Posted on 05/29/2007 5:32:54 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
News from NOW-NYS
For more information contact: Marcia Pappas, 518-452-3944 Human Rights Violation Complaint Against United States
Supported by National Organization For Women-NYS
ALBANY, NY (05/22/07; 1221)(readMedia)-- The New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women strongly supports a complaint against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, regarding the human rights violations that occur in the family courts of the United States during custody proceedings. The complaint charges that U.S. courts are failing to protect the life, liberties, security, and other human rights of abused mothers and children by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters. See www.now.org for full details.
Gender bias in the courts has yet to be fully addressed and continues to be place where women suffer from discrimination whereby children are taken from them in an unjust manner.
"For many years, on an all too regular basis, our office receives calls for help from women across New York State whose lives or whose childrens lives are placed in danger because of the family courts disregard for allegations of abuse, and awarding of custody to abusers. Our office has advocated for women who have been placed in jail or threatened with jail for doing nothing more than attempting to ensure the safety of their children," said Marcia A. Pappas, President of NOW New York State.
For the past two years NOW New York State has co-hosted a national Battered Mothers Custody Conference, attended by over 400 people, the majority of whom are protective mothers. The causes of the problem are multiple, including: gender bias, use of junk science theories such as parental alienation, failure of due process, and corruption. Just this past month, in NY State, a family court judge was convicted of accepting bribes and awarding custody to the highest bidder. The problem is widespread, and the few instances reported in the complaint are just the tip of the iceberg.
We urge the commission to investigate the problems detailed in the complaint and to use their powers to protect the human rights of abused women and children facing custody proceedings in United States family courts.
NOW-NYS is comprised of over 40,000 members and supporters. Our mission is to achieve full equality for women.
335. Another prominent myth is that mothers always get custody of children. Several studies have shown that in contested custody cases, fathers win custody approximately 70% of the time. Other studies show that abusive fathers are the ones most likely to fight for custody. (Exhibit 8) After making allegations of abuse by father, 58% of mothers had no or supervised visitation with their children by the end of the court battle.
How about we make sure the United States puts the proper resources into defeating this action.
This is the web link to the agency http://www.cidh.org/
This is the web link to the agency http://www.cidh.org/
One option with the petition.
Article 34. Other Grounds for Inadmissibility
The Commission shall declare any petition or case inadmissible when:
a. it does not state facts that tend to establish a violation of the rights referred to in Article 27 of these Rules of Procedure;
b. the statements of the petitioner or of the State indicate that it is manifestly groundless or out of order; or,
c. supervening information or evidence presented to the Commission reveals that a matter is inadmissible or out of order.
I’d like to know where they got that statistic.
Its pure BS.
The complaint charges that U.S. courts are failing to protect the life. . . of. . . children
Since when did that matter to NOW??
Gee they didnt mention the slut that got 3 men on the LaCrosse team arrested for a rape they didnt commit did they? When a man finds his wife in bed with another man 9 times out of 10 she will end up with the kids ,alimony and child support.
She will move in with the other man, they will have two paychecks to his one and he is stuck with all the bills she made before leaving, plus child support.If he is lucky he will get to see his kids two weekends out of the month.
Where did these task forces make their studies? They are pure BS.
Here is a link to an excellent rebutal of the Mass Gender Bias Study that claimed 70% of men got custody. They achieved this miracle by winnowing the cases down to less than 4% of the total case load.
http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/254/mcneely.pdf
By cherry picking the data and having a biased committee to generate the report. Unfortunately, the reports appear to be valid because of the bodies issuing the report.
The United States rep on the panel is:
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America’s page:
http://www.oas.org/documents/eng/memberstates.asp?sCode=USA#Inicio
Address:
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520-6258
Phone:
(202) 647-9376
Fax:
(202) 647-0911 | (202) 647-6973
Office Hours:
8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. / Closed: Saturday
H Excellency ,
Ambassador, Permanent Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9430
Mr. J. Robert MANZANARES
Interim Representative, Acting National Coordinator for the Summits of the Americas
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9422
His Excellency Edward B. O’DONNELL
Ambassador Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary on the Social Charter
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9914
Ms. Margarita RIVA-GEOGHEGAN
Counselor, Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Deparment of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9913
Mr. Hugh NEIGHBOUR
Counselor, Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-6375
Mr. Fernando ROJAS
Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9482
Mr. Duane SAMS
Alternate Representative
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, WHA/USOAS, Room 5914, Department of State, Washington DC 20520
(202) 647-9912
Mr. Peter LONDONO
Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9376
Mr. Giovanni A. SNIDLE
Alternate Representative
WHA, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 6218A, 20520
(202) 647-3799
(202) 647-0791
Mr. James C. TODD
Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Deparment of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 736-4764
Mr. Daniel W. CENTO
Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Deparment of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9378
Mr. Stacy WILLIAMS
Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-6375
Ms. Sarah HANKINS
Alternate Representative
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs WHA/USOAS, Room 5914, Department of State, Washington DC 20520
(202) 647-9914
Ms. Jean CLARK
Alternate Representative
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, WHA/USOAS, Room 5914, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520
(202) 647-9907
Mr. Andrew STEVENSON
Alternate Representative
WHA/USOAS, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 5914, 20520
(202) 647-9916
Mr. Thomas MESA
Alternate Representative
WHA/EPSC, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Deparment of State, Room 3248, 20520
(202) 647-0746
Mr. Shannon DALTON
Alternate Representative
WHA/ EPSC, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 3248, 20520
(202) 647-0616
Mr. David SILVERMAN
Alternate Representative
WHA/EPSC, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 3248, 20520
(202) 647-0615
Mr. Robert SCHWARTZ
Alternate Representative
WHA/EPSC, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 3248, 20520
(202) 647-3354
Mr. Royce MIN
Alternate Representative
Bureau of Legal Affairs, L/WHA, Room 5514A, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520
(202) 647-6823
Mr. Steven LEBENS
Adviser
WHA/PDA, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State, Room 3909, 20520
(202) 647-7164
Excellent point.
We need an industrious attorney out there (I’m too lazy) to prepare and file a similar suit in this same court, along the very lines you mentioned.
A suit against the United States for failing to protect the civil rights of those 1.5 million unborn murdered each year.
Yeah! Let’s get some papers files QUICK!
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I believe they are counting "unsupervised, overnight visitation every-other Christmas" as custody.
Based on my statistical analysis, approximately 90% of the meaningless numbers thrown around in that affidavit sound suspiciously like BS, 80% of the time. Approximately 95% of the persons reading those numbers likely questioned which body cavity those numbers were pulled out of. Of those 95%, 100 % chose the correct location.
I can only hope that reality breaks down the door to that particular meeting room.
I note that they say “Custody” and not “sole custody”
They are VERY precise with their wording. It is the only way to come up with the bogus statistics.
These are the same people that demand ‘equal pay’ and ‘equal work’.
and title 9 in sports.
‘Equality’ in every field but this one.
Our response to the lies that NOW continues to spread:
http://daddy.typepad.com/daddyblog/2007/05/radical_and_ang.html
I’ve been a custody lawyer for 30 years so flame away. But it’s made me a right wing conservative (among other things like the prolife movement). False accusations of abuse and “victim support advocates” have poisoned the system for the people, male, female, adult and children who really are physically abused. But I pretty much avoid representing someone who was abused over a period of time. They (male or female) are often very damaged and were damaged prior to the relationship which is ending. They may need legal representation but more often they need serious and honest counseling. Victimhood is a disease IMHO and some folks can’t get up in the morning without a crisis and can’t fall asleep at night without a comforting sense of victimhood. I don’t want to wade around in that life thank you very much.
Well, then you are well positioned to reform the system.
I find it very telling that they chose to sue in an international court instead of in a U.S. court for this line of B.S.
The biggest concern I have is that there may not be a defense mounted in the international court with the attendant damages to our legal system.
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