Last month the UN issued its Study on Violence Against Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw.

To say this study is flawed is a huge understatement. Now, women around the world are speaking out against this report.

Over the last two weeks, we have contacted our UN delegations, voicing our concerns. This week, we increase our request, asking Ambassador Bolton to make a public statement to the Third Committee denouncing the report.

Send an e-mail (usa-at-un.int) or fax (1-212-415-4443) to Ambassador Bolton. Here’s the message – feel free to modify as appropriate:

Dear Ambassador Bolton:

I am writing about the recent Secretary-General Study on Violence Against Women. Women around the world are saying this report is extremely flawed and will never solve the problem of domestic violence:

Terri Lynn Tersak, president and CEO of the True Equality Network, says

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'A woman who drowned her two children in 2003 is now mentally stable and should be released from a state hospital, a judge ruled.
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"Given Ms. Diaz's apparent swift recovery, Judge Rusch had no choice but to release her from the state hospital," Collin County First Assistant District Attorney Greg Davis said in a statement. "Today's decision underscores the need to reform the insanity defense so that intentional killers are held accountable for their actions and don't return to our communities."'

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I wonder if the father would have been charged if the circumstances were reversed?

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"Prosecutors won't file charges against the Knoxville mother whose 3-year-old son died this summer when her unattended car rolled over him."

"It was just a tragic accident," said John Gill, special counsel for the Knox County District Attorney General's Office. "There wasn't a crime committed."

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'A woman was today branded "wicked" and a "skilful actress" as she was jailed for one year for making false rape allegations against her former husband.

Jury Comment:

"You framed an innocent man, you accused him of the most serious offence to be brought against a man in the criminal calendar. The case against your husband was rot and the spotlight was turned against you."'

Also see this article on the story.

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'Fortune 500 companies want to hire mothers these days, outlines Katherine Ellison in her book, "The Mommy Brain" because they know that mother's have "emotional intelligence" that will help them succeed at the "people" skills needed in their jobs. Ellison suggests four subsets of skills that mothers can claim, which put them at a distinct advantage in the marketplace: multi-tasking under pressure, dependability, leadership and caregiving.'

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'The number of male teachers has plummeted to an all-time low, threatening a classroom discipline crisis as a generation of boys misses out on authority role models.

There are fears men are being scared away by the fear of false child abuse allegations while others are thought to be put off by the absence of male companionship in primary schools.'

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the Oxygen Network runs a show glamorizing the murder of husbands. I'm just guessing that the murderer is the real victim on these shows, given that the name of the series is "Snapped", implying that women are only criminal when men make them that way. Obviously women can't be evil, violent or criminal all by themselves.

Same old misandry, new channel.

News entry here.

'Woman confesses to murder on national radio program because man wouldn't pay child support. It is not clear whether this is a case of someone getting away with murder or just a prank.'

11/07/06

(Denver, Co) November 8, 2006 launches the first 24 hour marathon in broadcast history designed to examine the issues of Non-Custodial Parents and Fathers.

To boost this cause Krightradio.com and talk show host Richar' Farr will go live at 12 noon Mountain Standard Time 2 pm EST Wednesday November 8, 2006 and broadcast continuously around the world for 28 hours from the Krights Studios in Denver, Colorado.

"Over 25 Million American Non-Custodial Parents and Fathers are organizing. Their leaders are assembling! Their rank and file are standing together to show American Elected Officials there is a creditable force to accomplish major Family Law Reform and greater accountability in Child Support Enforcement. There is a strong Constituency ready to accept nothing less than real change to an abhorrent system of Family Laws and abuses inside the Child Support Enforcement System", says Richar' Farr Syndicated Talk Show Host.

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'JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida receiver Nyan Boateng was stabbed in the leg by a female student, causing a minor wound and prompting a police investigation.

University of Florida police responded to a call Sunday afternoon and found Boateng and Shawna-Kay Peterkin fighting. According to a police report, Peterkin had already stabbed Boateng with a small knife.

Boateng suffered a minor wound and refused treatment by medical personnel. Boateng and Peterkin declined to press aggravated battery charges against one another, police said.'

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'Shortly before Donald Gash was killed and his dismembered remains were scattered along a North Carolina highway, he allegedly told a relative to suspect his wife and son if anything ever happened to him.

Police immediately began searching for Gash's 41-year-old wife, Gail, who had recently lost her job with the local social services department because of fraud allegations.
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The Gashes were financially strapped largely because of the $60,000 in restitution for a theft that Gail Gash was attempting to repay a former co-worker.

According to court documents, Gail Gash had also recently lost her job with the Henderson County Department of Social Services based on allegations of food-stamp fraud.

She stood to collect $150,000 in life insurance for her husband's death.
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Assistant District Attorney Charles Walker would not comment specifically on why charges were not laid against the couple's son, except to say that the proof was not there.'

Latest from Teri Stoddard. Excerpt:

'MISANDRY
American Heritage Dictionary
mi·san·dry
n.
Hatred of men.

I’m a woman and I used to believe what the media said about men. Now I know better.

The media constantly exposes us to inaccurate, negative impressions of and statements about men. In looking for the root of the problem I found a network of people who benefit from misandry. Many of these people work for or with the family courts or domestic violence services, often both. I wonder if the Violence Against Women Act funds misandry.'

Often elections are close. Your heartfelt vote on your personal issues of importance can be the deciding factor.

In 2005 Jerry Kilgore, then-Attorney General of Virginia, was favored to win the race for Governor of Virginia. Kilgore, running on his record as Attorney General frequently emphasized how he had cracked down on domestic violence and wanted to expand the existing draconian laws. He lost the race for Governor by a small margin. A credible case can be made that his position on domestic violence lost him the election. This can be an effective argument to make to other candidates after the election's over.

In 2000, U.S. Senator John Ashcroft narrowly lost his re-election bid to a candidate who died in a plane crash shortly before the election. His position supporting the Violence Against Women Act had upset voters to the point that continued protests were being held at his senatorial offices in Missouri, combined with much public activism. The voters turned him out.

In tight races, single issues which normally are not polled or recognized as major factors by parties or pundits, can make or break any candidate.

Look at this will you. The author all but paints (white) men categorically as drooling Asian-hungry predators. Well hasn't she ever met an Asian woman who only dates white or black men? I'll bet she knows a few. But these, I am sure she will say are victims of the "colonial occupation" and are to be sympathized with as victims.

What an incredibly smug, racist and sexist person she is. If she is so unhappy with "white guys" coming on to her, then she can wear a button that says "No white guys need apply". There, that will take care of her problem. Or maybe she is just having too much fun laughing at the misguided fools who waste their time trying to talk to her.

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'A mother-of-six from York has been jailed for seven years for turning her sister-in-law into a domestic slave.

Veronica Sandeman, 26, originally from Dundee, was forced to work naked and beg for food, York Crown Court heard.'