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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.
In the News
Monday, July 24, 2017
California law now mandates mental health help for young victims of sexual abuse.
In the News
Friday, July 21, 2017
More than half of female homicide victims were killed in connection to intimate partner violence — and in 10 percent of those cases, violence shortly before the killing might have provided an opportunity for intervention.
In the News
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
USA Gymnastics is turning to a longtime children's rights advocate and a former prosecutor to help address issues that have plagued the organization amid a sexual abuse scandal that has shaken one of the U.S. Olympic movement's marquee programs.
In the News
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
The grand jury investigation of female genital mutilation has spread to at least three more states as federal agents have identified new targets, according to federal court records.
In the News
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Reports of harassment and sexual assault at music festivals have been steadily increasing and are often overlooked because of the 'temporary utopia' music festivals are thought to provide.
