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Hot Topic Session: Violence Against Women Act
March 31, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EST
Join IAFN for a brief celebration of the passing of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), bipartisan legislation passed by Congress as part of the Omnibus appropriations package. VAWA enables forensic nurses to meet our mission of providing trauma-informed nursing care to populations affected by violence by funding work in key settings and systems. Sign up today.
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HOLD ME RIGHT Film – Exclusive Virtual Screening & Panel Discussion
March 29, 7:00 PM-9:45 PM EST
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How technology might bring war criminals to justice in Ukraine
Forbes
There are rules when it comes to war. Russia just isn’t following them.
Video and photographs from the besieged port city of Mariupol in southeast Ukraine have seared images into the global consciousness of pregnant women evacuating a bombed hospital – one woman being carried through the rubble on a stretcher, her pelvis bloodied; another woman walking down the stairs of the destroyed building in polka dot pajamas with cuts and bruises on her face.
As the war of words plays out between governments, people on the ground in Ukraine have been documenting the atrocities in real-time, which are now shared and amplified worldwide through the press, online messaging apps and social media platforms. This proliferation of information aided by technology has global human rights experts cautiously optimistic that Russia’s war in Ukraine could finally be a tipping point for holding those who commit war crimes, specifically attacks on patients and hospitals, accountable for their actions.
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Out-of-pocket charges for rape kits and services for sexual assault survivors
Kaiser Family Foundation
Sexual violence is a public health concern that affects every community and often has lasting impacts on health and well-being.
While the intent of the Violence Against Women Act is to guarantee full coverage for rape kits or forensic exam services to survivors of sexual violence, some people are still charged for rape kit services.
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NYPD accused of secretly collecting DNA from thousands of New Yorkers for 'rogue' database
CBS News
The Legal Aid Society has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of surreptitiously collecting genetic material from thousands of New Yorkers and storing it indefinitely in a "rogue" DNA database. According to the lawsuit filed March 21 in federal court in Manhattan, the police routinely offer people who are being questioned about a crime a beverage, a cigarette or chewing gum and then collect DNA from the items.
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One in three children with disabilities globally have experienced violence in their lifetimes
Lancet via Medical Xpress
Children and adolescents (aged 0-18 years) with disability experience physical, sexual, and emotional violence, and neglect at considerably higher rates than those without disability, despite advances in awareness and policy in recent years, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies involving more than 16 million young people from 25 countries conducted between 1990 and 2020, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal.
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Harassment of public health officials all too common in pandemic
CIDRAP
More than a third of local and state public health officials who resigned or were fired in the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic reported incidents of workplace violence such as threats, harassment, and intimidation, according to a mixed-methods U.S. study in the American Journal of Managed Care.
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NIH analysis of Reddit forum suggests experience of non-suicidal self-harm shares characteristics with addiction
National Institutes of Health
A large majority of individuals who reported and discussed non-suicidal self-injury on the social media platform Reddit described their experience in terms similar to those used to diagnose substance use disorder, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health, who analyzed more than 350,000 posts and comments. People who posted on a forum dedicated to discussion of self-harm, called r/selfharm, from 2010 to 2019 often directly referred to their self-injuring activities as an “addiction,” citing cravings and escalating severity or tolerance, and regularly used terms employed by people recovering from substance use disorders, such as getting “clean” or “relapsing.” The study, published in Journal of Behavioral Addictions, was conducted by scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of NIH.
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Lifelong repercussions
Harvard Medical School
How do childhood experiences shape the rest of our lives? How does adversity in early life affect us later on? These questions have occupied researchers’ interest for decades. While many unknowns remain, one overarching consensus has emerged—individuals who experience abuse and neglect while growing up tend to carry the aftereffects of that trauma into their adult lives. The repercussions can range from the emotional to the physical, manifesting in risk-taking behaviors, such as drug use, or mental and physical health problems, like depression and heart disease. Now, a study involving former National Football League players is adding a new dimension to research in the field. Former professional football players experienced childhood adversity at rates similar to the general population. Those with a childhood history of abuse and neglect were more likely to screen positive for dementia, and were placed at significantly greater risk for pain and depression in their later years.
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