This week's site updates

[Randy McCall]

LATEST UPDATE: March 2

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:

- ABA Commission on Domestic Violence (USA)

- Ah-shawah-bin Sioux Lookout / Lac Seul Victim Support Services (Canada)

- L´ Associazione Italiana Vittime della Violenza - Italian Association of Victims of Violence (Italy)

- Barnaba Institute, The (USA)

- Crisis Response Services Kenora Rainy River District (Canada)

- Hope For Healing Podcasts (Podcasts, USA)

- International Law Observer (Blog, European Union)

- Living Well (Australia)

- National Police Service - Police Support for Crime Victims (Japan)

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

- Chart a Course: Policies That Affect Victim Services for Teens (USA)

On the VAOnline.org Fusion Report blog

http://vaonlinefusion.blogspot.com/

- Call for restraint from the media and public when victims are involved

On our Twitter headline news feed

http://twitter.com/vaonline

(USA) Could more have been done to end the abuse that ended in beheading?

(USA) Utah crime victims seek 'do-overs' when rights violated

(Scotland, United Kingdom) Criminal age to be raised to 12

(USA) New Hampshire voice for crime victims: Lawmaker files compensation bill

(Canada) Ontario-wide strategy needed for male sex abuse victims, inquiry told

(European Union) Victims of violence: Can we demand restraint from the public sphere?

(USA) Crime, justice and the immigrant

(UK) Police hope prosecution of paedophile will encourage other victims to come forward

(Mozambique) Girls' clubs highlight sexual abuse

(Northern Ireland) Victims of crime 'need more support'

(Ireland) Victims’ groups support electronic tagging plans

(USA) Nevada: Changes sought in crime victim law

(USA): Supreme Court - No guns for people guilty of domestic violence

(UK) Plan to "name and shame" local offenders

(USA) Utah Attorney general: Justice delayed is justice denied

(USA) Lawmakers cite economic crisis in effort to ban death penalty

(USA) FBI Innocence Lost national initiative

(USA) Child sex cases involving women are on the rise in Texas

(Australia) National Day of Mourning in Australia for fire victims

(USA) Victim assistance agencies aided child victims in recent national child prostitution arrests

(Malta) Parole, victim-offender mediation to be addressed in next reform bill

(Scotland, UK) Hope for 'silent' middle-class abuse victims

(USA) Child pornographer ordered to pay victim restitution

(USA) News in Levy case affects survivors of victims in less-publicized killings

Randy McCall

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