Do not let politics make other vital issues slip your mind
STOPPING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ONLINE CHAT
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA and
the MOVING IDEAS NETWORK
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 � all day starting at 10
AM
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Organizations around the world are gearing up for 16 Days of Activism Against Domestic Violence (November 25 � December 10), a worldwide campaign that provides an opportunity to take a stand against gender-based violence and to mobilize around women's human rights.
In preparation for 16 Days of Activism Against Domestic Violence, Moving Ideas and Amnesty International USA have teamed up to host an online chat on domestic violence. Ask experts in the field of domestic violence about dating violence, the effects of domestic violence on low-income women, services for survivors and domestic violence abroad. Also, learn what you can do to stop domestic violence.
Submit your question today: http://www.movingideas.org/chat/
Sheila Dauer, Director of
Women's Rights, Amnesty International
USA
Sheila Dauer, Director of AIUSA's Women's Human Rights
Program, has been on the staff of AIUSA since 1979. Since
1988, as a charter member of an AIUSA Taskforce on Women's
Human Rights, she has worked with both international and US
AI staff, board and volunteer leaders to develop AI's
policy, action and publications on women's human rights. In
1991, she prepared AI's first international report on
women's human rights, Women in the Front Line. As Acting
Campaign Director in 1995, Dr. Dauer directed AIUSA's
campaign on women's human rights concurrent with the UN 4th
World Conference on Women. She is currently the Director of
AIUSA's Women's Human Rights Program.
Dr. Dauer, who holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, received two research fellowships from the National Institute of Mental Health and a Ford Foundation Fellowship on Women's Studies. She is an emeritus member of the Human Rights Committee of the American Anthropological Association. (2000-2002)
Lise McKean, Deputy Director of
Center for Impact Research
Ms. McKean received her Ph.D. in Social
Anthropology from the University of Sydney , M.A. from the
University of Hawaii , and B.A. from the University of
Chicago.
Ms. McKean serves as the director of the Kraft Domestic Violence Grant Program, a demonstration project providing research and technical assistance to collaborations between domestic violence service providers and job training agencies in Chicago, Seattle, and Houston. She is also director of the Income Support Access Project, which investigates the reasons for low usage of income support programs and recommends improvements to outreach and application procedures so that more eligible low-income working families can obtain these benefits.
Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D.,
President of National Center for Policy
Research for Women and Families
Dr. Zuckerman started her career as a
psychologist on the faculty of Vassar College and then
directed research on the impact of television on children
as a faculty member at Yale University. After a
post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at Yale Medical
School, working on studies of depression, domestic
violence, and the health of the elderly poor, she went to
Harvard to direct the Seven College Study, a project
designed to evaluate the life goals and self-concepts of
undergraduates at seven liberal arts colleges.
Dr. Zuckerman left her distinguished academic career in 1983, to come to Washington, DC as a Congressional Science Fellow, sponsored by the American Psychological Association. She spent ten years working as a Congressional staffer in the House and Senate, and at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working to improve federal programs and policies for women and families. She initiated highly influential Congressional investigations on such issues as conflicts of interest in scientific research; safety of medical implants; the health of Gulf War veterans; federal research priorities in women's health; and political interference with federal grants to assist the elderly, the disabled, and victims of child abuse and neglect.
Take action to help end domestic violence! November 25 marks the first day of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, a worldwide campaign that provides an opportunity to take a stand against gender-based violence and to mobilize around women's human rights. Organizers chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.
Learn how you can plug into the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Check out Amnesty International's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence page complete with factsheets and cool downloads for activists.
Amnesty International- Stop Violence Against Women Campaign Page
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Center for Impact Research - Self-Sufficiency and Safety: The Case for Onsite Domestic Violence Services at Employment Services Agencies (PDF), October 2004
- Addressing Domestic Violence as a Barrier to Work: Building Collaborations between Domestic Violence Service Providers and Employment Services Agencies (PDF), October 2004
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National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families
The summaries below explain recent research findings on the topic of violence against women and girls. - Dating and Other Dangers for High School Girls
- Is Stalking More Common Than We Think?
- Dating Violence Inspires Other Problems
- Linking Spouse and Child Abuse
- Dating Violence and Foster Care
