So far in the 21st century nearly a third of a billion children have been sexually abused, most of them multiple times, some thousands of times. 6 out of 7 are girls. Anything you can do to get this message to as many people as possible will help save abused children all over the world, and maybe even some of the abusers. Please read "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse by 3:15 PM" under "First Time Visitor?" May God bless you and anoint this ministry.
Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!
3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Latvia's parliament votes to withdraw from treaty protecting women from violence
Europe
Latvia’s parliament voted on Thursday to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women, claiming it promotes “gender” theories. The decision would make Latvia the first European Union member to quit the treaty, which lawmakers had ratified less than a year ago, in November 2024.
Latvia's parliament voted on Thursday to withdraw the Baltic country from a treaty on preventing violence against women, saying that it promotes "gender" theories.
The vote would make Latvia the first European Union country to quit the Istanbul Convention, which the very same parliament had ratified in November 2024.
Thursday's tally was 56 to 32, with two abstentions.
The motion must now be signed by President Edgars Rinkevics, who has indicated he is not in favour but has also hinted that he might not override a parliamentary decision.
The Council of Europe convention requires signatory parties to develop laws and policies aimed at ending violence against women and domestic physical abuse.
Right-wing opposition parties voted to quit the treaty, while the governing coalition led by centre-right Prime Minister Evika Silina was split, with representatives of the Union of Greens and Farmers voting to leave the treaty and the other parties voting to stay.
The Council of Europe has repeatedly rejected allegations that the treaty imposes gender theories, notably stating in 2022 that "the Istanbul Convention does not establish any new norms on gender identity or sexual orientation".
The Latvian right wing maintains that withdrawing from the convention will not weaken the fight against violence against women because national laws are sufficient.
Women's rights groups have organised several demonstrations in Riga in recent weeks.
"The ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Latvia has produced significant results, which are not just words on paper, but represent lives saved," argued the MARTA Center, which advocates for the rights of women and migrants.
Latvia's right wing is also behind a recent proposed amendment that would restrict abortion access in the country.
US federal workers told to remove pronouns from email signatures – media
The order comes as part of the US president’s push to put an end to DEI initiatives and transgender protections
Employees at US federal agencies have been ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures, according to internal memos obtained by several media outlets. The directive reportedly cites two presidential executive orders seeking to curb diversity and equity programs across the government.
On his first day back in office, US President Donald Trump repealed 78 executive orders signed by his predecessor, Joe Biden.They included several measures to protect transgender rights and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The orders also set a 60-day timeframe for federal agencies and departments to cease DEI-related practices.
The memos on removing pronouns from signatures reportedly set Friday afternoon as the deadline.
“Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5 p.m. ET on Friday,” ABC News cited one such message as saying. It was sent to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees on Friday morning.
The outlet reported that a similar notice urging the removal of DEI “language in Federal discourse, communications, and publications” had been received by federal employees with the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation on Thursday.
Several federal government agency websites, including the Federal Aviation Administration and the Census Bureau, temporarily went down on Friday, according to The Guardian. Some pages displayed as blank before reappearing later that day. The British newspaper noted that the Bureau of Prisons had renamed a webpage called “inmate gender” to “inmate sex” and stopped displaying a list of trans inmates.
Donald Trump declared in his inaugural address on January 1 that the US would officially recognize only two genders. ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’, one of the orders signed by the president later that day, states that “there are only two genders, male and female,” and orders agencies to update official documents such as passports and visas in accordingly.
There needs to be a thorough investigation into the gender-bender industry with prosecutions of those who recommended and performed surgeries on children. The insanity won't go away until it is proven to be the evil that it is.
Violence against females in UK increasing – watchdog
Efforts to address the issue have failed to improve outcomes for victims of abuse, the National Audit Office has reported
Attempts by the UK authorities to address the issue of violence against women and girls (VAWG) have been ineffective, according to a recent report by the country’s public spending watchdog.
The Home Office failed to lead “an effective whole-system response” to the “serious and growing problem” of rape and sexual assault recorded by police, the document released by the National Audit Office (NAO) on Friday said.
The report, which reviews the government’s 2021 strategy to address VAWG, concludes that efforts have neither assisted victims nor achieved long-term societal change.
“Over one in four women are estimated to be victims of sexual assault or attempted assault in their lifetime, and one in 12 women are victims of VAWG each year, although the actual number is likely to be much higher,” the watchdog stated.
The review found that UK government departments responsible for addressing violence against women lacked proper control over the allocation of funds and clear oversight of policy effectiveness.
The report noted that the Home Office allocated £57 million ($70.6 million) in 2024-25 to tackle VAWG, including domestic abuse. It stressed that 13 departments and other government agencies are officially committed to dealing with the challenges under the VAWG Strategy and the Domestic Abuse Plan.
The government launched both programs in 2021 and 2022, respectively, in response to multiple high-profile cases of women and girls who tragically died at the hands of abusers.
The NAO report highlighted that a ministerial oversight group responsible for cross-government work for effective adoption of the strategies “only met four times in three years.”
The prevalence of sexual assault against women aged 16 to 59 in England and Wales rose to 4.3% in 2023-24, up from 3.4% in 2009-10, according to the report. It added that police-recorded incidents of rape and sexual assault against women and girls surged from 34,000 to 123,000 in the same period. The NAO acknowledged that the increase could be partly attributed to improved crime recording.
A Home Office spokesperson told Sky News that the NAO report looked at the “previous government’s work” and its “failure to deliver systemic change to deal with these devastating crimes.”
“We are delivering a step-change in the government’s response, as we work to deliver our unprecedented manifesto commitment to halve violence against women and girls in a decade,”the official said.
Slowing down the increase would be a good start, but you are not close to that. One of the issues is the refusal to deal with the root causes such as the reason Pakistani men feel justified in raping young British girls. Also, the reason why Nordic countries are the worst in Europe for spousal abuse. Nordic countries are further left than any countries in the world, except Canada and New Zealand. This is called the Nordic Paradox, and nobody wants to deal with either of these issues.
A witness who left a House of Commons committee hearing on violence against women in tears this week after the meeting devolved into bickering says she fears the incident will make it harder for other survivors to come forward.
In a series of conversations with Global News, Cait Alexander, who testified before the status of women committee that she narrowly survived a violentlyabusive relationship, said her experience on Parliament Hill has left her heartbroken and furious that the message she came to Ottawa to deliver has been overshadowed.
“It takes courage to speak out,” she said. “It takes courage to face anyone when you don’t know what their reaction to your situation is going to be. And the way that this was handled was the exact fear that every single survivor and victim has.
“That’s why I call it ‘abuse’… because it’s the same gaslighting and minimizing of our experience that makes us not want to come forward.”
Recovering from sexual abuse, or child sex abuse, cannot even begin until one is able to speak about their experience. Yet it is incredibly difficult to get to that point. It often takes decades before one builds up the courage necessary. It's hard to believe that Liberal and NDP MPs - both women, deliberately shut-down these witnesses and detoured into another subject altogether. They should both be removed from any committees and remembered on election day.
Wednesday’s emergency committee meeting was called by Conservatives in the middle of the summer parliamentary recess to hear from advocates for domestic violence victims and a deputy chief of the Peel Region Police in light of several recent high-profile cases and newly released crime data from Statistics Canada.
But the meeting went off the rails not long after opening statements, with Liberal and NDP members accusing Conservatives of rushing the meeting for political gain and not including witnesses from the at-risk Indigenous and LGBTQ2 communities.
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Manitoba murders highlight ‘epidemic of violence against women’ in Canada: Singh
Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeldsaid during the committee that she and all committee members care about the issue of gender-based violence, then called for a debate on a motion related to abortion rights, which the Liberals say would be at risk under a Conservative government. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has denied the accusation.
NDP MP Leah Gazan, who is Indigenous, then raised multiple points of order to speak and, after being allowed to do so, proceeded to talk at length about both abortion access and the lack of marginalized voices at Wednesday’s meeting, reading from prepared remarks.
Which, of course, means that the whole diversion fiasco was deliberately planned by both the Liberals and the NDP.
Vandenbeld’s motion sparked a long back-and-forth on procedure, leaving Alexander and Megan Walker, an advocate for ending gender-based violence, sitting silent at the witness table.
As the procedural debate played out, Alexander and Walker turned their backs on the committee. They then stormed out of the room.
“I think it was so childish, from all sides,” Alexander said Thursday. That includes the Conservatives, she said, who have since repeatedly attacked the Liberals and NDP over what happened.
Remember it was the Conservatives who called the meeting and they certainly could not have expected the Liberals and NDP to sabotage it.
“I do not have a partisan agenda. I am very irritated that this has been turned into a conversation about that when it shouldn’t be.
“Our trauma will not be used for political agendas.”
"A woman is strangled every single day"
Peel Regional Police
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Bill C-332 aims to protect against intimate partner violence
The meeting had heard sobering testimony before it got sidetracked.
Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said in his region alone, data shows that “a woman is strangled every single day.”He shared details of some of the victims of recent femicides in Peel, which he said account for almost 20 per cent of the 114 homicides so far this year.
Alexander, a Canadian citizen who lives in Los Angeles, told Global News she immediately began reaching out to those survivors and victims’ families for permission to share their stories as soon as she got the invitation to appear at the committee from its staff.
Statistics Canada’s latest annual report on police-reported crime, released last week, shows the number of female homicide victims last year was nearly identical compared to 2022 — 205 women killed — despite a 14 per cent drop in total homicide victims over the same period.
Homicides where women were the victims are up 31 per cent from 2019, compared to 12 per cent for all genders.
'All genders' - Canada, eh!
The new data also says reports to police of unwanted sex or touching and sexual assault with a weapon, meanwhile, has increased by 75 and 96 per cent, respectively, since 2015.
It's interesting that they used 2015 as the baseline here. It was in 2015 that Canada began to take in Muslim asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. But I'm sure that is a coincidence.
One B.C. advocate for survivors say the way the meeting unfolded showed committee members didn’t fully appreciate the testimony being delivered, or the significance of survivors and advocates appearing in person.
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National campaign to end gender-based violence
“We need to be honouring these stories,” said Dalya Israel, executive director of Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre in Vancouver.
“We need to be awake to the realities and the horrors that people are living through, regardless of what government they support or represent or what their background is.”
Vandenbeld and the Liberals did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Global News. An NDP spokesperson said Friday that Gazan was not available to comment after several requests to her office and the party.
Vandenbeld said in a statement to The Canadian Press Thursday that she deeply regrets the “distress that this meeting caused the witnesses.”
“It’s not an apology,” said Alexander, who has called for one.
She said she has not heard directly from Vandenbeld, but has spoken privately to other MPs both on and off the committee — including Conservatives, Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois — who have offered their own apologies and regrets for what happened on Wednesday.
Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri said Thursday she has introduced a motion at the committee for four additional meetings on the issue of violence against women.
Despite what happened, Alexander said she would still accept a future invitation from the committee to testify, and is hopeful other survivors won’t be deterred from doing the same.
She said her experience and the advocacy it inspired gives her no choice but to keep speaking out.
“If (my abuser) had picked up the meat tenderizer and not the rolling pin we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now,” she said.
“I won’t be silent.”
Thank you for your courage and determination Cait. God bless you and help you heal.
Every six days in Canada a woman is violently killed by her intimate partner.
“That is an unacceptable statistic,”New Democrat MP Laurel Collins said on Wednesday. “But it is more than a statistic. These are loved ones, family members.”
It could soon be illegal in Canada for anyone to use controlling or coercive behaviour towards their partners.
A private member’s bill, C-332, brought forward by Collins aims to amend the Criminal Code, criminalizing conduct that has a “significant impact” on a person, including fear of violence, a decline in physical or mental health or a substantial adverse effect on their day-to-day activities.
“Any violence against women is wrong,” NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said on Wednesday. “And sadly, we are seeing an epidemic of violence against women in our country. It’s happening in every part of the country, and we’re seeing heartbreaking stories of violence that could have been prevented.”
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Singh said in 95 per cent of cases that end up in partner violence, there is coercive control that happens before the violence.
He said they met with families who have lost loved ones to intimate partner violence and their stories contained many examples of abusive, coercive control.
“We have a crisis of gender-based violence in this country,” Leah Gazan, Winnipeg MP said on Wednesday. “Many municipalities are now calling it an epidemic. We know that rates of gender-based violence are not decreasing. They’ve actually increased since the pandemic.”
Sweden - Disturbing Correlation - Violence & Progressive Society
Nordic Countries Have ‘Disturbingly High Levels of Rape’ Despite Equality Initiatives, says Amnesty
The bill will be voted on after question period on Wednesday...
UPDATE: Thursday, June 13, 2024: Members of Parliament have voted unanimously to criminalize coercive control, a pattern of behaviour that can perpetuate domestic abuse.
A private member's bill from New Democrat MP Laurel Collins passed on its third reading on Wednesday, months after she introduced the bill in response to behaviour she had witnessed in her own family.
*The bill will now move to the Senate, and hopefully, will not get stalled there.
“I want to share just a few of the words from some of the stories I’ve heard over the past year,” Collins said. “A woman described coercive control as a web that was slowly tightened around her until she felt like it was impossible to get free. And we heard from, Dan. Dan lost his daughter, Caitlin, and he said that if this law had been in place, that Caitlin would still be here with us today.”
