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Click here to learn more about the 2017 IAFN Board of Directors.
Submit Your Abstract!
Our conference is an opportunity for forensic nursing clinicians and researchers to exchange knowledge and discuss new approaches to practice. Be part of this important conversation and share your experience with your colleagues.
Abstracts must be submitted in the online format provided. Submissions must be completed by the Feb. 13, 2017 deadline for concurrent sessions or May 8, 2017 deadline for poster sessions. Find out more about the submission guidelines, abstract tracks, and important deadlines in our Online Abstract Submission Center.
Want to learn more? Access our Online Learning Center and Register for: Now You See It, Now You Don't: Identifying Human Trafficking Survivors in the Health Care System
Presented by: AnnJanette Alejano-Steele
1.0 ANCC CE
Members: $15
Non Members: $30
This session* will provide a comprehensive overview of human trafficking and its overlaps with similar crimes, the crime’s relevance to forensic nursing (both identification and investigation), roles in a comprehensive community response, and primary tools for identification. Register Now!
*Note: This session was presented live at IAFN's 2016 Conference in Denver, CO
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Start the New Year off right by planning your continuing education for 2017 now! The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project has a new round of online trainings beginning Jan. 11.
All courses are offered FREE to clinically practicing registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, and physician assistants who are caring for American Indian/Alaska Native patients in the USA. To register and learn more about all of our trainings please visit www.tribalforensichealthcare.org
The White House
Our Nation wrestled with the issue of slavery in a way that nearly tore us apart — its fundamental notion in direct contradiction with our founding premise that we are all created equal. The courageous individuals who rejected such cruelty helped us overcome one of the most painful chapters in our history as we worked to realize the promise of equality and justice for all.
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engadget
Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands. However, police in Arkansas want to know if one of the gadgets overheard something that can help with a murder case. According to The Information, authorities in Bentonville issued a warrant for Amazon to hand over any audio or records from an Echo belonging to James Andrew Bates.
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Department of Justice
The Department of Justice announced 11 tribes selected to participate in the expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program to provide federally recognized tribes the ability to access and exchange data with national crime information databases for both civil and criminal purposes. TAP allows tribes to more effectively serve and protect their communities by ensuring the exchange of critical data.
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The National Center for Victims of Crime
The Stalking Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime is pleased to continue our partnership with the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, in observing National Stalking Awareness Month 2017. Working to raise awareness about the realities of stalking is as critical as ever, especially for the 7.5 million individuals stalked each year in the U.S.
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The U.S. Department of Justice
The
U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ)
, Office of Justice Programs
(OJP),
Bureau of Justice
Assistance
(BJA) is seeking applications for funding to address the issue of unsubmitted sexual
assault kits (SAKs) at law enforcement agencies.
This program furthers the Department’s
mission by improving state and local jurisdictions’ response to violent crime and improving the
functioning of the criminal justice system.
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i24news
Lebanese MPs and civilian society are demanding the abolition of article 522 which allows a rapist to walk free of charges if he marries his victim, Middle East Eye site reported recently.
The law which was issued in 1943, during the last months of the French mandate in the country (1920-1944) reads as follows: “In the event that a legal marriage is concluded between the person who committed [crimes including rape, kidnapping and statutory rape] and the victim, prosecution shall be stopped.”
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The WIlliams Institute
The global response to sexual violence in situations of conflict and displacement has, until now, focused on the plight of girls and women. Boys and men are also affected, and in some cases, directly targeted in sexual violence. So far, an inclusive response on the issue of sexual violence in situations of conflict and displacement is absent.
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The Associated Press via WTOP-TV
Maryland’s attorney general recommended that the state create a uniform policy for when sexual assault kits would have to be tested.
It was one of a variety of recommendations included in a report on untested sexual assault evidence kits, based on data collected by the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention.
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