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Support Forensic Nursing on Giving Tuesday!
This Giving Tuesday, November 30th consider supporting the IAFN Foundation's mission to promote the professional values of forensic nursing by supporting forensic nurses and ongoing advancements in nursing practice through scholarships for professional education and equipment grants for programs. Donate today!
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NEW! Child Maltreatment Prevention: Essentials for the Forensic Nurse
Presented by Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P
Child maltreatment is a serious problem with the potential for lifelong physical and mental health consequences, even death. Pediatric healthcare providers, especially forensic nurses, are uniquely positioned not only to identify potential victims of child maltreatment but also to prevent child maltreatment prior to its occurrence. Join us for this educational session to discuss practice level child maltreatment prevention interventions, both universal and targeted.
Note: This session is FREE for members. 1.5 Contact Hours.
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New reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has recently published new reports on a variety of topics related to forensic nursing, including Crimes Against Persons with Disabilities, Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities,
Medical and Coroner Office Census Data, and Suicides in Local Jails and State and Federal Prisons.
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Amid COVID, a 35% surge in calls to mental health helplines
CIDRAP
An analysis of eight million mental health helpline calls from 19 countries early in the pandemic reveals a 35 percent jump in calls related to fear and loneliness rather than to problems with relationships, finances, domestic violence, and suicidal thoughts that dominated before COVID-19 emerged.
The study, published in Nature, suggests that concerns related directly to the pandemic replaced, rather than aggravated, common underlying anxieties, the researchers said.
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Outside the binary and behind bars: Incarcerated transgender and intersex people face challenges
NC Health News
North Carolina’s prison system houses 103 transgender and five intersex incarcerated people, according to the Department of Public Safety spokesperson John Bull. But the prison system operates on a gender binary, meaning that while the Prison Rape Elimination Act mandates that prisons make individualized decisions on where to house transgender and intersex people, they are often put in facilities that align with their sex at birth.
When incarcerated people are processed in the system, they are housed in either male or female facilities. For people whose very existence challenges that binary, such as transgender, intersex and nonbinary people, that means their identity is at odds with the system from the get-go.
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New suicide prevention hotline to include texting option
Changing America
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to include a texting option for a new suicide hotline, 988, set to go live next summer.
Advocates have pushed for a more accessible version of the existing 1-800-273-8255, and now providers will be required to support messaging to the number beginning July 16, ABC News reported. Currently, the three-digit number is set up only to support calls.
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Marchers across France decry violence against women
TIME Magazine
Tens of thousands of protesters marched Nov. 20 through Paris and other French cities to demand more government action to prevent violence against women. The demonstrations come amid growing outrage in France over women killed by their partners and as French women are increasingly speaking out about sexual harassment and abuse.
Protesters marched in Paris behind a large banner saying “Stop sexist and sexual violence.”
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Iran's new population law violates women's rights, HRW warns
Radio Free Europe
Human Rights Watch is calling on Iran to repeal provisions of a new legislation that it says undermine women's rights, dignity, and health, denying them access to reproductive health care and information.
"Iranian legislators are avoiding addressing Iranians' many serious problems, including government incompetence, corruption, and repression, and instead are attacking women's fundamental rights," Tara Sepehri Far, senior Iran researcher at HRW, said in a statement on Nov. 10. First approved by parliament in March, the "rejuvenation of the population and support of family" bill was backed by Iran's Guardians Council on Nov. 1.
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Pakistan drops 'un-Islamic' chemical castration as penalty for rapists
VOA News
Pakistan says it has removed a clause from a new anti-rape law that had allowed for the chemical castration of repeat rapists.
Prime Minister Imran Khan's government confirmed the decision two days after the ruling coalition hurriedly approved 33 legislative bills, including the anti-rape law, in a joint session of the parliament, amid furious protests by opposition lawmakers.
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