Archivo etiqueta «Maltrato infantil»
By Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu, a former president of Ireland and archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, respectively. Both are members of The Elders, a group of global leaders focusing on conflict and humanitarian issues (THE WASHINGTON POST, 06/12/10):
Dhaki is from the southern region of Ethiopia. At age 13, instead of going to school, Dhaki was marrried and tended cattle for her family. Her husband, 11 years older than she, regularly forced himself on her. Her nightly cries were ignored by her neighbors, and she was shunned by her community for not respecting the wishes of her husband.… Seguir leyendo
By Deborah Tuerkheimer, a professor of law at De Paul University and a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/09/10):
A woman calls 911 to report that a baby in her care has gone limp. Rescue workers respond immediately, but the infant dies that night. Though there are no external injuries or witnesses to any abuse, a jury convicts the woman of shaking the baby to death.
More than 1,000 babies a year in the United States are given a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. And since the early 1990s, many hundreds of people — … Seguir leyendo
By Joachim Theis, child protection advisor, UNICEF regional office for West and Central Africa, Dakar, Senegal (THE GUARDIAN, 29/07/10):
Beliefs in witchcraft and other occult forces are widespread in Africa, as they are in many other parts of the world. Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters not as natural occurrences, but as the result of the activities of supernatural powers. Families commonly consult traditional healers who divine the cause of the calamity. In some cultures, spirits are held responsible, while in others, individuals are identified as witches and blamed for the misfortune. Usually old and … Seguir leyendo
By Keith Chappell, based at the Las Casas Institute on Ethics, Goverannce and Social Responsibility at, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University and is a specialist on Christian social thought (THE GUARDIAN, 22/01/10):
I was asked to write this article as a Catholic: as a Catholic the reality that a pope has to summon bishops from any part of the world to discuss child abuse in which Catholic clergy have been involved is distressing. As a European citizen the fact that the horrors that have been uncovered in Ireland are so significant in number, so long term in nature, and so … Seguir leyendo
Por Timothy Garton Ash, catedrático de Estudios Europeos. Ocupa la cátedra Isaiah Berlin en St. Antony’s College, Oxford, y es profesor titular de la Hoover Institution, Stanford. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 21/12/09):
Hay un nuevo organismo del Gobierno británico cuya supuesta tarea es investigar a uno de cada cuatro ciudadanos para ver si somos posibles maltratadores de niños. Existen mejores formas de lograr el equilibrio entre la libertad y la seguridad.
Creo que el Gobierno británico no ha hecho lo suficiente en sus esfuerzos para proteger a nuestros niños. No basta con que la recién creada … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Arias (EL PAÍS, 03/06/09):
Una buena parte de la Iglesia católica, concretamente del clero, deja espantados y verdaderamente escandalizados a los fieles que aún creen en dicha confesión religiosa, debido al número cada día mayor de abusos a niños y adolescentes por parte del clero.
Nunca la palabra escándalo ha sido mejor usada. Y lo curioso es que esa palabra fue la usada hace más de 2.000 años por quien, según la Iglesia, fue su fundador y maestro, Jesús, el profeta de Nazareth. Y lo hizo para referirse a los abusos con los niños.
Los exégetas saben muy … Seguir leyendo
Por Irene Boada, periodista y filóloga (EL PERIÓDICO, 03/06/09):
Irlanda logró la independencia en 1922, pero ello no comportó demasiadas mejoras para el país. Habiendo quedado al margen de la industrialización, era una sociedad totalmente agrícola y con una población en constante huida de la pobreza hacia Inglaterra, paradójicamente la antigua colonizadora, o Norteamérica. El historiador Joe Lee ha llegado a afirmar que después de la independencia la situación económica empeoró más si cabe. No existía una burguesía que invirtiera en industria y había poco sentido de innovación cultural o social. En cambio, lo que se daba era un … Seguir leyendo
By Libby Purbes (THE TIMES, 25/05/09):
Understandably distracted by our own little crisis of trust, we have perhaps not taken in the apocalyptic import of a bigger one across the Irish Sea.
Perhaps it is a vague sense that we knew it all; perhaps reluctance to engage with the horrid details of the Ryan report into child abuse by Irish clerics. Perhaps some think it is old history, a 1950s horror. Maybe there is even a decorous sense that — as a new Archbishop of Westminster is enthroned here — it is tasteless to dwell on the wickedness deliberately concealed … Seguir leyendo
By John Banville, the author, most recently, of the novel The Sea (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/05/09):
Everyone knew. When the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse issued its report this week, after nine years of investigation, the Irish collectively threw up their hands in horror, asking that question we have heard so often, from so many parts of the world, throughout the past century: How could it happen?
Surely the systematic cruelty visited upon hundreds of thousands of children incarcerated in state institutions in this country from 1914 to 2000, the period covered by the inquiry, but particularly … Seguir leyendo
By Buzz Bissinger (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/08/08):
And so the Olympics are upon us ….
May God help us.
Since I have already gone on record with a Times Op-Ed article in April saying the games should be banned entirely because of their incontrovertible history of corruption and politicizing, I know I shouldn’t watch. But given my abiding interest in the bizarre spectacle that I call SportsWorld, I won’t be able to entirely ignore the endless soap operas.
I will pay close attention to the Beijing pollution index, waiting for that inevitable moment when the Chinese, with their very … Seguir leyendo
Por Julio Bronchal Cambra y Carlos Tovar Escudero (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 22/06/07):
En los últimos meses, los medios de comunicación han dado cuenta de dos decisiones judiciales similares, una adoptada en Santa Cruz de Tenerife y la más reciente en Manresa, por las que se retira temporalmente la custodia de las hijas a las madres en ambos casos para atribuírsela a los padres, después de que los peritos hayan establecido que las menores presentan un Síndrome de Alienación Parental (SAP). Este artículo pretende aportar elementos de comprensión de estas resoluciones, dado lo inusual que resulta en nuestro país que un … Seguir leyendo
By Libby Purves (THE TIMES, 07/11/06):
GAVIN HALL, a responsible health professional of 33, is starting a life sentence after killing his three-year-old daughter, texting his unfaithful wife about it and trying to kill himself. Mohammed Riaz died last week in a fire that he appears to have started in his own home, killing his wife and four children; apparently he thought she was leaving. Last month a former soldier stabbed his baby son and himself to death after his separated wife crossed him. Three years ago another separated man gassed himself and his four sons, cruelly phoning their mother … Seguir leyendo
By Inida Knight (THE TIMES, 05/11/06):
Another week, another horrifying story about men’s frequent and calamitous inability to cope with crisis. Gavin Hall, 33, was jailed for life last week after drugging then suffocating his three-year-old daughter Millie as “revenge” for his wife’s infidelity. He informed his wife of his actions by text message. Hall also killed the family cats, laying out their bodies next to his child’s, before attempting, and failing, to kill himself.
The story is reminiscent of John Hogan’s, who last summer hurled himself and his two children off a balcony in Crete after a row with … Seguir leyendo
By Camilla Cavendish (THE TIMES, 18/05/06):
IMAGINE A COUNTRY where parents accused of child abuse are assumed guilty unless proven innocent. Where secret courts need no criminal conviction to remove their children, only the word of a medical expert, and rarely let parents call their own experts in defence. Where even parents who are vindicated on appeal cannot see their children again, because they have been adopted.
And where the “welfare of the child” is used to gag them from discussing the case ever after. I live in that country.
In that country, a mother who has had her three … Seguir leyendo
By Clive Coleman, a barrister and the presenter of Radio 4′s Law In Action (THE TIMES, 27/03/06):
THIS ISN’T The Moral Maze, and I’m not Michael Buerk — but here’s a question. You’re a lone social worker in the office on a Friday afternoon and you get two calls.
The first is from a concerned neighbour. He’s seen a two-year-old girl next door crawling around, soiled and uncared for, while her two crack addict parents lie around licking rocks. The other is from a voluntary organisation advising you that a troublesome 16-year-old has been thrown out of her house … Seguir leyendo