Missing women found buried near Albuquerque

Story by Women’s eNews
Summary of article: After combing an almost 100-acre area on the outskirts of Albuquerque, investigators found the remains of 11 women, one of whom was four months pregnant. As of late-September, seven of the 11 women have been identified.
All had been reported missing between 2003 and early 2005. Each had [...]

Women warriors take on domestic violence and sexual assault

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/59339272.html
By Tanya Lee, Today correspondent
Sep 18, 2009
From North Dakota to Arizona, strong, talented, accomplished Native American women are taking up the challenge of protecting themselves and their sisters, their mothers and aunts, their grandmothers and granddaughters, from the devastation of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The level of violence against women and children in the U.S. [...]

Saving the World’s Women

Saving the World’s Women
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN, New York Times
August 17, 2009
In the 19th Century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and [...]

Recovery Funds Help Native American Women Victims of Violence

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 [...]

Presidential Proclamation-15th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act

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) [...]

“I wish we had called police”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 [...]

Send a new message in our rural communities

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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, [...]

What women want poster

Text:
what women want — is justice
___________________________
“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.

Give Us Your Huddled Masses – But Battered Women Need Not Apply!

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 [...]

Statistics on Sexual Violence

http://www.counterquo.org/
CounterQuo Rape Stats
The Prevalence of Rape Among Women
Between 1 and 6 (16%) and 1 in 8 (13%) women have experienced a completed rape in their lifetime.
These data come from four methodologically sound studies that span 15 years. Using the 2005 Census, this translates to approximately 18 million women who are living with the consequences of [...]

Vice President Biden Announces Appointment of White House Advisor

June 26, 2009
Vice President Biden Announces Appointment of White House Advisor
on Violence Against Women
Washington, DC – Vice President Biden, the author of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, announced today the appointment of Lynn Rosenthal as the new White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. Ms. Rosenthal is one of the nation’s foremost experts in [...]

Why doesn’t he just leave?

Another domestic homicide in the news this morning makes us wonder when the public will quit asking about the victim and begin asking about the perpetrator — “why doesn’t *he* just leave?”
Mo. man kills wife, then himself
ASSOCIATED PRESS
06/09/2009
SCOTT CITY, Mo. — Authorities in southeast Missouri say a man shot and killed his estranged wife, then [...]

New book – Dangerous Exits: Escaping abusive relationships in rural America

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 Announces Recovery Act STOP Formula Awards to States

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 [...]

Economic Anxieties Impact Abuse Rates

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 — [...]

Battered women charged with “failure to protect”

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 [...]

What’s wrong with this headline?

Let’s play “What’s Wrong with This Headline?”
Source: http://www.historiann.com/2009/04/20/lets-play-whats-wrong-with-this-headline/
OK, kids–here’s today’s challenge: “Couple, their 3 kids found dead in Maryland home.”
Who or what might have killed an entire family? Was it carbon monoxide? Botulism? World War II ordinance discovered in the sandbox too late? (I’m humming the Jeopardy theme while you [...]

RAINN Information on Sexual Assault Awareness Month

http://www.rainn.org/
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization, released a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) entitled “Speak-Out.” The PSA aims to encourage those affected by sexual violence to “speak-out” and get help through the National Sexual Assault Hotlines, available 24/7 over the phone (800.656.HOPE) and online at rainn.org.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

2009 Theme: Prevent Sexual Assault in the Workplace
While working or on duty, U.S. employees experienced 36,500 rapes and sexual assaults from 1993 to 1999. This excludes the more than 12,000 annual reported acts of sexual harassment at work. Sexual violence that happens in the workplace is unfortunately common.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Campaign created a Workplace [...]

Who is Helping Rihanna?

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 [...]