Posts Tagged ‘Domestic Abuse’
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Vanessa Graamond; 8/3/10
Sometimes it is easier to think about numbers than what it is that these numbers stand for. But the reality is that these numbers are people. They are people who seek medical care after being beaten, broken, violated and raped, sometimes by strangers, sometimes by people they know, sometimes by those closest to them, people they loved and trusted. There’s a big debate about what we call such cases — victims or survivors? The people we see are mostly women and children; they are mothers, aunts, sisters and daughters. Victims or survivors? It differs from person to person, but today I will call them victims. We must remember, however, that they are also survivors, or at least each day, that is what I hope they will become. I will refer to these victims as she and her. Men can be raped and can be victims of sexual violence both here, and all over the world. But the people I have cared for have been women and children; that’s what I know.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, PNG, Womens Rights
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Amanda O’Brien; 18/11/09; (3 Items)
West Australian jails are at breaking point, with the mentally ill, the poor and Aborigines crammed in “like sardines”, forcing numbers to explode by almost 900 in just one year. The new figures were obtained by The Australian as Western Australia Police withdrew a charge against a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy from Northam, 100km east of Perth, who was accused of accepting a stolen 70c Freddo frog and a $4 novelty sign. After a community backlash, police yesterday withdrew the charge and instead referred the boy to a juvenile justice team. The state opposition accused Premier Colin Barnett and Attorney-General Christian Porter of conning the public into believing it was cracking down on hardened criminals when all it was doing was locking up vulnerable people.
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Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Children, Domestic Abuse, health, Human Rights, Legal
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Abdullah Rasheed, 24/7/09
The decision to set up a care centre for victims of domestic violence was welcomed by the community as it shows that the UAE society is ready to face its negative aspects with courage. The decision by Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judiciary Department, to set up a care centre for victims of domestic violence comes as part of a series of decisions and steps taken by the UAE to keep pace with developments seen by the Emirati community. It also indicates the great efforts of Her Highness Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, the Supreme Chairperson of the Family Development Foundation, in providing care and protection for women and children against all forms of violence, including domestic violence.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Emirates, Womens Rights
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Frank Rai, 16/7/09; (3 Items)
A victim of family and sexual violence has claimed that she contracted the HIV/AIDS virus because she was not protected by the district courts. “If I was protected by a court order (protection order) and had the maintenance of my children settled, I would not have gone back to my (former) husband where I contracted the virus. I went away to take refuge at my family’s place but they chased me back to my abusive husband,” a downhearted Jane Ben told a workshop in Lae yesterday. At a practice directions workshop conducted by the Law and Justice Sector at the Lae Catholic Diocesan Conference centre, Ms Ben revealed that she contracted the HIV/AIDS virus from her husband when the courts delayed her maintenance settlement. She said during that time, there was no such protection order to stop her husband from abusing her, adding that the processes of the District Court took so long that her family chased her back to her husband where she contracted the virus.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, HIV/Aids, PNG, Rape, Womens Rights
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Julia Preston; 16/7/09
The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance in a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees. In addition to meeting other strict conditions for asylum, abused women will need to show that they are treated by their abuser as subordinates and little better than property, according to an immigration court filing by the administration, and that domestic abuse is widely tolerated in their country. They must show that they could not find protection from institutions at home or by moving to another place within their own country. The administration laid out its position in an immigration appeals court filing in the case of a woman from Mexico who requested asylum, saying she feared she would be murdered by her common-law husband there.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Human Rights, USA
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Jayne Safihao; 29/6/09
All are used to their husband’s constant infidelity and the expectant poundings they receive as their reward for “asking too many questions with false accusations”. The normal cover up act for their shame when caught out. The women in this story are all mothers of children made out of the sperm banks of these same abusive men who not only subject these women to constant battering but have fathered children from their extra-marital affairs as well.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Marriage, PNG
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Hana Namrouqa; 30/4/09
More that 200 Amman residents of all ages on Wednesday expressed their rejection of violence against children and called for stricter laws to protect them from abuse. During a gathering organised by the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) at the Greater Amman Municipality square, people from different walks of life mourned the death of Yazan and Qusai, two recent victims of child abuse. Her Majesty Queen Rania, chairperson of the JRF and a strong advocate of child rights, participated in the event, where she underscored that each and every individual and institution shoulder a responsibility in preventing violence against children. The Queen signed a wall painting by artists and children which calls for denouncing and eliminating child abuse and lit a candle for the souls of the two children, who perished at a very early age after being subject to domestic violence.
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Tags: Childrens Rights, Domestic Abuse, Jordan
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Stephen Lunn; 5/3/09
For three decades, Galarrwuy Yunupingu watched the mining companies burn the stringybarks and other hardwoods cleared for their mines on his clan’s territory in northeast Arnhem Land. Good, strong timber went up in smoke until, finally, he had had enough. The indigenous leader and former Australian of the Year also lost patience with the Rudd Government’s indecision on its approach to housing for his people. So with the unlikely assistance of Forestry Tasmania, operating from thousands of kilometres away, Mr Yunupingu is moving to fix both and, at the same time, create some much-needed employment for the men of the Gove Peninsula.
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Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Domestic Abuse, Environment, Trade
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
20/1/09
Women leaders yesterday urged the Government to address the ongoing crime against innocent people on the streets of Lae City. They said it was true that innocent people including mothers, fathers and girls were attacked, robbed and abused by gangs on the streets of the city. Morobe Council of Women president Elivie Michael said it was sad to see such illegal activities happening on the streets. She said the residents of the city had their constitutional rights to move freely wherever they wanted to go without fear but this was not happening in Lae.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, PNG, Womens Rights
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Hassna’a Mokhtar; 21/12/08
The Family Protection Society, an organization dedicated to helping and dealing with cases of domestic violence, is hosting the first of its kind training workshop on the subject of domestic violence at Jeddah’s Maternity and Children’s Hospital on Wednesday. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the National Program for Domestic Safety and it targets people who deal with cases of domestic violence and work in different sectors (doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, sociologists, educators, lawyers and police officers). The workshop will tackle the scientific approaches to finding and diagnosing different forms of violence; managing social shelter homes; and the art of dealing with domestic violence hotlines.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Saudi Arabia, Womens Rights
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
28/11/08
A Malaysian mother of four has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for abusing her Indonesian domestic worker. Judge Akhtar Tahir sentenced Yim Pek Ha, 40, on Thursday after she was found guilty of inflicting horrific wounds on Nirmala Bonat, who was working for her in a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2004. “Nirmala Bonat has been consistent in her statements that her lady boss injured her, from the time she was found by a security guard,” said the judge when passing the sentence. Yim, a former flight attendant, was charged on three counts of causing injury to Nirmala, and had faced prison sentences of up to 20 years on each count. Nirmala, who was then 19, suffered severe burns and bruises over much of her body after Yim repeatedly pressed a hot iron on her back and breasts and scalded her with boiling water in the worst-ever case of maid abuse reported in the country.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Malaysia, Womens Rights, Workers
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Gina Maka’a; 27/11/08; (2 Items)
A recent completion of a national research on the violence against women and children provided shocking results, as according to the Minister for Women, Youth and Children’s Affairs, Hon. Peter Tom in his address at the opening of the ’16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence’ yesterday. Quite shocking yet true is the revelation that out of three women in the Solomon Islands, at least two has been a victim of Domestic Violence. And one out of five Solomon Islands women has experienced violence by someone who is not their boy friend or husband and one out of ten pregnant women report being beaten. At least one out of five of these women has experienced being punched or kicked in the stomach. Hon. Tom said that violence is a grave violation of human rights and has a devastating impact to Solomon Island women, families, communities and societies.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Solomon Islands, UN, Womens Rights
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Editorial; 27/11/08; (2 Items)
The report on violence against women in Melanesia and East Timor published on our front page yesterday reveals nothing new. Much of what is contained is known in one form or another in this country except for some of the innovative ways women are used in leadership roles in Timor Leste and men are used to further the campaign in Vanuatu. That is not to say the issue is unimportant or that it ought not to be reported and deliberated on. Far from it. We feel the campaign may be faltering as it does often because it may be lacking an important ingredient. We know for instance that women are more disadvantaged in many more ways than men and that it happens more here than in many other parts of the world including our own Pacific region. Women are deprived of economic independence due to lack of land rights, customary practices, lack of access to education and so on.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, PNG
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
31/10/08
Churches need to organise training programs on child abuse and sex in order for Christians to be aware of the issues and do something about it. Social worker Margaret Kliawi, a participant of the two-day workshop on child abuse and exploitation being held in Port Moresby, Ms Kliawi made the call after revelations that while churches or Christian schools were once places of trust, experience had shown that even child abuse had occurred in these institutions or that children were abused by people of trust in those places.
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Tags: Christianity, Domestic Abuse, PNG, Sex Trade
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Laura Bashraheel; 19/10/08 (2 Items)
Layla, a 13-year-old girl who was allegedly physically abused by her father, is still in King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital in Taif where she is unconscious after suffering multiple injuries and acute renal complications. The official spokesman for the Health Department in Taif, Siraj Al-Humaidan, said Layla’s kidneys are not functioning and she is under observation. “Her condition is critical ever since she was checked in by her father on Oct. 9,” he told Arab News. “All we know for now is that her parents are divorced and her mother lives in Egypt. Also, it is said that she asked her father to go and live with her mother over there. Apparently, he refused and started physically abusing her,” he added. Al-Humaidan also talked about Layla’s medical condition. “She came to the hospital suffering from high acidity in the blood, a sharp drop in hemoglobin levels, blood poisoning, kidney failure and scarcity of urine,” he said.
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Tags: Domestic Abuse, Saudi Arabia
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Patricia Karvelas; 3/9/08
Women who have been beaten and abused by their former partners will be excused from looking for work for 12 months while they get their lives back together, under a plan to be considered by the Rudd Government. The Labor-commissioned review of the Howard government’s work-for-welfare rules also calls for single parents looking after a disabled child to be elevated to a $38-a-week higher pension payment. The tripling of the 16-week grace period for domestic violence victims from meeting their welfare obligations is a key recommendation of a taskforce chaired by Australian Social Inclusion Board chairwoman Patricia Faulkner. The Participation Taskforce report, to be handed within weeks to Employment Participation Minister Brendan O’Connor, argues that rules need to be made fairer to encourage women to work.
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Tags: Australia, Domestic Abuse, Womens Rights
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