Archivo etiqueta «Violencia sexual»
By Kimberley Motley, an American lawyer who practices in the United States and Afghanistan, where she works on human rights and other cases (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/01/12):
“Please help us.”
Those were the first words that my client, Gulnaz, said when I met her inside the Kabul prison that was home to hundreds of women, many of whom, like her, were locked away for so-called moral crimes — adultery or running away from home. The frail 20-year-old clung to her baby, who was conceived through rape and born on the prison floor, where mother and child had lived for … Seguir leyendo
By Eric Berkowitz, a San Francisco writer and lawyer and the author of the forthcoming book Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 07/12/11):
The story of Gulnaz, a young Afghan woman who was raped and then jailed for having sex out of wedlock, has once again drawn international attention to Afghanistan’s legal system and its institutionalized discrimination against women.
After giving birth in prison to her attacker’s child, Gulnaz, who goes by a single name, was eventually pardoned, perhaps because news of her plight was reported by a documentary filmmaker. But to win … Seguir leyendo
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., founder and editor-in-chief of the American Spectator and an adjunct scholar at the Hudson Institute. His new book is After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 07/09/11):
Readers of this column will remember that when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off an Air France flight in May just as it was about to vamoose for Paris, I was suspicious. The story and circumstances of his adventure with the chambermaid, Nafissatou Diallo, in the Sofitel hotel kept changing. In the meantime, he was accorded the indignity of the “perp walk.” He was … Seguir leyendo
By Scott Turow, a lawyer and the author, most recently, of the novel Innocent (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/08/11):
In one of those ironies that novelists relish, the on-again-off-again rape prosecution of the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn seems to have gravely damaged the political careers of both the prosecutor and the defendant.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who was once the likely Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy in the next French presidential election, returns home seen, in the best light, as a self-confessed cad who had sex with a hotel maid just before lunching with his daughter and flying … Seguir leyendo
By Martina E. Vandenberg, an attorney in Washington who represents human trafficking victims pro bono in federal lawsuits brought under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/06/11):
Watching Dominique Strauss-Kahn plummet from managing director of the International Monetary Fund to criminal defendant, one could be forgiven for believing that diplomats do not get away with crimes committed in the United States. But one would be wrong.
Strauss-Kahn had functional immunity as head of the IMF, so only acts that fell within his official duties were covered. But if Strauss-Kahn had been a diplomat, even a low-ranking attaché, … Seguir leyendo
By Kim Barker, a reporter for the investigative journalism Web site ProPublica and the author of the forthcoming memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/02/11):
Thousands of men blocked the road, surrounding the S.U.V. of the chief justice of Pakistan, a national hero for standing up to military rule. As a correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, I knew I couldn’t just watch from behind a car window. I had to get out there.
So, wearing a black headscarf and a loose, long-sleeved red tunic over jeans, I waded through the crowd … Seguir leyendo
By Margot Wallström, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, former vice president of the European commission and chair of the council of women world leaders’ ministerial initiative (THE GUARDIAN, 15/08/10):
What does the financial reform package recently signed into law in the US have to do with preventing mass rape in Africa? Quite a lot, it seems, but one has to search deeply within the 2,300-page document to find Section 1502, which focuses on “conflict minerals”. Conflict minerals help finance fighting and sexual violence on an unprecedented scale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo … Seguir leyendo
By Mary Lou Hartman, a documentary filmmaker (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/12/09):
I was just raped.
Not just, as in recently, though sometimes it feels like yesterday, but just as in only. I was only raped, not mutilated. I did not have a bottle or stick or gun shoved into my vagina, twisted to inflict maximum injury. Though damaged, I did not have my breasts lopped off, nor did I lose a limb. I was left intact, though far from whole.
I did not feel lucky 4 1/2 years ago, when I was raped, but I do feel lucky today … Seguir leyendo
By Eve Ensler, a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls (THE WASHINGTON POST, 30/06/09):
Just over a year ago, in answering whether sexual violence in conflict was an issue that the U.N. Security Council should take on, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proclaimed, “I am proud that, today, we respond to that lingering question with a resounding ‘yes!’ ” With this statement, and with the cooperation of other power brokers at the table, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1820, which finally recognized sexual violence as a … Seguir leyendo
By Sarah Tofte, a researcher at Human Rights Watch (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/07/08):
Every two minutes, someone is raped in the United States. Every year, more than 200,000 rape victims, mostly women, report their rapes to police. Most consent to the creation of a rape kit, an invasive process for collecting physical evidence (including DNA material) of the assault that can take up to six hours. What most victims don’t know is that in thousands of cases, that evidence sits untested in police evidence lockers.
The backlog of untested evidence gained national attention in 2001 when Debbie Smith, a … Seguir leyendo
By Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia and the author of the novel The Opposite of Love and the forthcoming The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/05/08):
This Memorial Day, as an ever-increasing number of mentally and physically wounded soldiers return from Iraq, the Department of Veterans Affairs faces a pressing crisis: women traumatized not only by combat but also by sexual assault and harassment from their fellow service members. Sadly, the department is failing to fully deal with this problem.
Women make up some 15 percent of … Seguir leyendo
By Anne Applebaum (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/12/07):
“A court in country X sentenced a black man who had been severely beaten by white men to six months in jail and 200 lashes.”
How would you react if you read that in a newspaper? Shock, horror, anger at the regime in country X, no doubt. And once you learned that punishing blacks for associating with whites is routine in country X, you might even get angrier. You might call for sanctions, you might insist that country X not participate in the Olympics. You might demand that country X be treated like … Seguir leyendo
Por Beatriz Preciado, profesora en la Universidad París VIII-Saint-Denis (LA VANGUARDIA, 11/11/07):
Cuando François D´Eaubonne inventó en 1969 el término falocracia para hablar de la dominación simbólica y política del falo en la cultura occidental, no hubiera podido imaginar que ese mismo falo era en realidad objeto de una intensa vigilancia y que se convertiría en el centro de una creciente normalización biopolítica. Entre mediados del siglo XX, cuando el psiquiatra Harry Benjamin descubre el efecto de las hormonas sexuales sobre la respuesta genital a la excitación, y los albores del XXI, cuando los laboratorios Pfizer, Bayer y Lilly … Seguir leyendo