NCFM Recent Activities
These are some of the most recent activities by the National Coalition for Men on behalf of men's rights. We hope you'll appreciate all that we do on behalf of men and the women and children who love them. Please e-mail your comments to ncfm@ncfm.org. Thanks!
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Friday, September 27, 2013
Reminder LinkedIn
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Something Special For You
Thursday, October 25, 2012
From the Bottom of My Heart
I Did It!
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Urgent
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Federal Judge thanks NCFM for work on paternity fraud
Thursday, October 28, 2010
NCFM in Bangalore Mirror (India) praising Court ruling on women "maintenance"
Banglalore Mirror
"Men are not free ATM machines"
Several Bangaloreans welcome the SC judgment against maintenance for women in live-in relationships, say it's high time government amended the Domestic Violence Act
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 05:18:52 AM
Excerpts: "Men's rights groups in the city have welcomed the recent supreme court judgment that women in live-in relationships cannot demand maintenance from their male partners. They have also come out against additional solicitor general Indira Jaisingh who has criticised the judgment. "Virag Dhulia, liaison officer (India) for the National Coalition for Men (NCFM), said, 'It is outrageous that Indira Jaisingh argues in a non-government case and demands that a man pays Rs 500 every month to one of his sexual partners for many decades in future just like a free ATM machine. Given a chance, she can also push courts to order men to pay maintenance to their female colleagues at work, citing some imaginary office romance. We are heading towards a society where women are independent and men are no longer treated as free ATM machines.'" "Today, sexual relationships between men and women are mostly mutual. Lawmakers must put an end to this practice of maintenance, alimony and compensation to women just due to some mutual sexual or emotional relationships for short or long periods of time," says Jahgirdar. |
Friday, July 30, 2010
News Release
http://eworldwire.com/pressreleases/211794
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
University of New Hampshire News Prints NCFM Reply to Jackson Katz
4/20/10
Dear Editor,
As a nonprofit organization that works with male victims of domestic violence, rape, and false accusations, we ask that you print this letter to give a side of the problem that was not mentioned in the article "Speaker Highlights Domestic Violence Issues" (4/15).
Jackson Katz is correct that rape is not just a women's issue. But that's because males are victims too. And it's not true that "men commit 99% of rapes," especially when you include statutory rapes of minors. About 95% of all youth reporting staff sexual abuse in juvenile detention facilities say they were victimized by female staff. And a student survey in New Mexico found 43% of teacher sex abuse comes from female teachers, but 92% of prosecutions are of male teachers.
Also, while men are less likely than women to report their victimization to police, virtually all randomized empirical surveys show women initiate domestic violence at rates similar to men and that men suffer about one-third of physical injuries. We work with men who have been stabbed, cut with glass, or had their teeth broken with furniture. There is no excuse for sweeping them and their children under the rug.
Finally, false rape accusations are a form of psychological rape that are too often ignored, and empirical research shows they are far more common than we're told.
Marc E. Angelucci, Esq.
Board Member
National Coalition For Men
NCFM Joins International Letter to Heads of 6 Nations re Male DV Victims
Thursday, March 18, 2010
NCFM Obtains Grant From San Diego Domestic Violence Council!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
NCFM quoted in San Diego Union Tribune re Airline Discrimination
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/16/airlines-new-restroom-policy-doesnt-fly-with-mens/
Friday, March 12, 2010
Reno News prints NCFM reply to Senator Harry Reid's Sexism
Re "Abusing Reid" (Upfront, March 4):
Dennis Myers misses the point that men's rights activists are making about Sen. Harry Reid's comments. The point isn't whether domestic violence rises due to unemployment, but Sen. Reid's gender-biased comments, stigmatizing male victims and their children by blaming only males for the problem.
Men are less likely to report it (which makes crime data unreliable), but almost 300 studies now confirm "women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners," as California State University Professor Martin Fiebert shows in his online bibliography at www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
For example, a 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and controlling as men in dating relationships worldwide www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
The Centers for Disease Control funded a major study of heterosexual relationships throughout the U.S. and found: "Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases," and both sexes had significant injuries www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941.
When children witness parental violence, however severe or minor, it becomes a model for them. Domestic violence is an intergenerational cycle, and we'll never stop it without being honest about it rather than following the politically correct gender paradigm that has been totally refuted by serious researchers like Professor Don Dutton of the University of British Columbia and many others.
Marc E. Angelucci
National Coalition For Men
Monday, March 8, 2010
NCFM Submits Testimony on Senate Bill 1777 (MA) re Genital Mutilation
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
NCFM legal victory cited on Psychology Today blog by Dr. Linda Mills
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/embedded/200912/gimme-shelter
Excerpt: "That's why it was major news last October when the National Coalition For Men successfully argued to the California Court of Appeals that state-funded domestic violence shelters violated the rights of abused men when it turned away David Woods and his 11-year-old daughter Meagan. The court found that under the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution, any program that received government funding was required to provide services to all domestic violence victims, regardless of gender."
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
NCFM on WEHC Radio (VA) re Rihanna & Partner Abuse
WEHC Radio Hosts NCFM on Rihanna/Brown & Partner Abuse
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
NCFM on the national TV show "The Secret Lives of Women"
http://www.wetv.com/secret-lives-of-women/episodes/husband-beaters
Husband Beaters Tuesday, December 1 at 10pm | 9c
In America, the term "Domestic Abuse" is typically associated with a victimized woman mercilessly beaten by an overbearing ogre of a husband. The fact is however, that more than a third of all DA cases feature males as victims, and even that number is considered low due to the relatively low reporting of these cases by men who are ashamed and afraid to do so. The stories in SLOW: Husband Beaters will provide an inside look at Domestic Abuse done to men from a variety of perspectives and shed light on a very dark and violent corner of America. | |
Upcoming Air Dates: Tuesday, December 1 at 10pm | 9c Tuesday, December 22 at 3am | 2c Tuesday, December 29 at 3am | 2c |
Thursday, November 5, 2009
NCFM News Release calling on fair coverage of Rihanna/Brown
National Coalition For Men | Company Information : National Coalition For Men P.O. Box 41291 Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA Ph. (818) 907-9383 | Media Contacts: Marc Angelucci, Esq 818-907-9383 |
Friday, October 16, 2009
NCFM Letter to Office of Violence Against Women re WV Ruling
October 16, 2009
Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
Jennifer Kaplan
Attorney-Advisor
800 K Street, N.W., Suite 920
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Ms. Kaplan,
John Lucas, the Wisconsin liaison for the National Coalition For Men (NCFM), has asked NCFM to send you this letter. NCFM was founded in 1977 and has members across America and in several countries. We are concerned with harmful gender based stereotypes against males.
A West Virginia court recently voided the state's regulations for domestic violence programs because the regulations denied abused men access to publicly funded shelters and denied women abusers
access to treatment. http://cbs5.
The court ruled the Family Violence Prevention Services Board's policies and procedures for licensing domestic violence shelters, certifying advocates, and distributing state funding distorted lawmakers' intent and violated the free speech right of others. The court also held West Virginia administers the state's domestic violence programs based on the wrongful belief that only men can be batterers and only women can be victims, finding "The practical effect of this rule is to exclude adult and adolescent males from their statutory right to safety and security free from domestic violence for no reason other than their gender.''
The cavalier and parochial behavior of West Virginia's Family Violence Prevention Services Board, their usurpation of the intent of the West Virginia Legislature, and the lack of legal authority in which they have operated constitutes egregious maladministration and malfeasance.
Simply put, the West Virginia debacle creates a strong appearance of insidious corruption, an appearance the domestic violence industry can well do without.
The federal government must thoroughly investigate the Family Violence Prevention Services Board, affect corrective action, and ensure and enforce the gender neutrality requirement as a condition of providing continuing funding for domestic violence programs in West Virginia.
The Board's provincial awarding of contracts to a select few of ideologically acceptable service providers reeks of power and control cronyism. The federal government should immediately order the Family Violence Prevention Services Board to open its membership to all interested parties. Any interested group should be
able to apply and receive fair examination and consideration of their proposals. The award process must be above reproach and void of favoritism.
This devastating ruling against the Family Violence Prevention Services Board questions whether the Board and recipient members have violated their federal contracts. Such violations of
similar federal contracts would automatically trigger federal compliance audits, if not Congressional hearings.
Regardless, it will come as no surprise if the Family Violence Prevention Services Board disbands and surfaces under another name to avoid further scrutiny, if not liability. In which case, all recommendations above must still apply and federal compliance should be rigorously enforced.
The problems found in West Virginia are widespread. Similar lawsuits are pending in other jurisdictions and will soon focus on the misconduct of similar ideologically driven unconstitutional programs
and confabs.
An assessment of the national Family Violence Prevention and Services Program found program accountability to be only 7% among its grant recipients, perhaps like West Virginia's Family Violence Prevention Services Board. One problem is the FVPSP seldom requires meaningful monitoring of grant recipients, recipients which generally share the same gender biased attitude against men as West Virginia's failed Family Violence Prevention
Services Board.
Accordingly, we ask that all domestic violence programs recognized or funded by, through, or with the assistance of the federal Family Violence Prevention and Services Program be immediately reviewed and held accountable to the highest of standards, including providing the same and equal treatment and services to
those in need regardless of gender.
It matters not how many men or women are abused, only that the abused receive proper assistance.
It's hoped your legacy will show concern for all victims, to do otherwise will have history treating you other than you may wish.
Sincerely,
Harry Crouch
President
Cc: Director, Catherine Pierce and Others
Monday, October 12, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
NCFM quoted in Associated Press re victory for battered men in WV
Judge: W.Va. shelter rules biased against men
By: P.J. DICKERSCHEID
Associated Press
10/08/09 10:15 AM PDT
"The West Virginia legal challenge is among a growing number of battles being waged across the country by groups that allege state laws requiring gender-neutral programs are skewed by discriminatory rules and regulations that embrace gender biases. 'We're not trying to belittle women who are abused, we're trying to raise awareness" that men are also victims,' said Marc Angelucci with the National Coalition For Men who secured a similar court victory in California last October. An appeals court there invalidated parts of that state's Health and Safety Code and Penal Code last year, saying they were unconstitutional because they excluded men from programs and services supported by nearly $22 million in taxpayer money each year"
"One of the biggest changes, though, has been to increase awareness of men as victims, Angelucci said, pointing to a 2001 study by the Centers for Disease Control that showed women are just as likely as men to commit domestic violence."
Monday, October 5, 2009
Great turnout for NCFM-sponsored film "Support? System Down" in Atlanta
The film, which includes an interview with NCFM's president Harry Crouch, examines the problems related to the child support system in the U.S. including issues such as draconian guidelines, flawed data, paternity fraud, procedural defects, problems for military parents, bias against non-custodial parents, and how these and other problems affect children, families, homelessness, incarceration, suicide and other issues. http://peachtree.bside.com/2009/films/category/Documentary
The film has also aired with great success in San Diego and New York and is now being screened for consideration for the Lone Star Film Festival in Fort Worth, Texas. http://www.lsiff.com
NCFM helped with initial funding and support for the film, and various other organizations were involved in the production as well. For more information visit http://www.supportthemovie.com/
Thursday, September 24, 2009
NCFM in Examiner: "Praxis International Encourages Domestic Violence"
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Praxis-International-encourages-domestic-violence-when-properly-applied
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Confronting Amanda McCormick's hypocritical support of violence against men
info@praxisinternational.org; safetyaudit@praxisinternational.org; visitationta@praxisinternational.org
Dear Praxis International,
We are informed that your speaker, Amanda McCormick, recently said with a grin, "I think I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten" during her keynote address at the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence on September 14, 2009.
Banners on the wall said, "There is no excuse for domestic violence" and similar slogans.
Are you aware that she said this? And do you think that was acceptable?
Can you imagine someone saying "I know alot of women who deserve to be beaten" at any time, especially at an anti domestic violence conference?
Several conference participants have privately expressed disgust with Amanda McCormick's anti-male rhetoric. Some protested in their evaluations.
We are writing to ask for your response as to whether you are aware of this, whether you think it is acceptable, and whether you intend to take any action about this. Please get back to us. Thank you in advance for your hopeful cooperation in this regard.
Marc E. Angelucci, Esq.
Board Member
National Coalition For Men
http://www.ncfm.org
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
NCFM New Release: Battered Men, Too, Are Hurt by Budget Cuts
National Coalition For Men | Company Information : National Coalition For Men P.O. Box 41291 Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA Ph. (818) 907-9383 | Media Contacts: Marc Angelucci, Esq 818-907-9383 |
| Battered Men, Too, Are Hurt By California Budget Cuts To Domestic Violence Services, Announces National Coalition For Men
Saturday, June 13, 2009
University of Chicago prints NCFM letter supporting men's group on campus
6/2/09
Dear Editor
I was so happy to read about the student group "Men in Power" in the Chicago Tribune. Groups like this are part of a growing, global men's rights movement that advocates for equal treatment of men in areas such as child custody, domestic violence policies, reproductive rights, criminal sentencing, public health policies, paternity laws, the draft, dating expectations, and more.
Opponents of this movement tend to reactively look only at gender disparities at the top of society (government, CEOs) while overlooking the bottom, where men account for 80 to 90 percent of homeless adults, work-related deaths, prisoners, and suicide deaths, as well as 99 percent of combat deaths and the majority of dropouts and special education students. Men also die younger and more often than women for the 10 leading causes of death.
In fact, the reason for the gender disparity at the top—including the "pay gap"—is that women have more options than men to be primary parents, and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours. One study found 57 percent of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years. This is an option few men have (try being a single male and telling women on the first date that you want to stay home). The pay gap only looks at yearly incomes but doesn't account for these options or for overtime (90 percent male), commutes, flexibility, physical risk, etc. This has been confirmed by a recent study funded by the Department of Labor, entitled "An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women."
Marc E. Angelucci, Esq.
Board Member
National Coalition For Men
Thursday, March 19, 2009
update for NCFM-LA Activities page
Sunday, November 23, 2008
NCFM Twin Cities Chapter at Education Minnesota conference
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
NCFM speaks at UCLA School of Law for 4th year in a row
NCFM members speak out at L.A. City Domestic Violence Council
Thursday, October 16, 2008
NCFM wins landmark appellate victory for battered men!!
Here are a few media stories on the decision as of the date of this post:
San Francisco Chronicle, "Appeals Court Decision Supports Battered Men," 10/16/08
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/15/BA3S13HOLS.DTL
Sacramento Bee, "Court: End Domestic Violence Program Discrimination," 10/16/08
http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/1319004.html
Metropolitan News-Enterprise, "Court Rules Domestic Violence Programs Must be Open to Men," 10/15/08 http://www.metnews.com/articles/2008/wood101508.htm
Sunday, August 24, 2008
NCFM Twin Cities Chapter at Dakota County Fair
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
NCFM Attorney Argues Equal Protection Case Before California Court of Appeal
On July 22, 2008, NCFM attorney Marc Angelucci argued the case of David Woods v. State of California before the Third District Court of Appeal in California. The 3-judge panel (pictured below) appeared very much in agreement that excluding male victims of domestic violence from state-funded domestic violence provisions (CA Health & Safety Code Section 124250), and that excluding inmate fathers from state-run inmate parenting programs, violates men's Constitutional right to equal protection. A write- up is available at
http://antimisandry.com/showthread.php?p=87401#post87401
NCFM Attorney Marc E. Angelucci with Appellants in front of 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento
Vance W. Raye (presiding):
Fred K. Morrison:
Tani Cantil Sakauye:
Monday, June 16, 2008
NCFM helps organize Fatherlessness Day Rally outside L.A. Courthouse
Fatherlessness Day Rally 6/13/08 outside Los Angeles County Courthouse at 111 North Hill Street
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
NCFM sponsors documentary film SUPPORT? SYSTEM DOWN in San Diego
Friday, May 16, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Channel 9 News mentions NCFM's defense of dad jailed for his daughter's failure to pass GED test
California Group Defends Fairfield Father
By: Alyssa Bunn A California group has been speaking out on behalf of a Fairfield father who was punished after his adult daughter failed to get her GED. The California Alliance for Families and Children has called for Butler County judge David Niehaus to be removed from the case for sentencing Brian Gegner to six months in jail. The National Coalition of Free Men has also gotten involved in the case. The group examines cases it considers to be sex discrimination. Judge Niehaus said Gegner should be punished because his daughter, Brittany Gegner, was a juvenile in his custody when she skipped school and didn't graduate. Now, Brittany is 18 years old and is living with her mother. She still has not received her GED. Brittany and her mother both said that they should be to blame, not Gegner. A new hearing connected to the case has been scheduled for Friday morning. |
NCFM President interviewed on the Tom Leykis Show
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
NCFM Speaks at Torrance High School
On May 13, 2008, NCFM members Marc Angelucci, Harry Crouch and Fred Sottile were invited speakers at Torrance High School where they spoke before 30 members of the student body government about male victims of domestic violence. This was a counter to the presentation given by an organization that distorted the issue and falsely told the students 95% of domestic violence is male-on-female, a myth that is not supported by any current credible data at all. A father of one of the students, who was outraged by the misinformation and contacted NCFM, who helped him stage a protest outside the school and speak at the school board and city council meetings. As a result, the school agreed to allow NCFM to present the other side. NCFM discussed the experiences of male victims and why they are neglected and covered up for political and ideological reasons, handed out studies on dating violence including those linked below, explained the history and politics surrounding the problem and why covering up half the violence actually fosters the intergenerational cycle of violence even more. The students were receptive, and some were outspokenly supportive. NCFM also briefly introduced issues like paternity fraud and false accusations of abuse as forms of domestic violence, and briefly introduced other men's issues as well and the men's rights movement overall. NCFM handed out NCFM's flyers and other materials, as well as the following studies/articles:
Science Daily, "Male And Female Adolescents Equally Victims Of Physical Dating Violence, Study Shows" (11/12/07) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071109210657.htm
California State University (Long Beach) bibliography by Professor Martin Fiebert (page 1)
www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
University of New Hampshire, "Men are More Likely Than Women to Be Victims in Dating Violence, UNH Expert Says." http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
Journal of Adolescent Health, "Gender Differences in Dating Aggression Among Multiethnic High School Students" (5/08).
http://www.jahonline.org/article/PIIS1054139X07004351/abstract
Thank you to all who helped out and donated toward the travel costs, and to Dennis, the father of the Torrance High School student, who contacted NCFM made it all happen. Well done, folks!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
San Luis Obisbo Tribune quotes NCFM on men's post-divorce relations with male friends
Thursday, March 6, 2008
USA Today prints NCFM-LA letter on Harvard's women-only gym hours
(Photo - No boys allowed: Though turned away from Harvard's gym during the new women-only hours, Muslim Kareem Shuman said he was sympathetic to the policy. / By Elise Amendola, AP)
Closing Harvard gym to men is discriminatory, unfair
Marc E. Angelucci, president, Los Angeles Chapter, National Coalition of Free Men - Los AngelesWhy is Harvard University creating special gym hours for women but not for men? Muslim men often cover up in the presence of women to honor hijab, as well. Muslim men have as much reason as Muslim women to be uncomfortable with seeing the opposite sex in revealing gym clothing ("Harvard gym accommodates Muslim women," News, Wednesday).
I hope that male students will fight and even sue to force Harvard to extend the same gym benefits to men.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
NCFM plaintiff wins $400,000.00+ class action against Club Med for anti-male discrimination
2/28/08
COURT ENTERS JUDGMENT IN CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST CLUB MED FOR "LADIES FLY FREE PROMOTION"
Los Angeles, CA (February 28, 2008) – Today, the Los Angeles and San Diego Chapters of the National Coalition of Free Men ("NCFM") announced support for a judgment entered on February 25, 2008 by the Orange County Superior Court in Alfred Rava v. Club Med Sales (Case No. 03CC09858), a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the California men who were denied free air travel during Club Med's 2003 "Ladies Fly Free" promotion.
The lawsuit alleged Club Med held a promotion in 2003 for travel to its Cancun and Turks & Caicos resorts that violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act and Gender Tax Repeal Act by providing female consumers with free air fare – up to $400 in value, while denying male consumers the same free air travel.
The Unruh Act and Gender Tax Repeal Acts have been successfully applied in recent years to end the scourge of promotions in California that charged customers different prices based on the their sex. Examples include "Ladies Nights" or "Ladies Days" where nightclubs charge men higher prices than women for cover charges, or car washes, billiard halls, dating services, casinos or theaters that charge men higher prices than women for the same services. The California Supreme Court recognized California's strong public policy to eradicate sex discrimination when it ruled last year that men did not have to ask a Los Angeles supper club to pay the same cover charge as women in order to have a sex discrimination claim. Angelucci v. Century Supper Club (2007) 41 Cal.4th 160.
Club Med and the class of male plaintiffs entered into a settlement agreement that was approved by Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald H. Bauer. The settlement includes a provision wherein Club Med, while denying all liability, agreed it would not hold any promotions that discriminate against consumers based on sex. In addition, each class member who made a claim will receive a cash payment of about $1,000, as well as $1,200 in vouchers for travel to several Club Med resorts, and their attorneys' fees and court costs paid in full.
This is the largest settlement of an Unruh Civil Rights Act or Gender Tax Repeal Act lawsuit in California history. These Acts protect consumers from being discriminated against based on sex and other protected personal characteristics such as race, national origin, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, or medical condition.
Marc Angelucci, Esq., the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NCFM, stated "This settlement provides the male victims of this sex-based promotion with a fair cash settlement along with significant travel vouchers to several all-inclusive Club Med resorts. Furthermore, the settlement supports California's strong public policy of eradicating sex discrimination and helps assure men and women will be treated equally in future promotions by Club Med or any other business operating in California."
NCFM is a non-profit educational and civil rights organization that looks at the ways sex discrimination affects men and boys. The Los Angeles and San Diego chapters of NCFM supported the named plaintiff, Alfred Rava, throughout the 4 ½ years of litigation.
The Orange County Superior Court judgment is available online at
http://news.mensactivism.org/node/9313#comments
Contact Information:
Marc Angelucci, Esq., Los Angeles Chapter of the NCFM
Class Members' Attorney Erik Jenkins
(phone numbers omitted from online version)
National Coalition of Free Men: http://www.ncfm.org
Monday, February 25, 2008
Columbus Telegram quotes NCFM-LA
http://www.columbustelegram.com/articles/2008/02/23/news/local/doc47c0f8d68a93e508451600.txt
Friday, February 22, 2008
Newbury Port News quotes NCFM on male victims of domestic violence and White Ribbon Day
February 22, 2008
Heard around town: Women not only victims of domestic abuse
Coverage of local participation in the statewide White Ribbon Day last Thursday caught the eye of male advocates on the other side of the country.
The National Coalition of Free Men pointed out to The Daily News this week that women aren't the only victims of domestic violence.
"I work with men who have been stabbed, cut with glass, had their teeth knocked out with ashtrays, etc., by wives or girlfriends. They and their children deserve the same dignity as female victims, but instead they're stigmatized, ignored and downplayed," wrote Marc Angelucci, president of the Los Angeles chapter.
On its Web site, The National Coalition of Free Men is described as "a nonprofit educational and civil rights organization that looks at the ways sex discrimination affects men and boys."
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
NCFM in the Colorado Springs Gazette
http://www.gazette.com/articles/friends_33270___article.html/divorce_couple.html
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
NCFM participates in historic domestic violence conference in Sacramento
On February 15 and 16, 2008, NCFM participated in and helped support a historic, groundbreaking domestic violence conference in Sacramento, California with leading domestic violence experts and speakers from around the world. The conference was a huge success and was standing room only. The
Write-ups and photos of the conference are available at:
http://blogwonks.com/2008/02/18/historic-domestic-violence-conference-includes-male-victims/
NCFM-LA protests exemption of "able-bodied males" from ban on slavery by International Labour Organi
On February 19, 2008, NCFM-LA sent the following letter to the International Labour Organization:
VIA CERTIFIED MAIL
February 19, 2008
Director-General
International Labour Organization
Route
CH-1211 Geneva 22
Dear Mr. Somavia,
The National Coalition of Free Men ("NCFM") is a nonprofit organization that looks at the ways sex discrimination affects men and boys. We write to express strong opposition to the exemption of "adult able-bodied males" in Article 11 of the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 (www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C029) and to request all records and information reflecting the history of this exemption.
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 2 of the Declaration states "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race . . . sex . . . ." (Emphasis added.) Article 4 states "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Article 7 states: "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination."
The discrimination against males in Article 11 of the Forced Labour Convention flatly conflicts with the above-mentioned human rights guarantees set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As you are aware, slavery and forced labor are still significant global problems, and the Convention is an active treaty with 172 nations currently signed on. Over 80 percent of forced labor victims are men. (Adam Jones, Ph.D., Gendercide and Genocide.) In some parts of
We urge you to amend the Convention to treat men and women equally pursuant to the demands of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We also request all information regarding the history of the exemption of men from the ban on forced labor, including any opposition and support for the exemption.
Sincerely,
Marc E. Angelucci, Esq.
President
Cc: ILO Bureau for Gender Equality
ILO Washington DC branch