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2. Violence Against Women Act - Wikipedia

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   The Violence Against Women Act was developed and passed as a result of extensive grassroots efforts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Advocates for the battered women's movement included sexual assault advocates, individuals from victim services, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors' offices, the courts, and the private bar.

3. Office on Violence Against Women - Wikipedia

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   The Violence Against Women Act of 2005 authorized the use of $20 million for the fiscal years 2007–2011 for the Children and Youth Exposed to Violence Grant program. [58] This program specifically targets children: it is designed to decrease the effects that domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking may have on youth ...

4. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act - Wikipedia

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   There were a large number of women who were subjected to violence, so the US government added a provision, which is the Violence Against Women Act, as this law provided about 1.6 billion programs aimed at preventing and treating domestic violence and sexual violence that women are exposed to annually.

5. Thirty years after the Violence Against Women Act, we still ...

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   OpEd: Kentucky has made huge strides when it comes to domestic violence, but it still happens too much.

6. Violence against women in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Then-Vice President Joe Biden, who originally drafted VAWA, speaking about the Act. On September 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which was drafted by Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and co-written by Democrat Louise Slaughter. The Act granted $1.6 billion of funding for investigating and ...

7. Angelina Jolie Speaks on Capitol Hill in Support of ...

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   Angelina Jolie returned to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon to voice her support for victims of domestic abuse, urging the Senate to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which she ...

8. Violence against women - Wikipedia

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   Cyberbullying is a form of intimidation using electronic forms of contact. In the 21st century, cyberbullying has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers in Western countries. [ 246 ] Almost 75% of women have encountered harassment and threats of violence online, known as cyber violence , as reported by the United Nations ...

9. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women

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   At the time, it was known that wife beating (often grouped under the terms "domestic violence" or "intimate partner violence") was the most common form of violence against women. [6] For example, Levinson (1989) found that, in 86% of ninety studied cultures, there was structural violence by husbands against their wives; other studies at the ...