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| 03 Apr 2010 - 20:52 | IPS Noticias - Las Mujeres Son Noticia
URL: www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=9495 . . .
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MUJERES-PARAGUAY: Nueva mirada policial a violencia sexista
Por Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, mar (IPS) - Los oficiales Juan Cantero y Karin Colmán terminan algunos turnos deprimidos y agotados. Pero se reponen rápido porque sienten que su trabajo en una comisaría de policía de la capital de Paraguay es importante. Integran una nueva división para atender a mujeres y niños maltratados.
Cantero y Colmán, ambos de 24 años, trabajan desde el 25 de febrero en la División de Atención Especializada a Víctimas de Violencia contra la mujer, la niñez y la adolescencia de la Comisaria Séptima, una de las dos de Asunción donde primero se implementó la iniciativa, que se extenderá paulatinamente por todo el país.
"Normalmente en las comisarías se reciben todo tipo de denuncias y entre ellas las de violencia intrafamiliar, así que muchas veces no se otorga atención y seguimiento adecuado a quienes denuncian", dijo Cantero a IPS.
Para su colega Colmán, la formación y la especialización es fundamental, porque la mayoría de los policías carecen de perspectiva de género y solo con ella la atención puede ser apropiada.
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| 03 Apr 2010 - 20:37 | Caroline Norma, Asia Institute
URL: www.gsa.unimelb.edu.au/Traffic10/T10_NOR . . .
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Analysis
A Past Reimagined for the Geisha:
Savior of the 1950's Sex Industry
INTRODUCTION
This paper looks at public discussion surrounding the enactment of
Japan’s Prostitution Prevention Law in 1956. It picks up the opinion
of commentators that the Japanese sex industry continued to flourish
even after 1956 because the geisha system was left out of the law.1 The
paper asks why the geisha system was left out of Japan’s Prostitution
Prevention Law, and why this exclusion was a boon for the country’s
sex industry. It then broaches a theoretical explanation for the role the
geisha system played in the success of Japan’s postwar sex industry.
This explanation draws on feminist Catharine MacKinnon’s idea of
the ‘Playboy standard’.2 The ‘Playboy standard’ is a phrase that stands
for MacKinnon’s opinion that the ‘respectability’ of Playboy magazine
protects all pornography from attempts to curb its production and
distribution. This paper argues that the geisha system established
a similarly ‘respectable’ standard for prostitution in Japan, and that
this shielded the wider sex industry from legal intervention in the
post war. It concludes that the geisha system has normalised and lent
respectability to the activities of the sex industry in Japanese society,
to the detriment of its women and girls.
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| 03 Apr 2010 - 08:01 | Huff Post
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/mcchry . . .
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Astonishingly frank statement by Gen. McChrystal on the Afghan war and the violence of war in general....admin
McChrystal: We've Shot 'An Amazing Number' Of Innocent Afghans
As reported in the New York Times last week, a significant number of innocent Afghans continue to be killed by US and NATO forces despite new rules issued by Gen. Stanley McChrystal meant to help reduce civilian casualties. Indeed, the number of Afghans who have been killed or hurt by troop shootings at convoys and military checkpoints has basically remained the same since McChrystal announced his directives.
"We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat," said McChrystal during a recent video-conference with troops, the Times reported.
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| 02 Apr 2010 - 10:06 | Gender and Sexuality Law Blog, Columbia Law School
URL: blogs.law.columbia.edu/genderandsexualit . . .
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Clinic Students at Columbia Law School Write Domestic Violence Training Manual
Last week, the Columbia Law School Human Rights and Sexuality & Gender Law Clinics released “Human Rights and Domestic Violence: An Advocacy Manual,” which frames and reinforces an international human rights approach to domestic violence/gender-based violence advocacy and underscores the growing interest among domestic violence lawyers and advocates in international human rights law strategies to address client needs.
It covers classic domestic violence issues such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and child custody, but also human trafficking in the U.S., housing and forced evictions, genital mutilation, and domestic violence within the LGBT community.
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| 02 Apr 2010 - 09:26 | Amecopress
URL: www.amecopress.net/spip.php?article3556
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Inserción de la mujer en la justicia argentina
Muchas en la base y pocas en el poder de mando
Buenos Aires, 30 mar. 10. AmecoPress.- La Oficina de la Mujer de la Corte Suprema dio a conocer que la ocupación femenina en la justicia supera a la masculina y sin embargo su participación en cargos altos es minoritaria. Se buscará combatir este techo de cristal mediante políticas surgidas de un emprendimiento inédito, conocido como Primer Mapa de Género de la Justicia.
En la Justicia argentina hay más mujeres que varones y ellas trabajan más, sin embargo su representación en cargos altos es minoritaria, sobre todo en los superiores tribunales de justicia de las provincias, según reveló el Primer Mapa de Género del ámbito judicial elaborado por la Oficina de la Mujer (OM) de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación.
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| 02 Apr 2010 - 09:13 | Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center
URL: www.866uswomen.org/About-Us.aspx
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AMERICANS OVERSEAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
Formerly the American Domestic Violence Crisis Line
The Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center can be reached internationally toll-free from 175 countries.
To contact the toll-free crisis line from overseas, first dial your AT&T USADirect access number and at the prompt, enter our phone number: 866-USWOMEN (879-6636).
The center serves abused Americans, mostly women and children, in both civilian and military populations overseas.
According to the US State Department estimate in 2005, 6.6 million American civilians live in foreign countries. If these Americans were in one state, it would be the 13th largest state in the US. (Between Virginia with 7.7 million and Washington with 6.5 million)
The US Department of Defense states there are approximately 500,000 military personnel and their families overseas. Our priority is to reach as widely and deeply as possible into these American communities and raise awareness of the services we offer to battered American women and children to help them realize that they do have alternatives to living a life of violence and help them break the cycle.
The Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center receives funds from multiple foundations & corporations overseas and within the USA. This support has enabled us to help abused American women and children in countries around the world. In addition to providing domestic violence advocacy, safety planning and case management, we assist victims with relocation, emergency funds for housing and childcare, and funds for payment of legal fees.
Our Global Campaign To Empower Americans Experiencing Domestic Violence
See:
www.866uswomen.org/About-Us.as px
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| 02 Apr 2010 - 09:06 | MESA
knicolet@purdue.edu
URL: www.ydae.purdue.edu/mesa/
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Registration is now open for MESA's 11th Annual Multicultural Gathering
Register online: www.ydae.purdue.edu/mesa/
Registratio n: $40.00
Payable online or via mail
CEU's available
Exhibitor opportunities available: please contact us!
MESA's 11th Annual Multicultural Gathering
Co-sponsored by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center
will be held on
May 12th, 2010
At the
Oak Hill Mansion
5801 E. 116th Street
Carmel, Indiana
(in the Indianapolis area)
About the Gathering:
MESA's Multicultural Gathering is an event that focuses on developing strategies for the primary prevention of sexual violence in under-served and under-represented communities. The gathering focuses on giving voice to the needs of Latina, Muslim, Asian, African-American/Black, Tribal, Indigenous and all Ethnically/Racially diverse and LGBTQ Communities and People with disabilities. The Multicultural Gathering will provide people from under-served and under-represented communities from all over the country the opportunity to connect and mobilize against all forms of violence.
Kimber J Nicoletti, MSW
Director
Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault(MESA)
Purdue University
231 S. University Street
SERV Bldg Room 32
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765-494-6871 office
765-496-7383 fax
knicolet@purdue.edu
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| 02 Apr 2010 - 08:47 | National Law Journal
URL: www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=120244725 . . .
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High Court Justices Appear Skeptical of Private Contempt Prosecutions
Jordan Weissmann
The National Law Journal
In a case closely watched by advocates for domestic abuse victims, several Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed serious discomfort with a District of Columbia law that lets the victims themselves bring criminal prosecutions to enforce restraining orders.
During oral argument in Robertson v. United States ex rel. Watson, at least four justices wondered aloud about the protections afforded to criminal defendants facing such charges.
Justice Antonin Scalia compared the District's system to tearing down the Department of Education and replacing it with a private corporation. "No good, right?" Scalia asked at the end of his analogy.
The case asks whether the individuals who bring criminal contempt prosecutions -- often battered women who work without the help of a lawyer -- do so as an agent of the government. In 2008, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that under D.C. law, Wykenna Watson was allowed to bring contempt charges against an ex-boyfriend in her own name, completely independent of any government authority.
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| 01 Apr 2010 - 16:11 | Critica, Ar
URL: www.criticadigital.com/index.php?secc=no . . .
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POR NEGLIGENCIA Y ENCUBRIMIENTO
Piden que el Papa declare ante la Justicia
La Santa Sede está preparando su defensa legal en una causa abierta en Kentucky. Dice que, como jefe del Estado Vaticano, goza de inmunidad diplomática.
El Vaticano sigue contra las cuerdas por el escándalo –que crece hora tras hora y que parece no conocer fronteras– de sacerdotes católicos implicados en casos de abuso sexual contra menores. Los alcances de la olla destapada están tocando tan de cerca al Papa que la Santa Sede está preparando su defensa legal en una causa abierta en Kentucky por tres presuntas víctimas de abusos sexuales, en la cual se pidió que Benedicto XVI comparezca ante el tribunal para declarar. Sería por negligencia y encubrimiento, cuando era prefecto para la Congregación de la doctrina y la fe.
Los abogados del Vaticano están preparando una defensa basada en tres puntos clave y un borrador de la misma ya fue presentado ante la corte de Louisville, en Kentucky.
Los defensores consideran que el Pontífice, en cuanto jefe de Estado, goza de inmunidad diplomática; que los obispos estadounidenses que supervisaron sacerdotes culpables de abusos no eran empleados de la Santa Sede; y que el documento de 1962, Crimen sollicitationis, no prueba el encubrimiento vaticano sobre casos de pederastía.
Con esta defensa, la Santa Sede busca evitar que el Papa sea implicado en el proceso y que documentos secretos sean citados en juicio. De esa manera, se cerraría el primer caso en Estados Unidos que busca determinar si las víctimas tienen derecho contra el Vaticano.
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| 01 Apr 2010 - 16:06 | End Violence Against Women International
info@evawintl.org
URL: www.evawintl.org/abstracts.aspx
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EVAW International Conference
2011 Chicago ~ Call for Abstracts
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 14, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
April 11 - 13, 2011
Who Should Submit
an Abstract
Law Enforcement Officers
Prosecutors
Victim Advocates
Judges
Parole and Probation Officers
Rape Crisis Workers
Medical Personnel
Faith Community Members
Educators
End Violence Against Women (EVAW) International is accepting abstracts for presentations to be given at our International Conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Stalking which promotes innovative techniques, unique approaches, and promising practices in responding to crimes of violence against women. The EVAW International conference takes a multi-disciplinary approach to training, bringing together all members of the first responder team.
We are seeking proposals for presentations that meet the conference objectives, which are to:
Improve the care and response to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking;
Improve collaboration among first responders through a multi-disciplinary approach;
Improve the prosecution of all perpetrators of violence against women;
Promote effective prevention and risk reduction programs.
Evaluation Criteria:
Quality and originality;
Relevance to the field and multiple disciplines;
The extent to which the presentation identifies and addresses current and emerging issues facing first responders;
Contribution to the body of research in the field (i.e. proposals backed by scientific research will be given preference).
All workshops are 75 to 90 minutes in length.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, May 14, 2010
Submission Format: Complete this form and submit it along with:
a CV (Curriculum Vitae) and/or Resume
Biographical Sketch
an abstract (up to 500 words) describing the workshop
and at least four (4) objectives
Optional supporting materials may include an outline, supplemental training materials, a PowerPoint, or a video or audiotape of the training.
PLEASE NOTE: All items listed in the checklist above must be included in your workshop proposal packet or your presentation will not be considered. Additionally, if your presentation requires more than one speaker, a workshop proposal form must be completed for each presenter.
Email your submission to abstracts@evawintl.org or mail to EVAW International, P.O. Box 33, Addy, WA 99101.
Other: Selected presenters will receive a complimentary registration, two nights' hotel accommodations, as well as travel expense.
Questions? Email info@evawintl.org
or call 509-684-9800.
This information is also available on our website at:
www.evawintl.org/abstracts.aspx
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| 31 Mar 2010 - 13:31 | NYT, Maureen Dowd
URL: www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/opinion/31dow . . .
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Should There Be an Inquisition for the Pope?
By MAUREEN DOWD
It doesn’t seem right that the Catholic Church is spending Holy Week practicing the unholy art of spin.
Complete with crown-of-thorns imagery, the church has started an Easter public relations blitz defending a pope who went along with the perverse culture of protecting molesters and the church’s reputation rather than abused — and sometimes disabled and disadvantaged — children.
The church gave up its credibility for Lent. Holy Thursday and Good Friday are now becoming Cover-Up Thursday and Blame-Others Friday.
This week of special confessions and penance services is unfolding as the pope resists pressure from Catholics around the globe for his own confession and penance about the cascade of child sexual abuse cases that were ignored, even by a German diocese and Vatican office he ran.
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| 30 Mar 2010 - 09:05 | CIMAC Mx
URL: www.cimacnoticias.com/site/10032907-Lame . . .
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Observaciones al Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos
Lamenta ONU violencia contra las mujeres en México
Anayeli García Martínez
México, D.F., 29 mar 10 (CIMAC).- El Comité de Derechos Humanos de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) recomendó al Estado Mexicano tipificar el feminicidio, modificar el Código de Justicia Militar, y asegurar la aplicación de la Norma Oficial Mexicana 046 sobre violencia.
El organismo internacional señaló también al Estado la necesidad de armonizar la legislación sobre el aborto en todos los estados, en consonancia con la despenalización del mismo en el Distrito Federal en 2008, y homologar la Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia con las leyes estatales.
Después de que el pasado 8 y 9 de marzo, 18 expertos de la ONU examinaron el quinto informe periódico de México –presentado con un retraso de cinco años- el Comité dio a conocer sus observaciones finales, en donde lamentó que aún subsista la violencia contra las mujeres e instó al Estado mexicano a intensificar sus esfuerzos para garantizar que se respeten los derechos de las mujeres.
Entre las observaciones relativas al cumplimiento del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos (PIDCP), el Comité recomendó al Estado mexicano tipificar el feminicidio, incluso a nivel estatal y proporcionar a la Fiscalía Especializada para los Delitos de Violencia contra las Mujeres y Trata de Personas, creada en enero de 2008, la autoridad necesaria para hacer frente a los actos de violencia cometidos por funcionarios estatales y federales.
De acuerdo con el Comité se debe garantizar la aplicación de la Norma Oficial Mexicana 046 “Violencia familiar, sexual y contra las mujeres, criterios para la prevención y atención” (NOM-046), la cual deja en claro la obligación que tienen las instituciones de salud de practicar la interrupción legal del embarazo a las mujeres victimas de violación sexual.
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| 30 Mar 2010 - 08:13 | El Sol
URL: www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetijuana/notas/n155 . . .
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Tijuana, eslabón del tráfico infantil
- Menores revelan red internacional: Trabajadores Sociales
- Las capturan aquí y las trasladan ilegalmente a Los Ángeles
- Negocio más redituable que el narcotráfico: Edith Pérez
El Sol de Tijuana
por Néstor Cruz
Tijuana.- La ciudad es un punto de paso para una de las mayores redes de trata de niños en el mundo pues organismos internacionales con presencia en Los Ángeles que han encontrado a niñas prostituyéndose en aquella ciudad manifestaron que en Tijuana se acostumbra tener cautivas a las jovencitas previo a ser introducidas ilegalmente a Estados Unidos, reveló Edith Pérez, presidenta del Colegio de Trabajadores Sociales de Baja California.
"La trata y explotación de mujeres y niñas es el negocio más redituable para la delincuencia organizada porque se trafica con una materia prima reciclable y de la cual pueden sacar mucho dinero y el problema es que las autoridades niegan que esto suceda", señaló.
En entrevista, Pérez Velázquez aseguró que la trata de personas, que incluye la explotación sexual infantil, esclavismo o servidumbre, es un negocio tan redituable para el crimen organizado que seguramente en algunos años será su principal fuente de ingresos, aun superando al narcotráfico.
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| 30 Mar 2010 - 07:49 | Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh
URL: www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/ther . . .
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Taylor Marsh
Political analyst, commentator, with foreign policy focus
There Is No Women's Movement
Whatever money you have given Planned Parenthood, NOW, and NARAL has gone for naught. All you have to do is ask where were these women's groups during the health care fight, when they got beat by a minority in Congress led by one man? As for the Democratic Party, the majority who has always told us they support women's rights were played like fiddles. The so called progressives and "pro-choice caucus" in Congress rendered silent by the few. Speaker Pelosi... well, she served up Rep. Bart Stupak as the hero of health care. However, the Hyde Amendment didn't have to be codified in health care legislation, but that's what happened, because women had no champions in Congress.
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| 29 Mar 2010 - 10:09 | center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
URL: www.dcaf.ch/gender-security-sector-refor . . .
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Gender & Security Sector Reform Training Resource Package
Bastick, Megan & Valasek, Kristin (eds.)
The publication of the Gender and SSR Toolkit1 prompted a strong demand for materials to support training on gender and SSR issues. This Gender and SSR Training Resource Package has thus been developed as a companion to the Gender and SSR Toolkit.
The Gender and SSR Training Resource Package is a series of practical training materials to help trainers integrate gender in SSR training, and to deliver effective gender training to SSR audiences. It contains a wide range of exercises, discussion topics and examples from the ground that can be used in SSR training, and provides tips on integrating gender into the entire SSR training cycle—from conducting a training needs assessment to monitoring and evaluation.
Training Resource Package Flyer2
Audience and Readership
The target audience for the Training Resource Package is SSR trainers and educators. Gender trainers working with the security sector will also find the content useful.
Contents of the Training Resource Package
The Gender and Security Sector Reform Training Resource Package includes:
Guide to Integrating Gender in SSR Training
Training Resources on Security Sector Reform and Gender
Training Resources on Police Reform and Gender
Training Resources on Defence Reform and Gender
Training Resources on Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender
Training Resources on Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender
Training Resources on National Security Policy-Making and Gender
Training Resources on Justice Reform and Gender
Training Resources on SSR Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation and Gender
Training Resources on Border Management and Gender
Training Resources on Penal Reform and Gender
See:
www.dcaf.ch/gender-security-sector-reform/_training.cfm?navsub1=37&navsub2=3&nav1=3
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| 29 Mar 2010 - 10:02 | El Clarin
URL: www.clarin.com/diario/2010/03/29/elmundo . . .
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En EE.UU. podrán hacer juicio a la Iglesia por curas abusadores
En dos casos, los jueces sostienen que los sacerdotes dependen de la Santa Sede.Por: vaticano. corresponsal
1 de 1EN CONTRA. UNA MARCHA DE REPUDIO A BENEDICTO XVI, AYER EN LONDRES.
Desde Estados Unidos, el país donde la Iglesia Católica ha debido pagar ya 2.200 millones de dólares en indemnizaciones y siguen las denuncias y procesos por los abusos sexuales que más de 4.000 sacerdotes y religiosos cometieron contra 14 mil jóvenes en los últimos decenios, ha llegado al Vaticano un nuevo y preocupante golpe. Según la edición de ayer del The Washington Post, en Oregón y Kentucky dos jueces federales han autorizado acciones legales contra la Santa Sede por abusos cometidos por curas pervertidos.
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| 29 Mar 2010 - 09:05 | Press Democrat
URL: www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100328/N . . .
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For first time, Vatican could face U.S. courts
Two sex abuse cases may open doors to release of confidential documents
By MICHELLE BOORSTEIN
WASHINGTON POST
Since the Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal exploded in the United States more than a decade ago, advocates have been trying to find a way to learn the role the Vatican played. Now they have gotten further than ever in their efforts to holding the Holy See accountable in a U.S. courtroom.
Two federal appeals courts in recent months have allowed sexual abuse lawsuits against the Vatican to proceed in Oregon and Kentucky.
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