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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 on the rise in Mexican drug cartels

May 29, 2012

Women are increasingly taking on roles of power in Mexico's drug cartels.
Female terrorists' bios belie stereotypes, study finds

May 20, 2012

According to research published by the American Psychological Association, female terrorists are likely to be educated, employed and native residents of the country where they commit a terrorist act - much like their male counterparts.
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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...

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Blog Posts

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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Media Coverage of Texas Gang Rape Fuels Double Standard

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By Jeannette Pai-Espinosa

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 3:55pm

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N.Y. Case Shows Lenient Treatment of Rapists

Kyla Bender-Baird

Women's eNews featured a commentary this week by one of NCRW's Amex Fellows. Tunisia Riley is one of thirty-five young women chosen to participate in the Council's Building the Next Generation...

Friday, January 28, 2011 - 6:02pm

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Voices from the Field: Hollaback! (Video)

Kyla Bender-Baird

Hat tip to Ms. Foundation for funding this great organization!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 12:08pm

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Rising Out of Grief, Tuscon is Looking Forward to the Future

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Sally Stevens*Greetings from Tucson. There are no words to describe this past week -- tears, hope, guilt, love, and grief are but just a few. Our community is small enough that somehow everyone is...

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 1:45pm

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