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| 18 Jun 2010 - 08:56 | IPS Noticias - Las Mujeres Son Noticia
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9568 . . .
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MÉXICO
Brazos extendidos para aborto seguro
Por Daniela Pastrana
MÉXICO, jun (IPS) - Desde antes de las cinco de la mañana, decenas de mujeres hacen fila al costado de una clínica de la capital de México. Vienen acompañadas por sus madres, hermanas, amigas, novios o esposos. Otras, las menos, llegan solas.
Sentados sobre la acera, mujeres y acompañantes intentan dormitar, pese al frío, mientras amanece y comienza la repartición de fichas para ser atendidas. Sólo las primeras 30 lo lograrán. El resto tendrá que regresar otro día.
El sistema de salud local dispone de 15 hospitales para garantizar el derecho de las mujeres a un aborto seguro, pero la Clínica de Salud Reproductiva Beatriz Velasco concentra la cuarta parte de las interrupciones legales de embarazos registradas en la capital mexicana desde abril de 2007.
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| 18 Jun 2010 - 08:46 | IPS Gender Wire
URL: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51861
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MEXICO
Extending the Reach of Safe Abortion
By Daniela Pastrana
Oriana López at the offices of the Fondo de Aborto para la Justicia Social MARÍA.
Credit:Daniela Pastrana/IPS
MEXICO CITY, Jun 17, 2010 (IPS) - By 5:00 AM, dozens of women are already lined up outside of this clinic in the Mexican capital. Most come with their mothers, sisters, husbands, friends or boyfriends. A few show up alone.
Sitting on the sidewalk, the women and the people accompanying them try to catch a few winks, in spite of the cold, before dawn breaks and numbers are handed out to the lucky ones. Only the first 30 will be seen today. The rest will have to come back another day.
There are 15 public hospitals in the federal district of the capital that offer safe, legal abortions, but the Beatriz Velasco Reproductive Health Clinic has carried out one-quarter of such procedures since first trimester abortion was legalised by the Mexico City legislature in April 2007.
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| 18 Jun 2010 - 08:19 | Irinnews
URL: www.irinnews.org/film/?id=4128
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Our Bodies, Their Battleground
18 min film online
www.irinnews.org/film/?id=4128
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| 18 Jun 2010 - 07:38 | Human Rights Law Network
URL: www.hrln.org/hrln/index.php?option=com_c . . .
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Delhi High Court rules on Reproductive Rights Violations - Ground breaking judgment
In a ground breaking judgment postively impacting the Reproductive Rights of millions of women in India, Justice Muralidhar, Delhi High Court sought accountability for India's shamefully high levels of maternal deaths and maternal morbidity, ironically on International Women's Day. Hearing two cases of Reproductive Rights violations, advocated by the Human Rights Law Network - Laxmi Mandal v NCT Delhi & Ors W.P. (c) 8853/2008, the victim Shanti Devi, a scheduled caste woman, living below the poverty line, was denied her reproductive rights and tragically lost her life minutes after she gave birth to a premature newborn; and in Jatuin v MCD Maternity Home MCD & Ors 10700/2009 involving a poor, homeless, young woman, after being denied emergency obstetric care was forced to publicly deliver her newborn child under a tree, minutes from India gate.
''The broad issues in these petitions are concerned with the reproductive rights of health as well as the rights of the newly born free treatment and care in government medical facilities essentially on the ground that they are persons below the poverty line. From what has transpired in these cases thus far it is plain that there are some schemes formulated by both the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi ('GNCTD') as well as the Central Government to address the issues. However, there appear to be no operation guidelines issued that can actually facilitate the accessing of free medical care by expectant mothers and the newly born babies, belonging to the below the poverty line category.
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| 17 Jun 2010 - 08:31 | Women's enews
URL: womensenews.org/story/prostitution-and-t . . .
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Prostitution and Trafficking
Prostitution and Trafficking Sex Traffic Rises, Along With Scramble for Solutions
By Rich Daly
New U.S. statistics on rising sex traffic came out this week ahead of a congressional vote on a related bill. The question of criminalizing prostitution continues to complicate matters for an apparent groundswell of activism.
WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)--"Do not buy women or children for sex and don't support those who do!"
That's the World Cup cheer of the South African chapter of the New York-based Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, which is circulating a petition with that message addressed to South African President Jacob Zuma.
It's the kind of message that in other years would have been lost in the media din of a major international sporting event.
But this year major media outlets such as ESPN News are devoting special coverage to the problem of sex trafficking at the big soccer match and Hollywood celebrities are lending their voices to the anti-trafficking cause.
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| 16 Jun 2010 - 15:16 | Dr. Amrita Chhachhi, Programme Femmes, Institut des sciences sociales de La Haye, et al
URL: www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?ar . . .
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Petición global a Amnistía Internacional: Restaure la integridad de los derechos humanos
Como organizaciones y como personas que defendemos y apoyamos la universalidad de los derechos humanos hemos constatado con inquietud la suspensión de Gita Sargal, responsable de la unidad del género en el Secretariado Internacional de Amnistía Internacional en Londres, por haber puesto en cuestión la asociación de Amnistía Internacional con personalidades cuya actitud política hacia los talibanes es ambigua.
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| 16 Jun 2010 - 15:11 | Sexual Violence Legal News
URL: www.nesl.edu/centers/clsr_svln_online.cf . . .
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People v. Swartz (Sufficiency of force against a child)
People v. Swartz, Court of Appeals of California
2010 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4130
Topic:
Child Victims, Rape
Nature of the case:
Defendant was convicted by a jury of rape by means of force, violence, duress, menace, and fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury, commission of a lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14 years of age, and continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 years of age. Additionally, the jury found true the allegations that in the commission of counts 1 and 2, Defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury.
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| 16 Jun 2010 - 15:07 | Moureen Dowd, New York Times
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Their Dangerous Swagger
By MAUREEN DOWD
It was set up like a fantasy football league draft. The height, weight and performance statistics of the draftees were offered to decide who would make the cut and who would emerge as the No. 1 pick.
But the players in this predatory game were not famous N.F.L. stars. They were unwitting girls about to start high school.
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| 16 Jun 2010 - 09:56 | STATEline, New Hampshire
URL: www.stateline.org/live/details/story?con . . .
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State choking laws signal new attention to domestic violence
By John Gramlich, Stateline Staff Writer
With his wife, Claire, at his side, John Cantin testifies before the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee on March 30 in favor of a bill making choking a felony. Cantin’s daughter, Melissa Cantin Charbonneau, was shot and killed by her husband last October, two days after he was released from police custody on a misdemeanor charge of choking her.
When Lara Saffo, a county prosecutor in western New Hampshire, tried to win a felony assault conviction against a man accused of domestic violence last year, she had a more difficult task on her hands than she recognized at the time.
Saffo had obtained evidence allegedly showing that the man had attacked his wife and put his hands around her neck in an attempt to choke her. Under the wording of New Hampshire’s assault law, however, she needed to convince a jury that he had displayed “extreme indifference to the value of human life.”
Using that standard, the jury came back divided — even though Saffo believes jurors had no doubt that the defendant was trying to choke his wife. The felony charge collapsed, even as three lesser misdemeanor charges stuck.
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| 15 Jun 2010 - 08:53 | Boletin e-mujeres
URL: www.e-mujeres.net/opinion/informacion-y- . . .
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Información y asistencia jurídica a las victimas
José Antonio Burriel
Ahora, en estos momentos en que han arreciado los crímenes machistas, algunos partidos políticos parecen haber descubierto la importancia de la información a las victimas de violencia de género, del derecho que tienen las victimas a conocer sus derechos. Quizás tienen razón, si uno examina como se cumple en realidad ese derecho de las victimas a la información, derecho reconocido en la Ley Integral.
Cuando una mujer se apresta a presentar una denuncia -policía, juzgados-, debe ser informada, como paso previo a la denuncia, de los derechos que le otorga la ley. Una información inteligible, es decir, que entienda claramente la mujer. Desgraciadamente, esa información se obvia, en bastantes ocasiones, o se da de un modo que la mujer no se entera. Con prisas, sin dedicar el tiempo preciso y necesario, no se puede cumplir con ese derecho a la información. Estoy convencido de que una información competa y clara evitaría, en bastantes casos, muchas retiradas de denuncias.
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| 15 Jun 2010 - 08:24 | Jennifer Drew, Global Sisterhood Network
URL: www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?ar . . .
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A Global Petition is currently circulating calling on Amnesty
International to revert back to its core mandate which is maintaining an
objective distance from groups and ideas whose agenda is most certainly
not human rights but imposing autocratic control and domination over
certain groups. Not forgetting of course that women far from being a
'specialist group or 'minority' form half the world's population.
Herstory has shown time and again that male-centered struggles involving
men's power and control over other groups always marginalise and
sideline Women's Rights and issues. Time and again it is always women
who suffer the most, because Human Rights supposedly only mean
male-centered ones.
Ms. Sahgal said this in respect of Women's Human Rights when giving a
telephone interview in March, 2010.
"It tells you a lot about where women's rights stand at Amnesty
International, when they had to make the choice between Begg and their
most senior discrimination expert who also has researched
fundamentalism, they chose Begg."
See Petition at
www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?article15
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| 15 Jun 2010 - 08:00 | San Luis Obispo Tribune
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Domestic violence registry launched in California
Four California counties are rolling out a new software system that will eventually link domestic violence records across the entire state.
Marin, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and Orange counties are taking part in a pilot program that will provide a searchable database of scanned restraining orders. Marin last week became the first county to begin using the system.
The state judiciary ordered the creation of the California Courts Protective Order Registry to help judges create protective orders that are consistent across county lines.
The registry will also track elder abuse, harassment, workplace violence and juvenile cases.
Court administrators plan to include 20 counties in the system by the end of the year and all 58 California counties by 2013.
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| 15 Jun 2010 - 07:33 | Christine Northrop, MD
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/christiane-northr . . .
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Ella, Week After Birth Control Pill: A Boon for European Women, But Will It Make It to America?
The FDA is studying a new morning-after pill, commonly known as Ella, for approval in the United States. Ella is short for EllaOne, the brand name of the pill in Europe. It is effective for preventing pregnancy up to 120 hours following unprotected sex and was approved for use in 44 countries in early 2009. Though it is still a new drug and needs further study, I am hoping for rapid approval for prescription use. Why? Because the number one predictor of a woman's status worldwide is whether or not she has dominion over her fertility.
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| 14 Jun 2010 - 11:01 | Women Make Movies
URL: www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c762.shtml
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New release from Women Make Movies
with video clip
www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c762.shtml
Africa Rising
The Grassroots Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation
A film by Paula Heredia, Produced by Equality Now
Kenya/Mali/Somalia/Tanzania, 2009, 62 minutes, Color, DVD, English/French/Somali/Swahili
Order No. W09980
Every day, 6,000 girls from the Horn of Africa to sub-Saharan nations are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). With fierce determination and deep love for their communities, brave African activists are leading a formidable, fearless grassroots movement to end 5,000 years of FGM. An insightful look at the frontlines of a quiet revolution taking the continent by storm, this extraordinarily powerful film is one of the first to focus on African solutions to FGM.
Beautifully directed by Emmy Award® winner Paula Heredia and produced by Equality Now, AFRICA RISING travels through remote villages in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Somalia and Tanzania. Weaving together dynamic footage and the poignant stories of girls personally affected by FGM, it shows how African women and men are putting an end to this human rights violation. Convincing circumcisers to lay down their knives, engaging the police to implement the law, and honing leadership skills in girls, these determined activists have been working tirelessly for years to conceptualize their campaign. AFRICA RISING paints an intimate portrait of the broadly-based but little-known anti-FGM movement and shows that courageous, creative and resourceful individuals can change the course of history.
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| 14 Jun 2010 - 10:17 | Amecopress
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La red feminista impulsa la Euro Orden de Protección de las víctimas de violencia de género
La medida, que podría aprobarse la próxima semana, garantizaría la continuidad de las medidas de protección de las víctimas dentro de la UE
por Elena Duque
Madrid, 14 jun (10). AmecoPress. Varias asociaciones de la red feminista se han unido en una campaña para dar un último impulso a la euro orden de protección de las víctimas de violencia de género, que se debatirá el próximo 22 de junio en las Comisiones de Libertades Civiles, Justicia e Interior y en la de Derechos de la Mujer del Parlamento Europeo.
Con esta euro orden se pretende que las medidas de protección aprobadas en un determinado país para una mujer en situación de riesgo por amenazas de su pareja o ex-pareja no dejen de ser efectivas cuanto ésta cruce la frontera.
En toda la Unión Europea hay muchas mujeres que por unos u otros motivos, se ven obligadas a atravesar la frontera casi a diario, o a cambiar de país de residencia. “Hay muchas mujeres en Cataluña o en el País Vasco, por ejemplo, que residen en España pero trabajan en Francia”, ha señalado Mercedes San Vicente, abogada de la Asociación de Mujeres Juristas Themis. “Esta euro orden servirá para que los derechos jurídicos se muevan con las mujeres”.
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| 14 Jun 2010 - 09:41 | El Pais, Es
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REPORTAJE: ABUSOS SEXUALES A INMIGRANTES
Víctimas del oro rojo
Temporeras extranjeras denuncian abusos de sus patronos en la recogida de fresa en Huelva - La explotación sexual en el campo es un secreto a voces, pero nunca hasta ahora han prosperado acusaciones contra los responsables de una actividad competitiva en Europa
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