#Oregon :Vigil Held Last Night To Help End Domestic Violence

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Because nobody should have to die for love: Part 1

By Helen Silvis Of The Skanner News

October 20, 2011

Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne starred in the movie What's Love Got to Do With It? The film portrayed Ike and Tina Turner's relationship, destroyed by domestic violence.

In the last year, 27 Oregonians have lost their lives to domestic violence. Three others killed themselves after killing their partners. To remember the victims, and to draw attention to these preventable tragedies, the Portland’s Women’s Crisis Line is holding a vigil from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday Oct. 20, at Dawson Park in North Portland.

“It’s important that the community understands that we all play a role in ending domestic violence,” says Rebecca Nickels executive director of the nonprofit crisis line. “Often when we are talking about domestic violence people may feel overwhelmed and uncertain how they can make a difference.”

Rev. Lynn Smouse Lopez and domestic violence survivor, Anastacia Papadopulous will speak at the event along with family members and friends of slain teen Yashanee Vaughn.

The Crisis Line offered case management support to 350 people last year and fielded 23,000 calls, Nickels says.

“Some are from community members and professionals, but the vast majority are people experiencing domestic violence.”...read more

The Portland Women’s Crisis Line operates 24-hours a day at 503-235-5333.
http://www.theskanner.com/article/Vigil-to-Help-End-Domestic-Violence-Planned-for-Tonight-Oct-20-at-Dawson-Park-2011-10-20

http://www.theskanner.com/article/Vigil-to-Help-End-Domestic-Violence-Planned-for-Tonight-Oct-20-at-Dawson-Park-2011-10-20

#Turkey : Turkish Womans Murder Photo Sparks Outrage

Summary of story from Bloomberg, October 7, 2011

Haberturk, a leading Turkish newspaper, published a graphic photo of a stabbed woman on the front page of its print edition today, causing uproar on social media websites.

The photo shows a shirtless, bloodstained woman on a stretcher with a kitchen knife planted deep into her back.

The 38-year-old mother of two was murdered in the town of Manisa by her 45-year-old husband after leaving him to escape domestic abuse, Haberturk said.

According to a May 4 Human Rights Watch report: “Turkey’s flawed family violence protection system leaves women and girls across the country unprotected against domestic abuse.”

The report said Turkey has strong protection laws in place, yet: “gaps in the law and implementation failures by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials [make the system] at times downright dangerous”.

The number of reported murders of women in Turkey has increased 1,400 per cent in the past seven years, according to the Istanbul Bar Association for Women’s Rights.

The Association also said that more than 85 per cent of all applications for divorce in Istanbul are related to violence.

http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/10/turkish-womans-murder-photo-sparks-outrage/

#Turkey: Turkish women killed by abusive husbands

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Two more women were killed by their abusive husbands in separate incidents that arose in Ankara and Düzce this week, the Turkish media reported on Thursday. Four women in total have been killed by their abusive husbands over the last six days in various cities across Turkey.

 Two of the victims, Fatma Bağcı and Rengiye M., were shot dead by their husbands on Saturday and Wednesday.

Two of the victims, Fatma Bağcı and Rengiye M., were shot dead by their husbands on Saturday and Wednesday, whilst the latest incidents involved the abusive husbands stabbing their wives to death.

Rahime Yıldız Uçar, 21, was stabbed to death on the street by her abusive husband in Ankara on Wednesday. Her husband, Burhan Uçar, was handed over to police by local shopkeepers who witnessed the incident.

Rahime Yıldız Uçar, who worked as a cook at a shopping mall, married Burhan Uçar two years ago. However, after several severe instances of domestic abuse, the couple separated six months ago. Following this, Rahime Yıldız Uçar filed for divorce and moved into a new house with her 1-year-old son in the Eryaman neighborhood of the district of Etimesgut.

However, friends and family put pressure on Rahime Yıldız Uçar to drop the divorce case, telling her that she shouldn't break up with her husband because of their child. Rahime Yıldız Uçar gave into this pressure and went back to her husband.

On Monday, Burhan Uçar left his house after the couple had had a bad argument and did not return home. He then called his wife on Wednesday morning to ask if they could meet and discuss their marriage.

The couple met in 4. Etap Park on Eryaman TBMM Street, where they started arguing just minutes after they saw each other, during which Burhan Uçar pulled out a knife and stabbed his wife in the neck, heart and chest.

Burhan Uçar attempted to flee the scene of the incident, but local shopkeepers who witnessed the murder seized him and handed him over to the police. Rahime Yıldız Uçar died at the scene of the incident.

Burhan Uçar was then taken to the homicide unit of the Ankara Police Department, where he stated: "I loved my wife; however, we had many conflicts during our marriage.

I am a jealous person. She was seeing other men and she was seen with another man three days ago. When I heard about this, I left home. Today we met up in the morning, but she started insulting me. I lost my mind and do not remember the rest."

In a separate incident, a woman living in Düzce was stabbed to death after having an argument with her husband early on Thursday. Yılmaz T. stabbed his wife, Derya T., after the two argued.
After hearing loud shouting and screaming, neighbors of the family went over to the house and saw Derya T. unconscious lying on the floor. Derya T. was taken to Düzce Atatürk State Hospital, where she died. Her body was then taken to the hospital's morgue for an autopsy. Yılmaz T., who fled the scene of the incident, was apprehended by the police.

Cihan news agency

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haberYazdir&ArticleID=75467&tip=

Domestic Violence no longer to be prosecuted in Kansas to pay for austerity measures..by Lisa Ansell.

I wish I was joking. I can't even go 'it's those crazy yanks', because we slashed domestic violence services as a first point of call, and ensured that the link between working and surviving was broken, so that mothers would find themselves a man. 

Social workers have been screamin for months that the thresholds of risk for the children they work with, are getting higher and higher. Those in teams for over 11s, where the thresholds of risk were already unacceptably high so that use of expensively provided private placements was avoided mighgt have thought it couldn't get much worse for their kids. THey are now dropping off the radar altogether.

To thunderous silence and while our political parties and their supporters go out of their way to pretend these women and children don't exist. 

The world over, women and children hit first, because the silly wee boys playing politics and war can't see them.

http://lisaansell.posterous.com/domestic-violence-no-longer-to-be-prosecuted

Domestic Violence And It's Effects On Women And Children

This video was created as an assignment for a class called Self Defense for Women. We recognize that men are also victims of domestic violence, and women can be perpetrators. However, for the purposes of this assignment we focused on women and children.

Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence ?

On February 12, 2009, Muzzammil Hassan informed police that he had beheaded his wife. Hassan had emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and, after a successful banking career, had founded Bridges TV, a Muslim-interest network which aims, according to its website, "to foster a greater understanding among many cultures and diverse populations." Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III told The Buffalo News that "this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," and Khalid Qazi, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York, told the New York Post that Islam forbids such domestic violence. While Muslim advocacy organizations argue that honor killings are a misnomer stigmatizing Muslims for what is simply domestic violence, a problem that has nothing to do with religion, Phyllis Chesler, who just completed a study of more than 50 instances of North American honor killings, says the evidence suggests otherwise. — The Editors

http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence

Defence law changes for killing after domestic abuse

"Loss of control" caused by a fear of serious violence can now be a defence in murder cases

 

A change to the murder law has come into force, allowing people who faced domestic violence to claim they were forced to kill their abuser.

If they can prove they were motivated by "words and conduct" which left them "seriously wronged", then they can avoid a murder conviction.

It replaces the defence of provocation with one of "loss of control" caused by a fear of serious violence.

The Ministry of Justice said it would bring about "more just" outcomes.

The changes are based Law Commission recommendations about homicide law made in 2006, proposed by the then-Labour government in 2008, and finally passed into law in 2009.

The "fear of serious violence" defence could apply, for example, when a mother kills a man attempting to rape her daughter, a Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said.

Adultery defence

Men and women who kill after long-term abuse could use one of the partial defences, which replaces a requirement for them to have acted on the spur of the moment.

Under the changes, the partial murder defence of diminished responsibility has been replaced with "a modernised definition", based on the concept of "an abnormality of mental functioning which arose from a recognised medical condition", the ministry said.

Previously, adultery could count as provocation, but under the new loss of control defence, sexual infidelity - "real or imagined" - on the part of the victim does not constitute sufficient grounds for reducing murder to manslaughter, the ministry said.

Anti-abuse charity Women's Aid welcomed the changes.

Chief executive Nicola Harwin said: "The new revised partial defence of provocation should help deliver fairer treatment of domestic violence victims in cases where they have killed a violent and abusive partner, often following years of abuse.

"We also welcome the fact that infidelity will no longer be treated as an acceptable defence for anyone killing a current or former partner."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11469430

Domestic Violence : He Says He Loves Me

http://www.knoxcounty.org/fourthcircuitcourt/domesticviolence_photos.php

Domestic Violence Memorial

http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/dvmemorial/

#October: Is National Domestic Violence Month...Break The Silence And STOP The Violence

http://mounthelix.patch.com/articles/break-the-silence-and-stop-domestic-violence

911 Call : 'My Daddies Beating Up My Mom '