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| 07 Sep 2008 - 17:37 | Sacred Circle
scircle@sacred-circle.com
URL: www.sacred-circle.com/SC%20Train2008%20B . . .
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SACRED CIRCLE TRAINING
OCT. 6 – 10
Rapid City, SD
The Ending Violence Against Native Women Training Institute provides a strong foundation for advocates and their allies to work effectively within their own programs and within a coordinated response.
The Institute begins with a two day plenary session to help build a shared understanding of the dynamics of violence against Native women and highlights coordinated community response initiatives. The last 2 1/2 days you will attend one of the five workshops offered and one closing ceremony.
Plenary Topics include:
• Historical and Cultural Roots: Colonization and Violence Against Women
• Internalized Oppression
• Battering: Definition and Dynamics
• Federal Laws Impacting Native Women
• Effective Coordinated Tribal Community Response
Please register for one of the five following workshops to attend on days 3 and 4:
• Role of Law Enforcement: Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence.
• Role of Batterers’ Program: Batterers’ Re-educate Program Facilitation.
• Role of Criminal Justice System: Tribal Court and Prosecution Response to Domestic Violence.
• Role of Advocates: Advocating for Women Who Have Been Battered/Raped and their Children.
• Advocacy For Native Women Who Have Been Raped - NEW
If this is your first time attending the Institute, please consider attending the Role of Shelter and Advocacy workshop first to gain an integral understanding of effective response to violence against Native women and appropriate relationships with women who are battered. Men are encouraged to attend the Role of Batterers’ Program workshop to best understand their role as men in ending violence against women.
GRAND GATEWAY HOTEL OF THE BLACK HILLS
1721 LaCrosse St., Rapid City, SD 57701
Reservations: 1-866-742-1300
Rate: Standard - $79.00 Superior - $89.00
(Please reserve by September 4th.)
Shuttle: Complimentary Hotel Shuttle - Call 605-342-1300
REGISTRATION FEE RAPID CITY: Before September 5th:
$350; On or after September 5th :$450
Fee includes banquet, manual, DV Info packet and more!
HOTEL INFORMATION
OCT. 6 – 10
Rapid City, SD
PIMA
FACILITATORS
Karen Artichoker, Management Team Director - Cangleska, Inc.,
Director of Sacred Circle
Brenda Hill, Education Coordinator - Sacred Circle
BJ Jones, Chief Judge - Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe
George Twiss, Management Team Director - Cangleska, Inc.
Wayne Weston, Men’s Program Coordinator - Cangleska, Inc.
Elena Giacci, Anti-Sexual Violence Education Specialist, Sacred Circle
call # X-32552
NOTE: Special registration fee for returning registrants: $250.00 - We are extending a special discount rate for those who have previously attended the Sacred Circle Training Institute and
wish to only attend the workshop portion of the Institute and do not wish to attend the plenary sessions again. Full registration fee will be required to attend the entire 5-day Institute.
Details:
• On-site registration begins on Sunday from 4:00 - 8:00 PM and at 7:30 AM on Monday.
• Plenary sessions begin at 8:30 AM on Monday & Tuesday.
• Workshops will begin on Wednesday at 8:30 AM and end at 12:00 PM Friday followed by a Closing Ceremony at 1:30 PM.
Complete information from Sacred Circle (PDF)
www.sacred-circle.com/SC%20Train2008%20Book.pdf
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| 07 Sep 2008 - 10:24 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08090501-Femi . . .
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Las mujeres objetos y los varones sujetos de agresión
Feminicidios, pérdida de humanidad: Lydia Cacho
Por Alba Trejo
Guatemala, Guat., 5 sep 08 (CIMAC/ SEMlac).- La periodista mexicana Lydia Cacho llegó a Guatemala hace unos días para apoyar a los grupos de derechos de la niñez que buscan que el Congreso de la República apruebe reformas al Código Penal para castigar a quienes se dedican a la trata de personas, principalmente de niñas, niños y adolescentes con fines de explotación sexual.
En Guatemala, las cifras --aunque no oficiales-- dan cuenta de que hay cerca de 15 mil menores de edad en situación de explotación sexual comercial.
Cacho habló con SEMlac para comentar su experiencia desde que decidió luchar en contra de este flagelo, que afecta a la infancia y a las mujeres latinoamericanas.
-- Su experiencia como periodista en el tema de la explotación sexual infantil ha sido difícil. ¿Valió la pena arriesgar su vida al denunciar a una red dedicada a negociar con la inocencia infantil?
-- Sí, absolutamente. El líder de la red de pederastas está en una
cárcel de alta seguridad y la gran mayoría de niñas y niños se encuentran en terapia después de tantos años de abuso, pero van bien, y ahora salen más y más niñas y niños denunciando esta propia red y pidiendo ayuda. Me parece que sí valió la pena; fue muy duro, pero la repercusión que tuvo a nivel social, en el país, sirvió para el debate sobre el abuso sexual infantil y la transformación de leyes.
-- Como mujer ¿cómo enfrentó la lucha contra esta red de pederastas?
-- Nadie quisiera pasar una situación de tortura y encarcelamiento por hacer su trabajo, por decir la verdad. Yo lo que hice fue aprender una lección de todo esto, fortalecerme y salir adelante. Me queda más claro que nunca que sí hay diferentes formas de aplicación de la tortura que tienen que ver con ser mujer.
continua....
www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08090501-Feminicidios-perdi.34728.0.html
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| 07 Sep 2008 - 10:10 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/08090513-Plan . . .
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No corresponde a la realidad: Angélica de la Peña
Planes, nada concreto informó Calderón sobre violencia contra mujeres
Por Lourdes Godínez Leal
México DF, 5 sep 08 (CIMAC).- “Ese informe no corresponde a la realidad”, señaló Angélica de la Peña, creadora, junto con Marcela Lagarde, de la Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia, al comentar sobre el Segundo Informe de Gobierno de Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, quien dedica un párrafo de cinco renglones a la acciones que ha realizado en respuesta a dicha ley.
En el informe de Calderón Hinojosa ubica el tema de la violencia contra las mujeres en un párrafo del apartado de derechos humanos. Menciona que se realizó la publicación del Reglamento de la Ley General, con la participación de la Secretaría de Gobernación; la elaboración del Banco de datos, el Programa integral y la Atención a las solicitudes de alerta de violencia de género.
Consultada por Cimacnoticias, De la Peña, integrante del grupo de Investigadoras por la Vida y la Libertad de las Mujeres, instancia que ha hecho un seguimiento muy puntual de la Ley, dijo que, a la fecha, las solicitudes para atender y decretar la Alerta de violencia de género son sumamente burocráticas y no responden a la esencia de la Ley, la cual mandata que su decreto debe ser eficaz ya que lo que está en riesgo es la vida y seguridad de las mujeres.
En ello coincidió Omaira Ochoa Mercado, integrante del Observatorio Ciudadano del Feminicidio que hace un monitoreo de la violencia contra las mujeres. En entrevista dijo que, a la fecha, el Observatorio desconoce cuántas solicitudes de alerta se han hecho.
No obstante, destacó que el Observatorio hizo un acompañamiento a organizaciones civiles de Oaxaca, quienes desde el 30 de abril de este año solicitaron la alerta de violencia de género para la zona Triqui, donde ha habido una constante violencia de género que se ha traducido en desapariciones de mujeres, como la de las hermanas Daniela y Virginia Ortiz Ramírez, desaparecidas el 5 de julio de 2007.
Sin embargo, denunció Ochoa Mercado, pese a que la solicitud se realizó a la presidencia del Sistema Nacional (Segob), fueron “referidas” a la Secretaría Ejecutiva del Sistema, que es el Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (Inmujeres).
A la fecha, dijo, la solicitud está detenida por los requisitos burocráticos que llevan más de un mes, además de la comprobación de la violencia sistémica y de que piden nombres de los perpetradores de ésta.
continua...
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| 06 Sep 2008 - 09:02 | The Guardian, UK
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The Guardian ~~ London ~~ Thursday September 4 2008
Harman: poll shows public support for ban on buying sex
· Figures support move to help reduce trafficking
· Minister attacks hypocrisy of attitudes to prostitution
Patrick Wintour, political editor
Harriet Harman will today step up her drive to make buying sex illegal
when she releases new figures showing that more than half of men and women support the move if it will reduce people-trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Labour's deputy leader, the minister for women and equality, will also
highlight cultural double standards after some respondents,
particularly older men, condoned buying sex but condemned those who sell it.
A Home Office-led review into the demand for prostitution, due to
report this year, is looking at whether ministers should make it
illegal to pay for sex. The review is looking at a range of options to
curb demand, but the Home Office minister, Vernon Coaker, has given a broad hint he will back criminalising the purchase of sex if there is a sign of a national consensus on the issue.
The findings of the government-commissioned survey are likely to give ministers greater confidence in introducing the measure. At present
the law makes it illegal to sell sex, but ministers including Coaker
have visited Sweden to see if tougher laws, including banning the
purchase of sex, can work.
Harman has the backing of a number of prominent ministers, including the solicitor general, Vera Baird, and the attorney general, Lady Scotland.
Harman claimed some people in the survey showed "double standards", indicating that they were relaxed about the principle of paying for sex but would be deeply ashamed if a female relative was working as a prostitute.
The Ipsos-Mori poll, conducted in July and August, showed that more
than half of men and women (58%) support making it illegal to pay for
sex if it will help reduce the numbers of women and children being trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation.
The research also found divergent attitudes between women and men. A clear majority of women found both paying for sex and selling it
unacceptable (61% and 65% respectively), but men were much more equivocal, with just 42% and 40% respectively finding it unacceptable.
More than half of those questioned (60%) from both genders would feel
ashamed if they found out a family member was working as a prostitute. But men were more likely to find it unacceptable for a female relative to sell sex, while being relaxed about a male relative paying for it.
This difference was most stark among men over 55, who were the most accepting of buying sex in general, but just 21% of whom thought it acceptable for a female relative to sell sex.
Young people were more likely than older people to find paying for sex
and selling sex unacceptable (64% and 69% respectively).
Harman said: "Our survey suggests that there are double standards out
there: the overwhelming majority of those people who said they thought
selling sex was a reasonable choice also said they would find it
unacceptable if a family member was working as a prostitute.
"While the majority of men and women agree that paying for sex should be made illegal if it will help stop the trafficking of women for
sexual exploitation, women and young people are much more likely to find the whole idea of paying for sex unacceptable. We know that
paying for sex fuels the demand for trafficked women and children, but
we can't talk about tackling demand without challenging cultural
attitudes more widely."
Harman has been allowed to express her personal view that buying sex should be made illegal before the government review has been completed.
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| 06 Sep 2008 - 08:35 | The Poppy Project
URL: www.eaves4women.co.uk/Documents/INSIDE%2 . . .
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Big Brothel a survey of the off-street sex industry in London
www.eaves4women.co.uk/Document s/INSIDE%20BIG%20BROTHELS%20BB%20Report- web%20NEW.pdf
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| 05 Sep 2008 - 10:34 | CIMAC noticias
URL: www.cimac.org.mx
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Más de un billón de mujeres atrapadas en la pobreza
Pobreza mundial acabará si se combate desigualdad de género
Por Leticia Puente Beresford/corresponsal
Nueva York, EU, 4 sep 08 (CIMAC).- Gobiernos y donantes necesitan hacer mayores esfuerzos en el combate a la desigualdad de género, para así alcanzar satisfactoriamente el combate de la pobreza mundial, situación en la que están atrapadas hoy más de un billón de mujeres alrededor del mundo.
El Fondo de Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer (UNIFEM), la Organización Internacional de Trabajo (OIT) y la Comisión Europea señalaron lo anterior en un comunicado y pidieron a los ministerios que se encargan de tomar decisiones respecto al desarrollo y la entrega de ayuda que se brinde mayor acceso a los defensores de los derechos de las mujeres.
En el Foro de Alto Nivel sobre la Eficacia de la Asistencia, que comenzó el martes pasado en Acra, capital de Ghana, UNIFEM y la OIT sostuvieron que a menos que las mujeres alcancen su potencial, los esfuerzos para combatir la pobreza no serán fructíferos.
Para lograr esa meta, sugirieron que parte de los presupuestos se asignen a las prioridades de las mujeres y que se establezcan mecanismos para medir los resultados de los esfuerzos encaminados a fomentar la equidad de género, indica el comunicado de prensa.
El Comisionado para el Desarrollo y la Asistencia Humanitaria de la Comisión Europea, Louis Michel, consideró que el encuentro en Acra brinda una oportunidad para que los gobiernos y los donantes se comprometan a acelerar los logros en el campo de la igualdad de la mujer.
En tanto, Inés Alberdi, directora de UNIFEM, dijo que “donde las mujeres no pueden prosperar, las estrategias nacionales de desarrollo y el progreso para alcanzar las Metas de Desarrollo del Milenio (MDG) están en peligro. No puede haber la efectividad de ayuda sin que se enfoque la igualdad de género”.
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| 05 Sep 2008 - 09:57 | Brad Perry, Sexual Violence Prevention Coord
URL: www.vsdvalliance.org/secPublications/new . . .
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The new issue of the VSDVAA's primary SV/IPV prevention newsletter, "Moving
Upstream" is available for download at:
www.vsdvalliance.org/secPublications/newsletters.html
The theme of this issue is "Sufficient Dosage and Sexual Violence/InterPersonal Violence Prevention". The feature article discusses key concepts related to maximizing message exposure in prevention work. There is also an article examining how one local Virginia agency implemented an intensive violence prevention program in a correctional facility. Repost this announcement as you see fit!
"Moving Upstream" is only published electronically, and new issues are produced 3 times per year. You can also download the 10 previous issues of "Moving Upstream" in PDF format at the same URL.
Previous issues also available for download:
- Vol 1, Issue 1: Framing Primary Sexual Violence Prevention
- Vol 1, Issue 2: Primary Prevention or Outreach?
- Vol 1, Issue 3: Healthy Sexuality and Sexual Violence Prevention (Part 1)
- Vol 2, Issue 1: Healthy Sexuality and Sexual Violence Prevention (Part 2)
- Vol 2, Issue 2: Evaluation and Primary Sexual Violence Prevention
- Vol 2, Issue 3: Male Allies in Primary Sexual Violence Prevention
- Vol 3, Issue 1: Community Development Approach for Primary SV/IPV
Prevention
- Vol 3, Issue 2: Moving Beyond the Individual to Address the Social
Environment
- Vol 3, Issue 3: Adding a Promotion Paradigm to Prevention Work
- Vol 4, Issue 1: Revisiting Healthy Sexuality and Sexual Violence
Prevention
Brad Perry, MA
Sexual Violence Prevention Coordinator
Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence
Action Alliance (VSDVAA)
Phone: (434) 979-9002
Fax: (434) 979-9003
Web: www.vsdvalliance.org
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| 05 Sep 2008 - 09:47 | Women of Color Network
as@pcadv.org
URL: pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/9-18regform.pdf
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CALL TO ACTION FOR YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR ADVOCATES & LEADERSHIP
Thursday, September 18, 2008
1:00-3:00 pm EST
This call is intended for women of color who are under the age of 35 and are specifically of Asian/Pacific Islander, Arab/Middle-Eastern, Black/African, Native/Indigenous, and Hispanic/Latin descent only.
The purpose of the call: 1) To begin drafting a one-to-one mentorship model for young women of color advocates; and 2) To discuss other emerging issues and potential approaches in addressing them.
To access the registration form, go to: http://pubs.pcadv.net/wocn/9-18regform.p df
*If you have any questions or are interested in the notes from previous "Call To Action For YWOC Advocates & Leadership" teleconferences, please call (800) 537-2238 x 137 or email as@pcadv.org.
In solidarity,
Women of Color Network
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| 04 Sep 2008 - 19:51 | police oversight
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Code of silence can protect abusive police
Will County group holds seminar on how to deal with domestic violence
involving cops
By Erika Slife |Chicago Tribune reporter September 3, 2008
A woman abused by a police officer endures a life of secrecy and
desperation, domestic violence experts say.
She feels she can't report the abuse to the police, because he is the
police. She can't hide in a shelter; he knows where they are. In
court, it's her word against that of a sworn officer.
"It's something that is just bubbling underneath the radar screen in
this country, when it comes to police family violence," said Margaret
Moore, director of the National Center for Women and Policing.
But when domestic violence cases involving police officers are
propelled into the media glare-most prominently, in recent months, the
allegations against former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson, who denied them-experts believe that awareness can encourage lawmakers and
police agencies to institute policies that help protect oft-hidden victims.
Last week, the Family Violence Coordinating Council in Will County
held a seminar for social workers and police on how to deal with
domestic violence cases when the abusers are police officers. About
130 people attended the daylong workshop, which was closed to the
media and public. It was the second time in two years the council held
a seminar on the topic, said Shorewood Police Lt. Jeff Hanley,
chairman of the council's Legal Action Committee.
Experts say education is key in tackling the issue. Law-enforcement
policies on how to handle abuse by police officers differ from department to department, and an agency with more lax procedures could leave a victim with nowhere to turn.
"What we're trying to do-and I know most departments are trying to
do-is take it out of the [responding] officers' hands," Hanley said.
"Policy requires that a supervisor or officer of a higher rank answers
the call. We go right up the food chain."
Putting the responsibility on a supervisor's shoulders addresses two issues, advocates for domestic-violence victims say. It takes the
pressure off the responding officer, typically a patrol officer, having to mediate a situation that could potentially cost a colleague
his police job. It also removes the possibility of officers covering
up for a buddy in the department.
"That's a big part of the police culture, the code of silence," said
Diane Wetendorf, author, advocate and consultant specializing in
police-perpetrated domestic violence. "Some officers may have direct knowledge of what's happening. Many of them have an idea of what's going on and purposely ignore it or look another way."
Even if a woman's complaint does get funneled through the legal
system, advocates say, a victim may have to stand up to a higher level
of skepticism from judges and prosecutors.
"She has to prove everything that happened, because not everyone is
going to take her word for everything they would in perhaps other
situations," said Cory Ryan, executive director of the Connection for Abused Women and their Children. "It becomes, 'he said-she said,' and the officer's word is often given the benefit of the doubt."
Even if a victim does have her abuse allegations taken seriously by
law enforcement, the consequences of her speaking up could be severe.
For example, if the officer loses his job, she and their children
could lose an income, health insurance benefits and a pension.
"It's the No. 1 thing. They don't want these men to lose their jobs,"
Wetendorf said. "That's the problem with some policies. It has a
chilling effect on reporting."
Experts say police departments should bear some responsibility if they recruit individuals prone to violence. There needs to be a better
screening process or tests administered that would weed out future abusers, Hanley and Moore said.
But they also recognize the difficulty in predicting who is prone to
domestic violence.
"You can only screen so far," said Lansing Police Chief Dan McDevitt.
"Every police department I'm aware of does psychological screening. I
don't know if there's an instrument out there that can accurately
predict the potential for domestic violence."
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| 04 Sep 2008 - 19:35 | from Share violence against women news
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Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking, Alien Smuggling
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
WWW.USDOJ.GOV
Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking, Alien Smuggling Charges in Florida
WASHINGTON - Juan Luis Cadena-Sosa was sentenced today on federal civil rights violations for conspiring to smuggle Mexican women and girls into the United States and forcing them to engage in prostitution by means of intimidation, violence and threats of physical harm, announced Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Cadena-Sosa to 15 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and a special assessment of $200. He was further ordered to pay jointly with his co-defendants $964,175.60 in restitution to the victims.
“Juan Luis Cadena-Sosa was a member of a conspiracy that lured young women and girls from Mexico to the United States with false promises of a better life and then forced them into modern day-slavery in a network of brothels that spanned the East Coast,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Becker. “We thank the Mexican authorities for working with us to extradite him from Mexico to face justice in Florida, where the exploitation took place.”
U.S. Attorney Acosta added, “These young victims came to the United States hoping for a better life; instead they found misery and despair as sex slaves in a Florida brothel. No prison sentence can repair the lasting emotional and physical scars left on these young victims, but today’s sentence of this long-time fugitive brings this tragic story closer to an end.”
In 1998, 15 defendants were charged by superceding indictment in this matter. Cadena-Sosa remained a fugitive until extradited from Mexico to the United States in November 2007. Nine defendants, including Cadena-Sosa, have now been found guilty in U.S. federal court. One was convicted in Florida state court on charges arising from this criminal operation. Another was convicted on related charges in Mexico. A third died while a fugitive. Three defendants remain at large. Those convicted in U.S. federal court have received prison sentences ranging from 30 months to 15 years.
Human trafficking prosecutions are a top priority of the Department of Justice. Over the past seven years, the Civil Rights Division, in conjunction with the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, has increased by nearly seven-fold the number of human trafficking cases filed in court, compared to the previous seven years. In FY 2007, the Department obtained a record number of convictions in human trafficking prosecutions.
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| 04 Sep 2008 - 12:16 | The Guardian, UK
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/01/pak . . .
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Pakistan: Three teenage girls buried alive in tribal 'honour' killing
Saeed Shah in Islamabad The Guardian, Monday September 1 2008
Three teenage girls have been buried alive by their tribe in a remote part of Pakistan to punish them for attempting to choose their own husbands, in an "honour" killing case.
After news of the deaths emerged, male politicians from their province, Baluchistan, defended the killings in parliament, claiming the practice was part of "our tribal custom".
The girls, thought to have been aged between 16 and 18, were kidnapped by a group of men from their Umrani tribe.
They were driven to a rural area and then injured by being shot. Then, while still alive, they were dragged bleeding to a pit, where they were covered with earth and stones, according to the findings of Human Rights Watch, the international campaigning group. Officials, speaking off the record, confirmed the killings.
However, six weeks after the deaths, no one has been arrested, amid claims of a cover-up. According to several accounts, Baluchistan government vehicles were used to abduct the girls, and the killing was overseen by a tribal chief who is the brother of a provincial minister from the ruling Pakistan People's party.
Some reports said that two older relatives of the girls had tried to intervene, but they too were shot and buried with the girls while still alive. "This is a heinous criminal offence," said Ali Dayan Hasan, of Human Rights Watch. "We have corroborated it and cross-corroborated it, but the second the police admit that it happened, it would trigger an investigation."
Hasan said that, with a presidential election on September 6, one in which Baluchistan's provincial parliament would be strongly relied on to deliver votes, action that would antagonise the region's politicians was highly unlikely.
In Pakistan's national parliament, an MP from Baluchistan, Israrullah Zehri, said on Friday that "this action was carried out according to tribal traditions", a view backed up by some other male lawmakers, who attacked a woman senator who had raised the case.
"These are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them," Zehri added over the weekend.
The killings happened in the Naseerabad district of Baluchistan. Although so-called honour killings are not unusual, burying the victims alive seems to have been brutal even by tribal standards.
"It is very common for women in these cases to be deprived of an honourable burial. This is to make sure others learn the lesson," said Samar Minallah, a human rights activist based in Islamabad.
Sarang Mastoi, a local journalist in Baluchistan with Pakistan channel KTN, said that the villagers were scared to talk openly about the crime, but he had been taken by some to see the burial site.
Under tribal - not religious - tradition, marriages are carefully arranged by elders. Marrying without permission is considered an affront to the honour of the tribe. Sadiq Umrani, a provincial minister, has admitted that the girls were buried alive but denied the involvement of his brother.
An editorial, published in Pakistani daily The News yesterday, said: "Surely the government should be seeking the murderers, not protect [them] through some dark conspiracy of silence. The fact the act was 'kept quiet' means the government sympathises with such doings."
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| 04 Sep 2008 - 12:04 | beatriz
beatriz@flora.org.pe
URL: www.flora.org.pe
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Colectivo 25 de Noviembre - Planton contra la violencia sexual en las fuerzas armadas
COLECTIVO 25 DE NOVIEMBRE - CAMPAÑA 2008
PRIMER ACTO PÚBLICO
¡CONTRA LA INACCIÓN DEL ESTADO FRENTE A LA VIOLENCIA SEXUAL POR PARTE DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS!
A propósito del reciente caso de violación sexual contra una recluta
del Ejército, y en relación a los casos similares denunciados en los meses anteriores, te convocamos a participar en un acto público de protesta contra la discriminación y la violencia de la que son sujetos las mujeres en
nuestra sociedad, y en particular, en las Fuerzas Armadas y Policiales.
JUEVES 04 DE SEPTIEMBRE 7:00 A.M.
EXTERIORES DEL CUARTEL EP RAFAEL HOYOS RUBIO
Av. Tupac Amaru c/ Av. Caquetá - al lado de la UNI
USAR ROPA NEGRA (SE COLOCARÁN LAZOS LILAS)
¡Ayudemos a romper el silencio!
¡Apoyemos la lucha contra la impunidad!
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| 04 Sep 2008 - 11:34 | New Zealand Herald
URL: www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c . . .
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Afghan President pardons three found guilty of gang-rape
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pardoned three men found guilty of gang-raping a woman in the northern province of Samangan.
The woman, Sara, and her family found out about the pardon only when they saw the rapists back in their village.
"Everyone was shocked," said Sara's husband, Dilawar, who, like many Afghans, uses only one name. "These were men who had been sentenced by the Supreme Court, walking around freely."
Sara's case highlights concerns about the close relationship between the Afghan President and men accused of war crimes and human rights abuses.
The men were freed discreetly but the rape was public and brutal. It took place in September 2005, in the run-up to Afghanistan's first democratic parliamentary elections.
The most powerful local commander, Mawlawi Islam, was running for office despite being accused of scores of murders committed during his time as a mujahideen commander in the 1980s, a Taleban governor in the 1990s, and after the fall of the Taleban in 2001. Sara said one of his subcommanders and bodyguards had been looking for young men to help in the election campaign.
It was evening, around time for the last prayer, when armed men took my son, Islamuddin, by force. I have eyewitness statements from nine people that he was there. From that night until now, my son has never been seen."
Dilawar said his wife publicly harangued the commander twice about their missing son.
After the second time, he said, they came for her. "The commander and three of his fighters came and took my wife out of our home and took her to their house about 200m away and, in front of these witnesses, raped her."
Dilawar has a sheaf of legal papers, including a doctor's report that said Sara had a 17mm wound in her private parts cut with a bayonet. She was left to stumble home, bleeding and without her trousers.
When I met the couple in May 2006, they were in hiding and struggling to pursue the four men through the courts, petitioning the Parliament, the President, human rights organisations and the United Nations.
They say one of the men involved in the attack used money and connections to repeatedly evade justice, particularly after his boss, Mawlawi Islam, became an MP and, they allege, was fully able to protect him.
In January 2007, Mawlawi Islam was assassinated. But the other three accused of the gang-rape were tried, found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Abdul Basir died in jail. The other two rapists, Nur Mohammad and Kheir Mohammad, were released last May. The commander was found not guilty.
A copy of the pardon was numbered, dated in May and appeared to bear the personal signature of Hamid Karzai. It recommended the men's release because, it said, "they had been forced to confess to their crimes".
When shown copies of the presidential pardon and court papers, Karzai's spokesman, Hamayun Hamidzada, was shocked and said if the documents proved genuine, Karzai would be "upset and appalled".
He said it was impossible Karzai could knowingly have signed a pardon for rapists but refused to speculate on how the pardon could have come about. He promised an investigation into the case, including the unsolved mystery of Sara's missing son.
Hamidzada denied there was one law for the rich and well connected and another for people like Sara. "There are difficulties - we're rebuilding institutions, including our justice institutions, and there are shortcomings - but the President and the Government are committed to the rule of law for all equally."
A UN human rights official said that, although she could not remember the President giving a pardon in such a serious case, corruption in the police and courts was endemic.
Sara and Dilawar are again in hiding, feeling too vulnerable in their village. In Afghanistan, speaking about rape means risking further dishonour but when asked whether he minded Sara's story being publicised, Dilawar said, "We've already lost our son, our honour, sold our land to pay for legal costs and we've lost our home - what else can we lose?"
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| 02 Sep 2008 - 11:11 | Women's Feature Services, India
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India: An Act to the Rescue
By Tarannum
In a small village in the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh (UP), around 50 women are assembled near the 'chaupal', the village public space. A little away in a corner, a man sits with his head cast down. He is quiet.
Seated across from him is his wife. A few elderly women of the village
accompany her. Those gathered are waiting for the 'nari adalat', or the
women's court, to commence and deliver its verdict, based on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
Interestingly, these people are
actually the cast of the local 'nukkad natak' or street theatre group, that
spreads the word about the provisions of the Act and the 'nari adalats' that resolve marital disputes and those related to bigamy and dowry.
* "We want to show the men that they will not be able to easily get away with beating their wives, daughters or any women living in their homes. There is a law which protects every woman, whether in the house or outside."
Women's Features Service/India LOG. Mon, 1 Sep 2008
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| 02 Sep 2008 - 10:39 | Revista Trabajadora
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*Enlaces a los tres spots publicitarios de la Campaña del Ministerio de Igualdad contra la violencia de género: "Ante el maltratador, tolerancia cero".*
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| 02 Sep 2008 - 10:18 | feminismo islamico
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*Tercer Congreso Internacional de Feminismo Islámico*
*Barcelona, del 24 al 27 de Octubre del 2008*
*www.feminismoislamico.org *
Junta Islámica Catalana ha convocado el Tercer Congreso Internacional de Feminismo Islámico.
El *Congreso** *estará centrado en la problemática de *las mujeres
musulmanas en la era de la globalización*, enfrentadas a una doble opresión:
económica (neoliberalismo) y política (fundamentalismo religioso). Se analizará las respuestas desde el feminismo islámico a esta situación, y su
contribución a la *construcción de una nueva sociedad civil planetaria*,
basada en la cultura de los derechos humanos y en *valores centrales al Mensaje del Corán* como son la democracia, la justicia social, la libertad de conciencia y la igualdad de género.
Entre los asistentes, se encuentran personalidades como la Ministra Siria para los Refugiados y candidata al Premio Nóbel de la Paz, *Bouthaina Shaaban*, y la *Baronesa Uddin*, la primera mujer musulmana en entrar en la
Cámara de los Lores en Gran Bretaña.
Está prevista la asistencia de intelectuales musulmanas de primer orden, como *Amina Wadud, Penda Mbow, Fatou Sow, Asma Barlas* o *Norani Othman*.
También asistirán *Siti Musdah Mulia*, presidenta del Muslimat Nahdlatul Ullama de Indonesia, la mayor organización social islámica de Indonesia, con más de 40 millones de miembros; y *Subhashini Ali*, presidenta de la rama femenina del Partido Comunista de la India, con más de 10 millones de mujeres afiliadas.
Se darán a conocer la *campaña contra la lapidación en Irán*, la lucha por la *participación política de las mujeres* en la Península Arábiga, o las *estrategias
para la mejora de los derechos de las mujeres* musulmanas en países como Marruecos, Senegal, Pakistán o Malasia.
En total, una veintena de ponentes provenientes de Marruecos, Siria, Omán, Arabia Saudí, Pakistán, Irán, India, Senegal, Malasia, Indonesia, EEUU e Inglaterra.
El Congreso ha sido organizado por la Junta Islámica Catalana y cuenta con el patrocinio de la Agencia Española de Cooperación al Desarrollo (AECID), la Generalitat de Catalunya (Agencia Catalana de Cooperación para el Desarrollo, Dirección General de Asuntos Religiosos e Instituto Catalán de
las Mujeres), del Instituto Europeo de la Mediterránea (IEMed) y del British Council (BC).
El Congreso tendrá lugar en el Hotel Alimara: www.alimarahotel.org
*Programa complete e inscripciones:** www.feminismoislamico.org *
*Contacto:** info@feminismeislamic.org *
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ambiente esta en nuestra mano. ***
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| 01 Sep 2008 - 18:10 | Shareinc, Violence against Women
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| 01 Sep 2008 - 18:05 | admin
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10th Circuit Court Ruling Blocks Domestic Abusers from Getting GunsBrady Center Hails Court Ruling Blocking Domestic Abusers From Getting Guns
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a federal trial court ruling blocking a Wyoming law that would allow convicted domestic violence abusers to possess firearms. The court in Wyoming v. United States, as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence had urged in its amicus brief, prohibited Wyoming from implementing its law to rearm domestic violence abusers.
The 10th Circuit ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider a case in its upcoming term concerning domestic violence abusers’ gun possession, United States v. Hayes. The Brady Center filed a brief in Hayes urging the Supreme Court to overturn a circuit court ruling that could require that the names of thousands of dangerous abusers be purged from the federal Brady background check system.
Responding to the Wyoming ruling, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Senior Attorney Daniel Vice stated, “This ruling is an important victory for the safety of our families and communities. We should not make it easier for dangerous domestic violence abusers to obtain dangerous firearms.”
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor from possessing firearms. In rare cases where criminals are pardoned or have convictions expunged, they may regain the right to own guns. Wyoming v U.S. concerned a Wyoming statute that allowed domestic violence abusers to regain their right to possess firearms by expunging misdemeanor abuse convictions, but only for purposes of getting a firearm. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ruled that Wyoming could not expunge an abuser’s record solely for purposes of getting a gun — either the person is a danger or he poses no threat and can have his conviction completely expunged. Wyoming sued to overturn ATF’s ruling.
Nationwide, more than one-third of all homicides of female victims are caused by domestic violence abusers. Every year, between 1,000 and 1,600 women are killed by domestic violence abusers, and over two million people are assaulted by domestic abusers. Domestic violence situations are particularly dangerous for law enforcement as well, with 14 percent of police officer deaths occurring in response to domestic violence calls.
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