Venezuelan Women Call for Peace (click title to entry - thank you)
Saturday 12 March 2011
Caracas - Thousands of Venezuelan women demonstrated Friday in this capital for world peace and to reject the interference of U.S and other centers of power in the internal affairs of countries.
Farmers, militiawomen, workers, housewives and students staged the march accompanied by leaders of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and delegates participating in a Latin American meeting of the Women's International Democratic Federation.
In addition to the call for peace and respect to self-determination of peoples, demonstration became shows of support for President Hugo Chávez and the process of change initiated in 1999.
The social leader in Aragua, Nancy Maria Contreras, said the march also supported the efforts of Venezuelan women to ensure the reelection of President Chavez in the elections of Dec 2012.
Caracas - Thousands of Venezuelan women demonstrated Friday in this capital for world peace and to reject the interference of U.S and other centers of power in the internal affairs of countries.
Farmers, militiawomen, workers, housewives and students staged the march accompanied by leaders of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and delegates participating in a Latin American meeting of the Women's International Democratic Federation.
In addition to the call for peace and respect to self-determination of peoples, demonstration became shows of support for President Hugo Chávez and the process of change initiated in 1999.
The social leader in Aragua, Nancy Maria Contreras, said the march also supported the efforts of Venezuelan women to ensure the reelection of President Chavez in the elections of Dec 2012.
If Global Peace were left up to the citizens of countries, it would be assured to exist.
Guaranteed.
Venezuelan Women Protest Court Decision to Annul Section of Law on Violence Against Women (click here)
Caracas, Venezuela, June 10, 2006—In May, the Venezuelan Supreme Court annulled important sections of the Law on Violence against Women and Family. Shockwaves as a result of the ruling led to last Thursday’s protest in front of Venezuela’s Supreme Court (TSJ) and to a debate before the Venezuelan National Assembly on “domestic violence and violence against women.”
The Venezuela Supreme Court ruling from May 9th annulled sections of the Law on Violence against Women and Family, which impeded an aggressor from visiting the home or workplace of a victim, and allowed an aggressor to be held without warrant or “judicial authorization” for up to seventy-two hours.
The Venezuelan daily, El Universal, reported on May 19th that the Venezuelan Supreme Court had declared that these articles violated the presumption of innocence and the aggressor’s right to defense, “since the Constitution says that a detention can only proceed under a judicial order or by apprehension in case of a flagrant violation. ‘[The detentions] are called for without being accompanied by due process,’” it stated....
The Venezuela Supreme Court ruling from May 9th annulled sections of the Law on Violence against Women and Family, which impeded an aggressor from visiting the home or workplace of a victim, and allowed an aggressor to be held without warrant or “judicial authorization” for up to seventy-two hours.
The Venezuelan daily, El Universal, reported on May 19th that the Venezuelan Supreme Court had declared that these articles violated the presumption of innocence and the aggressor’s right to defense, “since the Constitution says that a detention can only proceed under a judicial order or by apprehension in case of a flagrant violation. ‘[The detentions] are called for without being accompanied by due process,’” it stated....
