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Family Violence
"Being abused or neglected as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile ... overlap of 30 to 60 percent between violence against children and violence against women in the same families" (In Harm's Way: Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment, 2000). "Fifty-three percent ...
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Domestic Violence
Statistics show that 29 percent of all violence against women by a single offender is committed by an intimate -- a husband, ex-husband, boyfriend, ... -527-3223) is operated by the National Center of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Family Violence Project and provides information, consultation, training, and legal research related to child protection and custody. ...
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Environmentalists Against War
THE WAR The Asian Pacific Environmental Network opposes the United States-led war against Iraq. We declare that this war is racist and unjust, and that this war is driven by a ... parts of our communities in different ways. War and militarism directly intensifies violence against women, including the superexploitation of women and their labor, including the sex trade. Youth, particularly poor and ...
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Oak Foundation: Issues Affecting Women
Grants Special Interest Grants Denmark Arts Social Issues Zimbabwe Health Education At-Risk Groups copyright policy Issues Affecting Women Programme The programme focuses on: Addressing violence against women, including domestic violence, honour killings, and women in conflict and refugee situations; Preventing trafficking of women, especially among immigrant women by supporting efforts in ...
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Oak Foundation: Issues Affecting Women Grants
(Second year of two-year grant) Until the Violence Stops To support a secondary-school-based, peer education programme in London focused on the issues of violence against women and children. (Second year of two-year grant) Urban Justice Center To continue support for its Sex Workers ...
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International Women's Day
We have embarked upon another war, spreading again, the cycle of bloodshed, violence, and suffering. Some say war is inevitable, but the research of Dr. Riane Eisler shows ... systems of control -- in the family, religion, politics and economics. There is also a direct link between violence against women and terrorism and war. The Sept. 11 terrorists came from cultures where ...
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The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence
Statistics show that violence against women and children are the most ubiquitous human rights violations worldwide. The principles upon which ... human community. I want to add my voice to the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence to protect the human right to safety in our own homes, restore essential human dignity, ...
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PCI-Media Impact - Women's Empowerment and Development
According to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), violence against women is “the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today.” It is ... initiating change and improving life within communities. By producing programs relevant to the lives of women in less developed communities, we can help lessen maternal death, ensure small family size and ...
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Delegation Asks United Nations to Intervene on Violence Against Native Women | Indian Law Resource Center
Navajo Nation First Lady Vikki Shirley, who serves on the Department of Justice Violence Against Women in Indian Country Task Force, Councilwoman Juana Majel Dixon from the Pauma-Yuima Band ... before the law, and, among other things, to ensure that there are effective legal remedies against racial discrimination and that effective measures are taken in the fields of education, culture and ...
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IMPACT OF WTO ON WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
The violence associated with displacement, devaluation and disempowerment takes the form of intensive violence, increasing incidences of rape, the epidemic of female foeticide, and growth ...
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