HUMAN RIGHTS

PERSONS AGAINST RITUAL ABUSE - TORTURE
AND OTHER FORMS OF NON-STATE ACTOR TORTURE

HUMAN RIGHTS

Round-table discussion for Canadian Human Rights Museum
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Linda, Anamah Tan - CEDAW Expert, and Jeanne, October 23, 2009

Photo taken at the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, after Anamah Tan asked the Canadian government the following question: “Some acts involving family violence constitute torture … as part of its many family violence initiatives, had [Canada] examined the issue of non-State-actor torture by family members?”
(CEDAW/C/SR.855 (A), para. 36).
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Most Recent Shadow Report
Torture of Canadian Women by Non-State Actors in the Private Sphere: A Shadow Report
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Sixth and Seventh Reports of Canada - Covering the period April 1999 - March 2006
Report by the Canadian Government submitted in 2007 to the Committee regarding the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) outlining the measures Canada has taken to give effect to CEDAW. Our shadow report on women responds to this Canadian report by exposing the gap related to women in Canada who are, or have endured, non-state actor torture in Canada.
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? Is Canada a Torture Free Zone ?
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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Convention against Torture
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Non-State Actor Torture in Canada: A Shadow Report A Response to the Final Report, Children: The Silenced Citizens, of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights in Relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Children: The Silenced Citizens - 2007 study released by the Canadian Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. Our shadow report responds to this study by exposing the gap related to children in Canada who are, or have endured, non-state actor torture in Canada.
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Panels at the United Nations

Human Trafficking and Non-State Actor Torture of the Girl Child within the Context of Ritual Abuse Torture, 2007

The Trafficking of Young Girls in the 21st Century, 2007

Human Trafficking in the 21^st Century, 2006

The Many Faces of Torture, 2004

K. Watt and J. Westbrook, 2007

Two activist women who spoke about their survival of ritual abuse-torture at the United Nations, NY, 2007

RITUAL ABUSE-TORTURE:

An Emerging Human Rights Issue and Newly Recognized Form of Torture by "Non-state Actors" for the United Nations (UN)

We recommend ritual abuse-torture be identified as an emerging human rights violation; that ritual abuse-torture be recognized as a newly acknowledged form of torture that is inflicted by non-state actors. From our work and research, ritual abuse-torture is inflicted upon both girls and boys as young as infancy, and women. It involves planned and organized family and group rituals, abuse and torture as well as "off-street" in home, regional, national and transnational trafficking and sexualized exploitation and modern day slavery. Ritual abuse-torture has the capacity to destroy the personality of the infant, toddler, child, youth or adult victim.

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HUMAN RIGHTS
FOR SURVIVORS OF RITUAL ABUSE-TORTURE

This section includes advocacy and activism work, including signed statements submitted by survivors, that has been initiated, and is on-going, since our participation in the side panel presentation entitled “The Many Faces of Torture” at the 48th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), at the United Nations headquarters, New York City.

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Artwork by Brazilian artist Octavia Roth)

United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

UN Definitions for Human Trafficking (2 pages)

Online discussion on Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child

Misopedic Fact Sheet

Emerging Issue of Ritual Abuse-Torture: Foeticide and Infanticide in the Private Sphere of Family and Guardian Relationships

Human Trafficking & Ritual Abuse-Torture

Ritual Abuse-Torture The Most Unspoken Face of Human Trafficking

Ritual Abuse Torturers: Joining the Horde of Ancient Contemporary Enslavers and Human Traffickers (15 pages)

Ritual Abuse-Torturers: The ‘Invisible’ Abusers, ‘Non-State Actor’ Torturers, and Human Traffickers

Within Canada: Trafficking and Non-State Actor Torture Combined

Jeanne speaking in Washington at the National Press Club September 29, 2004

Ritual abuse-torture: Identifying a crime of horror (pg 32-33)

La violence et la torture rituelles

Ritual Abuse-Torture and Human Trafficking: Making the Connection Between Relational Non-Violence and World Peace

Voices Newsletter for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Volume 27#1 Spring 2006 page 8 & 9.27 # 1 Spring 2006 page 8 & 9.

Violence and Global Sex Trade Flyer for the University of Toronto, sponsored by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.

Links

1. Childtrafficking.com Digital Library- Comprehensive library of global resources about child trafficking.

2. Polaris Project-- Combatting Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Polaris Project is a multicultural grassroots non-profit agency combating sex trafficking and modern-day slavery.

3. CyberTip.ca - Cybertip.ca is Canada's National Tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children.

4. Virtual Global TaskForce - The Virtual Global Taskforce is a partnership of international law enforcement agencies.

photo taken by Debbie Camacho Love
Jeanne, Peter & Linda after presenting on Human Trafficking to American News Women's Club

Washington DC, September 29, 2004

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