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  2. Violence Against Women Act - Wikipedia

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    The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355) ...

  3. Violence against women - Wikipedia

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    The federal Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized in 2013, which for the first time gave tribes jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute felony domestic violence offenses involving Native American and non-Native offenders on the reservation, [284] as 26% of Natives live on reservations.

  4. Office on Violence Against Women - Wikipedia

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    The United States Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) was created following the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994. [2] The Act was renewed in 2005, 2013 and again in 2022. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Violence Against Women Act legislation requires the Office on Violence Against Women to work to respond to and reduce violence against women in ...

  5. International Violence Against Women Act - Wikipedia

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    The International Violence Against Women Act of 2015 (I-VAWA) (S. 713, H.R. 1340) was introduced to ensure that addressing violence against women is included in the nation's foreign policy, with best practices for preventing violence, protecting victims and prosecuting offenders. [1] The legislation was the result of efforts by:

  6. United States v. Morrison - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that parts of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 were unconstitutional because they exceeded the powers granted to the US Congress under the Commerce Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

  7. Boyfriend loophole - Wikipedia

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    Hence, Republicans would not agree to passing VAWA if the boyfriend loophole was closed, since they did not want to narrow access to guns. [36] In order to reauthorize VAWA, Democrats limited the scope of the bill. [36] President Joe Biden speaks after signing the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 on March 16, 2022.

  8. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women

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    For the purposes of this Declaration, the term "violence against women" means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.

  9. Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 - Wikipedia

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    This Act was considered to be the first piece of legislation to provide legal recognition and protection to relationships outside of marriage. [5] Domestic violence is defined by Section 3 of the Act as [6] "any act, omission or commission or conduct of the respondent shall constitute domestic violence in case it: