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January 2004

ABC - Teaching Human Rights: Practical activities for primary and secondary schools

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This guide aims to serve as a user-friendly tool for human rights education and a multi-coloured umbrella covering a number of basic human rights areas. It offers practical advice to teachers and other educators who want to foster human rights awareness and action among primary and secondary school children, including suggestions for developing learning activities.
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  • General Material
December 2003

Model Protocol For Advocates Working With Battered Women Involved In The Child Protection System

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This protocol contains an introduction that outlines the origins and key features of CPS, and recommended policy and procedures. Covered are: individual advocacy strategies, determining if a mandatory report is required, making a mandatory report, reviewing case files, and advocating in court.
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  • General Material
December 2003

Preventing Sexual Re-victimization: Tailoring Prevention for Previously Victimized Women

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This article offers insight into how we might tailor sexual violence prevention programs to specifically address issues of re-victimization.
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  • General Material
November 2003

How Can Practitioners Help an Abused Woman Lower Her Risk of Death?

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This article presents key findings from the Chicago Women’s Health Study about domestic violence, its effects, and women’s responses to violence.
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  • General Material
November 2003

Assessing Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Homicide

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The findings reported here indicate that the Danger Assessment tool can assist in assessing battered women who may be at risk of being killed as well as those who are not.
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  • General Material
November 2003

Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response of Law Enforcement

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This report synthesizes the information collected from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study and provides an overview of arrests, types of crimes, characteristics of offenders and ways that the criminal justice system is handling internet sex crimes against minors.
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  • General Material
October 2003

Model Protocol on Working with Battered Women and their Teenage Boys in Shelter

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This model protocol covers recommended policy and procedures on working with battered women and their teenage songs in shelter, program activities for teens, community collaboration, training, confidentiality, and safety planning.
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  • General Material
October 2003

Community Policing and Domestic Violence: Five Promising Practices

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This document provides a discussion of how community policing principles might intersect with the core principles of domestic violence organizing: victim safety, offender accountability, and community change.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
September 2003

Sexual Assault in Rural Communities

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This document addresses our current level of understanding of sexual assault in rural areas as it affects both victims and service providers, identifying the need to recognize a wide variety of rural configurations and cultural characteristics.
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  • General Material
July 2003

Domestic Violence High for Mail Order Brides

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This radio program talks about domestic violence experienced by immigrant women who come to the country after getting married to American men through international match making businesses.
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  • General Material
July 2003

An assessment of Minnesota's Health Care and Public Health Response to Violence Against Women

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This assessment study found that although there are guidelines for health care practitioners to address violence against women, compliance to the guidelines varies. The assessment also found that collaboration between health care agencies and advocacy agencies affect the services provided to patients who experience domestic violence, and that health care institutions need more resources and sustained organizational commitment to address the problem of domestic violence.
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  • General Material
July 2003

Domestic Violence by Police Officers Model Policy

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This policy establishes procedures for handling acts of domestic violence committed by police officers and for implementing prevention strategies.