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Indonesia: Ending Violence Against Women

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Ending Violence Against Women

Athira Nortajuddin

This file photo shows an Indonesian activist standing next to a banner that reads «We are human beings not commodities» in Jakarta. (AFP Photo)

You might have seen a few posts from friends or organisations on social media which highlight the colour orange alongside the hashtags #OrangeTheWorld and #GenerationEquality these past few days.

The campaign, “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!” is the theme for 2020’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which falls on 25 November every year. Even some iconic buildings and landmarks will be “oranged” to recall the need for a violence-free future. This can be seen from the Pyramids and the Sphinx of Egypt which was lit up in orange to kick off the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations today, affecting one in three women in her lifetime. The ‘Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women’ issued by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993 defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”

VAWG comes in many forms that include intimate partner violence such as femicide and marital rape, sexual violence and harassment, human trafficking, female genital mutilation and child marriage.

Unfortunately, violence against women is a common problem in many parts of the world including the Asia-Pacific region. Over 37 percent of women in South Asia, 40 percent of women in Southeast Asia and 68 percent of women in the Pacific have experienced violence at the hands of their partners.

However, due to stigma, impunity and shame surrounding the issue, many cases go unreported with victims suffering in silence.

While gender-based violence can happen to anyone and anywhere, some women and girls are especially vulnerable such as young girls and older women, women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, migrants and refugees, indigenous women and ethnic minorities, those living with disabilities and those living through humanitarian crises.

VAWG has devastating physical, emotional, financial and social impacts on victims and communities. It negatively affects women’s sense of self-worth, their wellbeing and overall quality of life. Moreover, it affects the full participation of women and girls in education, employment, politics and civic life, which then leads to increasing poverty and inequality.

In A Pandemic

In recent months, many have stayed indoors due to virus fears. COVID-19 preventive measures such as movement control and social distancing have been implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Unfortunately, this means that victims of abuse are trapped inside their homes with their abusers.

UN Women stated that there has been an upsurge in incidents during the pandemic, with some countries reporting a five-fold rise in calls to helplines in the first weeks of the coronavirus outbreak.

Closer to home, some ASEAN member states have also reported a rise in domestic violence cases since the pandemic began. According to a media report dated 24 November, domestic abuse reports in Thailand increased by 66 percent since March. In just the first seven months of 2020, there were 367 reported cases with 242 of them resulting in the death of the victim.

Whereas data from the Legal Aid Foundation of the Indonesian Women’s Association for Justice also showed an increase of domestic violence cases in the populous archipelago. Some 110 cases were reported in Indonesia from 16 March to 20 June. The three-month figure is almost half the number of domestic violence cases reported in 2019.

Ending violence against women and girls

Prevention

A number of efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls have been made across the world. They mainly focus on responding to and providing services for survivors of violence such as support and counselling. Some progress can be seen across the Asia-Pacific region. For instance, 90 percent of countries in the region now have dedicated laws on eliminating violence against women, compared to less than 50 percent a decade ago. A third of the countries in the region have also criminalised marital rape. Also, in 2015, ASEAN member states adopted the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Nevertheless, prevention is the only way to stop VAWG before it even happens.

“Addressing the structural causes, as well as the risk and protective factors, associated with violence,” is crucial to ending violence against women and girls completely, suggests UN Women.

“It requires political commitment, implementing laws that promote gender equality, investing in women’s organisations, and addressing the multiple forms of discrimination women face daily.”

Some prevention strategies include educating and raising awareness among all members of the public including women and men, and boys and girls. For instance, in the Asia-Pacific region, UN Women works with other UN agencies on the Partners for Prevention programme that aims to reduce the prevalence of gender-based violence in the region through behaviour and attitudinal change among boys and men, as well as increased institutional capacity and policy enhancements.

Fuente de la Información: https://theaseanpost.com/article/ending-violence-against-women

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Estados Unidos: My Student Experience: ‘Even Though There is a Pandemic and We Are Teaching Virtually, I Wouldn’t Change it for the World,’ Says Jana Humphrey ‘20MAT

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My Student Experience: ‘Even Though There is a Pandemic and We Are Teaching Virtually, I Wouldn’t Change it for the World,’ Says Jana Humphrey ‘20MAT

This is part of a monthly “My Student Experience” series in which the NC State College of Education highlights the student experience through profiles, stories and videos.

As a child, Jana Humphrey ‘20MAT loved the story of Matilda. And she knew if she was ever to become a teacher, she wanted to be just like Miss Honey.

Humphrey tried several different professions, from counseling to camp director, but ultimately realized that teaching was and has always been her life’s passion. As a former pre-K teacher and instructional assistant (IA), Humphrey decided to pursue a teaching license.

“Nothing compares to the reward I experience in a classroom. I had my own personal lightbulb moment when I was teaching pre-kindergarten, and I knew that I wanted to go back to school for my teaching license,” she said.

Humphrey chose the Master of Arts in Teaching program in the NC State College of Education because she felt it was the best fit for her. She says it checked all the boxes — master’s program, in-person and online classes, the ability to finish in two years and supportive faculty.

Now in her final semester of the elementary education content area, Humphrey is wrapping up her internship experience, where she is teaching in a first grade classroom at Cary Elementary School — a school she is all too familiar with. She worked as an IA at the school.

“I have pretty close connections with our students and families because I have been an IA here for a few years, and I have worked in the after school program (ASP). Fortunately, through ASP and carpool duty, I was able to already start building relationships with several of our students,” she said.

For Humphrey, her day begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3:45 p.m. with five blocks of lessons and independent activities a day, including a morning meeting with the positivity project. Most of the time when there is a break, she is in virtual and in-person meetings. Collaboration and teamwork, she says, have been key to delivering strong instruction for their students.

Her cooperating teacher has taught her to keep it simple, which she says is especially important with virtual learning. “I have a tendency to try to invent new things or have overly complex independent activities. My mentor teacher is great about reminding me that, while we want quality work, we do not need to overwhelm our 6-year-old students with the latest app or trick.”

With her student teaching experience being online and virtual learning, Humphrey says it’s been challenging but also unique.

“It can be overwhelming to student-teach with the world watching. It is a little intimidating to know that I am technically being observed not just by colleagues, like my mentor teacher, university supervisor and administrative staff, but also by the families of my students,” she said.

What she’s enjoyed most about the internship experience has been the students.

“I love learning how resilient they are and seeing the community that the classroom has even over Google Meet. My class loves to celebrate each other during our online learning by clapping for each other and ‘raising the roof,’” she said. “They love to show our connection symbol when someone else is talking and they have a connection with them. It just amazes me how connected we are even virtually.”

Even with virtual teaching, Humphrey and her mentor teacher have made a point of finding ways to connect with their students outside of the computer screen. As a reward for positive student behavior and to celebrate birthdays, they visit students at their homes. They physically distance themselves and stay in the car, but conduct drive-bys.

“It’s been a great way to get to see some of our students in person. It’s also been a great management tool for our students,” she said. “They get to cash in rewards for teacher visits, mystery mail, etc. They get really excited and go above and beyond daily to earn these rewards.

Through this internship experience, Humphrey says she feels that she was mistaken thinking she knew all about teaching with her prior experience as a pre-K teacher. She has learned that it takes a lot more patience and flexibility than she could ever imagine.

“Even as an IA, I had no idea the number of late nights that teachers have working and perfecting lesson plans. I also have learned that we make a million decisions a day,” she said. “There is so much that we have to decide quickly and efficiently.”

Humphrey will graduate on Dec. 4 and will be one step closer to becoming Miss Honey.

“Having that teaching license at the end of the day will make everything worth it. Even though there is a pandemic and we are teaching virtually, I wouldn’t change it for the world!”

Fuente de la Información: https://ced.ncsu.edu/news/2020/11/25/my-student-experience-even-though-there-is-a-pandemic-and-we-are-teaching-virtually-i-wouldnt-change-it-for-the-world-says-jana-humphrey-20mat/

 

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Kenia: Jailed, Exiled and Silenced: Smothering East Africa’s Political Opposition

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Jailed, Exiled and Silenced: Smothering East Africa’s Political Opposition

Credit…Badru Katumba/Agence France-

In several countries, entrenched leaders are taking advantage of coronavirus restrictions and a world distracted by the pandemic to clamp down hard on prominent political opponents.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Since the presidential campaign kicked off in Uganda in early November, the most prominent opposition candidate, Bobi Wine, has been tear-gassed, arrested and beaten by the police, held in solitary confinement, and charged in court for holding campaign events in violation of coronavirus restrictions.

“I know they want me dead as soon as yesterday,” Mr. Wine, a musician-turned-lawmaker whose real name is Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, said in a telephone interview. “We are campaigning every day as if it’s the last.”

Mr. Wine is one of several high-profile opposition leaders in East Africa who have recently been jailed, exiled or silenced as they challenge entrenched leaders and political parties. Heads of state have used the coronavirus as a pretext to strengthen their grip on power and have introduced laws to smother dissent, analysts say.

There has been less international attention and outcry than usual, with many countries that traditionally serve as watchdogs preoccupied with the pandemic and domestic concerns. While some have issued statements of concern, they have not threatened sanctions over the violence, or offered to mediate, as they might once have.

And the United States, under the isolationist leadership of President Trump, has been far less engaged in defending human rights globally. The country has also lost credibility to intervene internationally as the world saw American police forces caught on video violating human rights at home.

The repercussions have been felt in elections in several East African nations.

In Uganda, which votes in January, Mr. Wine has faced intense intimidation in his bid to unseat President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country with an iron grip since 1986.

In Tanzania, Tundu Lissu, a lawyer and former lawmaker, received death threats as he campaigned for president, and was hounded out of the country after an October election that some international observes said was undermined by fraud.

And in Ethiopia, the media mogul and opposition figure Jawar Mohammed has been lingering in prison for almost five months on charges of terrorism.

“Opposition movements are facing some of the most dire challenges to their existence since this era of democratization first took hold in the region in the early 1990s,” said Zachariah Mampilly, co-author of the book “Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change,” and a professor of international affairs at the City University of New York.

As opposition leaders face off with powerful establishments, these “regimes are revealing the violent sides that have always undergirded their power,” Mr. Mampilly said.

In Tanzania, Tundu Lissu, center, who survived an assassination attempt in 2017, returned to run in an October election. He has since left for exile in Belgium.

Credit…Ericky Boniphace/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The challenge has been acute in Uganda in recent weeks, where Mr. Wine’s arrest on Nov. 19 sparked violent protests that led to the death of at least 45 people and the arrest of almost 600 others, according to the police.

The authorities have accused Mr. Wine of holding political gatherings that flout coronavirus guidelines, which stipulate that campaign rallies be limited to 200 people. But security forces, he said, have not clamped down on rallies supporting Mr. Museveni and the ruling National Resistance Movement, despite drawing campaign crowds exceeding the 200-person limit.

“There’s an absolute double-standard in operating procedures when it comes to enforcing the rules,” Mr. Wine said. “It’s like the coronavirus is only affecting the opposition.”

Although Uganda’s electoral commission has encouraged candidates to campaign on radio and television instead of holding rallies, Mr. Wine said the authorities have raided studios to stop his appearances or ordered hosts to cancel them.

A Ugandan police spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about the treatment of Mr. Wine.

Mr. Wine, 38, said he is riding on the frustrations of the country’s young, who make up a significant majority of the nation’s 45 million people. Mr. Museveni, 76, was initially credited for bringing stability to his nation, but has been accused of brooking no criticism, overseeing widespread online surveillance and censorship, and introducing punitive anti-gay laws. In order to run for an unprecedented sixth term, he approved a law that ended presidential age limits.

Protests erupted in Kampala, Uganda, after Mr. Wine’s arrest — leaving dozens dead and injured, and hundreds arrested.

Credit…Badru Katumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

As he has campaigned countrywide, Mr. Museveni has accused the opposition of working with outsiders and “homosexuals” to destabilize the country. At a recent rally, he struck an ominous note, saying, “They will discover what they are looking for.”

In Tanzania, observers said the elections on Oct. 28 were marred with violence, the arrest of opposition leaders and widespread allegations of fraud and irregularities. In the hours after President John Magufuli won a second term, the main opposition contender, Mr. Lissu, said he started receiving death threats. Mr. Lissu had already survived one assassination attempt in 2017, went into exile and returned this year to run for president.

Hassan Abbas, a spokesman for the Tanzanian government, denied the allegations of threats.

After the election, Mr. Lissu went into hiding but was soon arrested outside the German embassy in the port city of Dar es Salaam, where he had sought protection. He said the police questioned him about trying to “overthrow the government.” After German diplomats got involved, Mr. Lissu was released and decided to immediately leave the country.

“It’s sad the way things have turned out,” Mr. Lissu said in a phone interview from Tienen, Belgium, where he is now living.

Mr. Lissu, 52, said that “it was going to be a mountain climb” to unseat the government of Mr. Magufuli, which has curbed political and civil liberties and placed restrictions on media and human rights organizations. Mr. Magufuli has declared the country coronavirus-free, but has not released any data since April about the pandemic.

In Ethiopia, Mr. Mohammed, the most formidable political challenger to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, was arrested in July and later charged with terrorism, after being linked to a wave of unrest that followed the killing of the popular singer Hachalu Hundessa in June.

Mr. Jawar, 34, hails from the same Oromo ethnic group as Mr. Abiy and helped propel him to power in 2018. Mr. Jawar runs the Oromia Media Network and has a large following on social media. But the two have since clashed over their vision for Ethiopia’s future.

In Ethiopia, the media mogul and opposition figure Jawar Mohammed, center, has been charged with terrorism and has been lingering in prison for months.

Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The country has now plunged into crisis since Mr. Abiy, who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, started a military operation to subdue the northernmost Tigray region in early November. The sweeping assault has pushed more than 40,000 people to flee the Tigray region into Sudan, drawing concerns from the United Nations as well as regional and global leaders.

Ken O. Opalo, an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, said that even with Mr. Mohammed and many other government critics in prison, it will be hard to silence opposition movements in Ethiopia or “go back to the old closed” system of rule, given how much the country has opened up in the past few years.

Two other countries in the region — Burundi and Djibouti — also persecute the political opposition. In Burundi, officials from rival parties were targeted ahead of May elections. Under the new president, Évariste Ndayishimiye, who replaced the longtime ruler Pierre Nkurunziza, there has been an increase in opposition detentions and disappearances, said Thierry Uwamahoro, a Burundian democracy activist who is now based overseas.

In Djibouti, where Ismail Omar Guelleh has been president since 1999, the authorities have stamped out public protests and arrested journalists and opposition members. As the country prepares for presidential elections in April, opponents of Mr. Guelleh doubt they can mount a successful challenge.

“When it comes to politics, Djibouti is a black hole,” Daher Ahmed Farah, the head of the opposition Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development party, said in a phone interview from exile in Belgium.

The struggles in all these countries attest to the yearning among many in East Africa for genuine political transformation, said Mr. Mampilly of the City University of New York.

“As with all such periods of transformation, there will be continued setbacks, and hopefully, progress as well,” he said.

Fuente de la Información: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/africa/Africa-leaders-suppression.html

 

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Pilas: la inteligencia artificial acabará con esta lista de profesiones. Mundo

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Mundo/29-11-2020/Autor(a) y Fuente: www.publimetro.co

Si usted estudió alguna de estas carreras, es mejor que vaya pensando en otra posibilidad. La inteligencia artificial acabará con esta lista de profesiones.

Un estudio revelado por El Tiempo muestra que en un futuro cercano algunos algunos campos laborales dejarán de existir.

Esto será debido al avance en la tecnología, la automatización y la implementación de robots.

Inteligencia artificial acabará con esta lista de profesiones

La investigación la realizó el metabuscador de empleo Jobatus y en esta descubrió cinco trabajos que desaparecerán.

Por lo que, si usted ejerce uno de estos oficios, piense de qué forma puede cambiarlo o mejorarlo.

Estos son:

Fotógrafos de bancos de imágenes:

Según el estudio, la inteligencia artificial ya puede proveer (en un menor tiempo) la fotografía que se desee.

Así que, los bancos de imágenes pasarán a un segundo plano y, con esto, sus fotógrafos.

Conductores de vehículos:

Si creía que esta era una labor que solo podían hacer los humanos, la tecnología nos ha demostrado que no.

Ahora los carros autónomos son una realidad y en un corto plazo será cada vez más común que no se necesite a una persona al volante. «Más aún con el desarrollo de las redes 5G, que dan un mayor soporte a esta tecnología», se lee en El Tiempo.

Periodistas:

Sí, nuestra profesión es una de las que desaparecerá dentro de poco. Esto se debe al desarrollo del machine learning, por medio de la inteligencia artificial.

Ahora con solo un titular y varios datos claves una máquina puede redactar el resto del hecho noticioso. ¡Y sin errores!

Para la fortuna del gremio, la inteligencia artificial aún no puede realizar investigaciones periodísticas ni hacer reportería.

Técnico de diagnóstico por imagen:

Una máquina ya podría estudiar una imagen, fotografías o exámenes, por lo que un técnico que se dedique a este trabajo no sería necesario.

Diseñadores web:

Varios portales de internet nos han demostrado que la inteligencia artificial permitirá crear todo un diseño web desde cero.

Fuente e Imagen: https://www.publimetro.co/co/noticias/2020/11/27/la-inteligencia-artificial-acabara-con-esta-lista-de-profesiones.html

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Grecia: Trabajadores del sector público griego realizan huelga general

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Europa/Grecia/29-11-2020/Autor(a) y Fuente: www.telesurtv.net

Los huelguistas se sitiaron en hospitales junto con la Coordinación de la Resistencia de los Trabajadores.

Trabajadores y representantes de sindicatos griegos se reunieron este jueves en una huelga general en la ciudad de Atenas (capital) para reclamar la gestión del Gobierno durante la pandemia de la Covid 19.

Los huelguistas se sitiaron en hospitales junto con la Coordinación de la Resistencia de los Trabajadores y otros sindicatos primarios como la coalición anticapitalista Antarsya, organizaron una gran manifestación de huelga en la calle Korai, frente a la plaza Klafthmonos, donde habían convocado.

Empleados de los hospitales de Agios Savvas, Gennimata y Attiko, además de profesores del COI y de la Asociación PE A de Atenas, encabezaron el paro nacional. Se supo que la fuerza policial atrincheró el área de la plaza Klafthmonos y el Ministerio de Empleo.

El rotundo éxito de la huelga general hoy en Grecia es una bofetada al gobiernoLa clase trabajadora con su…

Publicado por Socialismo Internacional en  Jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2020

Los sindicatos de empleados públicos reclamaron mayores medidas de protección contra el coronavirus en oficinas y escuelas, contrataciones en los sectores del transporte público y la salud y aumentos de salarios. Según los medios locales, la huelga fue una expresión de la ira de los trabajadores contra el Gobierno, que está dando millones a clínicas privadas en lugar de abastecer el servicio público.

Según la organización política Socialismo Internacional, la huelga es la única garantía de que “podemos obligar al Gobierno a retirarse, a romper los planes anti-laborales de un nuevo memorándum de austeridad y extensión de jornada, el socavamiento de las libertades sindicales y los recortes”.

Grecia cuenta con 11 millones de habitantes y ha registrado más de 97.000 casos de coronavirus y unas 1.900 muertes. En el nuevo presupuesto del Estado se recortó en 550.000.000 los gastos de salud para acaparar otros sectores como la policía o la industria armamentista.

Fuente e Imagen: https://www.telesurtv.net/news/trabajadores-sector-publico-griego-realizan-huelga-general-20201127-0039.html

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Venezuela: Jóvenes larenses recibieron títulos como investigadores penales

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América del Sur/Venezuela/29-11-2020/Autora: Carmen Luzardo/Fuente: ultimasnoticias.com.ve

112 jóvenes recibieron sus acreditaciones como Técnicos Superiores Universitarios en Investigación Penal, programa de formación avalado por la Universidad Nacional Experimental de la Seguridad (UNES) Lara.

El Gobernador de la entidad, Adolfo Pereira, presidió el acto solemne de grado, en el auditorio “Julio Pérez Rojas” en la sede gubernamental ubicada en Barquisimeto.

Se trató de la octava cohorte de graduandos en la entidad que se incorporan al Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (Cicpc), según informó Pereira, y quienes pasarán “a reforzar las filas de los organismos de seguridad  larenses”, recalcó.

Por su parte, el comisionado jefe Franklin Aguilar, director de la Unes resaltó que luego de dos años de formación y a pesar de la pandemia por covid 19, cada uno de los jóvenes lleva consigo todos los conocimientos necesarios para ponerlos en práctica.

Uno de los graduandos, Bryan Reynold, señaló su agradecimiento por el logro de la meta de estudio a la oportunidad brindada por el Presidente Nicolás Maduro. Mientras, Mariangel Peraza, indicó que como investigadora penal, ella y sus compañeros, se encuentran “comprometidos con el servicio del pueblo”.

Fuente e Imagen: https://ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/general/jovenes-larenses-recibieron-titulos-como-investigadores-penales/

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República Dominicana: Fiscalía de Santiago recibió 5,629 denuncias por violencia de género y delito sexual

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América Central/República Dominicana/29-11-2020/Autor(a) y Fuente: acento.com.do

Las querellas fueron recibidas en los primeros 10 meses del año por la Unidad de Atención Integral a la Violencia de Género, Intrafamiliar y Delitos Sexuales.

El procurador fiscal titular de Santiago, José Francisco Núñez, informó que en los primeros 10 meses del año en curso el Ministerio Público de esta jurisdicción recibió 5,629 denuncias por violencia de género, intrafamiliar y delitos sexuales.

Agregó que las querellas fueron recibidas por la Unidad de Atención Integral a la Violencia de Género, Intrafamiliar y Delitos Sexuales de la Fiscalía, que también procesó 534 medidas de coerción desde noviembre de 2019 hasta la fecha.

De los casos recibidos en materia de género, intrafamiliar y delitos sexuales, 2,081 fueron por maltrato físico y 1,906 por violencia verbal y psicológica. Asimismo, 282 fueron por agresión sexual y seducción, en un período en el que se reportan también 120 por tentativa de violación sexual.

El informe destaca además que esa unidad de la Procuraduría Fiscal de Santiago recibió 32 casos de acoso sexual, 41 de sustracción de menores y 32 de incesto.

Núñez explicó que, desde noviembre de 2019 hasta la fecha, emitieron 1,406 órdenes de protección en los referidos casos y sostuvo que la unidad trabaja de manera permanente en prevención y persecución, como forma de contribuir a erradicar la violencia hacia las mujeres.

Igualmente, dijo que las víctimas que solicitan los servicios del sistema de atención, reciben de manera integral un acompañamiento oportuno con evaluaciones y asistencia permanente de profesionales de la conducta, con seguimiento a los procesos a fin de establecer el cumplimiento de los protocolos en estos casos.

Además, exhortó a los padres para que instruyan a sus hijos e hijas a protegerse de todo el entorno familiar y evitar los casos de agresión sexual y seducción de menores de edad.

Fuente e Imagen: https://acento.com.do/actualidad/fiscalia-de-santiago-recibio-5629-denuncias-por-violencia-de-genero-y-delito-sexual-8887711.html

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