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| 31 Jul 2010 - 09:24 | Stop Violence Against Women
URL: www.stopvaw.org/usa_court_rules_that_gua . . .
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USA: Court Rules that Guatemalan Woman may Seek Asylum
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Guatemalan woman is eligible to seek asylum in the United Stated to escape the high risk of femicide in her home country.
Lesly Yajayra Perdomo illegally entered the United States in 1991 to reunite with her mother. In 2003, she faced deportation charges. Now, Perdomo seeks asylum due to fears for her safety and bodily integrity if she is forced return to her home nation. A court document explains that she requested asylum "because she feared persecution as a member of a particular social group consisting of women between the ages of fourteen and forty." She explained that Guatemalan women “were murdered at a high rate with impunity.” Amnesty International, a human rights organization, estimates that more than 1,900 Guatemalan girls and women were killed between 2001 and 2006 with sexual violence and “exceptional cruelty” often involved.
Perdomo’s claim was first denied by an immigration judge and upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA held that Guatemalan women as a class were “merely a demographic division… rather than a particular social group.” The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected this reasoning. Relying on precedent and case law, it held that Guatemalan women are not too expansive of a group to be protected as a “particular social group” under the United States’ asylum laws.
The Ninth Circuit has now remanded the case back to the BIA to determine if Perdomo will be granted asylum, giving all Guatemalan women the opportunity to seek protection. However, successfully building an asylum case for Perdomo will be challenging. She must prove not only that she will face persecution as a woman, but also that the Guatemalan government does not protect women.
see
www.stopvaw.org/usa_court_rules_that_guatemalan_woman_may_seek_asylum.html
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| 31 Jul 2010 - 09:10 | Noticias Paraguay
URL: www.noticiasparaguayas.com/uninot.php?es . . .
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Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil firman convenio de lucha contra la trata y la explotación sexual
MISIONES, especial ( NP ) Representantes de Paraguay, Brasil y Argentina se reunieron entre ayer y hoy en Puerto Iguazú a fin de firmar un acta de acuerdo, mediante el cual las autoridades municipales, provinciales, estadual, nacional y federal de los tres países se comprometen a promover una campaña de sensibilización y de lucha contra la trata de personas y la explotación sexual a nivel MERCOSUR.
La firma del acuerdo fue llevado a cabo en el marco de las Quinta Jornada “Por los Derechos de Niños, Niñas y adolescentes en Contra de la Trata y la Explotación Sexual y Laboral. Acuerdos de Gestión de la Información. Difusión de Caampaña” en el Puente Tancredo Neves de Puerto Iguazú, Argentina.
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| 30 Jul 2010 - 09:28 | FVPV, Mending the Sacred Hoop, Sacred Circle
URL: endabuse.org/userfiles/file/HealthCare/P . . .
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Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses: A Promising Practices Report (pdf)
FVPF in collaboration with Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project and Sacred Circle
"A new report that documents dramatic improvements in the health system’s response to domestic violence at Indian, Tribal and Urban health care facilities across the United States. It offers a series of recommendations to continue the progress and ensure that many more American Indian/Alaska Native domestic violence victims get the help that they need when they seek medical care at clinics and hospitals."
see report
endabuse.org/userfiles/file/HealthCare/Promising%20Practices%20Report%20-%20Online%20version.PDF
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| 30 Jul 2010 - 09:16 | Christine Corcos, Feminist Law Professor Blog
URL: www.feministlawprofessors.com/2010/07/se . . .
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Sexual Assault and the Law: Scholarship From Canada
Two Canadian professors have contributed some provocative scholarship on sexual assault law recently.
Janine Benedet, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, has published The Sexual Assault of Intoxicated Women , forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. Here is the abstract.
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| 30 Jul 2010 - 08:38 | Nick Wing, Huffington Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/time-m . . .
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With 10 min Video
TIME Magazine Cover Explains What Happens To Afghan Women If 'We Leave Afghanistan,' But That Tragedy Is Already Occurring
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing
Time Magazine is out with a new cover story that attempts to explain "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." The piece is accompanied by a powerful portrait of Aisha, an Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off by Taliban decree after attempting to escape abusive family members. The intense image sets the scene for the crux of the article's argument -- that the rights of Afghan women would be destroyed by a potential settlement between the U.S. and the Taliban.
As Time's Aryn Baker writes, the U.S looks potentially poised to negotiate with the Taliban in what she calls the "quest for a quick peace." Though this trade-off could provide some semblance of stability in Afghanistan, a condition would presumably set the table for an eventual drawdown of U.S. troops, Baker argues that it would come at a devastating price for the nation's women.
Though such a conclusion does raise a number of concerns about the terms of an American withdrawal, it also seems to overlook a variety of tragic conditions that Afghan women currently face, even with the heavy U.S. military and diplomatic influence in the country
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| 29 Jul 2010 - 09:56 | Argenpress
URL: www.argenpress.info/2010/07/otra-nina-em . . .
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Otra niña embarazada reaviva la polémica sobre los abortos no punibles
Irina Santesteban (LA ARENA)
La noticia en los medios de Córdoba da cuenta de una niña de once años embarazada producto de la violación de un vecino, mientras la familia es presionada para que no solicite la interrupción del embarazo.
La semana pasada el Ministerio de Salud fue escenario de una controversia luego de que se publicara una resolución con una guía para proceder en los casos de abortos no punibles, previstos en el artículo 86 del Código Penal, que en la práctica casi ha perdido vigencia por la negativa de los médicos a practicar esos abortos sin autorización judicial, y de los jueces que directamente se oponen a aplicar una norma que está vigente desde 1921
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| 29 Jul 2010 - 09:43 | June Zeitlin, CEDAW2010
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The CEDAW Task Force of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is leading a coalition effort to engage in outreach and education about the U.S. ratification of CEDAW. Coalition members hail from a diverse set of organizations and institutions:
What's in It for U.S.
The United States and CEDAW
The Obama administration strongly supports ratification and has included CEDAW as one of five multilateral treaties it has identified as a priority. The U.S. played an important role in drafting CEDAW, which the United Nations adopted in 1979. The Carter administration signed the treaty on July 17, 1980, and submitted it to the Senate in November 1980.
The CEDAW Treaty has been voted favorably out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee twice, with certain conditions to ratification known as reservations, understanding and declarations (RUDs), in 1994, with a bi-partisan vote of 13-5; and in 2002, with a bi-partisan vote of 12-7. It has never been brought to the Senate floor for a vote. Ratification of CEDAW has no financial cost.
Ratification of CEDAW requires 67 Senators to stand together for women and girls. Ratifying the CEDAW treaty would continue America's proud bipartisan tradition of promoting and protecting human rights, including women's human rights.
Support CEDAW for Women and Girls
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| 29 Jul 2010 - 09:11 | Women's Law Project
URL: womenslawproject.wordpress.com/2010/07/2 . . .
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Sexual Assault in the Military: Servicewomen Taking a Stand
The Washington D.C. law firm Burke PLLC is preparing to file a class action suit against the U.S. military for failure to properly address sexual assault and rape. Not only is a woman in the military more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire, female soldiers who report crimes committed against them are often harassed and intimidated. A Pentagon report revealed that between 2004 and 2007 “more than half of the investigations [of rape and sexual assault]…resulted in no action. When action was taken, only one third of the cases resulted in courts-martial.”
The horrendous way that the military treats sexual assault and rape survivors may be illustrated through Lt. Jennifer Dyer’s story:
In 2004, after Lt. Jennifer Dyer reported being raped by a fellow officer at Camp Shelby, Miss., she said she was held in seclusion for three days, read her Miranda rights and threatened with criminal prosecution for filing a false report. After finally being given two weeks leave, she was threatened with prosecution for being AWOL when she would not report for duty to the same location where the man she had accused — who was later acquitted on assault charges — was still posted.
Unfortunately, Dyer’s story is not an anomaly. Many women in the military are wrongly treated after having endured sexual trauma.
Over 90% of all females that report a sexual assault are discharged from the military before their contract ends. From the 90%, around 85% are discharged against their wishes. Nearly all of the 85% lose their careers based on misdiagnoses that render them ineligible for military service and ineligible for VA treatment after discharge.
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| 28 Jul 2010 - 09:34 | IPS Noticias - Las Mujeres Son Noticia
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9594 . . .
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Fútbol engancha a brasileños a masculinidad sin violencia
Por Fabiana Frayssinet
RÍO DE JANEIRO, jul (IPS) - Es noche de viernes y en una favela (barrio pobre) de esta ciudad de Brasil, un grupo de hombres se relaja tras la dura semana saboreando una cerveza, mientras en medio del bullicio habitual se cuela una canción.
La letra con ritmo de samba habla de temas tan típicos como el fútbol y las mujeres, pero también de violencia de género, y se mezcla con la humareda de carne asándose en una improvisada parrilla de una de las veredas de Santa Marta, una favela del sur de Río de Janeiro.
Muchos siguen el compás y canturrean la canción, que habla de un hombre que pelea con su mujer porque, preocupada por pagar el alquiler, se olvidó de lavar su uniforme de fútbol.
"Un problema entre marido y mujer es normal. Pero no me venga con agresión física o verbal", repite el pegadizo estribillo.
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| 28 Jul 2010 - 09:21 | CIMAC Mx
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10072702-No-q . . .
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Preparan ONG acciones para vigilar su cumplimiento
No quedará en el “escritorio” sentencia de CoIDH por Inés y Valentina
Por Anayeli García Martínez, enviada
Tlapa, Guerrero, 27 jul 10 (CIMAC).- Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil deben fortalecerse y prepararse para observar el cumplimiento de las próximas sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CoIDH) y evitar que éstas queden en el “escritorio” como sucede con las resoluciones de Campo Algodonero y Rosendo Radilla Pacheco.
Esa fue la conclusión de un grupo de defensoras y defensores de Derechos Humanos (DH), que el pasado sábado analizaron los mecanismos para la implementación de las sentencias internacionales, como parte de las mesas de trabajo por el 16 aniversario del Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña “Tlachinollan”.
Las y los participantes coincidieron en que los casos de Inés Fernández Ortega y Valentina Rosendo Cantú, indígenas tlapanecas que en 2002 fueron violadas sexualmente por militares, son emblemáticos en México, y merecen especial atención porque se trata de dos víctimas vivas que podrán obtener una reparación del daño.
Para ello, se debe hacer un seguimiento de las sentencias que el Estado mexicano recibió en 2009, la primera en diciembre, por el feminicidio de tres de ocho mujeres encontradas sin vida y con rasgos de tortura sexual en noviembre de 2001, en el predio conocido como Campo Algodonero, ubicado en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; y la otra en el mismo mes, por la desaparición forzada de Rosendo Radilla Pacheco, destacaron.
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| 28 Jul 2010 - 08:48 | VAWnet
URL: new.vawnet.org/category/index_pages.php? . . .
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NEW SPECIAL COLLECTION
Housing and Sexual Violence
July 2010
This Special Collection was developed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center to assist communities in developing more effective strategies to address the multi-layered and complex relationship between sexual violence and housing.
Safe and affordable housing is a protective factor against sexual violence (both victimization and perpetration) and a basic need in recovering from a sexual assault. The majority of sexual assaults take place in or near victims' homes or the homes of friends, relatives, or neighbors. Because of this, many victims wish to relocate after their sexual assaults, but often find they cannot do so because of limited resources. The effects of sexual violence can create an economic downward spiral for many victims, jeopardizing their access to safe and affordable housing. Homelessness increases
the risks for both sexual violence perpetration and victimization.
Access this Special Collection at:
new.vawnet.org/category/index_pages.php?category_id=1121
Key Areas:
~ Sexual Violence and Homelessness
~ Housing Needs of Survivors
~ Resources for Professionals
~ Public Policy Approaches
o VAWA 2005 Housing Provisions
o Affordable Housing
o Discrimination & Fair Housing
o State and Local
~ Housing Rights Information
~ Additional Resources: Organizations
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| 27 Jul 2010 - 08:52 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article4582
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Campaña contra la violencia de género en España
Madrid.- El gobierno Vasco a través de las direcciones de atención a las Víctimas de Violencia de Género y de inmigración, iniciaron una campaña contra la violencia de género, a fin de brindar ayuda a las mujeres inmigrantes, mediante la línea telefónica gratuita 900 840 111.
La campaña con el lema “El control, la intimidación, el aislamiento, también son formas de violencia de género. Frente a las señales, actúa”, se colocó en centros de salud, edificios públicos y asociaciones. La asistencia en la línea telefónica será las 24 horas del día y podrá dar información y atención en 51 idiomas. Informó AmecoPress.
leer mas
www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article4582
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| 27 Jul 2010 - 08:34 | Family Violence Prevention Fund
URL: www.endabuse.org/userfiles/file/PublicPo . . .
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Media Ad - Downloadable
International Violence Against Women Act
see:
www.endabuse.org/userfiles/file/PublicPolicy/AD%20Eyes%20FINAL%20VERSION%207-18.pdf
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| 27 Jul 2010 - 08:14 | PassIVAWA
URL: www.passivawa.org
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Promote and Pass the International Violence Against Women Act
for info:
www.passivawa.org
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| 26 Jul 2010 - 16:23 | Change.org, Human Trafficking
URL: humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/ar . . .
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Army Sgt. Pleads Guilty to Pimping Teen Girls on Craigslist
by Amanda Kloer July 26, 2010 09:00 AM (PT)
The women and men who join the U.S. military promise to serve and protect. But one Army Sergeant broke that promise when he started selling teen girls for sex on Craigslist in Washington state. His story goes to show that all human trafficking around military bases isn't overseas. Some of it is online right here in America.
Sgt. Sterling Terrance Hospedales, who has been based at a fort in Washington State, pled guilty this week to pimping two teenage girls out on Craigslist. Hospedales acted became the pimp for a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old girl, both of whom were reported as missing persons to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to earn some extra cash in addition to his military job. He took naked photos of the girls and posted them on Craigslist, arranging for them to be sold to area men for $150 an hour. He kept all the money the girls earned. Police uncovered threatening text messages he sent to the teens when they were out, telling them he knew where they were, and the girls stated he threatened to beat them up for not bringing home enough money. He was holding one of the teen's birth certificates, and both confirmed he knew them to be underage. The evidence, including victim testimony, was so stacked against Hospedales, he chose to take a guilt plea bargain.
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| 26 Jul 2010 - 08:28 | Red Igualdad
URL: www.redigualdad.com/es/archivos/Violenci . . .
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Reporte
Igualdad y prevención de la violencia en la adolescencia.
www.redigualdad.com/es/archivos/Violencia-G%C3%A9nero/Igualdad-y-prevenci%C3%B3n-de-la-violencia-en-la-adolescencia./
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| 26 Jul 2010 - 08:11 | Janice Raymond, Portside
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Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry:
The Nordic Legal Model
By Janice Raymond
Submitted to Portside
July 20, 2010
There is no doubt that the Nordic countries lead the
world on most indicators of gender equality. Gender
equality experts and advocates have long pointed out
that in economics, politics and social services, the
Nordic countries top the charts. A less noticed
equality indicator is that the Nordic countries outpace
others in legal action to stem the sex trade by
addressing its unnoticed perpetrators -- the mainly male
purchasers of women and children in prostitution.
In 1999, with the approval of over 70% of its surveyed
population, Sweden passed groundbreaking legislation
that criminalized the buyer of sexual services. Part
of a larger Violence Against Women bill, the
legislation was based on the foundation that the system
of prostitution is a violation of gender equality.
Sweden's legislation officially recognizes that it is
unacceptable for men to purchase women for sexual
exploitation, whether masked as sexual pleasure or "sex
work." Equally important, its law acknowledges that a
country cannot resolve its human trafficking problem
without addressing the demand for prostitution. The law
does not target the persons in prostitution.
This month, the government of Sweden published an
evaluation of the law's first ten years and how it has
actually worked in practice. Compared to the report's
understated and cautious tone, the findings are
strikingly positive: street prostitution has been cut
in half; there is no evidence that the reduction in
street prostitution has led to an increase in
prostitution elsewhere, whether indoors or on the
Internet; the bill provides increased services for
women to exit prostitution; fewer men state that they
purchase sexual services; and the ban has had a
chilling effect on traffickers who find Sweden an
unattractive market to sell women and children for sex.
Following initial criticism of the law, police now
confirm it works well and has had a deterrent effect on
other organizers and promoters of prostitution. Sweden
appears to be the only country in Europe where
prostitution and sex trafficking has not increased.
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