![]() The 100th day of his presidency ended at noon on April 30, 2017. Roosevelt's first term in office, and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president. The first 100 days of a presidential term took on symbolic significance during Franklin D. ![]() The first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency began on January 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Labozzetta says investigations also need a "context, and to analyze the suspect's track record and whether or not he previously engaged in similar behavior.Donald Trump outlines his plan for the first 100 days of his presidency on November 21, 2016 ![]() But even here, there are international commitments on clarifying the case." "Generally if the aggressor has escaped or wasn't identified, the case is shelved as there is no way to proceed. The UFEM will also seek information on the aggressor. In less recent incidents, she says, "the construction is historical in nature," considering incidental or secondary testimonies, their repetition or the victim's emotional state when making a statement. Labozzetta says "if the sexual abuse happened just now, the victim is taken to hospital to create a clinical history, before following a specific procedure that is set out." Intervention is also tied to two factors: the time lapse between an incident and its reporting (are authorities dealing with a matter of urgency, recent or less recent events, or a longstanding situation?), and abuse categories (sexual abuse with physical contact, with or without lesions, and abuse without contact or injuries). Often, she says, "a woman's statements on sexual violence are received with skepticism, which doesn't happen when people report other crimes, like theft." Labozzetta is herself a public prosecutor in the district of Morón in the Buenos Aires province.Īfter a formal complaint, the protocol focuses on gathering circumstantial evidence of use to police and ensuring no evidence is destroyed. The victim's testimony has a "special weight," says Labozzetta, because domestic or sexist violence happens in private spaces, without witnesses. There are international norms on special procedures for registering testimonies, for example in a private space with a person you feel you can trust, of the same gender if a woman wants it, and respecting time limits." The other obstacle to investigations was "in how testimonies are taken. There are problems at present, the first of which is that "often the victims do not go to the police," the head of the UFEM Mariela Labozzetta, told Clarín, attributing this to "distrust of the justice system." A woman's statements on sexual violence are received with skepticism. Its aim is to provide a solid, legal framework for investigations into this murky and elusive area of criminal conduct, in line with international norms. These were the people who were said to take his often shocking campaign " seriously but not literally." Now that we are heading full-speed in Direction X, what will they think? More than his core supporters at home or the throngs of opponents protesting in the streets, it is the reluctant Trump voter who will determine whether these first 100 days are a footnote in history or the beginning of a whole new chapter. On some level, no one should be surprised: Trump was simply following through on the promises that were the heart of an electoral campaign that got him elected - and no doubt his core supporters are thrilled that the billionaire real estate mogul is turning out to be a man of his word.īut there are millions of supporters not of the diehard variety, who saw Trump as the lesser of two evils, who would take the country more in direction A than direction B. In his first 10 days in office, Trump has signed a series of executive orders to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, build a wall on the border with Mexico and implement a blatantly protectionist trade policy. This initial policy sprint would not only help pull the country out of the Great Depression, but would eventually be cemented into the New Deal, a thorough rewriting of the socio-economic contract of the government of the United States with its citizenry.īy all accounts, President Donald Trump is operating with the same haste, hoping to cash in on the supposed political capital that comes with having just been democratically elected. The marker of the "First 100 Days' of a new presidency traces its origins to Franklin Roosevelt's arrival in the White House in 1933, when the Democratic president followed through on a series of promised measures to urgently reverse the economic policies of his predecessor, the hapless Herbert Hoover.
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