zondag, juli 09, 2017

Singapore Good Shepherd "There has been relentless character assassination. Relentless character assassination!'



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donderdag, juli 06, 2017

Blijf van mijn lijf; Empirical Guidance on the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Memory and Complainants' Evidence


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it can be shown that Man’s Fate is made by men. This is another thing that can be done in various ways. For example, one might tell the story of a peasant farm—a farm in Iceland, let us say. The whole village is talking about the curse that hovers over this farm. One peasant woman threw herself down a well; the peasant owner hanged himself. One day a marriage takes place between the peasant’s son and a girl whose dowry is several acres of good land. The curse seems to lift from the farm. The village is divided in its judgment of the cause of this fortunate turn of events. Some ascribe it to the sunny disposition of the peasant’s young son, others to the new fields which the young wife added to the farm, and which have now made it large enough to provide a livelihood. But even 
in a poem which simply describes a landscape something can be achieved, if 

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    The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has released a new research report about how memory affects child sexual abuse prosecutions.

    Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty from Charles Sturt University, Associate Professor Mark A Nolan from the Australian National University and Dr Evianne van Gijn-Grosvenor were contracted by the Royal Commission to examine contemporary psychological scientific research evidence on memory.

    The research report, Empirical Guidance on the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Memory and Complainants’ Evidence, outlines research findings that “common sense” beliefs about memory, frequently held by police, lawyers, judges, juries and laypeople, did not correspond with scientific knowledge about memory.

    The research identifies a number of misconceptions that people hold about how memory works, and what memories are reliable. It reports that misconceptions about memory include that memory will be complete, unchanging and “photographic”.

    There are also misconceptions about the accuracy of people’s memory. Wrong assumptions may be made about a connection between accuracy of a memory and consistency of accounts given by a witness, where inconsistencies or gaps may be assumed to demonstrate inaccuracy in the witness’s accounts as a whole.

    The research finds there were misconceptions about the display of emotion while giving evidence being an indicator of accuracy of the memory retrieved.

    Traumatic events resulting in greater durability of memory is another misconception as is expectations about children’s ability to recall temporal details, such as when an event occurred or how often it occurred, the report found.

    A witness recalling additional information over time as they give further accounts of the event may be mistakenly considered with suspicion or as an indication of unreliability.

    Understanding how human memory works, and how memory might be affected for child and adult complainants of child sexual abuse, is important to inform issues such as:
    • how police should interview child and adult complainants of child sexual abuse
    • what particulars a complainant of child sexual abuse should reasonably be expected to provide about the alleged abuse
    • whether particular features, such as inconsistencies in accounts given by a complainant over time, are a good indicator of unreliability
    • what assistance juries should be given in relation to assessing a complainant’s evidence.
    Royal Commission CEO Philip Reed said this research and its accompanying standalone summary of guidance on memory in cases of child sexual abuse is intended to contribute to the development of guidance for lawyers, magistrates, judges, juries and police.

    “This research may help contribute to the education of police and the legal profession on what child victims of sexual abuse can be expected to remember,” he said.

    A Royal Commission report on Criminal Justice, to be released in coming months, will draw on this research and its implication for the criminal justice system.

    The report will contain the Commissioners’ recommendations to reform the way the criminal justice system responds to child sexual abuse, including child sexual abuse in an institutional context.

    READ the report
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    Régis Peyrard prêtre pédophile à Saint-Etienne : Le point sur cette nouvelle affaire


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    woensdag, juli 05, 2017

    Tanzania: CSOs vow no surrender in teen mothers debate


    By Deogratius KamagiThe Citizen 30-6-17
    Dar es Salaam — The Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) say they will not be silenced in the current debate on whether to allow teen mothers back to school.
    Speaking on behalf of a coalition of CSOs in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, acting Legal and Human Rights Centre executive director Anna Henga said the organisations were operating in line with the law, adding that no amount of intimidation would silence them.
    The coalition was reacting to the recent threat by Home Affairs minister Mwigulu Nchemba to deregister non-governmental organisations that would continue to press for schoolgirls who became pregnant to be readmitted to school after giving birth even after President John Magufuli rejected the proposal last week.
    Ms Henga said CSOs were not breaking the law by taking a stand that contradicts the President's publicly declared position on the matter, adding that any attempt to register them must also be within the confines of the law.
    "We cannot remain silent on this issue...we are fighting for girls' rights. It should be remembered that women and girls comprise 51 per cent of Tanzania's population.
    "What we are doing is perfectly legal because we are here to defend and advocate human rights. We will not stop doing our work just because we have been threatened with deregistration," Ms Henga said.
    She added that various studies showed that the majority of Tanzanians were in favour of girls being readmitted to school after giving birth, and urged the government to consider public opinion.
    Ms Henga said the importance of education for teen mothers was mentioned in CCM's 2015-2020 election manifesto and the 2014 Education and Training Policy. "Neighbouring countries including Kenya have adopted the reentry policy. Zanzibar has since 2010 been readmitting girls as part of a wider plan to reduce the rate at which girls were dropping out of school," she said.
    The executive director and founder of the girls' rights advocacy organisation Msichana Initiative, Ms Rebecca Gyumi, called for continued public debate, saying this would help the government to come up with inclusive policies that considered the interests of all groups.
    "Matters of public interest require exhaustive debate among stakeholders in order to find the best way forward for all," she said.
    Speaking during a fundraiser in Dodoma last Sunday, Mr Nchemba said NGOs that were critical of the government's "official position" on various matters risked being struck off the register.
    He also threatened to deport foreign representatives of international organisations that were "promoting homosexuality".
    Mr Nchemba spoke a few days after President Magufuli said there was no way his government would allow schoolgirls who became pregnant to resume their studies after giving birth.
    Opening the 64-kilometre Msata-Bagamoyo road during the final leg of his three-day tour of Coast Region, Dr Magufuli said the idea of allowing teen mothers back to school was a foreign concept "championed by NGOs and other people who do not wish this country well".
    "There are many alternatives in life for teen mothers. They can join vocational training colleges or seek loans and become small-scale entrepreneurs.
    "Let those NGOs that are making noise build schools for teen mothers. If we allow young mothers back into public schools we will one day have Standard One pupils rushing back home to breast-feed their babies. We will be destroying this nation," 
    Dr Magufuli said, adding that allowing teen mothers back to school would encourage more girls to engage in premarital sex.
    The declaration was praised and condemned in equal measure.
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    Tanzania urged to lift school ban on pregnant pupils

    By Kizito Makoye
    29 JUNE 2017
    Dar es Salaam — Women's group joined forces on Thursday against Tanzania's ban on pregnant pupils in state schools, saying education was a girl's best shot at success.
    In a joint statement, 29 nonprofit groups said that any move to deny girls the opportunity to go back to school after giving birth would only punish them, their children - and the nation.
    "Our motivation is the girls themselves, their quality of life and the opportunities they have to progress. Women and girls make up 51 percent of the population so the question of what happens to them and their children is one that affects all of us," the group said.
    "Educating young girls brings economic and social benefits to the whole country."
    Last week, President John Magufuli said that schoolgirls who got pregnant would never be re-admitted to school after giving birth, and appeared to mock the young mothers for multitasking.
    "After calculating some few mathematics, she'd be asking the teacher in the classroom 'let me go out and breastfeed my crying baby,'" he said.
    His home affairs minister has also warned activists to stop campaigning for the pregnant girls or risk deregistration.
    Tanzania has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the world. According to a 2015/16 survey conducted by the Tanzania Bureau of Statistics, 21 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 have given birth.
    CHALLENGES
    Advocates say schoolgirls already face multiple challenges to get an education, be it overcoming the crush of poverty, gender-based violence or long travel distances to school.
    And many of the girls who become pregnant do so after rape, sexual violence or coercion, said Christa Stewart, programme manager at the global girls' charity Equality Now.
    "When education is universally recognized as the linchpin to success, allowing this violence to continue, and punishing girls who have become pregnant as a result, is a policy doomed to failure." She told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
    More than 55,000 schoolgirls have been expelled from school over the last decade for being pregnant, the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) said in a recent report.
    While some wealthier families can send their daughters to private schools, most expelled girls end up doing casual work.
    NO TURNING BACK
    Zainab Kyejo hauls shards of gravel into piles to sell and make some sort of a living, working under blistering sun with a 2-year-old strapped to her back.
    "This is what I do to get something to feed my baby. I got pregnant and expelled from school," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview. "I still don't know how to prevent myself from getting pregnant."
    It is a world away from her old life at Zinga secondary school from which she was expelled in 2015. Now the 19-year-old spends hours crushing stones at Kunduchi quarry in a Dar es Salaam suburb - knowing it is too late to turn back.
    "I have learned a bitter lesson, I wish I could go back to school," she said.
    "I don't like crushing stones, but what else can I do?"
    Underage sex is criminalised in Tanzania, with convicts facing up to 30 years in prison.
    In April this year a court in the northern Kilimanjaro region sentenced 22-year-old Daudi Maulidi to a 30-year jail term and five strokes for impregnating a 16-year-old student.
    But it is girls who most often pay the heaviest price for underage sex, and teachers say they deserve a second chance if the country is to prosper.
    "If young mothers are not educated, they are not likely to fully engage in income-generating activities," said Adelvina Magayane, a teacher at Ununio primary school.
    (Editing by Lyndsay Griffiths. Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate))
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    Personal records a priority for mother and baby home survivors Zappone critical of HSE failings on mother and baby homes


    Senior HSE staff highlighted concerns five years ago but these were not fully investigated



    Irish Times
    It was a “pity” the HSE did not fully investigate mother and baby homes in 2012 when senior staff warned about probable “criminal” activities in two of them from the 1920s, Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has said.
    She said it was “not good”that the call for an inquiry by senior HSE staff five years ago were not heeded. The staff had called for “a fully fledged, fully resourced forensic investigation and State inquiry,” into the Sacred Heart mother and baby homes at Tuam, Co Galway and Bessborough, Co Cork.
    A Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was established in February 2015. It was in response to public outcry at the findings of historian Catherine Corless that up to 800 infants’ bodies may have been buried in a septic tank at the Tuam home.
    However, HSE documents from October 2012, marked “strictly confidential”, show social workers were warning of the “possibility that illegal actions took place” in the Cork and Tuam homes from the 1920s.
    Consultant in public health at the HSE’s health intelligence unit, Dr Declan McKeown, prepared a briefing paper for his line manger, Dr Davida De La Harpe, and Phil Garland, assistant national director of the HSE’s child and family services, in October 2012.
    He outlines findings by investigating social workers in the south and west who had been preparing documents for the forthcoming report from an interdepartmental committee into Magdalene laundries. The social workers looked at referral pathways to and from mother and baby homes.

    Possible trafficking

    He refers to “protracted detainment” of women in the homes, “in some cases against their expressed will”; the possible trafficking of women between institutions; the fact that institutions were being paid for the upkeep of women who had left, and “infant mortality rates in the homes in 1950” which were “equivalent to [rates] in Ireland in the 1700s.”
    “This may prove to be a scandal that dwarfs other, more recent issues with the church and State because of the very emotive sensitivities around adoption of babies, with or without the will of the mother,” warns Dr McKeown.
    According to the minutes of a conference call between Dr De La Harpe, Mr Garland, and Dr McKeown, in October 2012, it was agreed that Dr McKeown would “draft an early-warning one-to-two pager” for the HSE’s national director of quality improvement, Philip Crowley, “suggesting that this goes all the way up to the Minister”. The minister for health at the time was James Reilly.
    “A concern is that, if there is evidence of trafficking of babies, that it must have been facilitated by doctors, social workers, etc, and a number of these health professional may still be working in the system. It is important to send this up to the minister as soon as possible with a view to an interdepartmental committee and a fully-fledged, fully resourced forensic investigation and State inquiry.”

    Magdalene inquiry

    In October 2016 Mr Crowley wrote to a mother and baby home survivor saying because the 2012 material did not relate to the Magdalene inquiry, it was given to the director designate of Tusla. This was Gordon Jeyes who became the first chief executive of Tusla when it was established in 2014.
    Mr Jeyes has told The Irish Times, that while the files may have been transferred to Tusla upon its creation, the decision about whether to investigate their contents was one for HSE in 2012. This was not something Tusla had the forensic capabilities or resources for, he said. “The buck did not stop with me, or Tusla.”
    A spokeswoman for the HSE said the 2012 report was “not brought to Minister’s attention at that time”.

    Katherine Zappone hosted event in Dublin, with more planned around
    country


     The Irish Times
    Kitty Holland 


     The “most important” thing for survivors of mother and baby homes is getting all their personal information, according to many of those attending the first of a series of consultation meetings with Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.
    Speaking to The Irish Times after the meeting in Dublin on Friday, survivors said they wanted redress, counselling, more information about the ongoing Commission of Inquiry into the homes and the recording of a “collective history” of their experiences.
    Almost all, however, said “the biggest thing” was accessing the records of their time in institutions, as well as to those of their mothers and siblings, and their own medical records.
    Ms Zappone hosted the event in Dublin city centre which was attended by 120 survivors and family members. It was oversubscribed and more events are planned around the country.

    Ms Zappone explained she had invited survivors, to hear what they needed and wanted, following publication of the second interim report from Judge Yvonne Murphy, chair of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. In February Justice Murphy recommended that survivors should have redress, though this is been opposed by Government.

    Final report

    Given that the final report would not be published until February 2018, Ms Zappone wanted to consult with survivors. She would bring her findings from consultations to Cabinet in October, she said.
    “I want to respond as quickly as possible in order to put something in place to support people,” she said.
    Among those at Friday’s consultation was Catherine Coffey-O’Brien, (46) from Mayfield, Cork, who was born in a mother and baby home, and grew up in and out of industrial schools in Tralee and Killarney. A Traveller, she was subsequently in Bessboro mother and baby home when she became pregnant and believes her ethnicity made her and her family particularly vulnerable to being placed in institutions.
    “For me, this is not about getting revenge, but about getting closure. I need my records, my medical records and my information.”
    Tony Kelly (71), who who was born in St Theresa’s mother and baby home in Blackrock, Co Dublin, and was in nine foster homes, questioned why the consultations were taking place at all while Ms Justice Murphy’s inquiry was ongoing. “What we want is full transparency and accountability,” he said.


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    maandag, juli 03, 2017

    Januari revolutie

    Er was een oorlogsschip
    Dat was al op een duimpje na gezonken op een klip
    En alles was van goud
    behalve de kapitein zijn baard die was van eikenhout
    En er was een oude vrouw
    Die nam het hele oorlogsschip en stak het in haar mouw
    En 't vlees was daar goedkoop
    Men kocht er vijfentwintig pond voor een gladhouten knoop
    En dan nog vrij tehuis 
    Van dragers, die niet groter zijn dan een verdroogde luis
    Die dragers waren zo
    Zij hadden een hoofd van stro
    en ook een been van glas

    Nu vraag ik aan een iedereen of dat geen wonder was




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    UN to hear about ‘denial’ over Magdalene laundries.

    Government’s refusal to accept liability violates survivors’ dignity

    3-7-2017
    Irish Times
    Kitty Holland

    The continuing “denial” by Government that the State has any liability for the Magdalene laundries continues to violate survivors’ dignity, compounding their “torture”, the United Nations will be told on Monday.
    In a submission to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT), the Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) group said there had never been “an independent, thorough and effective investigation” into the experiences of women and girls in the laundries and no person or institution held accountable. It said Government had failed to deliver on key commitments made to survivors, including on the provision of services and rights, and to consult with them on a memorial.
    Commitments made to survivors, including on the provision of services and rights, and to consult with them on a memorial.
    Ireland comes before the UN Committee in Geneva at the end of the month for questioning on compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

     More than 10,000 women and girls spent time in Church-run Magdalene laundries from the early 20th century, until the last was closed in 1996. Most were sent and held against their will, usually for the “crime” of being unmarried and pregnant, where they worked in laundries without pay. Many State-run bodies, hospitals and hotels had contracts with Magdalene laundries.














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    zaterdag, juli 01, 2017

    Charging the cardinal is a tiny part of the story

    JULY 2 2017

    This week's jest has rather classier origins than usual. It comes from the book that has just won this year's Man Booker International Prize, A Horse Walks into a Bar, by Israeli writer, David Grossman. It goes like this …
    I'm walking around town when I see an old guy, maybe 80, all dried up like a raisin, sitting on a street bench crying. An old man crying? How can I not go over? I walk up to him softly and ask, "Sir, why are you crying?"
    "What else can I do?" the old man answers. "A month ago, I met a 30-year-old woman. She's beautiful, adorable, sexy, and we fell in love and moved in together."
    "That's awesome!" I say. "So what's the problem?"
    Old guy says, "I'll tell you. We start every day with two hours of wild sex, then she makes me some pomegranate juice for the iron, and I go to the doctor's office. I come back, we have more wild sex, and she makes me a spinach quiche for the antioxidants. In the afternoon I play cards with the guys at the club, I come home, we have wild sex into the night, and this is how it goes, day after day …"
    "Sounds fantastic!" I tell him, "I'd like me some of that! But then why are you crying?"

    Old guy thinks for a minute and says, "I can't remember where I live."

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