ECA GLOBAL NEWS
YEAR END 2021
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Another year is ahead of us and 2021 has certainly brought with it several of the uncertainties and troubling features that lingered throughout 2020 as well as new challenges and opportunities. All of us are seeking new ways of adjusting to life as the
Covid-19 variants loom relentlessly over the planet.
In the midst of all of this, ECA is still working to hold accountable those who have violated the rights of children in church settings and ECA is committed to seeking justice for survivors.
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As we bring 2021 to a close, Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) in 2022 begins its 5th year of fulfilling its mission of ending clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and providing justice for survivors.
In over 20 countries, ECA activists were engaged this past year in the world-wide effort to protect children and young people from sexual abuse. While the focus is the Roman Catholic Church, our international activists report children in all settings are safer as a result of our advocacy.
You have made all of our work possible as a result of your past generous contributions. Thank you!
As ECA continues this important work in 2022 please consider a gift at this time to maintain our momentum.
You can donate to our non-profit corporation, Ending Clergy Abuse USA, by sending a check to:
Tim Law
Ending Clergy Abuse
5017 37th Ave SW
Seattle, Washington 98126
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LOOKING AHEAD:
In 2022 ECA will continue to support our activists from around the world through social media, press events, financial support for grass root efforts and legal support for hearings before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on Torture and other global forums. The recent appointment of an Ambassador of the United States to the Holy See provides added momentum to fuel our efforts in Rome.
We will continue to work through the virtual networks and look forward to the opportunity when we can all gather face-to-face to engage as a global collective.
Your continued support is greatly appreciated!
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PHOTOVOICE PROJECT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA
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ECA Board Member, Photographer and Community Psychologist,Simone Padovani, is working with the University of Padua in Italy on a year-long research project to assist survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
Interested participants will be asked to collect a series of pictures accompanied by text that tell their daily life as survivors of abuse. In addition, participants will be interviewed and asked to answer a questionnaire that will investigate the quality of life, resilience, etc., according to the indications of the World Health Organization. A photographic report on the life of the survivor of sexual
abuse will be made and sent to the research group of the University of Padua for analysis.
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PHOTO SHARING AND ECA FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
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This project is born to help victims, survivors and friends of ECA Global who would like to help themselves and help ECA raise funds for our projects.
ECA has provided guidelines that will assist you in understanding which kind of images or videos you can produce which can be distributed through 2 agencies: SHUTTERSTOCK AND ALAMY.COM.
We will assist you in how to prepare and send your images for upload to the agency portals and how the financial aspect works.
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Sebastian Cuattromo, Argentina Survivor/Founder,
Adultxs por los derechos de la infancia
"As adult survivors of the crime of sexual abuse and as representatives of our collective association, we are happy to have met new colleagues who, like us, have the conviction
to fight to end the sexual abuse of children in the world. It was a great pleasure...
Hopefully we can continue to work together for justice for survivors and for the protection of today's children." Sebatián Cuattromo and Silvia Piceda
Founding members of the Civil Association “Adults for Children´s Rights”
Zero Tolerance + Zero Cover Up = Truth and Justice
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BE AN ECA SOCIAL MEDIA AMBASSADOR
ECA’s Social Media Ambassadors Program is an exciting and easy way FOR YOU to get involved with ECA and to encourage existing members who know and love the mission of ECA to spread the word about ECA globally.
ECA will utilize Social Media Ambassadors to direct strong social media campaigns and ECA messages to target specific regions and issues relating to the sexual abuse of children by clergy.
ECA has a number of campaigns in the pipeline and we need you to get involved. Together we will #EnditNOW!
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