Budget Cuts And Their Effect on Women's Programs

This is a story about budget cuts and how they affect domestic violence and sexual assault victims. You can read the whole story HERE According to the Department of Justice, more than 1 million women will fall victim to domestic violence this year alone. For these women and their children, however, sequestration is another form of victimization. "Sequestration’s cuts will reduce the...

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Colleges Under Scrutiny On Sexual Assaults

click for more details The Los Angeles Times did a story recently about how some local colleges handle rape allegations. You can read the story HERE. Gloria Allred is a high-profile attorney representing several of the complaintants. “Women from all over this country are demanding that their colleges stop these rapes and sexual assaults from happening,” Allred said. “They will no longer...

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DOJ Report On Assaults At University Of Montana

Department of Justice attorneys sang the University of Montana’s praises Thursday for its efforts to address problems surrounding sexual assault, even as DOJ documents painted a damning picture of how assault cases involving UM students all too often were handled. Women at UM who reported being sexually assaulted or harassed “were unfairly belittled, disbelieved or blamed for speaking up about what had...

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Campus Assaults In The News Spur Discussions

This is a story from USA Today on how all the assaults that have been in the news recently have spurred discussions of increased safety on college campuses. The most immediate one was the incident of the three women from Cleveland, Ohio who were kept locked up for years. You may read the whole story HERE. Both administrators and students are taking...

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month At Sacramento State

click for more info This is a story about sexual assaults at Sacramento State University. There is nothing new here, sexual assaults on college campuses across the country is a huge problem.. In 2010, students at Sacramento State could find media releases from the Sacramento State Police Department warning students about sexual assaults that had happened on campus. You can read the...

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Sexual Violence On Campus Prevention Week

more info here Here is an article about what the University of Oregon students on campus are doing for sexual violence awareness month and a big event called take back the night. You can read the whole story HERE Through various events on campus, panel discussion and community events, a variety of student organizations are all contributing to spread awareness on campus...

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VP Biden On Domestic Violence

We have never had much respect for Joe Biden but I reserve the right to change my mind because he and I agree on the importance of this issue-domestic violence. Recently Vice President Biden on Wednesday said his work on domestic violence has been "the single most important cause of my life." The whole article HERE. "Biden said the reason it's so...

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