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Press release: “Attorney General Eric Holder’s Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence today presented its final report and policy recommendations gathered from public hearings held across the country over the past year.

“When Champlain College students and professors were given the task of developing a computer game to address the problem of violence against women, they created Breakaway, a game that uses soccer skills to introduce moral questions to the interactions between girls and boys.”

The article reports, “Afghan women are frequent victims of abuse, despite some success by authorities in prosecuting rape cases, forced marriages and domestic violence under a 3-year-old law, according to a report issued Tuesday by the United Nations.”

The article reports, “In a historic bipartisan vote on Tuesday, the Senate passed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-N.H.) amendment to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act that would extend abortion insurance coverage to victims of rape in the military.

“Molly Melching, founder of NGO Tostan (which means ‘breakthrough’ in Wolof), talks about the importance of working within communities across west Africa and of involving cutters – the people who excise the clitoris and other external parts of the vagina during female genital mutilation – in efforts to end the practice.”

Pop quiz: You’re having a party, and your fridge is stuffed with canned drinks – Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sprite, the works. You turn to your guests and ask, “Hey does anybody want a… (a)  Soda (b)  Pop (c)  Coke (d)  Other