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| 20 Apr 2007 - 10:12 | Robin
runger@staff.abanet.org
URL: www.abanet.org/domviol
| Use and Integration of Interpreters Training
Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:56 am (PST)
The ABA Commission on Domestic Violence (the "Commission"), in
partnership with the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, and the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women American Prosecutors Research Institute, National District
Attorneys Association, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Program will host a two-day National Institute on the Use and Integration of Interpreters in Civil
Representation of Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking
on Monday and Tuesday, May 14 and May 15, 2007 in Seattle,
Washington.
Registration is limited to current Legal Assistance for Victim (LAV)
grantee attorneys of the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S.
Department of Justice, former LAV grantees and current legal aid and
legal services attorneys who are representing victims of domestic
violence, sexual assault, and stalking who are Limited English
Proficient (LEP) and/or who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Registration
will be closed at 50 and is on a first come, first served basis. There
is no registration fee to attend the Institute and grantees may use OVW
funds to cover travel costs to attend. For more information, please go
to the Commission's website at www.abanet.org/domviol . Registration is
required to attend the Institute and must be completed by Monday, April
23, 2007. To register, please visit our website.
If you have any general questions about this Institute, information
updates, and registration information, please visit the Commission's
website at www.abanet.org/domviol, or contact Amanda Farnham at
farnhama@staff.abanet.org. If you are an OVW grantee and you have
specific questions about the parameters and terms of your grant or funding, please contact your OVW program manager.
Robin R. Runge, Esq.
Director
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
740 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 662-8637 phone
(202) 662-1594 fax
runger@staff.abanet.org
www.aban et.org/domviol
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| 19 Apr 2007 - 22:20 | Sandra Ramos
info@sosdv.org
URL: www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org
| Abused Mothers and Children call for Custody Justice from Family Courts
Event Date: Friday, May 11, 2007 / Mothers' Day Friday
In New Jersey:
12 noon Paterson
3pm Hackensack
Other locations throughout the country to be announced.
Contact: Sandra Ramos 973.831.0898
info@sosdv.org
See:
www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.o rg
Strengthen Our Sisters Inc. to Hold
Mothers' Day Friday
Rolling Baby Carriages Demonstrations to Protest
Mothers Losing Custody of Their Children to Batterers
At the Passaic County Courthouse at noon.
At the Bergen County Courthouse at 3pm.
Strengthen Our Sisters Founder and Executive Director Sandra Ramos - the founder and first Executive Director of Shelter Our Sisters in Bergen County, the first shelter for battered women in North America - explained, “Mothers will be marching with empty baby carriages to protest the trend in court rulings that gives custody of children to abusive, violent, batterers and child molesters. Batterers can pay for attorneys who know how to manipulate the court system while working to make mothers destitute. There is a huge need for pro bono publico attorneys to step forward, learn domestic violence law and represent the women and children.”
Sandra Ramos, who is also a professor at William Paterson University and Ramapo College, teaching "Dynamics of Domestic Violence" as well as other courses, asked that people think about what they will be doing on Mothers' Day and to try to imagine how they would feel if they lost custody of their own children to an abusive, manipulative adult. Ramos asks, “How would they feel if they had to wake up each morning not knowing what horrors or tortures their children might be enduring, with the knowledge that they were unsupported in the very courts that should be making rulings to protect people?”
Ramos says that she has been besieged everywhere she goes with calls from mothers who have lost custody or are in court proceedings and in danger of losing custody.
Mo Therese Hannah, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Siena College, states, "Children who grow up with abuse are more prone to behavioral problems, depression, eating disorders, suicide, school failure, increased drop-out rates, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, adult criminality, and are more prone to becoming involved in abusive relationships as adults." Dr. Hannah, whose professional focus is couples therapy and the dynamics of abuse, is the primary organizer of the Battered Mothers' Custody Conference: Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A National Crisis.
Other shelters, advocacy support groups, and Voices of Women Organizing Project (VOW), will participate in the demonstrations. It is hoped that mothers will publicly share their experiences. People are encouraged to bring signs. Buttons will be handed out saying: The Court is a Cash Register and Children Pay the Price and others saying: Children Should be Seen, Heard, Believed, and Protected.
See: http://batteredmotherscustodyconference. org/Essential_Information.htm
http://www.vowbwrc.org h sosdv.org
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| 19 Apr 2007 - 11:47 | marie
rdjustice@monitor.net
| *Costa Rica: aprueban Ley de penalización de la violencia contra las mujeres*
/San José, Costa Rica, 13 de abril de 2007/.
El IIDH reconoce la
aprobación por la Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica, el 12 de abril en horas de la noche, de la /Ley de penalización de la violencia contra las mujeres/, que constituye un importante avance en el cumplimiento de los
compromisos contraídos por el Estado en la /Convención sobre la
eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer/
(CEDAW) y, muy particularmente, en la /Convención para prevenir,
sancionar y erradicar la violencia contra la mujer/.
Esta legislación costarricense es pionera en su materia. Tiene como fin la protección de los derechos de las víctimas de violencia y la sanción de todas sus manifestaciones -física, psicológica, sexual y patrimonial-
en contra de las mujeres mayores de edad, en el contexto de una relación de poder o de confianza. Este tipo de legislación sería la segunda en el mundo -además de España-, en tipificar el delito de femicidio para “quien dé muerte a una mujer con la que mantenga una relación de matrimonio, en unión de hecho declarada o no” y establecer la pena de prisión correspondiente.
La Relatoría sobre derechos de las mujeres de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos describe en su informe de enero de 2007, /Acceso a
la justicia para las mujeres víctimas de violencia en las Américas/, los
grandes obstáculos que las mujeres enfrentan cuando procuran acceder a una tutela judicial efectiva para remediar los actos de violencia.
Indica además, que las mujeres que son víctimas de violencia no logran un acceso expedito, oportuno y efectivo a la justicia, propiciando la impunidad.
El Consejo Centroamericano de Procuradores de Derechos Humanos y el IIDH, en su /I Informe regional: situación y análisis del femicidio en la región centroamericana/, recomendaba para una mejor tutela y garantía
del derecho de las mujeres a una vida sin violencia, el análisis y
aprobación de reformas penales o legislación que tipificaran y
sancionaran el femicidio como delito. Celebramos que en la región, se haya dado el primer paso que esperamos propicie legislación similar en otros países de las Américas.
La /Ley de penalización de la violencia contra las mujeres/ implica un cambio en lo penal, en la concepción tradicional de los delitos relacionados. Esperamos que impacte positivamente en la vida de las mujeres, quienes tendrán mayor protección contra la violencia en lo que toca a las relaciones con sus parejas. Con la aprobación de esta ley,
Costa Rica es ahora un referente interamericano en un ámbito en el que incluso en los países con mayor tradición de igualdades, poco se ha avanzado. “La práctica muestra, en nuestra sociedad latinoamericana, que son la inercia y la falta de voluntad los principales obstáculos que le cierran el paso a los derechos de las mujeres”, dijo el Director Ejecutivo del IIDH, Roberto Cuéllar M., cuando conoció la aprobación de la ley en Costa Rica.
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| 19 Apr 2007 - 11:43 | victoria
victoria_retamar@hotmail.com
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No hablo ingles pero sufro de violencia domestica soy argentina y estoy casada con un norteamericano hace un año sufro de maltratos verbales y a veces de golepes fisicos...
Estoy amenazada que se va a divorciar de mi y que regresare a mi pais ...
Por favor quiero saber donde puedo hacercarme para mas informacion .. vivo en los angeles valencia california ..
gracias...
victoria
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| 19 Apr 2007 - 11:40 | Aida L. Irizarry
aidairiz@gmail.com
URL: www.byreasonofpassion.com
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To all those who have visited my site, www.byreasonoofpassion.com , thank you. I wrote By Reason of Passion, a novel on domestic violence, because I think it's a subject that must ALWAYS be at the forefront of women's rights until the day in which we can say this no longer happens. The novel is in English, with multicultural characters, the main characters Hispanic. I'm also translating it into Spanish. I invite you to visit the site and read the chapter in Spanish at the beginning of next week.
Once more, thank you.
A todos aquellos que han visitado mi pagina, www.byreasonofpassion.com , gracias. Yo escribi By Reason of Passion, una novela cual tema es la violencia domestica, porque creo es importante este topico no se eche al olvido ya que viola nuestros derechos a vivir una vida tranquila con nuestros hijos. Algun dia ya no tendremos que estar a la vanguardia de este problema.
La novela es multicultural, y los personajes centrales son Hispanos/Latinos. La estoy traducciendo al espanol, y les invito lea el primer capitulo en castellano esta semana entrante.
Una vez mas, gracias.
Aida L. Irizarry, Autora
By Reason of Passion
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