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| 03 Jul 2009 - 16:08 | CIMAC noticias
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A UN MES DEL INCENDIO EN LA GUARDERÍA ABC, ÚNETE A LAS MARCHAS EN TODO MÉXICO
México, DF.- El próximo sábado 5 de julio se cumple un mes del incendio ocurrido en la guardería ABC de Hermosillo, Sonora, cuyo saldo más reciente ubica en 48 el número de niñas y niños muertos por sofocación y quemaduras, mientras muchos responsables del crimen siguen libres. Por ello, este sábado 4 de julio se realizará la Quinta Marcha por la Justicia en Hermosillo, que partirá de los escombros de la otrora guardería.
Organizaciones y miembros de la sociedad civil han hecho un llamado urgente para que la acción sea apoyada por todo México, y así manifestar el repudio a la impunidad y presionar en la exigencia de justicia para los bebés asesinados.
En el DF también se marchará este 4 de julio: la cita es a las 10 de la mañana, frente a las instalaciones del IMSS ubicado en Paseo de la Reforma # 476. De ahí se partirá a las oficinas de la Representación del Gobierno de Sonora (calle Goldsmith # 228, Polanco).
La tragedia de Hermosillo no debe repetirse. Las autoridades competentes están obligadas a acabar con la impunidad que protege a personas, grupos políticos y empresariales que operan con la mira puesta en la ganancia económica, no en el respeto a los derechos humanos. “Por nuestros niños y niñas quemados en la Guardería ABC de Hermosillo ¡EXIGIMOS NO A LA IMPUNIDAD Y SÍ A LA JUSTICIA!”
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| 03 Jul 2009 - 16:00 | Global Recruitment Specialists
hbrykarz@globalrecruitment.net
URL: jobs.undp.org/cj_apply.cfm?job_id=11001
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JOB ** JOB ** JOB **
Position Title: Senior Adviser, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Client: U.N. Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict
(www.stoprapenow.org)
Position Location: Kinshasa, Congo, The Democratic Republic
Application Deadline: July 17, 2009
Additional Category: Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Type of Contract: FTA International
Post Level: P-5 (ICS-12)
Languages Required: English, French
Starting Date: August 1, 2009
Duration of Initial Contract: 1 year, renewable
Expected Duration of Assignment: 1 year, renewable
Background
As demanded by UN Security Council Resolution 1794, the UN in DRC (MONUC and the UN Country Team) has developed a Comprehensive Strategy on Combating Sexual Violence in the DRC. The Strategy was launched with the Government of the DRC in Kinshasa on 1 April 2009. The role of the Strategy is to coordinate the UN's support behind Government's efforts to prevent sexual violence, bring perpetrators to justice and ensure that the survivors of sexual violence receive comprehensive response and redress.
The Strategy was developed on Sexual Violence, funded by UN Action during 2008 to early 2009. An independent assessment of UN Action's strategic support to the UN system in DRC was carried out in March 2009. One of its main findings was the need for continued strategic support to facilitate the operationalization of the Comprehensive Strategy and to develop a feasible implementation plan of prioritised tasks and outcomes agreed with various UN, Government, NGO and donor stakeholders. The implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1794 requires the UN system to work together at the country level, including countries that have peacekeeping missions.
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Required Skills and Experience
Education:
· Advanced university degree in social science especially gender studies, or relevant discipline.
Experience:
· A minimum of ten years experience with issues in conflict and post-conflict countries and substantial direct experience and commitment to combating sexual and gender based violence
· Experience of working in gender sensitive programming in Africa, particularly in crisis and post-crisis contexts
· Good understanding of the UN system's procedures and operational activities - previous experience of working in the UN is desirable
· Familiarity with research on gender based violence programming, monitoring and evaluation
· Strong gender sensitive data capacity
· Sound political judgement
· Good strategic awareness and analytical capabilities
· Language Requirements:
· Excellent written and oral skills in English and French
Application Process
Applications are accepted directly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). To apply, follow the directions at:
jobs.undp.org/cj_apply.cfm?job_id=11001
Helena Brykarz, Contract Recruiter
Global Recruitment Specialists
PO Box 7382
Berkeley, CA 94707
Tel / Fax: 510-527-3316
E-mail: hbrykarz@globalrecruitment.net
http://www.globalrecruitment.net/Posit ion_Openings.html
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| 03 Jul 2009 - 15:52 | UN Video
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV945d--R7M
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Women for Peace
Ban Ki Moon, Video Statement
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV945d--R7M
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| 03 Jul 2009 - 14:24 | Washington Post
URL: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar . . .
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A Broken U.N. Promise In Congo
By Eve Ensler
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Just over a year ago, in answering whether sexual violence in conflict was an issue that the U.N. Security Council should take on, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proclaimed, "I am proud that, today, we respond to that lingering question with a resounding 'yes!' " With this statement, and with the cooperation of other power brokers at the table, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1820, which finally recognized sexual violence as a widely used strategy of warfare and cleared the path for the council to respond to it worldwide.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to report to the Security Council today on implementation of Resolution 1820. What will we learn? A year after adopting the resolution, Congo remains the worst place on the planet to be a woman. Over 12 years, in a regional economic war for resources, hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured, their bodies destroyed by unimaginable acts. The Security Council's implementation of Resolution 1820 in Congo -- the very place that inspired it -- has been an utter failure.
Continues....
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903456.html
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| 03 Jul 2009 - 14:16 | anon
raregold1976@yahoo.com
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I am a victim of domestic abuse and my children witness it. I need help and do not know where to turn. I have tried to leave my abuser several times and he will not allow it and threatens to burn my house with my children and I in it. I have a restraining order and it does not help. I do not want to report this to authorities because I will lose my children to the state, because of what they witnessed and I do not want that to happen. I need a safe place to go but I do not trust that my children will not be taken from me. I do not have enough money to leave. I work full-time but I make $10. an hour. What should I do and do you know who can help me?
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| 02 Jul 2009 - 09:01 | Super Lawyers
URL: www.superlawyers.com/california-southern . . .
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Didn’t Abraham Lincoln End Slavery?
ShareThisBy Anna Befort
Published in Southern California Rising Stars 2009 — July 2009
The images are haunting. A smiling 9-year-old girl says she knows how to perform oral sex. A pimp offers up a 5-year-old girl for intercourse. A middle-aged American doctor tells the hidden camera he likes to buy three girls—preferably age 15 or 16—for the night for $50.
It's enough to make you sick. Which is exactly how attorney Esther Chang felt, sitting in her Los Angeles apartment in 2005, watching the Dateline NBC special on human trafficking in Cambodia.
"It got me so disgusted and I couldn't believe that there were girls that young," she says. "And some of the clients were foreigners from the U.S. or other Western countries, and a lot of pedophiles."
So Chang decided to do something about it. Months later, she attended a talk by Gary Haugen, a former federal prosecutor who founded the International Justice Mission (IJM), a human rights agency featured in the Dateline special. Further inspired, she applied to IJM and was offered a volunteer position in its Mumbai office. Luckily, her firm, McDermott Will & Emery, was open to the idea of her taking a one-year sabbatical from its health law department, where she worked as an associate. And so began the adventure that Chang, now 33, calls the "most memorable year of my life."
Continues...
www.superlawyers.com/california-southern/article/Didnt-Abraham-Lincoln-End-Slavery/4956683d-fd51-478a-9ec3-e0771ebb7b44.html
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| 02 Jul 2009 - 08:05 | Women of Color Network
URL: pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/7-9-09regform.pdf
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TELECONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM ECONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
WOCN Training Without Walls Series
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
A Call to Action for Women of Color Advocates & Activists Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Dialogue
Thursday, July 9, 2009
1:00-3:00 pm EST
OVERVIEW: This call is intended for women of color of ALL AGES who are specifically of Asian/Pacific Islander, Arab/Middle-Eastern, Black/African,
Native/Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latin descent.
PURPOSE OF THE CALL: To identify unique experiences that women of color of different ages have within their work; to discuss how we can support each
other across generations; and to identify our priorities and ways we can work collectively to fulfill a shared vision of the anti-violence against women movement.
Register.....
pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/7-9-09regform.pdf
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| 02 Jul 2009 - 07:52 | New York Times - Editoria
URL: www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01wed . . .
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An Advocate for Women
Domestic violence is a serious law enforcement and public health problem affecting as many as one in four women in this country. Yet Washington has devoted too little attention to reducing domestic violence and sexual assaults generally. We welcome President Obama’s decision to create a new post, White House adviser on violence against women, and his appointment of a seasoned advocate for victims to fill it.
Continues...
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01wed4.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 16:57 | IPS Noticias
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9258 . . .
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CHILE: Nueva ofensiva de Bachelet por píldora del día después
Por Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO, 30 jun (IPS) - Tras el último revés jurídico en la Contraloría General de la República, la presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, envió este martes un proyecto al parlamento para autorizar por ley la entrega gratuita de los anticonceptivos de emergencia por parte del Estado.
Nos parece muy bien que el gobierno insista en este tema y lo lleve al parlamento, aunque nosotros tenemos serias dudas acerca de la votación de los legisladores, comentó a IPS la antropóloga Angélica Wilson, subdirectora del Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (Cedem).
Para las organizaciones feministas, el hecho de que el Tribunal Constitucional y la Contraloría hayan prohibido la distribución de las llamadas píldoras del día después en los servicios públicos de salud y otras instituciones atenta contra los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres y resulta discriminatorio hacia las de menos recursos que no pueden comprarlas en las farmacias.
Por ello, la mandataria socialista firmó este martes el proyecto de ley sobre Información, Orientación y Prestaciones en Materia de Regulación de la Fertilidad, al que le impuso el carácter de "suma urgencia" para que sea discutido en un plazo no mayor a 10 días en cada cámara legislativa.
"Es mi deber asegurar que todas las mujeres de mi país tengan acceso a los mecanismos de anticoncepción aceptados por la comunidad médica mundial. Es mi deber pensar siempre en la equidad, y esto es lo que buscamos con este proyecto de ley", declaró Bachelet.
Continua...
www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=92587
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 15:59 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09070103-Juli . . .
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“Seguiré luchando contra la
pederastia y sus encubridores”
Julia Klung, “chicote” imparable del cardenal Rivera
Por Paulina Rivas Ayala
México DF, 1 julio 09 (CIMAC).- Violar a una niña o niño es como matarlo. Por eso, estoy como “chicotito” del cardenal Norberto Rivera, afirma Julia Klug Archila, activista mexicana de origen guatemalteco que se ha manifestado contra los jerarcas católicos pederastas y encubridores de pederastas.
No es una lucha fácil, está llena de desazones, amenazas e incomprensión de la sociedad; de ignorancia e injusticia, expresa Julia en entrevista con Cimacnoticias. Vivió en carne propia abusos sexuales, tanto en Guatemala como en México a donde emigró hace 38 años, cuando tenía 17 años de edad.
A raíz de que los medios dieron a conocer que el cardenal Norberto Rivera (“Perverto”, le llama ella) encubrió al sacerdote Nicolás Aguilar Rivera, acusado de violar a más de 110 niños en México y Estados Unidos, Julia inició una serie de manifestaciones frente a la catedral metropolitana para exigir justicia ante estos hechos.
“Hay que tener dignidad, hay que ser honestos. Yo de niña no podía denunciar, porque era niña, pero si hubiera podido, en ese momento denuncio también”, reflexiona lamentando la poca voz y credibilidad que tienen las niñas y los niños en nuestras sociedades.
Para sus actos de protesta, ella se disfraza, se ensotana como papa o como sacerdote, y en sus mantas y carteles aparecen frases así: “¿En manos de qué monstruos depositamos nuestra fe?”. “Mi lucha no es contra la religión ni contra Dios --aclara-- sino contra el grupo de violadores que están dentro de la Iglesia católica”.
Continua...
www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09070103-Julia-Klung-chico.38347.0.html
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 15:26 | Joey, Women-Inc
joey@womenink.org
URL: www.womenink.org
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CALL FOR TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY
Women, Ink., a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre, is working towards the production of a training directory of short-term courses and training opportunities that support skills-building and knowledge development among women working in post-conflict countries. We are particularly interested in trainings about gender and peace building; reconciliation; trauma/ psychological care; violence against women; transitional justice; advocacy; negotiation/mediation; conflict resolution; documentation and Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820. We are looking for opportunities in every world region for inclusion in a directory that will be distributed in print, and also be made available online.
If you would be interested in drawing attention to the trainings offered by your organization, please send an e-mail with details to Joey Bose at joey@womenink.org
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 15:11 | Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice
URL: action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=6J1 . . .
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NOTE FROM NANCY
Dear Pro-Choice Activist,
Just as we were celebrating Al Franken's victory in Minnesota, we received disturbing news: Anti-choice senators are using health reform to attack your reproductive-health care coverage.
Unless we act now, the Senate could ban reproductive-health services from being covered in the new health-care system.
Millions of women could lose coverage for abortion care even if their private health insurance already covers it!
We're going from office to office at the Capitol, teaming up with our partners in other organizations, and exposing this anti-choice attack through the media. But we can't win without you.
Please urge your senators to oppose such a move:
action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=6J18dRDhsZzDbS8-GBu2WQ
If we lose and a ban is introduced as part of health-care reform, there's little chance of getting it removed later. There is no second chance.
If you do one thing before the holiday weekend, contact your senators.
My best,
Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
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ACT NOW
Say goodbye to reproductive-health services
Unless we act now, the Senate could ban reproductive-health services from being covered in the new health-care system. Millions of women could lose coverage for abortion care even if their private health insurance already covers it!
We need your help to convince senators to stand up against this divisive anti-choice attack.
Please urge your senators to oppose such a move:
http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/s ite/R?i=cNwVxxUSnB-oq3dhF2t1oQ.
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 09:49 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47401
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WOMEN: Dubai, New Destination on Trafficking Map
By Claudia Ciobanu
Credit:Mimi Chakarova
BUCHAREST, Jun 29 (IPS) - On May 26, the U.S.-based Center for Investigative Reporting published ‘The Price of Sex’, a vast multi-media project by photojournalist Mimi Chakarova who spent nearly seven years doggedly unraveling the web of sex trafficking.
Chakarova has charted hundreds of journeys across countries in Europe and to the tiny emirate of Dubai in the Gulf, where the sex trade is booming, seemingly condoned by authorities, according to a rights activist. The Bulgarian photojournalist currently lives and works in the U.S.
"I wanted to address the complexity of trafficking, how it works, and how deeply it breaks the human spirit," the photojournalist told IPS in a detailed email interview about her work - a series of many videos, photos and text. "The impact I hope to achieve is first and foremost to inform and educate my viewers."
Continue...
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47401
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 09:36 | Fundacion Mujeres en Igualdad
mujeresenigualdad@infovia.com.ar
URL: www.iidh.ed.cr/comunidades/DerechosMujer . . .
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"Campania Mundial: Stop a la Trata Humana"
Estimadas amigas y estimados amigos, seguido les comparto la convocatoria a la ampania Mundial: Stop a la Trata Humana lanzada por la Fundacion Mujeres en Igualdad.
Cualquier informacion adicional comunicarse a mujeresenigualdad@infovia.com.ar
Les animanos a difundirla entre sus contacto
Saludos cordiales,
Soledad
Soledad Garcia Munoz
Coordinadora
Proyecto CEDAW-Argentina IIDH
www.iidh.ed.cr/comunidades/DerechosMujer/Acerca/cedawargentina.htm
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| 01 Jul 2009 - 09:25 | Gender Masala
URL: www.ips.org/blog/mdg3
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New blog: Gender Masala
Masala is an aromatic, flavour-enhancing blend of spices, originally from India and now global. Masala has many variants, each with a different personality and purpose.
This blog brings out the flavour of gender issues. From photography to pornography and polygamy, from abortion to adoption, from grammar and genes to glass ceilings, from sexual diversity to sexual abuse, expect sharp writing that blends the personal and the political, reflections on topics as wide as the stories that IPS covers.
Author Mercedes Sayagues is a journalist and editor with a lifelong membership in the global women’s movement, from her home country of Uruguay to South Africa, where she now lives. IPS writers and partners add zest to the blog.
Gender Masala is part of the Inter Press Service project Communicating for Change: Getting Voice, Visibility and Impact for Gender Equality. Check it at www.ips.org/mdg3/
Recent posts:
- Women, justice and memory
- Wedding hell: child brides
- The shutter that shatters gender stereotypes
- In the dark alleys of the internet
- Till death do us apart
www.ips.org/blog/mdg3
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| 30 Jun 2009 - 12:20 | UN Peacekeeping
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAuFQj9xBYc
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Women in Peacekeeping:
The Power to Empower
8 minute video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAuFQj9xBYc
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| 30 Jun 2009 - 11:58 | National District Attorneys Association
URL: www.ndaa.org/ncda/ncda_course_domestic_v . . .
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NDAA invites you to attend the
19th Annual Multi-Disciplinary National Conference on Domestic Violence
October 31-November 4, 2009
San Antonio, Texas
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EMBRACING HOPE
Healing Generations...One Survivor at a Time
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We are coming together to recognize and celebrate all individuals who have been working tirelessly to assist in healing our citizens, families, institutions and communities from the invidious scars left by domestic violence. We will honor not only the miraculous journey of some survivors but also applaud each of you whose never failing hope fuels your passion and sheer determination to eradicate domestic violence and heal generations of
suffering. one Survivor at a time!
Come join us Halloween week for substantive sessions, dynamic brainstorming
opportunities, informative panel discussions, and creative demonstrations;
all designed to address cutting edge issues in the investigation,
prosecution, responsible research, provision of services, development of
informed sentencing options and competent post sentencing measures in
domestic violence cases.
This years conference provides lectures, workshops and discussion groups
throughout the five days offering a vast variety of topics including:
* Vicarious Trauma
* Ethical Issues and Professional Responsibility
* Prosecuting Cases with Absent or Recanting Victims in the Post - Crawford
Courtroom
* DV in Late Life: Elder Abuse
* Effective Investigation: Responding to Children at the Crime Scene
* Establishing Medical Proof: Injury Causation in DV Homicide Cases
* Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women
* Advocacy Issues Regarding Confidentiality
* Cultural Competency
* Use of Visuals in Trial
* Use of Experts
* Civil Liability Issues
* Electronic Research for Attorneys
* Children who Witness DV Homicides
* Finding Funding Sources and Creating Grant Proposals
* Strangulation: Building the Prosecution Case
* Maximizing Federal Firearms Laws - Seizing Firearms to Save Lives
* Everything you Wanted To Know about Crawford vs. Washington and Washington
vs. Davis
* Primary Aggressor: Mandatory Arrest, Dual Arrest and Officer Manipulation
* Mental Health Concerns for DV Survivors
* Prosecuting Stalking Cases
* Teens, Technology and Social Networking
* Addressing Female Violence Against Men
* Interstate Enforcement of Protective Orders
* The Disconnection Around the Criminal and Civil Justice Systems
* DV in Rural Communities
* Federal Prosecution of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault on Tribal
Lands
For more information or to register for this conference, visit
www.ndaa.org/ncda/ncda_course_d omestic_violence_09.php
www.ndaa.org/ncda
803-705-5005
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| 30 Jun 2009 - 09:21 | Prostitution Research and Education
URL: www.prostitutionresearch.com/blog/
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Woman exchanges sex acts for food
This story was all over the U.S. press in late June. No one seems to be noting what is obvious.
MAYBE SHE WAS HUNGRY. Why was her name and photo released but her john stays invisible? Why was she fined but the john was not fined? Has anyone noticed that she is one of the people who are most hard-hit by the triple whammy of sex, race, and class in the sex industry? Where are the social justice activists who could speak out in support of her? There's a deafening silence out there.
Woman pleads no contest in chips-for-sex case
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 (Associated Press)
A woman has been fined $1,142 after pleading no contest to prostitution charges after she was accused of accepting a box of chips for sex. Police said they arrested 36-year-old Lahoma Sue Smith in southeast Oklahoma City after finding her in her car with a man who told officers he knew he could find a prostitute in the area.
Smith told officers the man said he didn't have any money so she agreed to accept a $30 case of chips as payment.
The man was not charged and his name hasn't been released.
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| 30 Jun 2009 - 08:55 | Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery
URL: stoptrafficknow.com/
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Traffic Jamming Hawaii
About the Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery (P.A.S.S.)
Formed in January 2009, the Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery (P.A.S.S.) is a coalition of both secular and faith-based groups based in Hawaii who share the common mission to educate the public about the growing problem of human trafficking, advocate for the passage of local state legislation to illegalize sex-trafficking (especially laws that focus on prosecuting pimps and "johns") and to ensure the enforcement of such legislation.
Our members individually hold positions in public interest legal services, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), churches, non-profit community organizations, state and federally funded anti-trafficking task forces, domestic violence shelters, educational institutions, and law enforcement.
P.A.S.S. is a firmly abolitionist alliance committed to ending human trafficking, the modern-day form of slavery, and is primarily concerned with helping the survivors of sex-trafficking while advocating for the strict prosecution of pimps and "johns."
P.A.S.S. believes that the current state penalties do not fit the crime of sex-trafficking and must be raised significantly to be just. P.A.S.S. firmly believes that appropriate anti-trafficking legislation would carry the highest state penalty for pimps/traffickers of 20 years in prison with no parole and a $25,000 fine (Class A Felony) as mirrored by Federal Law (18 U.S.C. Section 2422(a)) maximum penalty up to 20 years for pimps/traffickers; (18 U.S.C. Section 1591), for trafficking minors under 14, or with force, minimum 15 years to life term; for trafficking minors between the ages of 14 to 18 years of age: 10 years to life term.
YOU CAN HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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| 30 Jun 2009 - 08:29 | SF Examiner
URL: www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10861-SF-Non . . .
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Training a new generation of nonprofit leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area
SF State's new Nonprofit Management program
Disillusioned with your corporate lifestyle and ache to follow the Obamas' call to serve your community? Maybe you've been downsized and are ready to utilize your top-notch business skills to improve society. Or perhaps you're one of the boomers, loath to retire, but prepared to serve.
Nonprofit organizations need you. But where do you learn the skills necessary to prepare you for effective leadership in the nonprofit world?
Enter San Francisco State University. The school's College of Extended Learning (CEL) has a new certificate program in Nonprofit Management. Unlike other workshop-centered programs offering nonprofit instruction, the CEL's Nonprofit Management program provides the flexibility of evening and weekend courses, and retains a focus on teaching the pragmatic skills demanded of all nonprofit leaders.
Continues....
www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10861-SF-Nonprofit-Business-Examiner~y2009m6d29-Training-a-new-generation-of-nonprofit-leaders-in-the-San-Francisco-Bay-Area
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| 29 Jun 2009 - 21:20 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09062903-Movi . . .
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Rechazamos en las urnas autoritarismo, violencia y dictadura
Movimiento feminista de Honduras condena golpe de Estado
Por Guadalupe Gómez Quintana
México DF, 29 junio 09 (CIMAC).- “Amanecimos el domingo con aviones cruzando el cielo, bajo un golpe de Estado orquestado por las Fuerzas Armadas, el presidente del Congreso Nacional, Roberto Michelletti --hoy investido como presidente del país--, y la clase política y oligárquica que controla los medios de comunicación”, denunciaron las organizaciones de mujeres y feministas de Honduras a través de comunicados difundidos por Internet.
El Movimiento de Mujeres por la Paz “Visitación Padilla”, así como las redes Comitzahualt, del Aguán, de la Zona Norte y de Intibucá, entre otras organizaciones feministas y de mujeres, rechazaron enérgicamente la acción “violenta y aberrante” perpetrada la madrugada del domingo por las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras, en acuerdo con el Congreso, contra el presidente Manuel Zelaya Rosales, a quien secuestraron y llevaron fuera del país.
El golpe, repudiado por Naciones Unidas, la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), el Grupo de Río, la Unión Europea y la secretaria de Estado estadounidense, Hillary Clinton, entre otras, se originó como respuesta a la consulta popular convocada por el presidente Zayas para decidir si se realizaba un congreso constituyente que modificara la Constitución política del país.
La medida generó fuerte controversia: una parte del Congreso, la Corte del país y la jerarquía católica la rechazaron, aduciendo que era una estrategia del presidente para reelegirse un nuevo periodo.
Algunas organizaciones feministas --como el Movimiento de Mujeres por la Paz-- aceptaron la consulta, pero no la llamada “cuarta urna”, es decir, la pregunta sobre una nueva constituyente, ya que si los mismos la harían, dijeron, los mismos nulos avances tendría para la población femenina (Cimacnoticias, 25 junio 09).
Continua....
www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09062903-Movimiento-feminist.38300.0.html
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| 29 Jun 2009 - 18:59 | Islamic Society of North America
URL: www.isna.net/articles/Press-Releases/RES . . .
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(date unknown)
Responding to the Killing of Aasiya Hassan: An Open Letter to the Leaders of American Muslim Communities
By Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali Executive Director, ADAMS Center Vice-President, The Islamic Society of North America
www.isna.net/articles/Press-Releases/RESPONDING-TO-THE-KILLING-OF-AASIYA-HASSAN-AN-OPEN-LETTER-TO-THE-LEADERS-OF-AMERICAN-MUSLI.aspx
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| 29 Jun 2009 - 18:36 | Boletin e-mujeres
URL: www.e-mujeres.net/noticias/aido-propondr . . .
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Espana
Aído propondrá crear un Observatorio Europeo contra la Violencia de Género
Europa Press
La ministra de Igualdad, Bibiana Aído, ha resaltado el lunes que la lucha contra la violencia de género será una de las prioridades de la presidencia española de la UE, durante el primer semestre de 2010.
Asimismo, anunció que el Gobierno propondrá la creación de un Observatorio Europeo contra la Violencia de Género que permita establecer un "diagnóstico común" del problema a nivel comunitario para así poder tomar las medidas necesarias para atajarlo.
"Queremos que la lucha contra la violencia de género, que se ha convertido en una de las prioridades del Gobierno de España, en una de nuestras señas de identidad, podamos extenderla a nivel europeo. Que sea una lucha de toda Europa", subrayó Aído en declaraciones a la prensa tras participar en una conferencia sobre las consecuencias de la crisis económica en la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres organizada por la Comisión.
La ministra de Igualdad afirmó que "este tipo de violencia que se ejerce contra las mujeres por el hecho de ser mujeres se da en todas las sociedades" y que, al tratarse de un "problema global", la UE debe responder de "manera conjunta". "Tenemos que sacarla de una manera definitiva del ámbito privado, como hemos hecho en nuestro país, para convertirla en un problema de ámbito público", señaló.
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www.e-mujeres.net/noticias/aido-propondra-crear-un-observatorio-europeo-contra-la-violencia-de-genero
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| 29 Jun 2009 - 18:06 | Legal Momentum
news@legalmomentum.org
URL: action.legalmomentum.org/site/R?i=7BWFiW . . .
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Supreme Court Decision on Ricci a Setback to Workplace Equality
Legal Momentum Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Ricci
Decision Will Undermine Critical Role of Nation's Civil Rights Laws in
Achieving Equality in the Workplace
WASHINGTON, D.C. and NEW YORK (June 29, 2009) -- Legal Momentum,
the nation's oldest legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing
women's rights, is deeply concerned by the U.S. Supreme
Court's ruling today in Ricci v. DeStefano, a decision that will
undermine the critical role of the country's civil rights laws
in the historic struggle of women and minorities to achieve equality
in the workplace. The Court created a new, more stringent
standard for employment discrimination claims in striking down the New
Haven Fire Department's attempt to ensure that its promotional
exam did not discriminate against Black and Latino
candidates. We believe that the standard articulated by the
Court reflects a flawed interpretation of Title VII and is contrary to
congressional intent.
Irasema Garza, President of Legal Momentum, stated: "Employment
discrimination continues to be a major problem. To this day, women and
minorities remain egregiously under-represented in many employment
sectors. Astoundingly, the Court's decision acknowledges this
fact and yet requires employers to avoid policies and practices that
would help to remedy this discrimination. This decision will make
it far more difficult for women and minorities to get good jobs in
fields that continue to exclude them, such as firefighting, and for
employers to eliminate barriers that have proved discriminatory in
their effect."
Further, as a supporter of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to
the Supreme Court, Legal Momentum strongly disagrees with those
who might use the Court's decision to imply that Judge
Sotomayor and her colleagues in the Second Circuit erred in their
ruling below. The Second Circuit panel of which Judge
Sotomayor was a part acted with appropriate restraint in applying the
precedent as it existed at that time. The matter before
the Supreme Court involved issues of first impression and the
Second Circuit's opinion was consistent with the views of four
Justices on the Supreme Court as well as with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice.
Legal Momentum joined in an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme
Court in the Ricci case. The brief described how the disparate impact
theory under Title VII has been instrumental in women's entering
"non-traditional" fields like firefighting.
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To learn more about Legal Momentum's work to open opportunities for
women in "non-traditional" jobs,
see our Web site at:
action.legalmomentum.org/site/R?i=7BWFiWtHFuHFqItsnMIgtQ
Today's Supreme Court decision demonstrates the importance
of Legal Momentum's work to expand opportunities for women in
high-paying jobs from which they have historicaly been excluded,
and to end gender discrimination in the vocational schools which keeps
girls from choosing these careers for themselves.
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| 28 Jun 2009 - 10:48 | Milagros
risco78@hotmail.com)
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hola me gustaria hacer un centro para familias de migrantes aqui en peru no solo para los peruanos que esten en estados unidos sino en europa ,porque e vivido en carne propia el abuso de algunos paises en contra de los inmigrantes y de sus familias espero alguien pueda ayudarme gracias
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| 28 Jun 2009 - 10:45 | Times Online
URL: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/art . . .
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Racism claim gets under L'Oréal's skin
Matthew Campbell, Paris
FRENCH pledges to combat racism will be put to the test this week when a judge decides whether a cosmetics company was guilty of discrimination in a recruitment campaign.
The case against L’Oréal, the country’s best-known manufacturer of beauty products, is the first of its kind since riots last year focused attention on discrimination against immigrant jobseekers from the suburbs. The verdict to be delivered on Thursday, which could include a hefty fine, will be seen as a measure of French resolve to tackle the problem.
Garnier, one of L’Oréal’s top brands, has been accused of instructing an employment agency to hire only slim women of the “BBR type” as hostesses to hand out leaflets and samples of shampoos for a supermarket promotion campaign in 2001.
“BBR” was shorthand for “Bleu Blanc Rouge” — meaning blue, white and red, the colours of the French flag. Typical of the image the company is accused of wanting to promote is that of the actress Virginie Ledoyen, a model for L’Oréal until last year.
Prosecutors have argued that “BBR” is a well-known employers’ code for excluding people of Arab, African or Asian origin. The term is also used in literature of the racist, far-right National Front party, according to Samuel Thomas, of SOS-Racism, the anti-discrimination group that brought the case.
“This sort of thing is ideologically objectionable and must be stopped right away,” he said. “The message it gives is that the only valid sort of French people are white people.”
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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article669217.ece
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