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VAWnet News Blog

This area provides access to current and past news coverage on various issues related to gender-based violence that has national reach or impact, a full archive of NRCDV eNewsletters featuring announcements of new resources, initiatives, and events and access to our recent and archived TA questions of the month.
TA Question of the Month
Friday, July 01, 2011

by Patty Branco, Senior Technical Assistance & Resource Specialist for the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

In the News
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The article reports, “UNICEF, UN-HABITAT and UN Women launch ‘Safe and Friendly Cities for All,’ a five-year programme that aims at making women and children feel safer in their local neighbourhoods, while improving their quality of life.

In the News
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The article reports, “…Street harassment is no different than workplace harassment in its purpose and its effect. It is meant to put victims in their place, to remind them that they are objects and that their safety is a privilege, not a right. As a result, people change jobs, leave apartments or whole cities and suffer long-term stress and anxiety orders.”

In the News
Thursday, June 09, 2011

The article reports, “Experts suggest the United States’ ranking near the bottom of 33 developed countries for life expectancy at birth — 27th — may be due to domestic violence.

In the News
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

The article reports, “For months, CNN has been campaigning against modern-day slavery on its newscasts and Web sites. For the next stage, it’s bringing in star power. On Monday, the network will announce a plan for a one-hour documentary, ‘Nepal’s Stolen Children,’ reported and hosted by the actress Demi Moore. In the documentary, which will be shown for the first time on June 26, Ms.

In the News
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

The article reports, “A British Muslim women’s group has launched a ‘jihad against violence’, in a bid to reclaim the term jihad from extremists.