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Rutgers-Camden News Now
Much attention continues to be given to crimes committed with illegal guns, but there are high risks of intimate partner homicide with legally purchased firearms as well, according to a new Rutgers University-Camden study.
The pioneering study – conducted by Richard Stansfield and Daniel Semenza, assistant professors of criminal justice at Rutgers-Camden – shows a significant link between the concentration of federally licensed firearms dealers in urban counties and intimate partner homicide in the home.
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Join IAFN and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center on Thursday, August 8, 2019 in Columbus, OH. This FREE, 1-day training covers how to recognize, identify, screen, and respond to human trafficking in a trauma-informed way. The training is intended for SANE, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFE), or forensic nurse examiners or other health care providers who work with trafficking patients. Space is limited to 80 participants and limited travel scholarships are available. Learn more.
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The forcible separation of migrant children from their families under the current United States administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy and the prosecution of migrants crossing into the United States, even when exercising their legal right to seek asylum, have spurred a national outcry. Many medical professional organizations warn that children separated from their parents experience serious short- and long-term consequences. Subsequent media stories have highlighted the horrifying conditions to which these children are exposed in immigration detention facilities: inadequate nutrition, foil sheets intended to serve as blankets, substandard and delayed medical care, denial of meaningful social interactions such as hugging one another, and being held in cages. In this Ethics Column, the authors discuss the background of the current immigration detention system and the integral role of nurses in immigration detention facilities across the US, apply a human rights and trauma-informed-care ethical framework to their discussion, analyze the ethical dilemma of dual loyalty, and conclude by sharing ways in which nurses and physicians can speak out together against the human rights violations occurring against this vulnerable, trauma-exposed population of immigrants and asylum seekers.
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Wired
"Stalkerware" is a class of spyware distinguished by the fact that it's typically installed on a target device by someone with both physical access to the phone and an intimate relationship with its owner. Often explicitly marketed as a way to catch a cheating husband or wife in the act, these programs have become a tool of domestic abusers and angry exes—a breed of hacker who often possesses practically zero technical skills but does have plenty of opportunity for hands-on tampering with a victim's handset. Perpetrators can install these apps, also sometimes known as spouseware, to monitor where their targets go, who they communicate with, what they say, and virtually every other part of their life the phone touches.
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Steamboat Pilot & Today
A 2018 survey conducted by One Colorado, one of the state’s largest advocacy organizations for LGBTQ rights, found that sexual assaults have spiked within this community in recent years.
Out of more than 2,000 queer respondents from across the state, 33 percent had experienced rape or sexual assault — more than double the rate from 2011. Another 30 percent had been a victim of relationship violence, up from 21 percent eight years ago.
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Council on Foreign Relations
Last week, the International Labour Organization adopted a treaty against workplace violence and harassment. With all but seven countries voting in favor, the convention addresses harassment across professional activities. Treaty discussions began in 2015 and increased in the aftermath of the global #MeToo movement, as women around the world publicly shared their experiences of sexual harassment and assault. National #MeToo campaigns have sparked action across the public and private sectors as governments create and strengthen anti-harassment legislation. The accord marks a significant international response to the #MeToo movement, and will enter into force one year after at least two countries ratify it.
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France 24
Seventy-five women have already become victims of femicide this year in France — that’s more than one new victim every three days. Fifty-three of those victims were murdered in their own homes.
“These aren’t family dramas, or crimes of passion,” insists @Feminicide, the Facebook page that has been tracking the number of femicides in France since January. “This is domestic violence perpetrated by frustrated men who have given themselves a license to kill. These are systematic assassinations rooted in a problem with our society, and in a patriarchal education system that gives men the right to possess and dispose of women and children.”
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University of Toledo via EurekAlert!
A large-scale study from The University of Toledo of young African Americans who have attempted or died by suicide suggests there is a greater need for mental health services in urban school districts, and that we need to do a better job in convincing parents and caregivers to safely secure firearms and ammunition in the home. Taking those measures, Dr. James Price said, could save lives.
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NBC News
Details about what prosecutors have called one of Britain's largest-ever modern day slavery rings have emerged with the conviction of eight people originally from Poland.
Prosecutors say more than 400 victims were forced to work for minuscule wages while their masters earned some two million pounds ($2.5 million) and lived a luxurious lifestyle. Reporting restrictions were lifted July 5, allowing details to be published.
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RadioFreeEurope
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Russian state to pay financial compensation to a victim of domestic violence who fled the country after police failed to take action against a former boyfriend who was threatening her.
The court's July 9 ruling said Russian authorities violated the rights of Valeria Volodina under the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and discrimination.
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TIME Magazine
In a study published July 2 in Nature Communications researchers report a possible new way to eliminate HIV from an infected animal’s genome. In a study involving 29 mice, in some of the animals the team used a combination of a modified ARV treatment to keep the virus at low activity levels, along with a powerful gene-editing technique that snipped out HIV genes from infected cells. In various tests, the scientists could find no trace of the virus in 30 percent of the animals.
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Kyodo News
A large majority of Japanese municipalities are struggling to confirm children's safety within 48 hours due to a recent surge in the number of abuse reports, a Kyodo News survey showed.
It found that more than 80 percent of 69 major municipalities across the country with child welfare centers have not always followed the guideline set by the government one year ago, requiring them to verify child abuse reports within the time frame.
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NBC News
59-year-old Mark Manteuffel is accused of three sexual assaults in Northern California during the early ‘90s. This is the latest cold case potentially cracked using DNA and genealogy.
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NPR
"Sex for fish."
That unlikely phrase is used in some lakefront communities in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world where men catch the fish and women sell the catch to local customers.
In Malawi, for instance, a woman may take a fisherman's catch and promise to pay him once she's made her sales. Only she might have trouble selling all the fish. So she might pay off what she owes for the fish by engaging in a sexual encounter.
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