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WHO
Half of the world’s children, or approximately one billion children each year, are affected by physical, sexual or psychological violence, suffering injuries, disabilities and death, because countries have failed to follow established strategies to protect them.
This is according to a new report published by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNESCO, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the End Violence Partnership.
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Members - The Nominating Committee is accepting applications from regular members for the following open positions on the Board of Directors, Nominating Committee, and Commission for Forensic Nursing Certification. Apply by July 3, 2020.
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The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center and the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) are excited to offer two free virtual SOAR for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) trainings. The virtual SOAR for SANE is a 201-level training designed to support SANEs, SAFEs, and other health care providers in identifying and responding to trafficking in their professional setting. Before attending the training, participants are required to complete the following online modules (2 hours total): SOAR for Health Care, Trauma-Informed Care, and Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services.
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This is a time to come together with your peers, ask questions, and discuss creative solutions to challenges forensic nurses experience. During our next Open Office Hours we will discuss Subpoenas with Angelita Olowu, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, Sara Jennings, DNP, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, AFN-BC, Susan Chasson MSN, JD, SANE-A, and Jen Markowitz, ND, RN, WHNP-BC, SANE-A, DF-IAFN. Register today.
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ProPublica
Jason Thompson lay awake in his dormitory bed in the Marion Correctional Institution in central Ohio, immobilized by pain, listening to the sounds of “hacking and gurgling” as the novel coronavirus passed from bunk to bunk like a game of “sick hot potato,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
Thompson lives in Marion’s dorm for disabled and older prisoners — a place he described to ProPublica in a phone call as the prison’s “old folks home” — where 199 inmates, many frail and some in wheelchairs, were isolated in a space designed for 170. As the disease spread among bunks spaced three or four feet apart, Thompson said he could see bedridden inmates with full-blown symptoms and others “in varying stages of recovery. While the rest of us are rarely six feet away from anyone else, sick or not.”
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NBC News
A study commissioned by the Congressional Black Caucus shows in recent years self-reported suicide attempts by Black teens increased by 73 percent. The rate decreased for white teens. Black children younger than 13 were twice as likely to die by suicide than white children.
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The Conversation
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have been given unprecedented media attention for their daily, selfless sacrifices. Make no mistake: COVID-19 patients recover largely because of the nursing services they receive. Yet hidden within the layers of care rendered by nurses are the psychological traumas they endure.
Now, as nurses are hailed as health care heroes during the pandemic, we’re faced with what to do about these psychological injuries, not only for the four million nurses in the U.S. – the largest health care workforce in America – but for the rest of us who depend on them.
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CNN
At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.
They're not treating people for COVID-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation, a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.
Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.
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The Conversation via PhysOrg
The coronavirus pandemic has driven much of daily life—work, school, socializing—online. Unfortunately, perpetrators of violence against women and girls are also increasingly turning to technology in response to the pandemic.
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The New York Times
Marty Goddard’s first flash of insight came in 1972. It all started when she marched into a shabby townhouse on Halsted Street in Chicago to volunteer at a crisis hotline for teenagers. As a volunteer, Ms. Goddard lent a sympathetic ear to the troubled kids then called “runaway teenagers.” They were pregnant, homeless, suicidal, strung out. She was surprised to discover that many weren’t rebels who’d left home seeking adventure; they were victims who had fled sexual abuse. The phones were ringing with the news that kids didn’t feel safe around their own families. “I was just beside myself when I found the extent of the problem,” she later said.
She began to formulate questions that almost no one was asking back in the early ’70s: Why were so many predators getting away with it? And what would it take to stop them?
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Reuters
Rape conviction rates in Sweden have risen 75 percent in two years following a major change in the law, spurring calls for other countries to revamp their legislation.
Sweden changed the legal definition of rape in 2018 to sex without consent. Unlike in many countries, prosecutors do not have to prove the use or threat of violence or coercion.
The National Council on Crime Prevention said the rise in convictions - up from 190 in 2017 to 333 in 2019 - showed the change had had a greater impact than expected.
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Taylor and Francis via Medical Xpress
Sexual consent for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men presents a unique challenge in comparison to those of other sexes and sexual orientations.
These are the findings of a new comprehensive study which took in detailed and personal first-hand accounts from this community of men from the United States, Canada, the UK, and several Western European nations including Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
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UC Davis Health
In the first four years since California established extreme risk protection order policies, use of the relatively new violence prevention tool has increased substantially, a UC Davis Violence Prevention Program study has found. The majority of orders were requested by law enforcement officers for recipients who are male and white.
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University of East Anglia via PhysOrg
The methods used by so-called 'pedophile hunter' groups need to be subjected to more rigorous official oversight, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Vigilante citizen groups around the UK have organized in recent years to launch covert operations to entrap people they suspect of trying to commit child sexual offenses, often filming the moment a suspect arrives at an arranged encounter. These groups usually report the alleged crime to police, but often post video footage of the confrontation on social media channels, sometimes livestreaming it in real time.
The activities of these groups, which have sometimes involved the use of violence against alleged suspects, are antithetical to numerous core values and functions of the criminal justice system, said Dr. Joe Purshouse, a lecturer in criminal law in the UEA's School of Law. His findings are published in the Journal of Law and Society.
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