Public Policy
International Violence Against Women Act Introduced in House & Senate
Violence prevention experts and human rights advocates cheered Thursday when Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Representatives William Delahunt (D-MA), Ted Poe (R-TX) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), spoke at a Capitol Hill event celebrating the introduction of the International Violence Against Women Act. This groundbreaking legislation would, for the first time, make stopping violence against women and girls a priority in American diplomacy and foreign aid. [...]
New International Center for Family Violence Prevention Fund
FVPF's new international center will function as a vibrant base for global action through groundbreaking programs that engage the public, facilitate dialogue and collaboration, and train the leaders who will help build safer, healthier, and more civil societies everywhere. Here, on the Main Post of San Francisco’s historic Presidio, we are transforming Building 100, a barracks where military bands once practiced songs that rallied troops on their way to war, into a center for generating peaceful alternatives to violence. [...]
House Subcommittee Examines International Violence Against Women
In late October, for the second time that month, powerful voices came to Capitol Hill to ask for stronger measures to stop violence against women worldwide and to press for passage of the International Violence Against Women Act. At an October 21 hearing before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, violence prevention experts including U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer and actress and UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman discussed the violence experienced by women and girls around the world. [...]
House Health Reform Bill Contains Key Domestic Violence Provisions
The Family Violence Prevention Fund is praising the U.S. House of Representatives for including in its health reform bill a key prevention initiative that will advance the health care system’s response to domestic violence and curb the tremendous health costs that result from it. The legislation, passed on November 7, requires private insurers and the new Health Insurance Exchange to reimburse health care providers who assess patients for domestic violence and provide brief counseling and referrals. [...]
Congress Continues Focus on Global Violence Against Women
Award-winning actress and UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer, are scheduled to testify Wednesday on violence against women and girls around the world before a key House Subcommittee. This is the second congressional hearing in a month on the issue. On October 1, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held its first-ever hearing on global violence against women and girls. [...]
Key Senate Committee Considers VAWA
The Violence Against Women Act has been highly effective in helping stop domestic violence and other violent crimes against women, expert witnesses - including Ann Burke and Gabrielle Union (with Chris Burke) - told the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 10. But challenges remain, including better services for rural women, women of color and children exposed to violence, and homicide prevention. [...]
International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA)
One out of every three women worldwide will be physically, sexually or otherwise abused during her lifetime with rates reaching 70 percent in some countries. This type of violence and abuse ranges from rape to domestic violence and acid burnings to dowry deaths and so-called honor killings. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation, a public health epidemic and a barrier to solving global challenges such as extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS and conflict. [...]
Violence Against Women Act 2005
The Violence Against Women Act was the first comprehensive federal legislation to address violence against women in the United States. [...]
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