VAWnet News Blog

This blog reports, “Sunday marks Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and we are providing an update on the Working Group’s progress. As co-chairs, we are personally committed to this work, having first-hand community and clinical experience in seeing and treating the devastating effects violence has on the lives of women and their families.”

“‘This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time,’ he continued, ‘but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.'”

The article reports, “Transgender women in Latin America also face far more difficulties when it comes to accessing HIV prevention and care, as well as to medical services, due to transphobia, an unchecked form of discrimination, which makes these women targets for discrimination, violence and sexual abuse.”

“Women’s History Month is a time to remember those who fought to make that freedom as real for our daughters as for our sons. Written out of the promise of the franchise, they were women who reached up to close the gap between what America was and what it could be. They were driven by a faith that our Union could extend true equality to every citizen willing to claim it.

The statement reads, “Today, the U.S. House of Representatives took up the Senate-passed bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and passed this vital legislation by a bipartisan vote of vote of 286-138, including 87 Republicans voting in favor. NNEDV applauds the Members of Congress who led the fight and voted for VAWA’s passage.”

The article reports, “A University of North Carolina student says she faces possible expulsion for ‘intimidating’ her alleged rapist by speaking publicly about her assault and how the school has handled it.”