HELEN REDMAN, DIRECTOR
NEWSLETTER
September 2000
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CONTINUED In verses two and three of Isaiah 61 (Amplified Version) it goes on to say to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (the year for His favor) and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn...to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes... God has changed my ashes for beauty and has called me to help others allow Him to do the same for them. I know what it is to be physically, verbally and emotionally abused. I also know what it is to have emotional and inner healing and that God wipes away the hurts of the past. Because of my past experiences, I can now relate to what these abused women are going through and tell them the answer through God's word. Once again I have taken the following excerpts from "Human Rights Watch" website concerning the violence against women. In 1998 violence against women remained one of the most intractable violations of women's human rights. In various forms it persisted in times of peace as well as in times of conflict. Women were beaten in their homes by intimate partners; raped and sexually assaulted by law enforcement personnel while in their custody; raped in refugee camps by other refugees, local police, or the military; and targeted for sexual violence based on their low social status. Domestic violence victims faced nearly insumountable obstacles when attempting to report assault. In countries from Bosnia to Peru, South Africa to Russia, authorities treated domestic violence as a lesser offense beeause it took place between intimate partners, and discouraged women from reporting assaults. Women in different countries told Human Rights Watch that, instead of helping victims to file complaints, police routinely accused them of being bad spouses, implying that their behavior somehow warranted the abuse. In Peru, for example, domestic violence victims reported that police peppered them with questions about what they "had done" to their husbands to provoke a physical attack. Our work in different countries showed that police exercised undue and arbitrary authority regarding the types of complaints they accepted, and actively discouraged women from filing complaints -- a pattern reported by women's advocates in other countries. For example, in Peru police routinely refused to process victims' comp1aints, conducted shoddy investigations, failed to offer victims protective orders, failed to remove violent men from the home, and blamed victims for the violence. Women victims of domestic violence who were able to persuade the police to accept their cases for investigation were later hampered by judicial systems that valued family unity over the safety of women victims of domestic violence. For example, in Peru judges often referred married domestic violence victims and their batterers to counseling before charges could be laid against the accused, with the alleged batterer remaining in the home.
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