Tag Archives: Violence against women
Report: Female Farm Workers Face Sexual Violence, Harassment
On May 16, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report detailing the results of interviews with over 160 farmworkers, police, attorneys, and other members of the agricultural industry about sexual violence and harassment endured by female migrant farmworkers. Women make … Continue reading
Urge Your Representative in Congress to Oppose H.R. 4970 to Protect the Safety of Domestic and Sexual Violence Victims
As Congress debates the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), domestic and sexual violence victims are in danger of losing important protections under the law. Unlike previous reauthorizations of VAWA, a law originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized … Continue reading
Decades after Reforms Erased Sexual Assault Myths from the Letter of the Law, Pennsylvania’s Criminal Justice System Remains Infected
In the early morning hours in a college dorm room, three young men took turns physically restraining and vaginally, anally, and orally penetrating an eighteen-year-old woman student without her consent. The victim had allowed the three men — who were … Continue reading
Filed under PA Supreme Court, Sexual Assault, Violence Against Women
VAWA Receives Only Partisan Support
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has never been partisan legislation. Signed into law in 1994, it was reauthorized with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2000, and again in 2005. But earlier this month, anti-violence advocates were shocked when VAWA passed … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, LGBT, The New York Times, Violence Against Women
Monica Henry: Women and Girls Still Bear Brunt of Domestic Violence
Recently, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett wrote a guest post for WeNews which cited Mary Straus’s research findings that women and men tend to instigate violence in roughly an equal number of domestic violence instances. Monica Henry, who holds … Continue reading
Increasing Number of Homeless Women Veterans
The number of women veterans who become homeless after returning to civilian life is on the rise. This increasing rate of homelessness among women veterans is due to many factors that affect all genders who have served in the military … Continue reading
Scary News: PA ranks 13th in Nation for Rate at which Men Kill Women
It was just in time for Halloween when PennLive brought us some terrifying news about domestic violence homicide rates in Pennsylvania. Based on data collected in 2009, the rate of man-on-woman homicide in Pennsylvania is higher than it has been … Continue reading
Topeka, Kansas Decriminalizes Domestic Violence
Amid a dispute between three arms of government over which would be responsible for paying for the prosecutions of those accused of a misdemeanor case of domestic violence, the city of Topeka, Kansas has decriminalized it. The city commissioners believed … Continue reading
ACLU: “Ending Domestic Violence Requires Holding Police Accountable”
On July 20th, the American Civil Liberties Union joined the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and other groups in submitting an amicus brief in support of a domestic abuse survivor who was … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, Family Violence, Violence Against Women
NY Act Would Help Jailed Domestic Violence Survivors
The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) proposed by New York State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, if passed, would “allow [New York] courts to take DV into consideration when determining sentencing; authorize judges to sentence survivors to … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, Women in prisons
