"Twenty-two to thirty-five percent of American women who seek emergency medical assistance at hospitals are there for reasons of domestic violence."
                         -Joni Seager
                          (Women in the World, Penguin, 2003, page 26)

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"MISSING: Information About Women's Lives"
National Council for Research on Women
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"Approaches to Addressing Workplace Violence"
National Council for Research on Women
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"Battered Mothers Speak Out: A Human Rights Report on Domestic Violence and Child Custody"
Women's Rights Network, Wellesley Centers for Women
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• Center for Women Policy Studies
• Family Violence Prevention Fund
• Girls Incorporated
• Legal Momentum
• National Coalition Against Gender Violence
• National Women's Law Center
• U.S. Department of Justice
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Wellesley Centers for Women
• Women's Law Project