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Stop Violence Against Women Website:
National VAW Monitors
who contributed to this month’s newsletter include: Armenia and Bulgaria.
The Advocates for
Human Rights would like to acknowledge and thank Alena Chaps for her commitment
and hard work this past year.
STOPVAW Website News
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Expert’s Corner: Protecting
Victims of Violence through the Domestic Abuse No Contact Order
This
article by The Advocates for Human Rights explains the content of the
Minnesota Statutes relating to DANCOs, and discusses problems that have come
up as the DANCO has been used in Minnesota. While there have been some
problems with the implementation of the DANCO in Minnesota, they are
solvable. (More
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International and Regional News
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Women's Advocates Work to Include
Gender and Guns in UN Initiative
Thanks
to the work of advocates for women’s rights, the issue of violence against
women has been included in the UN’s program of regulation of the small arms
trade. (More
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UN Task Force Launches Pilot Project on Violence against
Women
A
UN task force, mandated following the Secretary-General’s in-depth report on
violence against women, has launched an initiative to set up programs on
violence against women in 10 pilot countries. (More
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OSCE Office Supports Summer School
to Teach Central Asian Youth about Dangers of Human Trafficking
A
summer school to teach young people from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and
Tajikistan about the dangers of human trafficking began in Kairakum, northern
Tajikistan. The ten-day "Shifo" (Health Treatment) summer school
brings together high school and university students, ages 15 to 22, and
is organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in co-operation with
non-governmental organizations MODAR and the Consortium of Initiative, and
with the support of the President's Inter-Ministerial Commission to Combat
Human Trafficking. (More
information) |
CEDAW Committee Working Paper
Emphasizes Concern about Reservations to Article 16
After
considering the practices of other human rights treaty bodies when they
receive communications that concern treaty provisions subject to
reservations, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women has produced a working paper. (More
information) |
Survivors and Advocates Launch
Campaign for Compensation for Coercively Sterilized Romani Women
In
early July, members of the Group of Women Harmed by Sterilisation, together
with advocates from the European Roma Rights Centre and Peacework Development
Fund, launched a campaign seeking public recognition and compensation for
Romani women survivors of coerced sterilization in the Czech Republic,
Hungary and Slovakia. (More
information) |
TreasurePostcards Project
Raises Funds for Women and Girls in USA, Turkey and Sierra Leone
TreasurePostcards
by Arts for Global Development, Inc. is an international project that brings
emerging and professional artists from across the globe together to visually
express social and economic issues with postcard-sized artworks. (More
information) |
European Court of Human Rights Hands Down Decision for
Bulgarian Domestic Violence Case
The
case, Bevacqua and S. v. Bulgaria, was brought forward in Bulgaria on
23 November 2000 by two Bulgarian nationals, a mother and her son. The first
applicant, the mother, had suffered domestic abuse at the hands of her
husband, and was seeking a divorce and custody of their one child. She
alleged that Bulgaria failed in its obligations under the Convention for the
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, in that the court failed
to assist the first applicant who was a victim of domestic violence in her
prosecution of her abuser and that the court failed to find within a
reasonable amount of time on the dispute concerning the custody of the second
applicant, the child. (More
information) |
UN Experts on Torture and Violence against Women Conclude
Joint Visit to Moldova
The
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and
consequences, and the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other forms of cruel,
inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment have concluded a joint visit to
Moldova, where both found signs of progress and areas of continuing concern.
(More
information) |
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Afghanistan
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New Research and Reports
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IWHC Releases Report on Sexual
Violence against Adolescent Females and HIV
The
International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) has released a report
documenting the high incidence of sexual violence against adolescent females,
and the likelihood of their contracting HIV as a result. (More
information) |
Report Published on Vienna Forum
to Fight Human Trafficking
The
U.N. Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) has produced a
report on the discussions, activities and accomplishments of the Vienna Forum
to Fight Human Trafficking, which took place in February 2008. (More
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Amnesty International Report
Advises Venezuelan Government to Fully Implement Domestic Violence Law
Amnesty
International has published a new report urging Venezuelan authorities to
fully implement its 2007 law to protect women from violence. (More
information) |
Overemphasis on Culture Undermines
Response to Violence against Women in Muslim Communities
In
an article published by the journal Feminist Legal Studies, Sherene H.
Razack, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the
University of Toronto, argues that Western understanding of violence against
women in Muslim communities focuses too heavily on cultural explanations. (More
information) |
A National Report on Domestic Abuse in Afghanistan Is
Released
A
report prepared by Global Rights: Partners for Justice compiles the findings
from surveys conducted in Afghanistan in 2006 with women throughout the
country. (More
information) |
Survey Released on Male Victims of
Domestic Violence
According
to an article published by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a survey by
Group Health Cooperative has found that almost three in ten men are victims
of intimate partner violence at some point in their adult lives. (More
information) |
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About
STOPVAW
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The Stop Violence
Against Women website (STOPVAW) is a forum for information, advocacy
and change. Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights developed
this website as a tool for the promotion of women's human
rights in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the the former
Soviet Union (FSU), Current staff members of Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights involved with the development of STOPVAW include Angela Bortel, Alena Chaps, Mary Ellingen, Mary Ellison,
Mary Hunt, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, and For more information about STOPVAW, please contact the Website Administrator at stopvaw@mnadvocates.org. |
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