No re-authorization for Violence Act; Senate passes inclusive hate crimes legislation - moves to House
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This article discusses the political manuevering of Congress in 2000 over the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which women's rights groups claim has reduced domestic violence by 21% since its implementation in 1993. Other congressional acts of concern to women's groups include the father's rights cause, honor killings, sex trafficking, patients' bill of rights, occupational health and safety legislation, and bankruptcy reform.
Publication Name: National N O W Times
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-4740
Year: 2000
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Bush administration & 108th Congress damage women's rights, economic status
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The different ways in which the Bush administration and ultra-conservatives in Congress pushed ahead a series of tax-cuts for the wealthy which harmed women and low-income families are given. The measures adopted result in increased poverty, loss of jobs for women and less affordable health care.
Publication Name: National N O W Times
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-4740
Year: 2004
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Pressing for a second violence against women law
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An extension of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is slated to be enacted during the 105th Congress. The new legislation, called Violence Against Women Act II, seeks to protect women from physical, sexual and other related abuses, particularly in workplaces. The law further moves for the allocation of $1 billion for providing battered women with shelters. Through the law, resistant judges would be granted educational privileges to study domestic violence.
Publication Name: National N O W Times
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-4740
Year: 1998
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