Recovery funds offer promising start on justice issues
By Leeanne Root
Source: Indian Country Today
September 4, 2009
Some terrible statistics loom over the lives of indigenous women: They are more than twice as likely as non-Native women to be victims of sexual violence and domestic violence, and one in three will be raped in her lifetime. According to [...]
September 14, 2009
FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Today, we commemorate a milestone in our Nation’s struggle to end violence against women. Authored by then United States Senator Joe Biden and signed into law in September 1994, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) [...]
Text: Send a new message in our rural communities
“I wish we had called the police on any one of those nights, but we just thought that she would handle it.” – Quote from a neighbor of Candace Wertz who, along with three other people, including two toddlers, was killed by her former boyfriend when he [...]
Text: Send a new message in our rural communities
“In rural areas, you’re probably going to see a higher proportion of domestic violence cases just because THE PERPETRATOR IS NOT GETTING THE MESSAGE that it’s wrong to keep doing what they’re doing.”
Law enforcement quote in response to the killing of Candace Wertz and three other people, [...]
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what women want — is justice
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“If someone commits murder, it shouldn’t take no frigging two years to put them away.”
Quoting Claudette Carpenter, whose mother, Marie Desmond, was stabbed thirty-three times. George Howard Desmond, Marie’s estranged husband, was sentenced to life in prison two years after Marie’s death.
The Huffington Post July 6, 2009
William Fisher
Give Us Your Huddled Masses – But Battered Women Need Not Apply!
Here’s a note for the “to do” list of the Obama Administration’s newly appointed Domestic Violence Czar – or Czarina in this case: Battered wives and significant others pose a serious law enforcement and public health problem affecting [...]
Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America
By DeKeseredy, Walter S., Schwartz, Martin D.
ISBN:9780813545196
Publisher, Rutgers University Press, June 2009
Information from Rutgers University Press website:
Praise for Dangerous Exits
“This book deserves a special place among the panoply of new scholarship on rural crime. Innovative and multi-dimensional, Dangerous Exits sounds a powerful call for action and policy [...]
OVW announced more than $100 million in Recovery Act awards to states to support comprehensive strategies addressing violence against women. The STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program (STOP Program) supports a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to stopping and responding to crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
United States [...]
Hard Times for Women Living on the Edge: Economic Anxieties Send Domestic-Abuse Rates Soaring
Source: Nick Turse, Tomdispatch, May 11, 2009.
Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In bad times, it can be hell.
Now, throw domestic violence into the mix and the hardships grow exponentially — [...]
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
Article: The Nicholson Decisions
New York’s Response to ‘Failure to Protect’ Allegations
“it became abundantly clear that the Nicholson, Udoh, and Tillet cases were not aberrations but rather the result of a burgeoning City policy of removing children from battered mothers and prosecuting the mothers for child neglect—a policy that was [...]
http://womenofcolor network.org
“Who Is Helping Rihanna?”
A National Statement from the Women of Color Network -A National Organization Responding to Violence Against Women of Color
Harrisburg, PA: The alleged domestic violence incident involving Chris Brown and R&B singer Rihanna has ignited national discussion about dating violence.
The early media coverage focused on the chain of events: how the seemingly [...]
End Torture, End Domestic Violence
by Rhonda Copelon
From On the Issues, Progressive Women’s Magazine Winter 2009
When one compares what is done to a woman in an advanced domestic battering cycle and to prisoners subjected to torture, the situations are frighteningly similar. But only recently have they begun to be equated legally and culturally.
How would the world [...]
In Kansas, 180 adults died from domestic violence between 1999 and 2007, and Bob Stephan of the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board says the law doesn’t measure up. The board has written a bill that would tag criminal files as domestic violence offenses to better track offenders. http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=8119&format=html
The Montana Domestic Violence Fatality Review says the number of domestic homicides has risen by 60 percent in the last two years. There were nine domestic violence homicides in Montana in 2007 while 2008 proved to be an even deadlier year, with 13 domestic murders, one of which involved a child. http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=10013462
Family and Friends Guide to Domestic Violence: How to Listen, Talk and Take Action When Someone You Care about Is Being Abused by Elaine Weiss
Product Description
It’s hard to know what to do when someone you care about is in an abusive relationship. Do you ask about it? What if you’re wrong? Do you offer to [...]
Source: http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/recovery.htm
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R.1), which includes $4 billion in Department of Justice grant funding to enhance state, local, and tribal law enforcement efforts, including the hiring of new police officers, to combat violence against women, and to fight internet crimes against children.
Specific [...]
From the US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women
To intervene and prevent the cycle of violence, it is important to educate teens about healthy relationships and help them identify services available to them if they experience a physically or emotionally abusive relationship.
Links:
Download OVW’s Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week Poster
National Teen [...]
SHARE Inc. has received a $12,000 Daniels Fund grant to support its domestic violence shelter and outreach program.
SHARE, the Morgan County domestic violence program, provides a variety of services to domestic violence victims. Services include 24-hour confidential crisis response, emergency shelter, individual advocacy and support groups for battered women in English and Spanish, children and [...]
