“And I cannot help but wonder if Zimmerman had been held accountable for the violence he had already inflicted on girls and women, that Trayvon Martin might be with us here today.”
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“Father Daniel Budzynski is accused of molesting more than 40 young boys over 31 years, while the Milwaukee Archdiocese shuffled him around to a dozen local parishes. For all those years, the church never told parishioners or the public what it knew.”
by Patty Branco, NRCDV Senior Technical Assistance and Resource Specialist
“It was a huge case happening here in Pennsylvania. It would have been like ignoring the 800-pound gorilla in the room had we not addressed it,” explained Richard Long of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association.”
“More than a third of women worldwide are affected by physical or sexual violence, many at the hands of an intimate partner, according to a new United Nations report that offers guidelines to help countries respond to this global epidemic.”
“Women here say it crosses class barriers, generations and faiths. It prevails in public buses, trains, streets and homes. It exists online, on university campuses, and in parks, markets, at work and in cafes.” Read more at: