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WHO
FIFA, WHO, and the European Commission have joined forces to launch the #SafeHome campaign to support women and children at risk of domestic violence. The campaign is a joint response from the three institutions to the recent spikes in reports of domestic violence as stay-at-home measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have put women and children experiencing abuse at greater risk.
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This newly released video series will demystify the testimony process and show how to prepare and deliver effective, evidence-based testimony.
The 2020 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice has moved online. Registration will open July 20 and sessions will begin September 23.
All regular members receive unlimited free access as part of their membership. Not a member? Join today!
June 24, 2020, 2:00-3:30 PM EST
This free webinar is designed to assist correctional professionals and SANE/SAFE providers who serve adult and juvenile confinement facilities. The presenters will explore how correctional facility operations can be coordinated with medical forensic services. Register today.
NBC News
As Dr. Trupti Katdare and her colleague, Dr, Zakia Sayyed, traced the contacts of a patient who had tested positive for the coronavirus, a mob set upon them, yelling and throwing stones.
"It was very scary," Katdare said of the incident, which took place April 1 in the Indian city of Indore. "We didn't understand what was happening. We were going to save their lives. What are they thinking?"
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UN Women
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global emergency of multiple dimensions. Most national governments have adopted extraordinary measures to protect their citizens and overcome the pandemic. Prior to the COVID-19 global crisis, 2020 was expected to be a year for reviewing achievements and accelerating progress on gender equality after 25 years of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and 20 years since UN Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. There is now major concern that COVID-19 and its impact will push back fragile progress on gender equality, including in relation to reversing discriminatory laws, the enactment of new laws, the implementation of existing legislation, and broader progress needed to achieving justice for all.
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NPR
As the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded, all eyes have been on the medical workers and public health disease detectives fighting on the front lines ― and sometimes giving their lives — to bring the coronavirus under control.
But as efforts to test for the coronavirus and trace cases continues, medical examiners and coroners play a vital — if often unsung ― role. These "last responders" are typically called on to investigate and determine the causes of deaths that are unexpected or unnatural, including deaths that occur at home.
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Roll Call
It happened almost four years ago, but the pain for Adrian Perry was still brutal as she spoke through tears on the phone about how her young daughters had been sexually abused.
It is a personal story that dramatizes a policy debate.
The abuse had happened in the summer of 2016, at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, when her twin girls had just turned 6 and an older daughter was 10.
Her husband’s former boss, Marine Corps Col. Daniel Wilson, had abused the twins, with one of the girls victimized on multiple occasions, Perry said.
It had happened during several of the periodic visits Perry and her girls paid to the home of Wilson and his wife. Perry found out about it later, she said, from her kids.
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USA Today
Pennsylvania hospitals are treating more children with severe child abuse injuries, indicating the state's most vulnerable kids are not safe at home during the coronavirus outbreak.
Several advocates and pediatricians who specialize in child abuse say they are seeing an increase in the number of abused children who need to be hospitalized.
And in perhaps the most grim outlook, a Penn State pediatrician says "the worst is yet to come."
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The Sacramento Bee
Sitting on shelves in California’s crime labs, medical facilities and law enforcement agencies, nearly 14,000 sexual assault evidence exams — so-called rape kits — are collecting dust.
The number is likely an undercount.
Only 149 agencies and laboratories reported data to the state for an audit released in April by the California Department of Justice. Eighteen public crime labs process the exams in California. Though not every department handles the kits, there are more than 690 enforcement agencies in the state. The low turnout shocked sexual assault advocates who’ve spent years advocating for more efficient testing of rape kits and relied on the audit to shed light on that need.
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ABC News
The Philippines has emerged as a global hot spot for online child sexual exploitation, and coronavirus lockdowns that restrict millions to their homes may be worsening the abuses, a U.S. official said May 21.
A new study released by the Washington-based International Justice Mission said Philippine cases of online child sexual exploitation have increased sharply in recent years with parents agreeing to have their own children victimized for the money. The private group has helped track down and prosecute offenders in the Philippines.
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Reliefweb
Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence continue to struggle to access adequate medical and mental health care, according to a new report issued by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the UN Human Rights Office.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear, if there was ever any doubt, just how important it is for everyone to have immediate and adequate access to health care,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. “For the survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, it goes beyond treating their physical injuries and psychological trauma. It is quite simply a crucial step in giving them a chance to rebuild their lives and the lives of their families.”
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CNN
It was the snap of the doctor's glove that spooked him right out of the exam room.
Chuck Christian is a large fellow, a 6-foot-4 former tight end for one of the most decorated college football programs in the country. He doesn't come off as squeamish.
Yet about 15 years ago, when a physician prepared to perform a prostate exam after Christian discovered blood in his semen, the big man simply walked out of the office. He harkened back decades to his days as a Michigan Wolverine, when team doctor Robert Anderson allegedly performed unwarranted prostate checks on athletes.
"Nobody's going to do that again," he thought as he escaped the urology clinic. "That's why I didn't go get the exam because of my fear of these digital exams that Dr. Anderson used to give me."
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Business Insider
As public health departments across the country work to contain COVID-19 outbreaks, contact tracers — the people who warn others they might've been exposed to an infectious disease — are in short supply. Many public health department workers who typically trace HIV and STD cases are being redeployed to trace coronavirus cases. Business Insider spoke with contact tracers and public health experts who are worried that the country is barreling towards some new record-high STD and HIV rates.
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