(Oct 28) This week's site and project updates

[Randy McCall]

The following updates have been made to our various sites:

VAOnline.org

http://www.vaonline.org/

New links added to our topical Directories:

• Child Abuse and Maltreatment (USA)
• Human Trafficking (USA)
• Intimate Partner Violence (USA)
• National Institute of Justice (USA)
• Rape and Sexual Violence (USA)

New online documents added to our Virtual Library:

• America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009 (USA)
• Analysis of the Mäori Experience - Findings from the New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 (New Zealand)
• Exploring victimisation in sole-parent households -Findings from the New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 ( New Zealand)
• Female Victims of Violence (USA)
• Guide to the Victims' Charter, A (New Zealand)
• New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 (New Zealand)
• Profile of Intimate Partner Violence Cases in Large Urban Counties (USA)
• Understanding Victimisation Risk: Findings from the New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 in and International Context (New Zealand)
• Victims' Experiences and Needs: Finding from the New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 (New Zealand)

Blog Posts

Time's Up Crime Victim Rights blog

http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/breaking-through-why-is-there-still.html

• Breaking Through: Why is there still resistance to victim rights in the justice system?

V3@E  blog

http://rmccallonline.wordpress.com/

• Looking at DNA in the media: victim needs vs. resource allocation
• A look at recent UK crime legislation: Yobs, ASB, ABSOs and Controversy

V3@E Twitter News Feed

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or view the Twitter widget on the VAOnline.org or V3@E home pages

 

• Free video: The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (PBS USA)
• Deadly crackdown on protesters in Guinea was "premeditated and pre-planned at the highest level" (BBC)
• UN: Zimbabwe blocks visit of torture investigator (UN)
• Victim of child porn seeks damages from viewers (USA)
• Justice Department 2.0 (USA)
• Police hold whip-round for 101-year-old crime victim (UK)
• FBI: Stings rescue 11 local underage sex workers (USA)
• Victim's assistance is vital in campaign against domestic abuse (Florida, USA)
• Scotland’s Crime And Justice survey with comments from the Justice Secretary (Scotland)
• Police look to close gap with family of crime victims through training (Virgin Islands)
• Crime victims' funding bill goes to full Senate (USA)
• Stolen cell phones and no landline leave women without way to call police (USA)
• Nearly a third of children who flee or are kicked out of their homes engage in sex for food, drugs or shelter (USA)
• Swedish Institute launches twi international films showing Sweden’s view on Human Trafficking (Sweden)
• International Journal of Transitional Justice invites submissions for special issue
• Moors murder solicitor welcomes new victim support scheme (UK)
• Peers to vote on amendment to slavery law - to make modern day slavery and forced labour illegal (UK)
• Ontario simplifies Amber Alert guidelines (Canada)
• Serious domestic violence unit modeled after homicide units - DV deaths greatly reduced (Maryland, USA)
• Rape Victim's Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance? (USA)
• Victims take issue with classifications of crimes at residence, businesses in Dallas (USA)
• Victims question early releases for inmates (Oregon, USA)
• Conversations for a Better World - Motherhood and Human Rights (United Nations Population Fund)
• Paedophiles and drug dealers 'escaping justice due to basic errors' (UK)
• French lawyers to the rescue of Guinea massacre victims (Guniea, Africa)
• Victim Support volunteer wins national award (UK)
• Draft crime bill delays help for the victims of ID theft (Australia)
• MTV EXIT Campaign & The Killers produce anti-human trafficking music video (The Human Trafficking blog)
• Crime in England and Wales 2008/09 released (UK Home Office)
• Crime victim advocates: Walking alongside the sex abuse victim (USA)
• Bill requiring tighter security and transparency on cruise ships passed (USA)
• Nigeria actually arrests, shuts down online scammers (Ars Technica)
• Human trafficking victims address UN event as Ban calls for broad-based action (United Nations)
• Human Rights Act is not a "criminals' charter" says Director of Public Prosecutions (UK)
• Violent crimes are being ignored by police, says report (UK)
• ‘Put human trafficking on SADC agenda’ (South Africa)
• Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime responds to proposed legislation on White Collar Crime (Canada)
• National Restorative Justice Symposium November 18-20, 2009, St. John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)
• We can't afford to DNA test your skirt, police tell victim of sex attack (UK)
• DNA test key in state rape kit overhaul - technology improves forensic evidence (USA)
• Victims of human trafficking speak out (United Nations)
• Web forum to discuss how to help children exposed to domestic violence - October 26, 2009, at 2 p.m. E.T (USA)
• Guineans seek out their missing after massacre (Guinea, Africa)
• RT @UN: Norway pledge to reduce world armed violence (UN)
• Burglaries on the rise - but overall crime is down (UK)
• Draft resolution on Sri Lanka before European Parliament - includes victim legislation (Sri Lanka)
• Domestic violence: get help here (Blog, South Africa): http://bit.ly/3SD6Ti   
• Police and Victim Support discuss sex offenders in Tayside workshop (Scotland)
• Govt supports tougher penalties on knife crime (Australia): http://bit.ly/2qBvFJ   
• Crimes unsolved longer due to DNA testing backlog and KBI budget cuts (USA)
• Media crime coverage in the United States 2008 (Word doc, 4th Annual Guggenheim Symposium, USA)
• 10 facts on female victims of violence (US DOJ)  
• Dad fears missing execution of daughter's killer - a father struggles with anger (USA)
• Convicted offenders to pay $50 levy under new law (New Zealand)
• Victims, families outraged by NC inmates' release (USA)
• Teen's courage helped jail rapist (UK)

Randy McCall

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