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Protecting Yourself from Domestic Violence (a guide)

Blijf Grope

FAWCO IWHHR Group
8 February 2015
Week 1 Discussion

Participants:
Yolanda Henry (Canadian who winters in America)
Juliet Cutler (American currently living in The Netherlands)
Johanna Dishongh (American currently living in The Netherlands)
Mary Adams (American currently living in The Netherlands)

Introductions
The profiles of the participants ranged from active and long-term involvement in community projects in Cambodia (Tabitha – wells) and Tanzania (Masai - Secondary Schools) to...

The Girls Prevention Program specifically targets middle and high school girls who demonstrate at risk behavior. The idea is to educate them on the seriousness of sexual exploitation that can lead to victimization. The 10-session curriculum is aimed at keeping the most vulnerable adolescent girls from sexual exploitation and prostitution. UAHT has also found it important to add the component...

Human Trafficking is the buying and selling of people. It does not necessarily imply movement or transportation. It is Slavery.
Human trafficking is the second largest illegal business in the world with estimates of 30 billion dollars plus per year worldwide.

In the collective imagination, the term human trafficking most often conjures visions of exotic people from foreign countries being forced into...

Online Stanford University Course Syllabus

Introduction (Launching 1/29)
Welcome to the course & How it works
 
Week 1. Human Rights (Launching 1/29)
Women’s Rights = Human Rights
Son preference and demography
 
Week 2. Education
Education as the 'magic' intervention
Learning vs. schooling

Week 3:  Adolescence & Vulnerability
Female genital cutting/mutilation
Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Week 4: Reproductive Health and Rights
Early marriage and early childbirth
Reproductive health, sexuality, maternity contraception

Week 5: Violence in...

Introduction by Karen Lewis, Ending Violence Against Women Committee Co-Chair and AODVC Liaison

Following my article in the February 2015 Human Rights Team Bulletin regarding sexual abuse/harassment in the military, I happened to make friends with a survivor of sexual harassment in the military and hear her story. Since then, we've had a few conversations about this culture of acceptance...