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In this Thanksgiving edition, the leadership and staff want to take a moment to reflect on the wonderful efforts and accomplishments of the members, volunteers, partners, exhibitors and sponsors that we have had the pleasure of working with this past year. If not for the work you do, our efforts would be without purpose.
WUNRN
Drawing upon the recommendations and guidance contained in the updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures, UNODC, in cooperation with the Thailand Institute of Justice, has drafted this Handbook with a view to assisting prosecutors in their duty to uphold the rule of law, firmly protecting human rights and serving their community with impartiality and fairness in cases involving violence against women and girls.
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In-Cyprus
In December 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life”.
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New York Post
If you ever get arrested for a high-profile murder that you didn’t commit, here’s a tip: Take a decent mugshot.
Blink away the bleariness in your eyes. Fix your unkempt hair. And for God’s sake, try not to look so guilty. Because maybe that will help sway a public that has, in its collective consciousness, already convicted you. It’s just human intuition: If you’re booked on a felony, you’ve committed the crime.
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Safetylit
This article examines the relationships between sexual violence experiences, inaccurate body weight perceptions, and the presence of eating disorder (ED) indicators in a sample of female US college students.
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UN Women
This report aims to capture the main issues that emerged from consultations across greater northern Uganda in April 2015 on the long-term challenges and un-redressed justice needs of children born as a result of conflict-related sexual violence and of their mothers; and offer policy recommendations on how these unmet justice needs could be addressed.
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Raising Voices
One of the best ways to improve response to violence against women (VAW) in emergencies and to reinforce community resilience to crises is to strengthen local actor’s capacity and access to resources. With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, 8 local and national non-governmental organisations (LNGOs) in the Great Lakes, East and Horn of Africa built capacity in emergency preparedness capacity of LNGOs to address the immediate protection needs of women and survivors of VAW, and in particular survivors of sexual violence, during conflict and other emergencies.
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Safetylit
This paper reports the findings of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Expert Advisory Group to investigate and advise the College on the prevalence of bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment in surgery in Australia and New Zealand.
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Safetylit
Building on intersectionality theory and research exploring risk management in sex work, the authors analysed 600 escort advertisements to explore risk management in web-based sex work.
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The Guardian
Archaeologists and geneticists have sequenced the genome of a boy sacrificed 500 years ago during an Incan ritual in the Andes, finding a previously unidentified lineage that hints at genetic diversity before the Spanish landed in the Americas.
Spanish geneticists extracted the DNA of a mummy found in the icy heights of Aconcagua, the world’s tallest mountain outside Asia, near the border of Argentina and Chile. The mummy, of a seven-year-old boy who was sacrificed by the Inca, showed a DNA signature that has virtually disappeared in modern South Americans.
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Safetylit
In this paper, authors discuss in which situations and under which conditions personal data of children may be used for a study without obtaining consent.
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Safetylit
This review outlines our developing insight into the interplay between our human biology and our changing environment, and explores the growing evidence base for how interventions may prevent and ameliorate damage inflicted by toxic stress in early life.
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UN Women
The Global Study identifies the gaps and challenges, as well as emerging trends and priorities for action. It requested the Secretary-General to thereafter submit a report based on the findings of this review to the Security Council in October 2015.
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WUNRN
This Technical Assistance Guidance focuses on challenges regarding parenting and discipline of children who reside in these shelters, proposing a variety of recommendations regarding this topic. Resources for further education, training and staff development are included.
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SVRI
The SVRI Primary Prevention Project is an innovative project that aims to build evidence for primary prevention in East Africa by working with regional partners to develop understanding of primary prevention for SIPV and how to develop evidence based interventions, with a clear theoretical basis. Through this project the SVRI is funding and providing technical assistance to four research teams based in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to adapt and test parenting and / or school based interventions for the prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence in East Africa.
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Press Examiner
A rather intriguing study has surfaced regarding a skeleton that has been found in an underwater cave in Mexico.
The recent scientific study now links the DNA derived from the skull to Native Americans. A report has been posted by ScienceMag, showing details about the observations made regarding the skull and its DNA that has been found underwater in Mexico by Alberto Nava and Susan Bird.
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Safetylit
To better understand the challenges of reporting, investigating, and prosecuting sexual violence cases, investigators from the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law conducted interviews between 2011 and 2014 in Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, which had all experienced some conflict in recent years.
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Safetylit
This study determines the degree of abuse of elder and vulnerable people in the families and communities of Eastern Bolivia.
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Safetylit
This qualitative study captures South African female health provider perspectives of intimate partner violence in female patients, gender norms and consequences for patients' health.
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NEJM
This trial assesses whether a new, four-unit, small-group sexual assault resistance program, as compared with access to brochures on sexual assault, could reduce the 1-year incidence of completed rape among first-year female students at three universities.
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UN Women
In the last four years, International Recue Committee’s Women’s Protection and Empowerment Unit has completed research on child survivors of sexual assault, economic and social empowerment, transforming gender biases, and building capacity to better respond to GBV in emergencies.
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Albuquerque Journal
DNA evidence in sexual assault cases does not magically appear before or after commercial breaks like you might see on television crime shows.
Obtaining DNA evidence from a sexual assault exam kit is a laborious process done by laboratory analysts who have spent at least a year, in some cases two years, getting certified to conduct the tests.
It can take four weeks or longer from the start of testing until the suspect’s DNA is put into the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
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