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| 14 Feb 2010 - 11:40 | Human Rights for All
URL: www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?ar . . .
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Human Rights For All
Global Petition to Amnesty International: Restoring the Integrity of Human Rights
Saturday 13 February 2010
As organisations and individuals who stand for and support the universality of human rights, we have noted with concern the suspension of Gita Sahgal, Head of the Gender Unit at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London, for questioning Amnesty International’s partnership with individuals whose politics towards the Taliban are ambiguous.
We come from communities that recognize and appreciate the work of Amnesty International in defending human rights and women’s rights around the world. Many of us work closely with Amnesty International in their campaigns at various levels.
We believe that Gita Sahgal has raised a fundamental point of principle which is “about the importance of the human rights movement maintaining an objective distance from groups and ideas that are committed to systematic discrimination
See:
www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?article15
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| 14 Feb 2010 - 11:16 | Asian and Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Institute
URL: www.apiahf.org/images/stories/Documents/ . . .
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FACTS AND STATS: Domestic violence in Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander homes
www.apiahf.org/images/stories/Documents/publications_database/dv_facts_and_stats.pdf
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| 14 Feb 2010 - 11:03 | genderberg
URL: genderberg.com/phpNuke/
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Welcome to Genderberg.com
Genderberg is intended to be a website resource for prostitution, pornography, trafficking and sexual exploitation activists and researchers like myself, S.M. Berg.
I've been writing and speaking about these issues for a few years so I finally made a place to collect the letters, articles, and various bits of anti-pornstitution activism I've done (the S.M. Berg section) and have seen done by others (news, resources, and the forums.)
With the contributions of other feminist activists, the Genderberg forums have developed into an online community that supports and encourages individual and collective actions to raise awareness about the very victim-full crime of prostitution.
Please take what you can use from this website and use it.
See...
genderberg.com/phpNuke/
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| 14 Feb 2010 - 10:42 | Pagina 12, Argentina
URL: www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/subn . . .
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LA NACION PIDIO QUE LA LEY LOCAL SEA DECLARADA INCONSTITUCIONAL
La legalización del prostíbulo en La Rioja
Por Mariana Carbajal
En La Rioja, los prostíbulos están amparados por una ley provincial sancionada el 7 de junio de 2007 y velozmente promulgada por el gobernador Luis Beder Herrera. Según la Procuración General de la Nación, es la única provincia que protege a ese nivel la explotación de la prostitución ajena en locales habilitados. En el resto del país, el negocio también cuenta con aval político, pero a nivel municipal, a través de ordenanzas.
El fiscal Marcelo Colombo, a cargo de la Unidad Fiscal Asistencia en Secuestros Extorsivos y Trata de Personas de la Procuración, acaba de pedir al juez federal Daniel Rubén Herrera Piedrabuena que declare la “inconstitucionalidad” de la norma, por violar la ley nacional 12.331 que prohíbe “las casas de tolerancia” en el territorio argentino. También pidió que ordene la clausura y cierre de los prostíbulos registrados en la capital provincial, donde hay al menos cuatro cerca de la ruta 38. Como propietarios del inmueble donde funciona uno de los burdeles figuran dos personas, que serían hermanos, uno empleado de la AFIP y otro que se habría desempeñado en el Comité Federal de Radiodifusión entre 1989 y 2000, y entre 2002 y 2007 habría trabajado para el gobierno de la provincia, de acuerdo con la investigación de la Ufase.
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www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/subnotas/140258-45207-2010-02-14.html
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| 13 Feb 2010 - 16:34 | Bridget Crawford, Feminist Law Professors
URL: feministlawprofessors.com/?p=15000
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Race and Gender Matter — Is This Surprising?
The ABA Journal reports (here) that “Race & Gender of Judges Make Enormous Difference in Rulings, Studies Find.” Is this surprising to anyone?
The academic studies that inspired the ABA Journal article (and a panel discussion at the ABA Midyear Meeting) are Pat K. Chew and Robert E. Kelley, Myth of the Color-Blind Judge: An Empirical Analysis of Racial Harassment Cases, 86 Wash U. L. Rev. 11178 (2009) and a 2005 student note, Jennifer L. Peresie, Female Judges Matter: Gender and Collegial Decisionmaking in the Federal Appellate Courts, 114 Yale L.J. 1759 (2005).
The ABA Journal summaries the Chew & Kelley study this way:
[Chew and Kelley] found that plaintiffs lost just 54 percent of the time when the judge handling the case was an African-American. Yet plaintiffs lost 81 percent of the time when the judge was Hispanic, 79 percent when the judge was white, and 67 percent of the time when the judge was Asian American …. [The study] examined a random assortment of 40 percent of all reported racial harassment cases from six federal circuits between 1981 and 2003.
The ABA describes Ms. Peresie’s work this way:
[The author] looked at 556 federal appellate cases involving allegations of sexual harassment or sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The finding: plaintiffs were at least twice as likely to win if a female judge was on the appellate panel.
I’m less surprised by the results of either study than I am by the reporting of the results as news. But then again, the “wise Latina” comment never struck me as particularly activist, either.
-Bridget Crawford
feministlawprofessors.com/?p=15000
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| 13 Feb 2010 - 09:52 | feminist Peace Network
URL: www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2010/02/12/ . . .
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Video 2 min
Invest in Women
www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2010/02/12/invest-in-women/
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| 11 Feb 2010 - 17:35 | Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces
URL: www.dcaf.ch/publications/kms/details.cfm . . .
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Analysis
Poster Boys No More : Gender and Security Sector Reform in Timor-Leste Authors: Henri Myrttinen
Full Report Available for Download [450 KBytes]
www.dcaf.ch/publications/kms/details.cfm?lng=en&id=111804&nav1=5
Abstract
Gender analysis of actual SSR processes is sorely lacking in the SSR literature. In ‘Poster Boys No More: Gender and Security Sector Reform in Timor-Leste’ Henri Myrttinen breaks new ground in examining the gender dimensions of the DDR and SSR processes in Timor-Leste, with a focus on the establishment of the police and armed forces. The paper explores issues such as: how men’s roles relate to gang violence and relationships of patronage that undermine the security services, how women have been incorporated into the new security services and how the security services are addressing gender-based violence. It shows how a gender perspective can add to our understanding of many of the social processes at work in Timor-Leste and help to find solutions to some of the main security issues in the country, making recommendations for Timor-Leste’s ongoing SSR processes.
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| 11 Feb 2010 - 09:17 | Association for Women's Rights in Development
URL: www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Iss . . .
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CRISIS IN HAITI: STRENGTHENING SOLIDARITY THROUGH INFORMATION PROVISION
In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, AWID is launching a special section on our website designed to provide a wide range of information on the context of the crisis, the latest analysis on the aftermath of the earthquake, how the crisis is impacting women and women’s rights, how to ensure women's rights are at the centre of responses to disasters, and how you can act in solidarity with the women, men and children of Haiti.
see,
www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/CRISIS-IN-HAITI-STRENGTHENING-SOLIDARITY-THROUGH-INFORMATION-PROVISION
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| 11 Feb 2010 - 09:09 | helga
isiso_7@hotmail.com
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uds me podrian infromar donde devo dirigirme en la ciduad de las vegas para poder orentarme de mi situcion personal. mi hija de 4 anos fue victima de abuso en el ano 2007 enla ciudad de las vegas se abrio un caso pero feu cerrado en 2 meses por falta de pruevas el violador anda suelto y nosotras no suoimos hacer baler nuestros derechos yo cai en chock y deje todo sin terminara ahora despues de 2 anos decidi retomar y abrir el caso y hacer baler los derechos de mi hija ella necesita terpias y yo tambien.donde puedo dirigirme para rea;ozar esto enlas vegas usa.
* atte helga.
* gracias...
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helga (isiso_7@hotmail.com)
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| 11 Feb 2010 - 08:54 | Feminist Law Professor Blog
URL: feministlawprofessors.com/?p=14905
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Call for Volunteers: Paying it Forward to other Women in Legal Education
Feminist Law Prof Colleen Medill (Nebraska), on behalf of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, is assembling a list of women law profs who might be willing to share materials, experiences, perspectives, etc. with other women law profs.
Might you be willing to (or ever need someone who would) …
see,
feministlawprofessors.com/?p=14905
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| 11 Feb 2010 - 08:34 | CIMAC noticias
a
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10021002-Falt . . .
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America Latina
Llega tasa de fecundidad adolescente al 73.1 por ciento
Falta información para frenar embarazo adolescente en ALC
Por Lisseth Castro
México, 10 Feb. 10 (CIMAC).- La tasa de fecundidad adolescente (TFA) en países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) aumenta, sobre todo en los sectores más pobres de la población, es superior a la tasa de Asia y África del norte, e incluso supera los promedios mundiales, indican las investigadoras Carmen Barroso y Ana Langer en el informe “Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos en América Latina y el Caribe.
La publicación del Grupo de Trabajo Regional para la Reducción de la Mortalidad Materna (septiembre 2009) añade que las estadísticas muestran que existe una gran demanda insatisfecha de anticonceptivos para los adolescentes, cuya fecundidad llega a ser de 3 a 5 veces más alta entre los jóvenes de menores recursos económicos.
El informe “Reproducción Adolescente y Desigualdades en América Latina y el Caribe: un llamado a la reflexión y a la acción”, de la Organización Iberoamericana de Juventud (OIJ), precisa que la tasa mundial de fecundidad en 2009 indica que de cada mil embarazos, el 48.6 fue entre adolescentes, y la tasa europea de 28.9 por ciento.
En contraste, en América Latina y el Caribe esa cifra casi se triplica con 73.1 por ciento, precedida sólo por el registro de África SubSahariana con 111.6 por ciento embarazos adolescentes de cada mil.
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www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10021002-Falta-informacion-p.41505.0.html
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| 10 Feb 2010 - 09:38 | IPS Noticias - Las Mujeres Son Noticia
URL: ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=94619
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EEUU: Proyecto de ley contra la violencia de género en el mundo
Por Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON, 5 feb (IPS) - Un proyecto de ley presentado en el Senado y en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos obligaría al gobierno de este país a un compromiso mayor en la lucha contra la violencia que sufren mujeres de todo el mundo.
El texto de la propuesta prevé destinar 1.000 millones de dólares durante cinco años y autoriza la ejecución de programas en un mínimo de 10 y un máximo de 20 países que presenten graves índices de violencia contra mujeres y niñas.
El proyecto de Ley sobre la Violencia Internacional contra las Mujeres (I-VAWA, por sus siglas en inglés), presentado el jueves en el Congreso legislativo, podría convertir el problema en una prioridad de Washington y fortalecer su política exterior y sus planes de asistencia internacional.
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| 10 Feb 2010 - 09:05 | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contacts: Rita Smith, NCADV
303-839-1852 ext. 105
Kathleen Russell, CJE
415-250-1180
Family Court Implicated in Another Child’s Murder
Murder Suicide of 9-Month-Old Points to Massive System Failure
SAN RAFAEL- National and local advocacy groups are expressing outrage at another child’s death in what has become a disturbing national trend. 9-month-old baby Wyatt was killed by his father Stephen Garcia last week in San Bernardino County, after three different judges refused multiple requests by the child’s mother for restraining orders, despite police reports and documented death threats by the father in text messages and on Facebook.
“The system failed Wyatt Garcia and Katie Tagle,’’ said Assemblymember Jim Beall, Jr., the lead sponsor of Assembly Bill 612, which aims to prevent the use of non-scientific theories in California family courts. “Wyatt’s tragic death was completely avoidable.??â€
Numerous sources report a spike in murder suicides by violent fathers who kill their children and themselves, often after mothers’ requests for protection are denied by family court judges. In addition, the Leadership Council on Child Abuse <http://www.leadershipcouncil.org > & Interpersonal Violence estimates that more than 58,000 children per year in America are ordered by family courts into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce.
“The time has come for us as a society to speak out and put a stop to this growing national body count. Across the country, women and children are being killed because of judges’ personal biases and junk science that tells them to disbelieve women’s legitimate claims and evidence of abuse,†said Rita Smith, the Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
According to court transcripts and eyewitness accounts, judges reacted with disbelief when mother Katie Tagle presented them with evidence of death threats against her son by the father.
Judge David Mazurek stated, “I get concerned when there’s a pending child custody and visitation issue and in between that, one party or the other claims that there’s some violence in between. It raises the court’s eyebrows because based on my experience, it’s a way for one party to try to gain an advantage over the other,†he said.
“This attitude permeates the courts, that women are lying about the danger they are in,†said Kathleen Russell from the Center for Judicial Excellence. “This attitude causes judges to ignore tangible evidence of death threats and abuse. The abusers’ lobby has convinced judges that shared custody is always the answer, and sadly, this case points out how deadly that approach can be,†she said.
According to a family member who was in the courtroom when Ms. Tagle last sought protection for her son, the judge reportedly said, “One of you is lying, and I think it’s you,†while pointing at Katie. Transcripts from this hearing are not yet available.
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Center for Judicial Excellence are part of a growing national advocacy movement to educate the public as well as litigants, lawmakers, judges, and social service providers about the need for comprehensive family court reform. The Center for Judicial Excellence and their allies worked with California State Senator Mark Leno and others to pass an audit request through the state legislature last July. The California State Auditor is currently investigating the use of court appointees in family courts because of growing evidence that children are being harmed there. The California Legislature is slated to consider additional family court reform bills being presented by the Center and the California Protective Parents Association in the coming months.
“We must assess what’s happening in our family courts, and that’s why I’ve requested a state audit to take a hard look at the performance and effectiveness of the family court system,’’ said Assemblymember Beall.
The State Auditor’s report about the California Family Courts has an expected release date of June 2010.
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NCADV - The Mission of the National Coalition Against <http://www.ncadv.org > Domestic Violence (NCADV) is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives.
CJE - The Center for Judicial <http://www.centerforjudicialexcellence. org > Excellence (CJE) was established to improve the judiciary's public accountability and strengthen and maintain the integrity of the courts. CJE has made a special commitment to protect the rights of children and other vulnerable populations in the courts.
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| 10 Feb 2010 - 08:41 | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
URL: www.ncadv.org/conferences/GeneralConfere . . .
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NCADV's 14th National Conference on Domestic Violence
and NOMAS's 35th National Conference on Men and Masculinity
Changing Faces of the Movement
August 1-4, 2010
Anaheim, CA
More info
www.ncadv.org/conferences/GeneralConferenceInformationandOverview-2.php
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| 10 Feb 2010 - 08:34 | Signal/Urbanite
URL: www.gsusignal.com/mobile/perspectives/mo . . .
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More crackdown needed on sexual abuse in the Army
By Angelica Watkins
“A woman in the military is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq,” said Jane Harman, Democratic Representative from California, at a Congressional hearing this year.
Sexual abuse in the military is not a new phenomenon, but the numbers of reported incidents are higher than ever and steadily rising. Victims of abuse and government officials say that these numbers reflect only a fraction of what really goes on.
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www.gsusignal.com/mobile/perspectives/more-crackdown-needed-on-sexual-abuse-in-the-army-1.2143880
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| 09 Feb 2010 - 09:40 | Women Against Rape, BBC Video
URL: www.womenagainstrape.net/inthemedia/bbc- . . .
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Video
Women Against Rape -
Rape not being recorded by police
5 min video
www.womenagainstrape.net/inthemedia/bbc-news-war-re-rapes-not-being-recorded-police
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| 09 Feb 2010 - 09:13 | Independent, UK
URL: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/america . . .
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Rape on the rise in Haiti's camps
Girls as young as 12 have been attacked as sexual violence plagues the quake's survivors
By Nina Lakhani
In one of the great unmentioned effects of the earthquake in Haiti, women and young girls are suffering a rising number of rapes and sexual assaults, according to leading aid agencies. So widespread are the reports – and they include the rape of a girl of 12 by her rescuer after she was pulled out from the rubble – that emergency measures are now being taken.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rape-on-the-rise-in-haitis-camps-1891514.html
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| 09 Feb 2010 - 09:04 | Gender Equality for Iran
URL: irangenderequality.com/index.php?option= . . .
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Show Your Support by Signing Our Statement Below
Call for Solidarity:
Freedom and Gender Equality in Iran
We (a group of Iranian feminists and women’s rights activists) demand an end to state-led violence and repression, as well as the immediate release of all political detainees in Iran. We invite all women’s rights defenders, activists, organisations, and networks worldwide to demonstrate their solidarity with the Iranian women’s movement and the broader movement for democracy in Iran by organising initiatives under the slogan “freedom and gender equality in Iran” throughout March 2010.
Over the past thirty years, the Iranian women’s movement has been at the forefront of the struggle for freedom and equality in Iran. Gender discrimination intersects with other forms of subordination – whether based on class, ethnicity, political orientation, religion, and so on. Thus, the peaceful resistance of women and men in defence of gender equality in all social spheres – legal, political, cultural, economical, etc. – has profoundly impacted the Iranian movement for democracy. Iranian women have long demanded freedom and gender equality; they have employed both individual and group strategies, initiated various campaigns, and faced insults, threats, arrests and imprisonment in the process. Many of these women are currently in prison.
Over the past eight months, the grass-roots protest movement that emerged following the disputed presidential elections has been suppressed by mounting violence. Physical and psychological violence – through arrest, torture, rape, extended imprisonment, and even execution – has been exercised against civil and political activists in Iran. As of now, numerous women activists from various movements – women’s, workers, students, civil, and political – are detained and/or have received heavy sentences. The list of detainees grows everyday.
These circumstances, along with a new wave of arrests of women activists, have granted the authorities space enough to expedite legislations of a further gender-discriminatory nature, such as the “Family Support Bill,” which aims to further limit women’s rights in the name of ‘strengthening’ the family. For the past thirty years, Iranian women have been subjected to a range of discriminations justified by the Sharia-derived laws. On the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), to which Iran is not a signatory, the women of Iran are facing increased discrimination. Fifteen years after the Fourth World Conference on Women and the drafting of the Beijing Platform for Action, in which the government of Iran participated, the Iranian government has yet to abide by its international obligations and work towards the elimination of discrimination against women.
During these critical times, the transnational solidarity of feminists and women’s rights activists with their Iranian counterparts is not only limited to the struggles of women; it also supports the broader movement for democracy in Iran. Various civil rights movements in Iran have long been in communication with both the transnational Iranian and the international communities. Global solidarity is crucial to giving voice to their repeated calls for freedom and equality in Iran.
We invite all women’s rights defenders, activists, organisations, and networks worldwide to demonstrate their solidarity with the Iranian women’s movement and the broader movement for democracy in Iran by organising initiatives under the slogan “freedom and gender equality in Iran” throughout March 2010.
To sign statement,
irangenderequality.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:call-for-solidarity-freedom-and-gender-equality-in-iran&catid=1:8-march-statements&Itemid=3
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| 09 Feb 2010 - 08:59 | Deia.com
URL: www.deia.com/2010/01/31/mundo/hoy-tenemo . . .
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Guatemala
Entrevista con
Norma Cruz Directora de la Fundación guatemalteca Sobrevivientes
"Hoy tenemos niños de 13 años que ya han cometido violaciones"
La Fundación Sobrevivientes es un referente en atención a víctimas de abusos sexuales, feminicidios, así como trata de mujeres y niños en Guatemala. Al frente está Norma Cruz, activista en defensa de los derechos humanos, reconocida tanto a nivel nacional como internacional
Marta Martínez
BIlbao. Las víctimas tienen entre 15 y 20 años. Los agresores cada vez son más jóvenes. Algunos, incluso, empiezan con 13 años. La situación de inseguridad convierte a Guatemala en un país extremadamente peligroso para las mujeres. Un gran número de jóvenes y niñas se convierten en víctimas de abusos sexuales, caen en redes de tráfico personas o son asesinadas. Con apenas trece millones de habitantes, el país centroamericano es el segundo lugar del mundo en feminicidio. El primero es Rusia. Y la tendencia se ha mantenido estos últimos cinco años: 2009 cerró con 708 mujeres muertas.
¿Qué factores influyen para que se den estos índices de violencia?
El primero es la inseguridad. Tenemos niveles de violencia muy fuertes. Y si lo juntamos con la cultura patriarcal, machista; la lógica con la que actúan algunos grupos de crimen organizado, donde una mujer se convierte en un elemento de marcar territorio, de tomar control de ciertas áreas, eso conlleva a que las mujeres, hoy por hoy, estén expuestas, primero a la violencia sexual. Si el número de asesinatos de mujeres son elevados, también el de violaciones. Un 50% de las mujeres asesinadas ha sido víctima también de violencia sexual. Y luego está el tema de la impunidad.
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www.deia.com/2010/01/31/mundo/hoy-tenemos-ninos-de-13-anos-que-ya-han-cometido-violaciones
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| 09 Feb 2010 - 08:53 | Nadia
(imagine.nadia@gmail.com
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Hello,
* I would like to share with you that I was compeled to abduct my own child and return to my native country, Bulgaria after building a decent and perspective life in US. I was forced to take this extreme decision because of the cinical ruling of Judge Donna F. Goldstein of the Los Angeles Superior Court. My son and I were about to be separated by this "judge" after 5 and 1/2 year of full custody I-the mother have had after my ex (the father) left us on the street when our baby was an infant. Now I understand that the above mentioned judge had been removed from the Family Court of LA. Apperantly there were too many complaints against her, at least this is what I conduct from all the research I have been making.
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Nadia Karleva (imagine.nadia@gmail.com)
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| 08 Feb 2010 - 09:12 | Carnival Against Sexual Violence
URL: abyss2hope.blogspot.com/2010/02/carnival . . .
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February publication now online,
Carnival Against Sexual Violence
See
abyss2hope.blogspot.com/2010/02/carnival-against-sexual-violence-87.html
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| 08 Feb 2010 - 09:02 | Gender Across Borders
URL: genderacrossborders.com/2010/02/04/getti . . .
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Getting it Right when it Comes to Anti-Rape Campaigns
by Elizabeth SwitajToo often campaigns that are ostensibly aimed at reducing the incidence of sexual assault come off terribly wrong. They imply that victims to are to blame because if they had just been “SMART” they could have avoided any problems. Instead of putting the onus on men not to rape, they tell women to be afraid, to limit their actions to avoid rapists even though, as Rebekah Carrow so eloquently wrote earlier this week, women already plan their everyday lives according to the rules of fear.
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genderacrossborders.com/2010/02/04/getting-it-right-when-it-comes-to-anti-rape-campaigns/
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| 08 Feb 2010 - 08:27 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=50226
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RIGHTS:
EU Faults U.N. for Slowdown in Gender Empowerment
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 4 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of continued widespread gender discrimination worldwide, the European Union (EU) has urged Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to "urgently" speed up the creation of the proposed new U.N. agency for women.
The proposal for a "gender entity" was recommended by a high-level panel back in 2006 and approved by the 192-member General Assembly last year.
But for the last four years, the proposal has been kicked around in the corridors of the United Nations, short of implementation.
"If this decision is further delayed, the current gender agencies will be kept in limbo and unable to deliver for women around the world," warned Ambassador Juan Antonio Yanez-Barnuevo of Spain, current chair of the 27-member EU.
The proposal calls for the consolidation of four existing U.N. "gender agencies" - the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues (OSAGI), the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) - under a single new U.N. body to be headed by an under-secretary-general.
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| 08 Feb 2010 - 08:17 | e-mujeres
URL: www.e-mujeres.net/ateneo
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Nueva seccion en e-mujeres.net
Estrenamos sección Gusi Bertomeu. Presidenta e-mujeres.net
Se acerca el 8 de marzo y en E-Mujeres queremos celebrarlo inaugurando la sección Ateneo Feminista, un nuevo espacio del portal e-mujeres (antes e-leusis). Nos proponemos crear un lugar que reúna a expertas de reconocido prestigio en el ámbito académico, político, empresarial, cultural y social, y que elaboran pensamiento feminista desde distintas ópticas.
Cada una tendrá un espacio propio para mostrar sus textos y trabajos más relevantes, con una presentación, artículos seleccionados, vídeos, galería de fotos, que mantendremos actualizados incorporando materiales nuevos, así como un enlace al blog, web, o perfil de facebook personal, si los tienen.
Este espacio pretende generar un directorio activo de personas expertas presentadas dentro de un entorno que dé coherencia a sus aportaciones e impulse el conocimiento. Siguiendo las recomendaciones de los organismos internacionales, que plantean la necesidad de establecer redes sociales sólidas, junto a la urgencia de crear espacios y herramientas de clasificación y difusión del pensamiento, trabajos y materiales realizados por expertas, pero siempre dentro de un contexto que dé mayor rigor a las búsquedas en la red.
Empezamos con Amelia Valcárcel, Dolors Renau, Carmen Alborch, Soledad Murillo, Emilia Caballero, Consuelo Catalá y Wassyla Tamzali. Se han seleccionado estos perfiles de salida porque corresponden a mujeres que trabajan en ámbitos diferentes del conocimiento teórico y práctico, lo que nos permite ofrecer opinión y experiencia para apoyar los debates sobre los temas de actualidad.
Agradecemos a todas ellas su colaboración y generosidad, por facilitarnos materiales, paciencia y afecto.
Paulatinamente se irán incorporando otras figuras del pensamiento feminista que nos aportan el conocimiento de ese “cuerpo teórico” que reclamábamos desde los años 70 y que hoy es ya un patrimonio de todas.
Consulta el Ateneo: http://www.e-mujeres.net/ateneo
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