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Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal To Let Torture-Traffickers Win
by Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald
FriesenPress
Women Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives—women’s recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society’s failure to recognize and address such crimes, and close examinations of how justice, health, political, and social systems perpetuate revictimizing trauma. Written by retired public health nurses who include their own experiences helped give voice and understanding to women who have been silenced. This book discloses their “underground” caring work and offers “kitchen table” research and insights, using women’s storytelling on multiple platforms to educate readers on the unimaginable layers of perpetrators’ modus operandi of violence, manipulation, and deceit.
At times raw, painful, and shocking, this book is an important resource for those who have survived such crimes; professionals who support those victimized by torturers and traffickers; police, legal professionals, criminologists, human rights activists, and educators alike. It reveals how healing and claiming one’s relationship with/to/for Self is possible.
How Non-State Torture is Gendered and Invisibilized: Canada's Non-Compliance with the Committee Against Torture's Recommendations
by Jackie Jones, Jeanne Sarson, & Linda MacDonald
Published by American University Washington College on Law Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Anti-Torture Initiative
March 20, 2018
Article describes how a State party such as Canada can reject upholding and advancing
‘No Longer Invisible: Families that Torture, Traffic, and Exploit Their Girl Child’
by Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald
Published by Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2018
January 5, 2018
Making visible families that torture, traffic, and organization these and additional forms of exploitation against their girl child.
URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3086626
Biography
Jeanne Sarson is a Nova Scotian Canadian with Métis heritage. She has educational and professional backgrounds in mainly community, public health, and multicultural experiences with 11 years of Northern and Arctic living. As a mature student, Sarson returned to Dalhousie University for a BScN degree and to St. Mary's University for a MEd degree. She has local to global relational connections working in a coalition called Everywoman Everywhere. This coalition is seeking to develop a new international legally binding human rights treaty on violence against women and girls because presently there is no such forum for seeking justice when States parties fail in their due diligence.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Received Women of Peace Award, 2017 given by Women's Peacepower Foundation. | Professional
Awards as given to women and girls involved in grassroots projects whose work falls into two broad categories: violence against women and waging peace, given to ordinary/extraordinary women around the world who work without funding or recognition for the universal goal of peace, fairness and true justice. It goes on to say that the women demonstrate how
violence against women and children is at the root of other forms of violence that tear at
the fabric of world and who hold officials, institutions and governments accountable for their brutality against women and children and women who take action to teach future generations the power of non-violence. See: http://www.nonstatetorture.org/~nonstate/application/files/1715/1070/7125/WPPFAwardreport.pdf