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THE BELOW (updated 12 MAR 2022)
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
Read all about the Zan, zendagi, azadi!> (Women,
life, freedom) women revolution in Iran by clicking here
The Guardian
25 Dec 2022
By Rajeev Syal
<<Home Office accused of breaking pledge to tackle violence against
women
The Home Office has been accused of breaking a promise made after the
murder of Sarah Everard to elevate violence against women and girls to
the same status as terrorism. Police forces are not yet requi-red to
make a group of misogynistic crimes such as rape, stalking and
upskirting a major priority because of a failure to issue a propo-sed
government directive, Labour said. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home
secretary, said the government department was breaking a specific pledge
made in March to introduce new priorities to protect women and girls.
<This is a shameful failure by the Conservatives to keep the basic
promise it made nearly a year ago. Their complete lack of action or
urgency is letting women and girls down,> said Cooper. <Labour pushed
for violence against women and girls to be prioritised by police for
months. For the Tories to have promised it but failed to deliver is
unforgivable, and shows just how weak and unreliable they are.> The
former home secretary Priti Patel said in March that violence against
women and girls would be made a strategic policing requirement, a
national initiative that sets out what resources police forces must
deploy to respond effectively to specific crimes. The pledge was meant
to implement one of the recommendations by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of
Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) in a report into
violence against women and girls – commissioned as part of the response
to the mur-der of Everard in March 2021 by a serving police officer. The
HMICFRS report noted that other women were recent victims of male
violence, including Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, Gracie Spinks and
Julia James. In November 2021, the Times reported that violence against
women and girls would be added to the strategic policing require-ment.
<It is an acknowledgment by ministers that there is an epidemic of
violence against women that needs to be one of the most urgent national
crimefighting priorities,> the newspaper said.
Patel said that adding violence against women and girls to the
stra-tegic policing requirement placed it on the same strategic footing
as terrorism, serious organised crime and child sexual abuse. <By ac-cepting
all of the recommendations in the HMICFRS report I commis-sioned last
year, the government and the police are doubling down to support victims
and survivors and punish perpetrators,> she said.
But nine months later, Labour says police forces have not received any
formal notification of the long-awaited strategic policing requi-rement
(SPR).>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/25/home-office-accused-breaking-pledge-tackle-violence-against-women-and-girls
Jinha
Womens News Agency
21 Dec 2022
<<Man arrested for raping two children
Amed (Diyarbakır)- The rate of sexual assault and incest cases against
women and girls is on the rise in Turkey. One of the incest cases has
recently emerged in the Bismil district of Amed. According to the
received reports, two siblings were subjected to rape by their
24-year-old stepbrother namely E.O. for two years. The incident was
revealed when their mother realized the situation and filed a criminal
complaint against E.O. After the criminal complaint, the children we-re
transferred to the Child Monitoring Center (Cocuk Izleme Merkezi- CIM).
The arrest of the perpetrator
On December 14, the statements of the mother and children were taken in
the presence of a psychologist. E.O. has been reportedly arrested for
rape in the first degree.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/man-arrested-for-raping-two-children-32485?page=1
Jinha
Womens News Center
16 Dec 2022
<<Woman killing abuser in self-defense sent to prison
News Center- Women are left unprotected by Turkey's judiciary system.
While the perpetrators of femicide and violence against women are
rewarded with impunity or released by courts pending trials, women who
kill in self-defense face heavy prison sentences. On December 12, Ayse
Temel, who lives in the Selcuklu district of Konya province, killed
Murat Can Eskici in self-defense while pro-tecting herself from being
raped. Ayse Temel has been sent to prison by a court. In her statement,
Ayse Temel said that Murat Can Eskici had systematically raped her for
three years and threatened her to rape her child, too. According to the
received report, Murat Can Ekici had previously raped one of his
relatives.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/woman-killing-abuser-in-self-defense-sent-to-prison-32463
France 24
14 Dec 2022
Video , 0.3.21 min., by Juliette Montilly
<<Fear persists 10 years after Delhi gang rape and murder
Ten years ago the brutal gangrape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi
bus horrified the world and shone a spotlight on high rates of sexual
violence in India. In 2020, four of the six attackers - one died in
jail, another was a juvenile - were hanged. But a decade after the
assault many women are still scared to travel at night in India's
capital, a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people.>>
Watch the video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20221214-fear-persists-10-years-after-delhi-gang-rape-and-murder
Jinha
Womens News Agency
9 Dec 2022
<<'Women's shelters are like prisons for women'
Amed - There are only 145 women's shelters with a capacity of 3,482
across Turkey. According to Turkey's Municipality Law (Law No. 5393),
metropolitan municipalities and municipalities with a popu-lation of
more than 100,000 must open shelters for women and chil-dren. Other
municipalities may open shelters for women and children based on an
assessment of their financial means and service priori-ties. Despite
this article, the number of women's shelters in each ci-ty is not more
than one. Ezgi Celik, volunteer of the Purple Roof Women's Shelter
Foundation (Turkish: Mor Catı Kadın Sıgınagı Vakfı) said that the number
of women's shelters is insufficient in the coun-try while the number of
women being subjected to violence increases every day. She also
emphasized that many women, who stay in wo-men's shelters, have to
return to their homes where they are subjec-ted to violence after being
subjected to maltreatment in the women's shelters.
'The capacity of the existing shelters is insufficient'
She defines women’s shelters as the places established to protect women,
who escape from domestic violence and intimate partner violence.
<Women’s shelters are not guesthouses for women; they are the places
where women take shelter to escape from violence. As NGOs, only our
foundation has a women's shelter in Turkey,> she told us. Stating that
municipalities and the Ministry of Family and Social Services also have
women's shelters, Ezgi Celik thinks the number of women's shelters in
Turkey is insufficient while the number of women being subjected to
violence increases every day.
<There are only 145 women's shelters in a country with a population of
80 million. This number is insufficient because the number of women, who
are subjected to violence, increases in the country every day. The
capacity of the existing shelters is also insufficient,> Ezgi Celik told
NuJINHA.>>
Read more here:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/women-s-shelters-are-like-prisons-for-women-32420?page=1
The Guardian
7 Dec 2022
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
<<More women accuse US doctor who died by suicide of raping them while
they were sedated
A doctor in Florida who recently died by suicide after being arrested on
allegations that he drugged and raped two patients is now accu-sed of
similarly attacking at least three other women under his care.
As of Tuesday, five patients of Eric Salata's Pura Vida cosmetic
sur-gery clinic in Naples had gone to police there and reported that the
physician had either sexually assaulted them or attempted to during
medical procedures, Adam Horowitz, an attorney for one of the wo-men,
said on Tuesday. Horowitz added that the five women had filed about 11
police reports in total accusing Salata. The latest allega-tions against
Salata came about eight days after his body was found in a woodland.
Investigators determined he had shot himself while out on bond a week
after police arrested him on suspicion of raping two of his patients
while they were unconscious. Officers alleged that Salata incapacitated
one of the patients - aged 51 - with laughing gas, the anti-anxiety
medication Xanax and tequila, which the doctor claimed were forms of
pain relief for the procedure she had hired him to perform. The other of
those surgical patients, who was 72, reported that Salata raped her –
leaving her lip bruised - after administering laughing gas to her.
Naples police arrested Salata on 21 November, after which he was
released on bond. A third woman with similar allegations against Salata
then came forward after his arrest made the news. On 28 November,
deputies with the sheriff's office in Collier county - which includes
Naples - responded to a request to check on Salata after he left his
home leaving behind two notes, his wedding ring and his credit cards,
according to a police report obtained by WINK-TV. That report redacted
the notes' contents. But deputies ultimately went to the last known
location of Salata, who was wearing an ankle monitor that a judge had
ordered to track his movements while he was out on bond. There,
authorities said they found his corpse in a ditch next to a gun.
Investigators have since said they determined that Salata had
intentionally shot himself in the head. Word of Salata's growing number
of victims on Tuesday came after his arrest and subsequent suicide
landed in news headlines across the US. Salata was scheduled for a court
appearance on 19 December on the two counts of sexual battery to a
physically helpless person with which he had been booked. He could have
faced between six and 30 years in prison for either of those charges if
convicted.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/07/florida-doctor-five-women-accuse-drugging-raping-patients
The Guardian
7 Dec 2022
By Elias Visontay
<<'A cultural reckoning': how an allegation of rape in Australia's
parliament sparked a firestorm
It is a case that has shaken Australian politics to its core. An
allegation of rape in the nation’s parliament, levelled by a government
staffer against a colleague, has led to senior ministers appearing
before court, triggered a slew of internal reviews and forced a
reckoning over the gendered dynamic and toxic atmosphere plaguing an
ecosystem devoid of workplace protections.
While Brittany Higgins’ story has become a mainstay of Australia’s
political discourse, in recent days it has taken an extraordinary turn.
Last week, before a retrial after the first was abandoned due to juror
misconduct, the prosecution of the accused man, Bruce Lehrmann, was
aborted out of concern for Higgins’ mental health.
Lehrmann had pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual intercourse
without consent and at all times maintained his innocence and de-nied
that any sexual activity occurred between himself and Higgins.
Now, the matter is likely to spill over into a civil case by Higgins
against previous government ministers, with a potential
multimillion-dollar compensation bill, and defamation claims by Lehrmann
against the media and public figures who spoke out about the
allegations.
It has also exposed shortcomings of Australia's justice system in
dealing with sexual assault claims, especially those at the centre of
intense media scrutiny.
The firestorm
On 15 February 2021, Higgins made public the accusations and set off a
firestorm. In a sit-down interview, she detailed how after an evening
work function in Canberra in March 2019, when she was 24, she and
Lehrmann returned to Parliament House, intoxicated, in the early hours
of the morning. During the trial, the court heard that Higgins alleged
that the pair entered the office of her then boss, Linda Reynolds - a
senior member of the conservative Liberal party and coalition that was
then in government - where Lehrmann raped her. Higgins claimed she lost
consciousness and woke up on a sofa in the office to find Lehrmann on
top of her. Lehrmann has repeated-ly denied this version of events. The
court heard that records showed Lehrmann left parliament about an hour
after arriving, and that a se-curity guard found Higgins naked on the
sofa hours later.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/07/a-cultural-reckoning-how-an-allegation-of-in-australias-parliament-sparked-a-firestorm
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