All Blog Posts (21)

May 5, 2013

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From:   Barbara Mills, Sisters in Solidarity

Bail Reform Urgently Needed to Save Lives

I am writing on behalf of Heather Stewart who in the early hours of May 30^th, 2009, was savagely bludgeoned by her estranged boyfriend Horace Weekes.  This heinous and cowardly act left Ms. Stewart losing one eye and requiring major facial reconstructive surgery.  Her mother, Helen Slichta, while attempting to protect her…

Congolese women cheer during the global rally “One Billion Rising”, which is part of the V-Day event calling for an end to gender-based violence, in Bukavu February 14, 2013. V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. (Jana…

‘Opportunity lost’ as new anti-rape laws in India fail to address root causes – UN expert

Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo. UN News Centre



3 May 2013 – Laws recently passed in India to prevent and prosecute rape and other sex crimes “do not go far enough,” a United Nations independent expert said today, lamenting that the legislation failed to address systemic gender inequalities in Indian society.

“The opportunity to establish a substantive…

West Coast LEAF

NEWS ALERT

Recent action on child support claw backs, Missing Women, and legal aid

At West Coast LEAF, we know that to end discrimination against women and promote women's equality, we must share our vision of a truly equal society in which women are full participants in social, economic, and political life far and wide - with politicians, with decision-makers, and with the…

Support the HOLLA::Revolution! 

Why we care: Street harassment--ranging from comments like “You’d look good on me” to groping, flashing and assault--is a daily, global reality for many girls and women and fuels a cultural environment that condones gender-based…

New Delhi, India

Hi everyone and I hope to be on here more often.I am working with many groups such as Porchlight for the Missing,Cold Case Public Unit and Wenswriting.I am also a Member of The Maryland Taskforce for the Missing.I am also on Facebook and added a new page on our missing children all over the world.I am hopeful to bring Awareness to so many cases going back decades ago.Hope you will come visit my page.Here is the link.Take care my friends.

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Wow this is the second birthday since you have been taken from us.

You are gone but not forgotten and always in our hearts!

RIP mom! I know you are my angel watching from above.

Love you Mom

Thanks very much Christine, Lindsay, Barbara and Patti,

well the meeting at parliament with Joe was a little easier

then i anticiapated, well i just sat there and let everyone else

do the talking!!! I feel really confident that HELEN'S LAW

will be forthcoming ya i know it might take years and years

but it is something that will help other women in domestic

situations. Also to keep moms memory alive .

Just want to say thanks for the wonderful…

JOIN us as well and let us work together to BRING THE MISSING HOME!

http://www.voices4missing.ning.com

Just to say Thanks to Mary Scott and Lindsay i received the signed petitions and added them to my envelope. Greatly appreciated. Well i got my lawyers office involved and she will

get all signatures possible from the office staff!!! keep em comming!!! Lets all get together to show Ottawa that this a serious issue and fight for Helen's Law!! Thanks again for everyones help!!

One year ago today my mom and best friend lost her life at the hands of a monster!

He broke in to my home and attacked myself and my daughter with a hammer

and hit my mom over the head with a hammer and slashed her throat with a knife. she died

as a result. God Bless her and today marks the one year anniversary of this horrific

tragedy and the loss of a wonderful lady who always was there for me.

HELEN SLICHTA Feb 15,1938 - May 30,…

Contact:

Danielle Boudreau

March Organizer

Phone: (780) 919-5707

Email: memorialmarch@live.com

Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Women of Edmonton

Press Release

For immediate release - Please announce the following event:

5th Annual Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Women of Edmonton

Edmonton hits the streets to honor missing…