October 20, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

PRESS RELEASE (German-language original appended after the following English text)

The platform of fathers’ and children’s rights organizations in Spain announces that the German-Italian 37-year-old teacher Richard Monteghepardi, of Krefeld, began on October 15, at 12 o’clock, an unlimited hunger strike at the Ministry of Justice of Spain (road Manzana, 2) in Madrid.

The protest is directed against the systematic discrimination and criminalisation of fathers by the Spanish government, whose politics and laws already tore hundred of thousands of children and fathers apart to cater to the so-called “gender violence” .

Each year in Spain up to 170,000 men and fathers are indicted therefore, with the vast majority of those cases being shown to have been based on false allegations. Nevertheless, right from the start an indicted father is treated as a criminal and routinely loses contact with his children.

Thus, for example, Richard Monteghepardi was sentenced on February 14 - the name day of his daughter, Valentina - to seven and one-half months detention, based on a false allegation by the mother of their common child (an accusation of a falsely alleged wrangling in front of their daughter’s school). Although acquitted in a subsequent appeal, Richard Monteghepardi was in the meantime for months not allowed to either see or contact his daughter.

Even foreign tourists increasingly become victims of this political-judicial flood of persecution.

After all, a woman merely needs to call the police in order to claim that her husband or boyfriend is a little nervous, and immediately the police arrest the man (that is not an exaggeration!).

In short order, communication difficulties ensure the consequences: after 72 hours of police custody, the criminal process follows within the next 48 to 72 hours.

Four months ago Richard Monteghepardi was indicted once more. The accusation was rejected by the Court. Nevertheless, he again lost for four months absolutely all contact with his daughter.

We therefore declare our solidarity with Richard’s protest action against this sexist law and family policy of the Spanish government, and thus ask the German media in their homeland that this scandal will be reported in detail.

Contact: Domingo González Alonso
Tel: 615 055 250 (Spain)

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PRESSEMITTEILUNG

Die Plattform sämtlicher Väter-und Kinderrechtsorganisationen in Spanien informiert dass, der Deutsch-Italiener 37 Jahre alt Lehrer Richard Monteghepardi, von Krefeld, hat am 15. Oktober um 12 Uhr einen unbefristeten Hungerstreik am Justizministerium Spaniens (Strasse Manzana, 2) in Madrid angefangen.

Der Protest richtet sich gegen die systematische Diskriminierung und Kriminalisierung der Vätern von der Spanischen Regierung, deren Politik und Gesetze zur sogenannten “Geschlechtergewalt” bereits Hunderttausende von Kindern und Vätern auseinandergerissen hat. Jedes Jahr werden in Spanien bis zu 170.000 Männer und Väter deswegen angezeigt, die allermeisten Fälle entpuppen sich als Falschanzeigen. Trotzdem wird man von vornherein als Krimineller behandelt und Kontakt zu seinen Kindern verliert.

So wurde zum Beispiel Richard Monteghepardi am 14. Februar, dem Namenstag seiner Tochter Valentina, von der Mutter des gemeinsamen Kindes wegen eines angeblichen Gerangels vor der Schule zu siebeneinhalb Monaten Haft (!) verurteilt; in zweiter Instanz wurde er zwar wieder freigesprochen, währenddessen aber durfte er monatelang seine Tochter NICHT sehen noch kontaktieren.

Selbst ausländische Touristen werden zunehmend Opfer dieser politisch-juristischen Verfolgungswut.

Man braucht ja nur eine Frau die Polizei anzurufen, um zu sagen, dass ihr Mann oder Freund ein wenig nervös ist, dass auch schon umgehend die Polizei den Mann verhaftet (das ist KEINE Übertreibung!). Verständigungsschwierigkeiten besorgen schnell den Rest: nach 72 Stunden Polizeigewahrsam folgt ein Strafverfahren innerhalb der nächsten 48 bis 72 Stunden.

Richard Monteghepardi wurde vor vier Monaten erneut angezeigt. Die Anzeige wurde zwar gerichtlich abgewiesen, trotzdem hat er erneut seit vier Monaten absolut keinen Kontakt mehr zu seiner Tochter.

Wir solidarisieren uns daher mit Richards Protestaktion gegen diese sexistische Justiz und Familienpolitik der Spanischen Regierung, und bitten also die Deutschen Medien in ihrem Heimatland von diesem Skandal ausführlich zu berichten.

Kontakt: Domingo González Alonso
Tel: 615 055 250 (Spain)

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October 20, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Aftenposten
Saturday October 20 2007

Men to discuss men’s rights

The Minister of Children and Equality Karita Bekkemellem announced the 32 members of the so-called Men’s panel Monday. The panel, consisting of men from various backgrounds and professions, aims to spark a public debate on men’s rights in areas such as health, education and divorce.

….The 32 men in the sport’s pub are members of the newly established Men’s panel, set up by Bekkemellem to introduce a public debate on men’s rights. Men are falling behind in the education system, rarely get custody over children after divorce, and face other health risks than women, the minister argued.

The Men’s panel will discuss these issues and more, and will advise the Government on the drafting of a forthcoming white paper on men and equality, due next summer….(Full Story)

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Concerns by F4L: The article states nothing about how long Karita Bekkemellem has been in office, but such information is important and available.

Karita Bekkemellem was previously the minister of children and family affairs in Jens Stoltenberg’s short-lived 2000-2001 cabinet, and also Norwegian minister of Children and Equality Affairs in the second cabinet Stoltenberg from 2005–2007. She is in her fifth period of representing the county of Møre og Romsdal. In the period from 2001 to 2005 she served as faction leader in the committee for church, education and research affairs. (Wikipedia)

Did not at least some of the discriminatory circumstances of men’s rights under which men in Norway suffer come about during her tenure?

UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN 27 FEBRUARY-10 MARCH 2005

UN- CSW; New York 27. February – 10. March 2005

Ministry of Children and Equality, Norway
DRAFT 27.02.2006

STATEMENT OF NORWAY
KARITA BEKKEMELLEM, Minister of Children and Equality

Madam Chair, fellow delegates,

CEDAW is one of the most important tools for improving gender equality. I am proud to announce that within the next three years we will seek to incorporate CEDAW in our Human Rights Act instead of in the Gender Equality Act in which it is incorportated today. This will further strengthen women’s human rights in Norway….
(Full Story)

CEDAW is not one of the most important tools for improving gender equality. It serves entirely different objectives.

To clear up Karita Bekkemellem’s role in the steady deterioration of men’s rights, have a look at these results of a google.com search for <”Karita Bekkemellem” “Status of Women”>.

How were the members of the Men’s panel chosen? Let there be no mistake, there are more male than female feminists, especially in Norway, a country that was for decades at the forefront of the UN’s war against men, fathers and families. Norway is one of the driving forces of that war. When the Men’s panel makes its recommendations to the government, will it not report to the Minister of Children and Equality Karita Bekkemellem?

What assurances does the Norwegian Men’s panel have that it will not labour under the condition of reasonable apprehension of anti-male bias by a feminist-dominated and -controlled government?

Is there anyone who can clear up those and related concerns?

–Walter Schneider
http://fathersforlfe.org

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