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PERSONS AGAINST RITUAL
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WHAT IS NON-STATE ACTOR TORTURE? Non-state actor torture is torture committed, for instance, by parents, spouses, other kin, guardians, neighbours, trusted adults, or strangers in the private sphere, for example, in homes, warehouses, cabins, rented buildings, in fields, or in various public and private places.
WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE-TORTURE? Our nutshell definition Ritual abuse-torture is one form of non-state actor torture and is about pedophilic parents, families, guardians, and like-minded adults who abuse, torture, and traffic children using organizing ritualisms.
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WHAT'S NEW: Most Recent Shadow Report Torture of Canadian Women by Non-State Actors in the Private Sphere: A Shadow Report
Sixth and Seventh Reports of Canada Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Convention against Torture Shadow Report Non-State Actor Torture in Canada: A Shadow Report 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. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Participate in our Research If you are a person who has survived ritual abuse-torture and are willing to be part of our participatory research please click the 'Cast Your Vote' button below. All of our results will be anonymous. Thank you in advance, Jeanne and Linda
Questionnaire
We are seeking your opinions on the difference between abuse and torture.
What are your thoughts?
Reproductive Harms Research
Published Work
We have just had a chapter published in the new
Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence entitled Ritual Abuse-Torture in
Families pp 603 - 610.
Papers and Pamphlets
Ritual Abuse-Tortures: The 'Invisible' Abusers, 'Non-State Actor' Torturers, And Human Traffickers Online discussion on Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child
Panels at the United Nations The Trafficking of Young Girls in the 21st Century Conferences | ||||||
HOW DID WE GET HERE? In 1993, Canada's National Panel on Violence Against Women published their final report, Changing the Landscape: Ending Violence ~ Achieving Equality, dedicating a section to ritual abuse. That same year a woman sought our help to exit from a present-day ritual abuse-torture co-culture into which she had been born. Working together we achieved success. As our understanding progressed we came to know how extensive pedophile acts are within all forms of adult-child relationships, adults who are commonly in positions of trust and on whom the infant, toddler, child, or youth ought to be able to safely depend. Pedophiles present as like-minded men and women, mothers and fathers. Other kin. Friends or neighbours. Persons from all walks of life. Persons who use positional power as a cover. The professional, the clergy, or lay person. A stranger. Adults who operate alone or in groups. CLICK HERE FOR EXCERPT FROM FINAL REPORT OF CANADIAN PANEL
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WHERE ARE WE GOING?
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GLOBAL MAP OF THE PREVALENCE OF RITUAL ABUSE-TORTURE If you are a person who has experienced ritual abuse-torture, or have a child who experienced ritual abuse-torture, or are the spouse of a person who has experienced ritual abuse-torture, please click on the guest map link and add a mark for the original site where these ritual abuse-torture violations occurred. The map looks a little crowded in some places. You can use the zoom icon at the top of the map. This will give more space to pick your geographical spot. If you have trouble using the map you can e-mail us at flight@ns.sympatico.ca and we will help you. 1. Click the red tack at the top of the map 2. Move, do not drag this tack to the place on the map where the ordeals of ritual abuse-torture occurred and hit this spot on the map. 3. A box will pop up. You need to type something in this box for your mark to stay. You can write a real name, a nick name, initials, or a pseudonym. Pick a little person icon that feels right. Click the flag of the country. Write in the name of the place in the comments section of the box (you can write in other places where ritual abuse-torture occurred in addition to the original site). An e-mail or website are not required. 4. Click the submit box and your mark is on the map. If you are a helper or
bystander
click this link to see the evolving global image of the
prevalence
of ritual abuse-torture. Click the View My Guest Map icon below to add your mark to our guest map. 
Our map only holds 100 submissions at one time. Check the links below to see previous map lists beginning in April 2003. Map 3 August 14 - December 17/03 Map 7 September 10 - November 17/04 Map 10 August 12 - December 19/05
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RITUAL ABUSE-TORTURE: An Emerging Human Rights Issue and Newly Recognized Form of Torture by "Non-state Actors" for the United Nations (UN)
To read feedback about our UN activism, click here
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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 AND RITUAL
ABUSE-TORTURE
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RELATIONSHIPS CARTOON In this section we use an animated cartoon character
to illustrate
and educate about the common and normal responses that
persons
can experience within the context of healthy,
unhealthy, abusive, and ritual abuse-torture
relationships. Click here to install this shockwave program http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/ download.cgi?&P5_Language=English You will also need version 4 of Internet Explorer or Netscape. You may have trouble viewing the cartoon if you have a MacIntosh computer or an older version of Windows. Sorry if you cannot view our Relationships Cartoon. How about trying your local library or a friend's computer?
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CREATIVE CORNER
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TORTURE AND RITUAL ABUSE-TORTURE BY PERPETRATORS WHO ARE “RELIGIOUS” MEN AND/OR WOMEN This section is dedicated to the persons who have endured torture or ritual abuse-torture by perpetrators who hold religious positions as priests, nuns, ministers, or rabbi, for example. Read and learn from the stories shared or from the summary of media article reports as these become available. Submit your stories, poems, and/or art that are representative of your ordeals of torture or ritual abuse-torture victimization and traumatization by religious men and/or women. Sharing stories with others helps to break the isolation; it helps to realize one is not alone. For persons who have endured abuse perpetrated by religious men and/or women please check our link section for excellent web sites links that focus on abuse by clergy.
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QUESTION AND ANSWER BOX We have developed this section to try to answer some of the most common questions we are asked. Please feel free to submit your own answers or new questions for discussion at flight@ns.sympatico.ca. CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE QUESTION AND ANSWER BOX
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GUEST BOOK We would really like you to add your comments to our guestbook. We value your voice, ideas, and feedback.
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