This week's site updates

[Randy McCall]

The following have been added to our various sites:

VAOnline.org: Available at: http://www.vaonline.org/new.html

Latest online articles added to our directories:

• Activating a Victim Constituency in International Criminal Justice (Australia)
• Use of Truth-telling Devices in Sexual Assault Investigations (USA)

Twitter News Feed items for the past week:

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Victim silence troubles sex-crimes investigators (Canada): http://bit.ly/yQT8N

   

Document: Activating a Victim Constituency in International Criminal Justice - Mark Findlay: http://tinyurl.com/p8epy6

   

VOICE UK Promoting Justice for Vulnerable Victims of Crime (UK): http://tinyurl.com/lshtzu

   

Technological means to access to justice? (Canada): http://bit.ly/BcJuY

   

Justice Department commemorates fifteen years of the Violence Against Women Act (USA): http://tinyurl.com/pj6ny5

   

ICC launches new digital publication - the ICC Weekly Update: http://tinyurl.com/mp83ps

Indonesian rights groups condemn new stoning law: http://tinyurl.com/q4mswv

   

Egypt combats human trafficking: http://bit.ly/twPOQ

   

Fight against rape a brutal wait (Liberia): http://bit.ly/wA38o

   

Document: The Use of Truth-Telling Devices in Sexual Assault Investigations (USA): http://bit.ly/3vRL4

   

Man seeks government compensation for son killed by pedophile (Canada): http://bit.ly/1hdwxk

   

UK plans to tackle hate crime and provide better support to victims: http://bit.ly/wuSIc

   

US DOJ Crime in the US 2008: http://bit.ly/3vt6HT

   

Today is the third anniversary of the shooting at Dawson College (Montreal, Qc, Canada): http://tinyurl.com/m5s9j4

   

DNA backlog delays cause frustration, concerns (Louisiana, USA) http://tinyurl.com/q5kqkm

   

U.S. gives new rights to Afghan prisoners (USA): http://tinyurl.com/pesuh5

Judge rejects victim's plea to set aside attacker's plea deal (California, USA): http://tinyurl.com/kquv2a

   

Cybercrime has surpassed illegal drug trafficking as a criminal moneymaker (USA): http://tinyurl.com/mxz474

   

Human rights lawyer seeks change in laws: ‘If a man has sex with wife without her consent, it’s rape’ (Nigeria): http://tinyurl.com/lnu724

   

U.S. Sentencing Commission urged to give judges more flexibility: http://tinyurl.com/nhgsgj

   

Acid attack victim gets surgery, but not justice (Pakistan): http://tinyurl.com/nh5r87

   

Tourist in Belfast says: "My rape was shock news, so why did you forget about it and me so quickly?" (N. Ireland): http://tinyurl.com/ncpctz

   

Human Rights Watch: letter to South African and European Union governments in advance of EU-South Africa Summit: http://tinyurl.com/mqkghz

   

Identity theft victims could seek compensation (Michigan, USA): http://tinyurl.com/m83s9h

   

Amnesty International says Iran rape victims at renewed risk: http://tinyurl.com/nxw8wo

   

Sometimes the victim is at fault, argues Rutgers–Newark Law Professor Vera Bergelson in new book: http://tinyurl.com/r5gmd4

   

U.S. remembers victims of September 11 attacks: http://tinyurl.com/mfnc96

   

Left to die, survivor now seeks justice (USA): http://tinyurl.com/lh4guv

   

U.S. Citizen arraigned on charges of International Sex Tourism (USA, DOJ): http://tinyurl.com/mbkavp

   

Kent Victim Support workers recognized (UK): http://tinyurl.com/m8sy6m

   

Judge uses public shaming as punishment in some cases (USA): http://tinyurl.com/mkjb9m

   

DNA pioneer calls for innocent to be taken off database: http://tinyurl.com/m4k96q

Randy McCall

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