ECA GLOBAL NEWS
WINTER 2020
RECORDED SESSIONS FROM THE SNAP VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020
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The annual SNAP Conference was held online this year and ECA had a virtual one-hour session where we heard from several of our members across the globe. The weekend sessions featured many speakers, breakout leaders, SNAP Leaders, staff and survivors that helped make this event possible. To see the recorded sessions from the SNAP Virtual Conference.
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ALL SURVIVORS' DAY NOVEMBER 7, 2020
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HARASSMENT OF PERUVIAN JOURNALISTS
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September 25, 2020, Lima, Peru:
Investigative journalist Paola Ugaz and Pedro Salinas are facing legal harassment following their investigation of allegations of sexual abuse by the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, an important religious organization in Peru.
Paola, who co-authored a 2015 book that alleged Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse is charged with defamation.
READ MORE HERE:
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UGANDA'S SEXUAL ABUSE HOTLINE
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The Totya Platform in Uganda, Africa, has a free and anonymous hotline. The toll-free/hotline is the most used mobile platform by clients for getting psychosocial support. So far sixty seven (67) new users of the toll free line have been registered since February 2020. And with the outbreak of the pandemic, more calls have come in by the day than they used to meaning that the violence is on the rise. Forty two (42) of the calls were made by the neighbors of the victims, six (6) from the local leaders and
authorities and the rest are from the clients themselves.
If you experienced sexual violence or know of anyone who has, and you wish to talk to someone, call the hotline:
0800 220 630
(Uganda only)
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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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DANGEROUS: The reason for the abuses in the Church (LA CAJA DE PANDORA nº 2) (Spanish Edition)
Juan Carlos Claret Pool has published his second book on the abuses in the Catholic Church entitled: "Dangerous, the Why of Abuses in the Church", a detailed analysis from the perspective of law and philosophy about the structural causes that make the Catholic Church a dangerous
institution. It is available in Kindle format and in paper at the following link: https://amzn.to/340K6O5
The book is prologued by Antonio Galdames, a former priest and psychologist who now works with victims of sexual abuse.
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NATIONAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER
(NSVRC)
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE:
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) is the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence. NSVRC translates research and trends into best practices that help individuals, communities and service providers achieve real and lasting change. NSVRC also works with the media to promote informed reporting. NSVRC is also one of the three founding organizations of RALIANCE,
a national, collaborative initiative dedicated to ending sexual violence in one generation.
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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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