Sept 22: This week's site updates

[Randy McCall]

On the VAOnline.org web site:

View links at: http://www.vaonline.org/new.html

The following links to online organizations and services have been added:

 

• Practical tips for military families living with combat stress and PTSD (Podcast, USA)
• Sexual Abuse And/Or Assault: Advice For Husbands And Significant Others (Video, USA)
• Sexual Abuse And/Or Assault: Advice For Wives And Significant Others (Video, USA)

These links to online articles and documents have been added:

 

• Culturally Competent Service Provision to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survivors of Sexual Violence (USA)
• Evaluation of the NSW Court Liaison Services (Australia)
• Future Trends in State Courts 2009 (USA)

Our Twitter News Feed items for the past week:

Follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/randymccall

- Records of rape crime 'distorted': Rape claims are being left off official crime records (BBC, UK): http://bit.ly/VOyTw

   

- U Visas speed up for immigrants who flee abuse (USA): http://bit.ly/XSLyR

   

- Kids as young as age 10 can be registered as sex offenders, a label lasting a decade (USA): http://bit.ly/178sYv

   

- Courts in 34 states have used DNA testing to reverse more than 230 criminal convictions (USA): http://tinyurl.com/mo99la

   

- Why victims challenge accused right to silence, request change in laws (New Zealand): http://tinyurl.com/m8m3qe

   

- More detail on why NZ victims challenge accused right to silence (New Zealand): http://tinyurl.com/m8m3qe

   

- Check the Twitter stream of IGaK, the Institute for Violence Prevention and Applied Criminology (Berlin, Germany): http://tinyurl.com/mbmu82

   

- Punished for abuse: Domestic abuse victims often face troubles at work (USA): http://tinyurl.com/llmxyu   

- Minister of Home Affairs says drive against human trafficking and crime against women to be intensified (India): http://tinyurl.com/lkkqmz

   

- Police sketch artist lends helping hand to crime victims ( Mass., USA): http://tinyurl.com/kola9b

   

- Site honors victims of violent crime (Miami, USA): http://tinyurl.com/m5psql1

   

- Criminalize girl-child circumcision (Uganda): http://tinyurl.com/nzuh34

   

- Allow juries to consider if the accused choose to remain silent; other changes to laws recommended (New Zealand): http://tinyurl.com/ntsqe7

   

- Changes sought in how kids testify (Omaha, USA): http://tinyurl.com/o6uuc9

   

- It's essential to support rape victims, not the perpetrators (Belfast, N. Ireland): http://bit.ly/9inDG

Randy McCall

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