(Feb. 23) This week's site updates

[Randy McCall]

On the main VAOnline.org website

Viewable at: http://www.vaonline.org/new.html

The following links to organizations or services have been added to our directories:

- Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists (International)

- Crime Victims Action Alliance (USA)

- International Association of Volunteer Effort (International)

- International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (India)

- Map of Gaps (United Kingdom)

- Missing Pieces (Podcast, USA)

- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (USA)

- Ontario's Missing Adults (Canada)

- Outpost for Hope - Kids off the Grid (USA)

- Prevention Connection - The Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership (USA)

- Prevention Connection Web Conference Catalog (USA)

- Rape Crisis England and Wales (United Kingdom)

- Team HOPE (USA)

- Teen Victim Project (NCVC) Webinar Series (USA)

- The SOLD Project (International)

- United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre (United Kingdom)

The following links to online documents, articles and handbooks have been added:

- Crisis in Rape Crisis, The (United Kingdom)

- Forced Marriage Survivors Handbook (United Kingdom)

- Hope Betrayed - An analysis of women victims of trafficking and their claims for asylum (United Kingdom)

- Map of Gaps: The postcode lottery of Violence Against Women support services in Britain (United Kingdom)

- Stolen Smiles: The physical and psychological health consequences of women and adolescents trafficked in Europe (United Kingdom)

- Without Consent - A report on the joint review of the investigation and prosecution of rape offences (United Kingdom)

On the VAOnline.org Fusion Report blog

http://vaonlinefusion.blogspot.com/

- Continuing to track the effects of the economic downturn: Part III

On our Twitter headline news feed

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(USA) High Court to hear case on right to DNA

(Serbia) Appeal for improvement in the treatment of crime victims

(USA) Tennessee: Crime victim fund holds steady

(USA) Maryland using juvenile records of violent offenders to better monitor those with violent tendencies

(China) Economic crisis brings threat of crime wave to China

(USA) Domestic violence: Men are victims of abuse, too

(Vietnam) New measures to support human trafficking victims adopted

(Italy) Italy toughens penalties for rape after attacks

(USA) Leaked Rihanna photo could harm domestic abuse victims

(Belgium) Belgium takes Senegal to world court

(USA) Exploring law enforcement's response to "intimate partner violence"

(USA) Minnesota state agency seeks victims visual art, literary work for ‘Art of Recovery’ project

(Scotland) Killers to 'pay for victims' funeral' under new bill

(USA) Justice programs grants and funding in the US Recovery Act

(USA) Wisconsin Governor proposing early prison releases in state budget

(Scotland, UK) Greater support for victims of crime in new bill

(USA) Texas board makes recommendations for shrinking Victims of Crime Act funding

(USA) Compromise weighed on domestic violence bills - issue is language to remove firearms from DV suspects

(Japan) Number of child abuse victims in Japan hits record high in 2008

(USA) Online event: DNA Evidence and Property Crimes February 27, 2009: 2 pm–4 pm (EST)

(USA) New Caller ID unblocker raises red flags for domestic violence victims

(USA) US forensic science needs total overhaul: study

(USA) Crime scene DNA could create image of suspect's face

(Canada) National Victims of Crime Awareness Week website - April 26 - May 2

(US) National Crime Victims' Rights Week website- April 26 - May 2

Randy McCall

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