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1. Economic Security 2. Education 3. Health 4. Immigration 5. Violence

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Anti Violence Against Women Plan of Action

Violence against women and girls is one of the most intractable and complex issues on...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Ending Violence Against Women--An Imperative for a Healthy Nation

Ending violence against women should become a national imperative. Policies and laws need to be...
NCRW Policy Brief: Violence

Ending violence against women needs to become a national priority. A safe society for women and...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Violence Against Women Act

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is the most comprehensive federal legislation ever enacted to...
NCRW Fact Sheet: The International Violence Against Women Act

I-VAWA would apply the force of U.S. diplomacy and provide $1 billion over five years to institute...

News

Women Exposed to Violence Might Have More Risky Sex

May 14, 2012

U. S. News and World Report reports on a study by researchers at the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., that finds that women who were exposed to community violence and those who...
Supportive housing improves safety for female sex workers: B.C. study

May 10, 2012

Reports on a study published in the American Journal of Public Health that found that female sex workers living in and operating from supportive-housing units have less adversarial relationships with police and were exposed to less violence...
New study examines role of intimate partner violence in workplace homicides among U.S. women

May 7, 2012

Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Injury Control Research Center at West Virginia University (WVU-ICRC) have found that intimate partner violence resulted in 142 homicides among women at work...

Survey: One-third of married Japanese women are victims of domestic abuse

May 2, 2012

The Bellingham Herald reports on a Japanese Cabinet Office survey that finds that 32.9 percent of married or previously married women in Japan have experienced domestic abuse.

Black Women, Sexual Assault and the Art of Resistance

April 25, 2012

Brooke Axtell examines the implications of the statistic that 60 percent of Black girls have experienced sexual abuse before the age of 18.

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Member Organizations

Altagracia Dilone Levat

Legal Momentum

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Center for the Education of Women

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

The Feminist Majority Foundation

Arlington, VA

Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Washington, DC

International Center for Research on Women

Washington, DC

Legal Momentum

New York, NY

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Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Debate: Shyama Venkateswar

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Shyama Venkateswar, Ph.D., Director of Research and Programs, was interviewed by Pasadena public radio KPCC on March 19th. AirTalk host Larry Mantle explored the controversy over reauthorizing the...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 3:42pm

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Day of Action: End Rape in War!

Kyla Bender-Baird

Today is the culmination of the Nobel Women's Inititative's conference to end sexual violence in conflict. And how appropriate--they are ending it with a day of action! Love it. ...

Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 10:38am

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Nobel Women’s Initiative’s Conference on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict

Kyla Bender-Baird

Today marks the beginning of the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s Conference on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict. This three-day conference gathers over 100 women—including Nobel...

Monday, May 23, 2011 - 2:41pm

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Denim Day & the Right to be Sexy—Because There’s Never an Excuse for Rape!

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kyla Bender-BairdToday is Denim Day. I’m wearing jeans to work in support of sexual assault survivors and to raise awareness about sexual assault misconceptions. Denim day has been around...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 1:31pm

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Feminist Dialogue on Militarism and Military Intervention for the 16 Days Campaign

Kyla Bender-Baird

The Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University has released this video of a feminist dialogue on militarism that it hosted as part of its 16 Days Campaign. The video features...

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:54am

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