Va invitam la doua prezentari a celor mai recente filme realizate de grupul D Media (http://www.dmedia.ro). Prezentarile sunt organizate in colaborare cu Casa Tranzit (http://www.tranzithouse.ro).
25 Nov International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
01 Dec World AIDS Day
06 Dec Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
10 Dec International Human Rights Day
Dear Friends,
I just received the news that the Norwegian Parliament passed the legislation that prohibits the purchase of a sexual service – 44 votes vot, 28 against. The Law will come into force on January 1, 2009!!!This is indeed a great victory for all of us. Congratulations to the all the women in Norway and internationally who worked to hard to get the law passed!!!!
Warmest greetings to all of you!
Gunilla
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Gunilla S. Ekberg
Co-Executive Director/Co- Directrice ExécutiveCoalition Against Trafficking in Women International/ Coalition Internationale contre la Traite des Femmes (CATW)
International Secretariat/ Sécretariat International
Mailing address/Adresse: rue Washington 40, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM
E-mail address/Adresse de courriel: gsekberg@catwintern ational.org
Phone/Tel.: +32 2 346 2350
Fax: +32 2 344 2003
Website/ Site Web: http://www.catwinternational.org
The World Economic Forum has released its annual Global Gender Gap Report and everyone from Matthew Kirdahy at Forbes to Kate Pickert at Time to Laura MacInnis at Reuters are all over the unsurprising news that the Scandanavian countries do better than the U.S. at gender equity — and the surprising news is that the Philippines, Lesotho, Mozambique and Moldova do too. Uh, what?
Fostul ministru al justitiei, Monica Macovei, a fost aleasa miercuri “Femeia Europei” in 2008 de catre un juriu format din europarlamentari si jurnalisti, relateaza NewsIn. Premiul urmeaza sa-i fie decernat de catre presedintele Parlamentului European, Hans Gert Poettering.
Monica Macovei fusese desemnata candidata Romaniei pentru acest premiu la 16 iunie de catre un juriu format din 25 de reprezentanti ai societatii civile si jurnalisti romani. Contracandidatele ei din Romania au fost Anamaria Marinca, actrita care a detinut rolul principal in filmul “4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile” castigator in 2007 al trofeului Palme d’Or al Festivalului de la Cannes, Margareta Matache, activista pentru drepturile minoritatilor, Iulia Motoc, expert in drept international, si Marta Petreu, profesor de filosofie la Universitatea Babes-Bolyai din Cluj.
Pentru a desemna reprezentanta Romaniei, juriul a avut in vedere anumite criterii cum ar fi activitatea dedicata promovarii valorilor europene si a rolului Europei in lume, angajament si initiative personale pentru sustinerea procesului de integrare europeana sau initiative originale si eficiente ale candidatei.
Apreciata de europarlamentari pentru reformele in domeniul justitiei si luptei anticoruptie, Monica Macovei a fost ministru al justitiei in perioada 2004-2007, in prezent fiind consultant special al premierului Republicii Macedonia pe probleme de combatere a coruptiei. De asemenea, este expert al Comisiei Europene in domeniul pregatirii personalului de specialitate din tarile candidate ale UE in domeniul combaterii coruptiei si reformei sistemului juridic.
Printre reformele care i-au adus aprecierea in UE, dar si critici acerbe din partea parlamentarilor romani, s-au numarat introducerea obligativitatii declaratiilor de avere pentru demnitari, infiintarea Directiei Nationale Anticoruptie, care pentru prima oara a inceput anchete de coruptie la nivel inalt.
MEN who buy sex from women trafficked into Ireland for prostitution are being targeted for the first time in an advertising campaign that warns they could go to jail.
I am grown up enough now to believe that not every Pakistani household has its own feudal lord – though a significant amount of them are at the mercy of some lameass patriarchal messiah of sorts -and I am also firmly aware of the bitter truth that a very stringent sort of sexism prevalent in a large part of that country (as in mine) means a daily, almost ritualistic, persecution and defilement of women – emotionally, mentally, physically – as well as a thorough disregard for women’s rights.
Despite my usual preparedness for the abnormally grim, stories like Solangi’s still manage to scare me insane and fuel unbridled rage within me. Wrath is what I can feel right now, rising from the absolute pit of my stomach. Unadulterated and unmitigated anger. And I want to use this anger in a way that pulverizes the very core of our enforced patriarchal inheritance. I want my anger to be as brutal and as devoid of mercy as these murdering charlatans are.
I need revenge. We need revenge.
I could have chosen to satirize in my usual blasé manner because I find in humor – especially dark humor – a rock-hard and unshakable crutch. But this is not the time to seek crutches, it’s the time to demolish.
I beseech those academically fortified women amongst us, who love to deliberate about ethnocentric feminism’s strides in the warm comfort of their Ikea-decorated living rooms, to stand up and address this. Now. Without politeness and political correctness corrupting their ire. Because when young girls are left for dogs to feed on, very little room is left for civility.
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The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.“We have been communicating with his transition staff” almost daily, Richards said. “We expect to see a real change.”
—–The Global Gag Rule literally kills thousands and thousands of women every year by putting already over-stretched clinics in an impossible position. They must generally choose between either having no money to provide life-saving care, or providing care while breaking doctor-patient trust and actively doing harm by deceit. What the hell do you choose?
Different organizations have different answers, but the fact is that it shouldn’t be a question. Doctors should be able to answer their patients’ inquiries honestly. Abortion should be treated as the routine and sometimes life-saving medical procedure that it is. And women deserve quality reproductive health care, whatever their needs. No woman should die because “pro-life” organizations on another continent have a superiority complex and think their tax dollars should only go to providing care for women they deem worthy enough.
Repealing the Global Gag Rule is only a start, but it’s a huge first step towards a real culture of life — one that respects and cares for the lives of women. And it’s absolutely at the very top of my list of things President Obama can do quickly and decisvely to make the world a better place within his first hours in the Oval Office. If he intends to live up to his campaign promises to protect women’s health and show the world that we’re more than a bunch of self-absorbed ideological assholes, he absolutely must do it. And I eagerly look forward to the moment when he does, because it will not come a moment too soon.
Pe 9 Noiembrie, cu ocazia zilei internationale impotriva fascismului si antisemitismului in diverse orase din Romania se vor organiza actiuni, demonstratii si manifestatii.
un studiu foarte interesant din 2004:
“Violenta domestica si criminalitatea feminina”: REZUMAT + STUDIU
al carui titlu e insa inexact/limitat. raportul cuprinde si sectiuni axate pe “criminalitatea feminina” si barbati ca “‘victime ascunse’ ale violentei domestice”, dar in mod neasteptat abordarea nu e facuta dintr-un punct de vedere anti-feminist, ci consta dintr-o analiza destul de profunda si contine multe date interesante si utile, relevante pentru abordarea violentei domestice per ansamblu, pentru o mai buna intelegere a cauzelor, dinamicilor de gen si utilitatii diverselor solutii, cit si pentru o critica a practicilor de condamnare (sociala si legala) a femeilor vinovate de crime violente si privind situatia femeilor incarcerate.
din rezumat (si el foarte limitat fata de diversitatea de fatete ale problemelor oferita de studiu, desi aceasta complexitate nu se extinde si la un punct mentionat de autori doar in treacat: “femeile …din orice categorie sociala si de orice rasa sunt victimizate, chiar daca diferite grupuri de femei se pot confrunta cu forme particulare ale violentei”; sa nu uitam ca tocmai pentru ca diferite grupuri de femei se confrunta cu diferite violente, atunci cind discutam “violenta ce afecteaza femeile din orice categorie” putem vorbi “despre solutii care agraveaza problema – si solutii reale”!):
… Cu toate eforturile de a asigura un climat de egalitate între sexe în sfera publică, o privire mai atentă asupra familiei, relaţiilor intrafamiliale şi a relaţiilor în cuplu, a evidenţiat contraste şi realităţi disfuncţionale. Presiunile către modernizarea şi democratizarea relaţiilor intrafamiliale au dus, în mod paradoxal, la supraîncărcarea femeii şi la criminalizarea ei în raport cu statutul parental.
În România, violenţa domestică, ca preocupare a specialiştilor din diferite domenii, a politicienilor, mass mediei şi publicului larg, s-a impus în perioada 1995-1996, iar acest lucru s-a petrecut în bună parte datorită presiunilor externe, nevoii de aliniere la spiritul şi standardele europene şi internaţionale şi, mai ales, în dimensiunea ei de protecţie şi ajutor acordat victimei, fie ea copil sau femeie. Toate acestea s-au făcut în contextul în care politicile de promovare a femeii au obligat la considerarea raporturilor ei cu bărbatul, la reconsiderarea familiei, rolului ei social şi la statutul ei legal.
Pe fondul transformărilor de ordin social, politic, economic, cultural şi al mentalităţilor, tranziţia a generat în ţara noastră probleme sociale noi, legate mai ales de anomie şi disfuncţionalităţi la nivelul comportamentelor individuale. După 1990, ne-am confruntat cu o recrudescenţă la nivelul tuturor categoriilor de infracţiuni şi persoane. În acest context, infracţiunile cu violenţă contra persoanei au înregistrat global creşteri semnificative. În cazul crimelor violente, numărul femeilor condamnate definitiv este cu mult mai mic decât al bărbaţilor, care îşi folosesc mai frecvent forţa fizică ca argument esenţial în rezolvarea unor situaţii conflictuale. Nu se poate nega însă că şi numărul femeilor autoare de crime cu violenţă împotriva persoanei a crescut semnificativ. Semnele de îngrijorare privind violenţa se referă în principal la prevalenţa spaţiului privat ca generator de violenţă. Conform unui studiu elaborat în 2003, în ianuarie 2002 în unităţile penitenciare din România se găseau 2122 de femei, iar dintre acestea 431 erau condamnate pentru infracţiuni contra persoanei, peste 75% dintre ele comiţând infracţiune de omor asupra partenerului de viaţă.
Timp de trei decenii, bărbaţii au rămas „victimele ascunse” ale violenţei domestice. Pe măsură ce corpul de date şi investigaţii privind criminalitatea feminină a crescut, s-a simţit nevoia considerării acestui subiect şi găsirii unor explicaţii şi interpretări care să distingă şi să apropie în acelaşi timp criminalitatea feminină de cea masculină. Comportamentul violent al femeilor a fost mai puţin studiat comparativ cu cel al bărbaţilor, în parte din cauză că femeile comit mai puţine crime cu violenţă, dar şi pentru că agresiunea feminină extremă are loc mai ales în ariile private sau domestice. Actele homicidale s-au dovedit a rezulta, în cea mai mare parte, din conflictele interpersonale şi au fost îndreptate de regulă împotriva partenerilor intimi, fiind considerate represalii ca răspuns la victimizarea iniţiată de partenerul bărbat. În România, VD nu apare în statistici rafinate – deşi se distinge între criminalitatea masculină şi cea feminină -, care să includă categorii nuanţate de victimizare, probabil şi pentru faptul că statisticile dau predominant atenţie agresorilor şi mai ales criminalităţii masculine.
În acest context, ni s-a părut necesară şi utilă o cercetare asupra criminalităţii feminine cu referire specială la omorul comis asupra
partenerilor de viaţă, mai ales în situaţia în care un astfel de studiu nu a existat în România, iar o astfel de investigare ar deschide în timp o perspectivă exhaustivă asupra femeii criminal şi a relaţiilor conflictuale de cuplu.În consecinţă, am considerat că structurarea studiului nostru trebuie să pornească de la general la particular, respectiv de la analizarea violenţei domestice în general la criminalitatea feminină şi profilul socio-psihologic al femeii autoare de omor asupra partenerului de viaţă (soţ/concubin).
Prezentul raport cuprinde un capitol dedicat violenţei domestice – Aurora Liiceanu – (abordări conceptuale, cercetări în domeniu, statistici, specific românesc), un altul consacrat abordării socio-psihologice a femeii criminal şi a violenţei domestice ca factor diferenţiator al criminalităţii feminine- Doina-Ştefana Săucan- , ultimul capitol fiind focalizat pe interviu şi studiu de caz, ca tehnici de cunoaştere în profunzime a femeilor investigate – Mihai Micle.
Definirea profilului socio-psihologic al femeii încarcerate pentru omor săvărşit în context familial duce, în viziunea noastră, la schiţarea unor căi mai eficiente de intervenţie şi recuperare (psihologică şi socială) în cadrul penitenciarelor/în afara lor şi la regândirea politicii de executare a pedepselor.
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FAQNW [en/fr]
Studies have shown that indigenous women have a greater risk than any other group in Canada of being victims of domestic violence. According to the available evidence, they are also significantly more likely than non Indigenous women to report the most severe and potentially life- threatening forms of violence, including being beaten or choked, having had a gun or knife used against them, or being sexually assaulted. This study examines some of the possible reasons behind these figures, as well as providing some historical background on indigenous populations within Quebec. It notes that contributing factors include: systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples, creating insecurities and tensions; economic and social deprivation; high levels of alcohol and substance abuse; poor, overcrowded living conditions; and the breakdown of traditional systems that granted indigenous women positions of equality and authority within their communities as a result of colonisation. Despite the problems faced by indigenous women, they often have restricted access to services such as women’s refuges because they cannot travel the long distances to reach them, or leave behind their jobs and families to do so. They are also often afraid their children will be taken from them by provincial or white authorities or by Indigenous child welfare workers. The report concludes that there is a need for better funded shelters and other services that indigenous women can access easily.
Violence Against Indigenous Women resources @ International Indigenous Women’s Forum [en/es]
h/t crina
Montreal, 1 November 2008. From November 25 to December 10th, the Women’s International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will highlight the 16 days of activism against gender violence with an Internet campaign to Denounce Gender violence in the media and transform media into a catalyst to end violence against women. The campaign will be broadcast at www.amarc.org/16jours [fr/en]
This years’ international theme of the campaign is « Media and Violence Against Women ». The campaign seeks to denounce gender violence in the media and will cover 3 dimensions: (a) Media as an instrument in combating violence against women. (b) Violence against women as projected in the media which “normalizes” violence; (c) violence committed against women media practitioners. The 16 days campaign starts on November 25th with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women; it continues on November 29th with the International Women’s Human Rights Defenders Day; followed by December 1: World AIDS Day; December 6: Commemoration day of the Montreal (Canada) Massacre in 1989 and ends with the December 10th: International Human rights Day. The campaign will be broadcast at www.amarc.org/16jours
Community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean will dedicate these 16 days to highlight the effort of women and men working to put an end to gender violence. The programs featured will include documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry, music and much more. This multilingual broadcast campaign mobilizes community radios around a global issue and encourages them to use new communication technologies such as the Internet to extend the reach of their voices. Radio stations around the globe are invited to download the audio files from the AMARC-WIN 16 days website and broadcast them in their radio stations.
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www.rebelles2008.org [fr/en]
Manifeste du Rassemblement pancanadien des jeunes féministes [en below]
Nous sommes les jeunes RebELLEs qui ont répondu à un appel féministe et nous sommes fières de nous dire féministes. Nous reconnaissons qu’il existe de multiples interprétations du féminisme et nous célébrons et intégrons cette diversité. Nous sommes engagées à favoriser l’expansion continue de la pluralité de nos voix. Nous sommes engagées dans un processus constant de réflexion autocritique visant à alimenter et transformer notre mouvement. Nous reconnaissons qu’au cours de l’histoire, le mouvement féministe occidental majoritaire a exclu les femmes « altérisées » qui sont représentées comme « autres » ou extérieures à la norme blanche par l’idéologie colonialiste. Nous sommes déterminées à apprendre de notre passé, à honorer les luttes menées par nos prédécesseures et à nourrir nos rêves pour l’avenir. Nous apprécions le soutien de nos alliés qui appuient nos luttes féministes pour l’équité et la justice.
Nous sommes des femmes de diverses capacités, ethnicités, origines, sexualités, identités, classes, âges et « races ». Nous comptons parmi nous des femmes employées, sous-employées et sans-emploi, des mères, des étudiantes, des décrocheuses, des artistes, des musiciennes, et des femmes dans l’industrie du sexe. Nous pensons que les personnes trans, bispirituelles et intersexuées font partie intégrante de notre mouvement. Nous reconnaissons et respectons la fluidité des genres et appuyons le droit à l’auto-identification. Nos espaces non mixtes sont ouverts à toutes celles qui s’identifient et vivent socialement comme femmes.
On nous dit que le féminisme est dépassé. Si c’était vrai, nous n’aurions pas besoin de dénoncer le fait que :
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At the end of the month, starting November 25th and until December 10th are the 16 days of activism against gender violence
16 DAYS CAMPAIGN >> 2008 Theme: “Human Rights for Women ‹—› Human Rights for All: UDHR60”
Download:
Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders [PDF]
by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development
Interactive site:
Progress of the World’s Women 2008 Report (UNIFEM)
si citeva informatii in lb. romana:
Campania celor 16 zile 2006, campanii pentru cele 16 zile 2007, situatia cu violenta domestica in romania
25 Octombrie 2008, evz.ro – despre raportul ONU, violenta de gen: “Cum reacţionezi când vezi o femeie agresată pe stradă?”
Scrisoare deschisa trimisa de catre o fata…
Stimati administratori si nu in ultimul rand, oameni. Obisnuiam sa-mi beau cu placere cafeaua sau berea in cadrul clubului Fire, pana nu demult. Pana in seara asta (joi, 30 octombrie), cand am aflat ca va avea loc un concert a unor persoane de care nu as fi vrut sa aud vreodata.
Niste oameni (daca pot fi numiti asa) care isi vand muzica prin umilirea altor oameni, mai precis, prin umilirea femeilor.Astfel de persoane, care promoveaza violenta intr-un mod atat de evident … si brutal, nu fac decat sa ma raneasca, sa ma umileasca si sa-mi afecteze stima de sine, ca femeie, ca OM.
restul scrisorii se poate citi aici
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 21 (IPS) – An organisation of over 100 journalists in Argentina has drawn up ten “commandments” for news coverage of gender-based crimes, which include avoiding expressions like “crime of passion” and incorporating terms like “femicide.”
The document, by the Argentine Network of Journalists for Non-Sexist Communication (PAR), has already been debated in forums and delivered to social and cultural associations and editorial offices. It will be publicly launched on Nov. 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Its aim is to combat “invisible discrimination, which is often unintentional, but occurs because it has become natural in daily life,” Liliana Hendel, a psychologist and journalist for the subscription television news channel Todo Noticias, and one of the authors of the ten commandments, or decalogue, told IPS. …
1. The following terms are correct usage: violence against women, gender-based violence and sexist violence.
2. Gender-based violence is a crime insofar as it is illegal behaviour that must be prevented and punished, a social problem, an assault on the right to life, dignity, and physical and psychological integrity of women, and an issue that concerns the defence of human rights.
3. We will uproot from our work the term “crime of passion” to refer to murders of women who are victims of gender violence. Crimes of passion do not exist.
4. It is of the utmost importance to protect the identity of the victim, rather than that of the aggressor. Make it clear who is the aggressor and who is the victim, and indicate what attitudes and situations may put women in violent relationships at risk, to help raise their awareness about their situation.
5. Some information can harm the victims and their families. It is not always a good idea to identify the victim. It is offensive to refer to victims by diminutives, short forms of proper names, nicknames, and so on.
6. We will never look for justifications or “motives” (alcohol, drugs, arguments, jealousy, a couple’s separation, infidelity, and so on) that only distract attention from the central issue: violence. The cause of gender-based violence is the control and domination that certain men exercise over women.
7. It is essential to check the facts, especially from official sources.
8. Keep the subject on the agenda by denouncing violence in all its forms: psychological, economic, and emotional, without waiting for women to be killed. Tell the story taking into account the uniqueness of each event, but also the elements that each has in common with other cases. This will help us avoid the use of expressions like “once again” or “yet another case of,” and prevent a dulling of sensitivities.
9. Be particularly careful with the photographs and images illustrating the article. Respect the victims and their families, and avoid sexism, sensationalism and obscenity. Never steal images or audio material from a victim. When using a musical background, do not select motifs that inspire terror, or lyrics that talk about “love-sickness” or jealousy.
10. Our articles will always include a free telephone helpline number for victims, and any other information that may be useful for them.
via s., source