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President Obama’s Statement on VAWA
President Obama made this statement today: Today the Senate passed a strong bipartisan bill to reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act. This important step shows what we can do when we come together across party lines to take up a just cause. The bill passed by the Senate [...]
Continue reading...SCESA Supports NO MORE
NO MORE is a simple idea with the power to unleash new, major attention to the people all around us who are hurt – directly or indirectly — by domestic violence and sexual assault every day and every minute. We all know someone who has been touched by this violence [...]
Continue reading...National Task Force Statement on Passage of H.R. 4970
National Task Force Statement on Passage of H.R. 4970 May 16, 2012 The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women is a diverse coalition of thousands of national, state and local organizations and individuals across the country unified by our commitment to end violence against women. [...]
Continue reading...NTF statement opposing Cantor-Adams version of VAWA
The Against Sexual and Domestic Violence expresses its strong opposition to the Cantor-Adams version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization that was introduced earlier today. It weakens or deletes entirely some of the vital improvements in the Senate bill, including the strong provisions that are designed to increase the [...]
Continue reading...VAWA PASSED THE SENATE
GREAT NEWS: VAWA PASSED THE SENATE The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, S. 1925, has passed the Senate by a 68 to 31 vote! Check the vote count, and call your Senators that voted yes to tell them how proud you are that they supported the bill written by more [...]
Continue reading...“I wish it were true that sexual violence is being overstated”
Note: This is a response from The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) to “How the CDC is Overstating Sexual Violence in the U.S.” by Christina Hoff Sommers published in the January 27, 2012, edition of The Washington Post. “I wish it were true that sexual violence is being overstated” [...]
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