An interim legislative committee is crafting pioneering child custody measures that promise to result in a collision between groups advocating for victims of domestic violence and advocates for fathers' rights. The most dramatic changes codify the concept of coercive control , which is a pattern of behavior used to dominate an ex-spouse, the other parent or intimate partner. A judge would determine custody and visitation based on whether there is a pattern of controlling behavior by one or both of the parents.
DOVER-FOXCROFT - More than 33 million people each year become victims of crime, whether it is emotional, physical, psychological or financial. In recognition of the affect crime has on its victims, Congress in 1984 passed the Victims of Crime Act, which affirmed a national commitment to help victims rebuild their lives and which established the Crime Victims Fund, a major source of funding for services and compensation to victims of crime throughout the country.
Yet the determination of a wide gamut of groups, from survivors of rights violations and victims' family members, to domestic and international human rights groups and social movements, to progressive intellectuals and politicians, to pursue truth and justice-the cry of the regions most iconic human rights movement, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo-has shifted the course of history toward this moment of accountability. Instead, the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) adopted an integral approach to post-conflict reconstruction that favored truthtelling, reparations, and institutional reforms, while also calling for retributive justice in the most heinous cases of rights abuses.
Most Virginians would say there are more rapists and molesters today than 15 years ago. They would be wrong. Approximately 15 years ago, victims' rights groups and lawmakers began lowering the threshold of what is defined as a sex crime, making the standards of guilt easier, increasing and expanding punishment, tying the hands of judges with mandatory minimums and giving too much power to prosecutors.
The state began reducing its prison population by 6,500 inmates Monday as part of a new cost-saving effort that also includes removing supervision for more than 7,700 parolees in Los Angeles County alone. The state legislation that was passed last year amid the California budget crisis has alarmed law enforcement officials and victims-rights groups, who warned it would jeopardize public safety and reverse a years-long trend of declining crime rates.
A year after ethnic riots, human rights groups watching the situation have documented a pattern of official reprisals and abuses against the Uzbek population. Nearly a year and a half after ethnic clashes ripped through this former Silk Road trading hub, ethnic Uzbeks, who suffered the brunt of the violence, face arbitrary arrest and often horrific abuse at the hands of the predominantly ethnic Kyrgyz authorities, victims and local and international rights groups say.
The official paper trail in the race for Vanderburgh County prosecutor shows two candidates who are about evenly matched in financial support, but in terms of sentiment, the race has become a lightning rod for those dissatisfied with the local legal system's status quo. So much so that a candidate with comparatively little trial experience is drawing support from law enforcement and even some high-profile defense attorneys, as well as victims rights advocates, two groups not always on the same page.
I have a dream. Those words of Martin Luther King Jr. will be quoted today in rapture and reverence at celebrations across North Jersey.
MOSCOW -- Russia's leading human rights groups released a list Wednesday of more than one million people who fell victim to Josef Stalin's purges an attempt to draw public attention to the Soviet dictator's crimes in a society still divided over his legacy. The 1,345,796 names, compiled on a CD-ROM along with brief biographies of the victims, represent only a small portion of those who suffered in the purges, but are all the cases that activists have been able to document so far.
Activists want time for bodies to be identified MEXICO CITY -- A coalition of activist groups says it opposes burying 49 unidentified bodies found in northern Mexico in paupers' graves. The groups say that foreign experts and foreign relatives of disappeared people should be given a chance to identify the victims on the chance that they may not be Mexicans. The coalition includes migrant and human rights groups from Mexico and Central America. It published an open letter to the governor of northern Nuevo Leon state on Monday. The bodies were found in May on a highway in Nuevo Leon without heads, hands or feet. The massacre was blamed on the Zetas drug gang. Bodies can stay in the local morgue for a maximum of four months, after which they are usually buried in common graves. MONTERREY,...
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