Against rape & domestic violence
Italian Embassy, Tuesday, 8 June ,1-2pm, 14 Three Kings Yard, London W1K 4EH
On 8 June, a charge of attempted rape brought by Ms Joy N against chief of police inspector Vittorio Addesso of Milan CIE (Centre for Identification and Expulsion) Detention Centre in Italy, will be heard in court.
In August 2009, Mr Addesso tried to rape Ms Joy N, a young Nigerian woman...
Press statement: Red Thread and Help & Shelter, Thursday, December 10, 2009
Stabroek News of 9 December, 2009 carried the story of a magistrate granting bail of $30,000 to a woman who had been raped and then attempted suicide. The woman, who is a mother of six children, said she had reported the rape to the police station on the day it occurred and even though the police promised to...
DO WE HEAR THEM WHEN THEY CRY? AN OPEN LETTER FROM RED THREAD ON WHY WE ARE DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR CHILD VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE NOW
Kaieteur News (May 9, “Rights of the Child Commission sworn in”) reported President Jagdeo as describing the recent and ongoing protest by the Coalition to Stamp out Violence as “cheap” because the protestors “knew that...
Sent to the media November 2, 2009
We would be making a mistake of enormous proportions if we responded to the torture of the 14 year old boy while in police custody as an isolated act of barbarity by individual out-of-control policemen. The assurances of the Commissioner of Police ring as hollow now as the Chief of Staff’s declarations about the professionalism of the coast guard...
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