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A deeply moving and powerful biography of Fezekile Kuzwayo – better known as Khwezi – the woman the ANC tried to forget.
In August 2016, following the announcement of the results of South Africa’s heated municipal election, four courageous young women interrupted Jacob Zuma’s victory address, bearing placards asking us to ‘Remember Khwezi’. Before being dragged away by security guards, their powerful message had hit home and the public was reminded of the tragic events of 2006, when Zuma was on trial for the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, better known as Khwezi. In the aftermath of the trial, which saw Zuma acquitted, Khwezi was vilified by his many supporters and forced to take refuge outside of South Africa.
Ten years later, just two months after this protest had put Khwezi’s struggle back into the minds and hearts of South Africans, Khwezi passed away … But not before she had slipped back into South Africa and started work with Redi Tlhabi on a book about her life. How as a young girl living in ANC camps in exile she was raped by the very men who were supposed to protect her; how as an adult she was driven once again into exile, suffering not only at the hands of Zuma’s devotees but under the harsh eye of the media.
In sensitive and considered prose, journalist Redi Tlhabi breathes life into a woman for so long forced to live in the shadows. In giving agency back to Khwezi, Tlhabi is able to focus a broader lens on the sexual abuse that abounded during the ‘struggle’ years, abuse which continues to plague women and children in South Africa today.
The Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely
revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the
multidisciplinary response to child abuse. It features updated
models for the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of child
abuse as well as three all-new chapters on: nonfatal strangulation
in children, pregnancy in sexually abused minors, and prevention of
child maltreatment. With this latest edition, Child Abuse Quick
Reference remains the most detailed and convenient field guide to
child maltreatment-ideal for professionals working directly with
abused children. Medical practitioners, social workers, attorneys,
law enforcement personnel, and others will find this easy-to-use
guide essential to their work on the front lines of prevention and
intervention in cases of child maltreatment.
The Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) Study adds to the
literature by using a national sample of Latino women to determine
the extent of sexual victimization alone and the overlap of sexual
victimization with other forms of victimization. Additional
distinguishing components of SALAS includes an investigation of
formal and informal help-seeking responses; inclusion of culturally
- relevant variables such as religiosity, gender role ideology and
acculturation in relation to victimization and help-seeking; and
assessing the psychosocial impact of sexual victimization on
psychological distress and posttraumatic symptomatology. A national
sample of 2,000 adult Latino women living in high-density Latino
neighborhoods participated. Trained professionals from an
experienced survey research firm conducted interviews over the
phone in either English or Spanish, from May through September
2008. Respondents were queried about lifetime victimization,
help-seeking efforts, acculturation, religiosity, gender role
ideology, trauma symptoms, and post-traumatic symptoms. Respondents
were on average 47.76 years of age and largely foreign-born
(72.4%). The lifetime rate of sexual victimization was 17.2% with
87.5% of sexual victims experiencing another form of victimization
(physical, threat, stalking or witness) within their lifetime.
Sexual victimization mostly commonly occurred with physical
victimization in childhood (47.3%) and threatened victimization in
adulthood (55.9%). Victims of child sexual assault were more likely
to experience any form of adult victimization (OR = 4.59, p
Recovering from abuse can be painfully lonely and feel utterly
hopeless. From her own experience, Germaine Smith reaches out to
other survivors who seek understanding, hope, and-above
all-wholeness. She guides readers toward healing in all areas of
being: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Between Lost
& Found, written in a poetic yet plainspoken style, offers
courage for emerging from darkness.
This workbook is designed to standardize anatomic nomenclature, as
it relates to the head and neck, for both new and experienced
sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and sexual assault forensic
examiners (SAFEs), first responders, medical residents and
physicians, nursing students, and nurse practitioners, including
nurse midwives, women's health nurse practitioners, pediatric nurse
practitioners, and forensic nurse practitioners. Manual Nonfatal
Strangulation Assessment for Health Care Providers and First
Responders will teach beginning first responders, SANE/SAFE
practitioners, medical residents and nursing students the language
of evidence-based evaluative methods of care for the strangulation
patients. It will present peer-reviewed strangulation case studies
with a clear history, photographic representation and confirmation
of anatomical landmarks and injuries, discussions about existing
conditions and their influence, identification of injury,
evidence-based collection techniques, and treatment based on
current standards of practice. Offering this workbook to first
responders and health care providers will help fulfill their need
for basic, peer-reviewed information and will contribute to
continuing competence in care for strangulation patients.
Sex trafficking is a state crime. Nevertheless, it is also a
federal crime when it involves conducting the activities of a sex
trafficking enterprise in a way that affects interstate or foreign
commerce or that involves travel in interstate or foreign commerce.
Section 1591 of Title 18 of the United States Code outlaws the
activities of sex trafficking enterprise that affects interstate or
foreign commerce, including patronising such an enterprise. The
Mann Act outlaws sex trafficking activities that involve travel in
interstate or foreign commerce. This book provides an overview of
sex trafficking. It focuses on the sex trafficking of children in
the United States and reviews the Preventing Sex Trafficking and
Strengthening Families Act.
With statistics showing that 1 in 5 women have experienced some
form of sexual abuse, it is likely that all birth professionals
will support a survivor of such abuse at some point during their
career. This book provides practical advice for those supporting
these women throughout their pregnancy, labour, and postnatal
periods. The impact of past sexual abuse on women during these
periods is often underestimated, and this book shows the need for
greater compassion and understanding in maternity services
regarding this issue. Drawing on a vast range of research and
expertise, this book includes details on the identifiable
behaviours of survivors, how to respond when someone says they are
a survivor, positive stories, and appropriate language to use. This
book is for any care provider who wants to help pregnancy,
childbirth and the postnatal period become a healing experience for
those carrying trauma, and to support these survivors with
compassion, respect and kindness.
Very few women are wartime rapists. Very few women issue commands
to commit sexual violence. Very few women play a role in making war
plans that feature the intentional sexual violation of other women.
This book is about those very few women. Women as Wartime Rapists
reveals the stories of female perpetrators of sexual violence and
their place in wartime conflict, legal policy, and the punishment
of sexual violence. More broadly, Laura Sjoberg asks, what do the
actions and perceptions of female perpetrators of sexual violence
reveal about our broader conceptions of war, violence, sexual
assault, and gender? This book explores specific historical case
studies, such as Nazi Germany, Serbia, the contemporary case of
ISIS, and others, to understand how and why women participate in
rape during war and conflict. Sjoberg examines the contrast between
the visibility of female victims and the invisibility of female
perpetrators, as well as the distinction between rape and genocidal
rape, which is used as a weapon against a particular ethnic or
national group. Further, she explores women's engagement with
genocidal rape and how some orchestrated the ethnic cleansing of
entire regions. A provocative approach to a sensationalized topic,
Women as Wartime Rapists offers important insights into not only
the topic of female perpetrators of wartime sexual violence, but to
larger notions of gender and violence with crucial cultural, legal,
and political implications.
People of every age, ethnicity, and gender survive sexual assault,
and their continued well-being depends upon an informed and
responsive network of medical, legal, and social service
practitioners. Best practices, accurate diagnoses, and up-to-date
treatments administered by these dedicated professionals protect
sexual assault patients and hold perpetrators accountable for their
crimes. For the safety of survivors and in support of their
professional caretakers, Sexual Assault Quick Reference offers
comprehensive, accessible guidelines for responding to sexual
assault, wherever it occurs. The revised second edition of Sexual
Assault Quick Reference provides updated information on a variety
of subjects, all in the same convenient format, including chapters
on the physical and forensic evaluation of patients across the life
span, identifying and treating STIs (based on the CDC's 2015
Treatment Guidelines), mental health care for survivors and
vicariously traumatized practitioners, and the investigation and
prosecution of sexual violence. To address contemporary issues in a
rapidly evolving field of practice, the second edition also offers
4 all-new chapters covering: Disclosure processes, medical and
mental health care, and legal proceedings for sexual assault in the
military The nature of human trafficking, common characteristics
and identification of trafficked persons, and physical and mental
health issues for survivors Assessment, documentation, and
treatment of injuries sustained via strangulation Understanding and
responding to online sexual exploitation, including
self-exploitation and sexting, online sexual solicitation, and
exposure to sexually explicit materials
**Now watch the BBC drama Doing Money** 'They took me because I
would not be missed' This is the shocking true story of how an
ordinary young girl was kidnapped off the street as she walked home
and turned into a slave - before fighting for her freedom and
finding the courage to help the police in one of the UK's most
shocking modern-day slavery trials. Anna was an innocent student
when she was kidnapped, beaten and forced into the sex slave
industry. Threatened and tormented by her pimps, she was made to
sleep with thousands of men. But she would not allow them to break
her. On learning that she would be trafficked from Ireland to
Dubai, she found the courage to trick her captors and flee. Later,
she would also find that same resilience to help the police bring
down her abductors in what has now become one of our biggest
windows into the worldwide sex trafficking trade. For the first
time, the girl at the centre of the storm reveals the
heart-breaking truth.
This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families
updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence
and child maltreatment. New features include: a "Global
Perspectives" call-out box for each of the chapters that explore an
aspect of research, policy, and practice globally or in another
nation; and a separate chapter that examines forms of intimate
partner violence other than male-to-female. Bidirectional intimate
partner violence and female-to-male violence remain contentious
topics in the field of intimate partner violence and rarely receive
extensive coverage in books or texts; Chapter 7 includes a new
examination of brain and behavior research and theory as it can be
applied to intimate partner violence. Further, Chapter 8 adds a
much-expanded examination of the most important federal policies
pertaining to child welfare and child maltreatment. The inclusion
of all forms of relationship and intimate violence continues to be
a distinctive feature of the book, which is a must-have for both
undergraduate and graduate students studying social work, family
studies, criminology, nursing, sociology, and/or psychology.
Sexual assault is a crime that devastates victims and has a
far-reaching negative impact for The Department of Defense (DOD)
because it undermines DODs core values, degrades mission readiness,
and raises financial costs. DOD developed its strategy to prevent
sexual assault using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) framework for effective sexual-violence prevention
strategies, but DOD does not link activities to desired outcomes or
fully identify risk and protective factors. This book addresses the
extent to which DOD developed an effective prevention strategy;
implemented activities department-wide and at military
installations related to the departments effort to prevent sexual
assault; and developed performance measures to determine the
effectiveness of its efforts to prevent sexual assault in the
military.
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