009 - 19:15 | Pacific Alliance to Prevent Slavery
info@traffickjamming.org
URL: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207900812 . . .
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CALLING ALL ABOLITIONISTS!
United we can STOP Human Trafficking in Hawaii!
YOU ARE INVITED!
PLEASE SPREAD THIS EMAIL!
Calling all abolitionists!
This coming January 18th 2010 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, commemorating a great inspirational leader who fought and died for his dream to see his people find equality in America.
The Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery respectfully requests your presence at the MLK Parade! PLEASE JOIN US as we march in unity from Magic Island, through Waikiki were much of Hawaii's trafficking occurs as night, to Kapiolani Park.
We aim to get AT LEAST 200 people with us at this event. Thereafter, there will be a press conference held wherein which the President of PASS will make a statement about the proliferation of Sex-Trafficking in Hawaii. She will also advocate for the 2010 Anti Human Trafficking bill expected to be introduced with the Legislative Women's Package on or around January 20th 2010 (Opening of the legislature).
HAWAII remains 1 of 8 states left in the country with no Human Trafficking state law! Read more: "Lack of Law Puts Minors at Risk in Hawaii"
http://bit.ly/7i0oq5
- Huffington Post
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Currently, HPD, The City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle and the Attorney General Mark Bennett do NOT support Human Trafficking legislation as they feel it is unnecessary. THE PEOPLE DISAGREE! Please help change their minds!
EVENT INFO:
WHAT: Join PASS to march for the FREEDOM for the victims of Human Trafficking
WHEN: Monday, January 18th 2010 at 8am
WHERE: Meet at the Magic Island side of Ala Moana Beach Park.
PASS members will be wearing black t-shirts and holding Freedom signs. You can't miss us.
WHO: Anyone and everyone who believes in human rights!
The march will take approximately 2 hours. We should be arriving on foot at Kapiolani Park by 10:30 or 11am. We leave Magic Island at 8am.
For more information email: info@traffickjamming.org
Event Page on FB
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207900812483&ref=mf#
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