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Carter calls discrimination and abuse of women and girls "the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge" of our time, and the book covers a wide range of problems including infanticide and selective abortion of female fetuses; female genital mutilation; rape, especially as a weapon of war; human trafficking of women and girls for sex; child marriage; honor killings; domestic violence ...
The Dispatch reported in November 2022 that not only had the number of domestic violence victims in Franklin County being sheltered gone up, but their average stay had increased from 53 days in ...
Some victims of domestic violence can’t summon help because their partners keep watch over their phones. So a Massachusetts librarian launched an initiative to hide burner phones, pre-loaded ...
Futures Without Violence (formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund) is a non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston, United States, with the goal of ending domestic and sexual violence. Futures Without Violence is involved in community-based programs, developing educational materials, and in public ...
The Women's Domestic Violence Court Assistance Scheme (WDVCAS) was originally established by Redfern Legal Centre in March 1990 to provide a range of specialist legal and support services to women at court seeking apprehended violence orders (AVOs). The principles and guidelines of the Scheme required that it be operated by paid staff, who were ...
Programs that serve victims of domestic violence are bracing for unprecedented cuts that will also affect rape crisis hotlines, child abuse centers and legal service providers across California.
The Survivors’ Empowerment and Economic Security Act was introduced by the 110th United States Congress to the Senate (S. 1136) and House of Representatives (H.R. 2395) to allow for greater economic freedom for domestic violence victims by providing short-term emergency benefits where needed, guaranteeing employment leave and unemployment ...
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.