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May 18 - 2021 ED DAMAZIN Demo in Ed Damazin marching to the state Ministry of Justice, May 17 (Waleed Ali Adam) Hundreds of civil society activists participated in a protest vigil against rape in the Blue Nile state capital Ed Damazin on Monday. The action was part of a campaign against gender-based violence, organised by Blue Nile civil society organisations. Following a gang-rape of a woman (30) north of neighbouring Roseires by five young men during the fasting month of Ramadan, various Blue Nile civil society organisations decided it was time to act and call on the authorities to arrange for adequate interventions for victims of sexual violence. ....
Corrections to stop restraining inmates during labour rnz.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rnz.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Photo: 123RF Two separate reports by the Office of the Children s Commissioner into the Mothers with Babies Unit (MBU) in prisons have found multiple incidents where women were handcuffed before, during and after giving birth. A 2019 report into the MBU in Auckland found female prisoners were handcuffed in labour or soon after birth in hospital. A 2020 report into a Christchurch unit found handcuffing shortly after giving birth and while in the late stages of pregnancy. It is illegal for female prisoners who are giving birth to be restrained, and Corrections policy states that where a medical professional says a woman is in labour, restraints must be removed. ....
These were not historical accounts of 19th century institutional cruelty, or tales involving some mad faraway sect. They were appalling, shaming depictions of childbirth from women under the care, or control anyway, of New Zealand’s Department of Corrections. Let the record show that these accounts, published by Stuff on Sunday, conflict in vivid and explicit ways with the generalised assurances from the department about what its policy is. Let the record also show policies and practices have time and again proven to be markedly different things in our society, including our government departments where training is not always all it should be. ....
Statement by Ambassador Byrne Nason at UNSC Briefing on UNITAD Statement 10 May 2021 Thank you Mr President and thank you Karim for your report and briefing today. Before I begin my statement, and as this is your last briefing to the Council in this role, I want to take the opportunity to acknowledge your service and leadership, Karim, over the past three years.
I would also like to thank Nadia Murad for her powerful briefing this morning. As she did when she advocated for the creation of UNITAD , you again eloquently set out the very real need that survivors of ISIL’s crimes, in getting for justice and accountability. This is the reason we really must ensure that evidence of atrocity crimes is preserved and your courageous testimony today is central to that task. ....