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FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES |
The IAFN's Spotlight-on-a-Member Project provides a befitting recognition to some of our forensic nursing colleagues and what motivates their dedication and commitment to forensic nursing.
 Please join the Membership Committee in recognizing Vickie Poulin, BSN, SANE-A
LOCATION: Worcester, Vermont, USA
WORK SETTING: University of Vermont Medical Center
FORENSIC NURSING ROLE: Vickie is a forensic nurse at the UVM Medical Center Emergency Department. She is a pediatric and adult/adolescent SANE
YEARS OF IAFN MEMBERSHIP: 12 Years
Click here to learn more about Vickie.
Do you know another IAFN member who is extraordinary? A member who makes a difference in their patients’ lives? Go ahead and nominate them for IAFN’s Spotlight-on-a-Member Project.
Every member has a cardinal duty to serve and/or select leaders who possess a compelling vision for IAFN’s future. The Election began on Oct. 1 and is open through Oct. 31, 2016, 11:59 p.m. Central Time, USA.
On Oct. 1, all regular voting members were sent an email from "Forensic Nurses Election" with their unique election username and passcode (please check your spam folder if you did not receive it).
For technical support with the election website, please call 866-909-3549 FREE or support@directvote.net (available Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Central Time, excluding holidays).
Your vote is important to the Association. Candidate information is available in the online ballot.
Participate in 2016's National Week of Action from Oct. 16-22, 2016!
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People
Last week, 24-year-old Amanda Nguyen changed the way the government handles sexual assault and rape.
On Friday, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights — also known as H.R. 5578 — into law.
The bill received bipartisan support, passing unanimously through both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The bill was written and championed by Nguyen — a rape survivor — and the advocacy organization she created, Rise.
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The News
Former President Asif Ali Zardari has lauded Parliament for consensus legislation that closes the loopholes of forgiveness in murders in the name of honour on the one hand and stops rapists from walking away with impunity on the other.
“Friday Oct. 7 will be remembered as a ground breaking day when the anti-honour killing and anti rape bills were passed in the joint session of Parliament,” he said in a statement.
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Inquisitr
As a result of Melissa’s Law, passed six months ago, several hundred rape kits have now been tested that were sitting in the state of Oregon’s storage. The state passed a law to test the backlog of untested rape kits and to speed up the amount of time allowed for new tests. The state of Oregon has sent hundreds of kits to Utah for testing, but thousands remain untested despite over 30 DNA matches so far.
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Futures Without Violence
This webinar will provide health care providers with insight into the legal remedies available to human trafficking victims. Each year, thousands of men, women, and children are held in forced labor, forced prostitution, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. This webinar will explore the role health care providers can play in identifying trafficking victims, providing documentation, developing expert testimony, and providing affidavits for submission in legal cases.
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Dawn
Recently, Pakistan finally managed a step that ought to go some distance towards discouraging and punishing two of the most heinous crimes that are committed against the beleaguered women of this land. The Anti-Honour Killing Laws (Criminal Amendment Bill) 2015 and Anti-Rape Laws (Criminal Amendment Bill) 2015, originally piloted by PPP legislator Sughra Imam, had been left hanging for months.
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People
Vice President Joe Biden and actor Adam DeVine are going deep undercover to bring a special message to college students across the country.
In a new video for Funny Or Die, the unlikely duo team up to infiltrate a college party and spread the word about “It’s on Us,” an initiative launched by Biden and President Barack Obama in 2014 that aims to end sexual assault on college campuses nationwide.
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Cleveland Rape Crisis Center
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center has been awarded a grant of $3,101,184.59 through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) program administered by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Crime Victim Services Division, and a second grant through the Ohio Attorney General’s Office from the State Victim Assistance Act (SVAA) of $12,684.00, for a total of $3,113,868.59.
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CNN
The statistics are startling: Around the world, every seven seconds, a girl under 15 is married.
Becoming a child bride is one factor that greatly affects the future of women and girls around the world, according to a report by Save the Children released.
"Child marriage starts a cycle of disadvantage that denies girls the most basic rights to learn, develop and be children," said Save the Children International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
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