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April 1, 2009
In This Issue:
LESSONS FROM
LITERATURE
An innovative
new resource is helping teachers incorporate violence prevention lessons
into existing curricula. Developed by the Family Violence Prevention Fund
and the National Council of Teachers of English, Lessons from Literature
is a free online resource that gives English teachers a framework to use
the novels, poems, plays and stories they are already teaching to help
their students build healthy, non-violent relationships. Read more...
A WEEK OF EVENTS HONORING WOMEN
In honor of International Women’s Day
on March 8, events were held throughout that week around the globe to shine
a spotlight on challenges facing women and girls. In the United States,
President Barack Obama established a White House Council on Women and
Girls, Afghani women briefed congressional leaders about the plight of
women in their country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bestowed the
2009 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Awards, and more. Read more...
EXPERTS BRIEF
CONGRESS ON VIOLENCE AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
“The
intersection of sexual violence and reproductive health has been largely
unexplored, but it’s time for that to change,” Family Violence Prevention
Fund (FVPF) Public Policy Director Kiersten Stewart said in March,
moderating a congressional briefing on the subject. Read more...
RIHANNA/CHRIS BROWN
UPDATE
In the case that
has launched a public discussion about violence among teens, singer Chris
Brown appeared in court on March 5 after being charged with two felonies,
one count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, and
one count of making a criminal threat. He did not enter a plea and was
granted a continuance. Brown is due back in court on April 6. Read more...
IN THE NEWS
NATIONAL – Within 30 days, the Food & Drug
Administration (FDA) must make Plan B, emergency contraception, available
to 17-year-olds over-the-counter, without a prescription, and the agency
must consider removing the age restriction on the drug entirely. A federal
judge ruled in March that the FDA’s previous decision to deny
over-the-counter status to Plan B was “arbitrary and capricious” and based
on “political” rather than scientific considerations. Also known as the
“morning after” pill, Plan B is used by rape victims as well as women who
had unprotected sex and do not wish to become pregnant. Read more...
IN THEIR OWN
WORDS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
“Violence
against women is an abomination… Violence against women cannot be
tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any
political leader or by any government… No country, no culture, no woman,
young or old, is immune.”
--United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, “UN Chief Urges: End
Violence Against Women,” Associated
Press, March 5, 2009 Read more...
SAVE THE DATE
April 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC
Men and Women as Allies
Men Can Stop Rape’s conference, Men
and Women as Allies, is co-sponsored by more than 50 state
coalitions, state health departments, service providers, and men’s groups.
It will address women’s and men’s roles in primary prevention and the ways
domestic violence, sexual assault, and men’s anti-violence groups can work
together. Read
more...
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