(Oct 14) This week's site updates

[Randy McCall]

The following updates have been made to our various sites:

VAOnline.org

http://www.vaonline.org/

New online documents added to our Virtual Library:

- Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey (USA)

- Human Trafficking Into and Within the United States: A Review of the Literature (USA)

- Internet Crime Report 2008 (USA)

- Moving knowledge into action: applying social marketing principles to crime prevention (Australia)

- National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims Post-Symposium Brief (USA)

- Progress for Children: A Report Card on Child Protection (UNICEF)

- Stop - Think - Click: Seven Practices for Safer Computing (USA)

- United Nations Criminal Justice Standards for United Nations Police (UN)

 

Blog Posts

"Time's Up" blog:

- Society in Motion: How Victim Rights Are Becoming Human Rights

http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/society-in-motion-how-victim-rights-are.html

V3@E (Victim services, rights and victimology on the Internet) blog

http://rmccallonline.wordpress.com/

- Recent media trends in V3 (Victim services, rights, victimology)

- (USA) Domestic violence victim evicted for reporting

Twitter News Feed

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

- Human rights chief and expert denounce execution of juvenile offender in Iran (United Nations)

- Police Minister visits family of victim shot by police officers who mistook her for hijacker - Victim groups object

- Anti-human trafficking partnership between LexisNexis and the Polaris Project (USA, Video report)

- Defense Department works to end Domestic Violence (USA)

- Violent partners will be banned from their homes and their victims given support to escape abuse under new powers (UK)

- UK’s Home Security cracks down on anti-social behaviour (UK)

- Woman reports domestic abuse - then is evicted (USA)

- Man urges MPs to bolster victims' rights (Canada)

- Zuma's tough stance against crime wins praise (South Africa)

- (Isle of Man, UK) Crime victims may get a say on punishments

- (USA): Gov. Schwarzenegger signs legislation supporting Crime Victims

- (USA) U.S. reaches out on crime - Interpol countries huddle

- (USA): Teens often don't grasp the consequences of sexting

- (Indonesia) New Aceh law imposes torture

- (USA) Fixing the information mismatch in Juvenile Justice

- (USA) Death-penalty-case backlog spurs hastening of process

- (UK) ID fraud prevention week fights UK's fastest growing crime

- (Saudi Arabis) Saudi activists rush to launch rights group

- Children’s Exposure to Violence: A National Survey (US DOJ Blog)

- Dubai turns up heat on human traffickers (Dubai)

- Tories set to unveil get-tough legislation on white collar crime (Canada)

- It's not fair that criminal justice groups serving offenders get bulk of support, critics say (Canada)

- How this generous girl became a 'caged animal' (Canada)

- House votes to expand Hate Crimes definition (USA)

- Judge: Defendant’s rights trump those of victims (USA)

- Idaho insurance laws for victims of abuse cause issues (USA)

- Abuses against children persist despite Rights Convention (USA)

- Disability Hate Crime conference video report

- Senators vote against measure to help victims of rape who work for government contractors (USA)

- Judge: W.Va. shelter rules biased against men (USA)

- Lubanga trial: Is an army of child soldiers a war crime?

- Israel foreign minister: Peace deal impossible now

- Number of reported rapes in US drops to lowest level in two decades (Guardian, UK)

- Naked, sore, bruised and bleeding: alleged U.S. contractor rape victim fights for day in court (USA)

- Moving knowledge into action: applying social marketing principles to crime prevention (Australia)

- Crime Victim E-News (Adelaide, Australia)

- Will 'engaging' China, Myanmar improve their human rights records? (Radio Free Europe)

- Sex-offender program in limbo (Canada)

- Supreme Court confronts free speech, animal cruelty, gun rights, violent crime, and national sovereignty issues (USA)

- Franken amendment to protect victims of sexual assault passes (Minnesota, USA)

- 'Victims' rights should take priority' say Conservatives (UK)

- CFA launches ''Child Safe Nation'' campaign (Canada)

- Erin Andrews case exposes privacy risks (USA)

- Moldovan national pleads guilty in Missouri to forced labor trafficking (USA)

- Reported rapes hit 20-year low (USA)

- Victims’ claims languish (Indiana, USA)

- U.S. top diplomat slams human rights violation in Guinea (USA)

- Tories claim human rights concerns stop police from naming criminals (UK)

Randy McCall

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