Sentences with phrase «of violence against women»

All members of the community are invited to join in the walk and show support for the elimination of violence against women and children.

The training emphasizes the importance of personal and community responsibility for social change around issues of violence against women.

Each performer spoke to the crowd, describing a different form of violence against women using real numerical statistics.

Successful early intervention and prevention strategies will not only cut offending and imprisonment rates, but importantly will increase safety by addressing the root causes of violence against women and children.

In each case the men all had previous histories of violence against women.

The rate of violence against women has also been increasing since 2009.

Ensure adequate oversight of officials responsible for responding to and investigating crimes of violence against women, and ensure that administrative, disciplinary or criminal measures are available to hold such officials accountable.

Recent discussions and policy reforms in the area of violence against women have been mostly targeted towards intimate partner violence.

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about aspects of violence against women.

And concern about the prevalence of violence against women with disability and the prominence they get in research, policy and action.

Nor are these narratives seriously interested in any sort of critical analysis or exploration of the emotional ramifications of violence against women on either a cultural or an interpersonal level.

Their words, dedicated to the water, reveal experiences of violence against women.

This is particularly true with respect to domestic violence and other forms of violence against women.

This approach will not only cut offending and imprisonment rates, but critically will also increase safety by working to address the root causes of violence against women and children in the first place.

For 30 of those years, Rep. Louise Slaughter, has conferenced with Conyers, the House's longest - serving member, working with him on a number of items, including the introduction of an amendment to the chamber's version of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.

Brooks opposed the GOP majority's reauthorization of the Violence Against Women in the house, because it placed «unnecessary restrictions on access to domestic violence services for victims who desperately need help.»

As a senator, Rubio has voted against an LGBT - inclusive reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and doesn't co-sponsor any pro-LGBT bills.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The Manhattan District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney...

NEW YORK (AP)-- The Manhattan District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned just hours after accounts of abuse by four women.

Before starting at MLSA, Ms. Dale - Ramos was a legal fellow at the Indian Law Resource Center in Helena, advocating for legal reforms to increase tribal sovereignty in cases of violence against women.

There seems to be a symbiotic relationship between our increased awareness of violence against women and the escalation of violence against them, now condoned by law.

Hat's off to Michel - Adrien whose post on the UN database on the nature and consequences of violence against women took Slaw across the 4,000 post mark.

Respectful relationships activity in schools is designed to address the drivers of violence against women as part of a holistic approach which addresses school culture, student education, leadership and parent engagement.

The union took aim at «a hyper - masculine industrial camp culture, which can result in increased risk of sexual harassment, assault, increased levels of violence against women in sex work and hitchhiking and increased levels of child care and gender inequity.»

What began on the written page as a hateful depiction of violence against women was reversed into a sly commentary on men.

Hosted by the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) in conjunction with Our Watch and supported by WESNET (Women's Service Network), it bought together academics, practitioners and policy - makers for a three - day international exchange of knowledge and ideas on the primary prevention of violence against women and their children.

«My predecessor (former U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle) did not support the version of the Violence Against Women Act that was brought up in the last Congress — the same one that was brought up in this Congress,» he said.

The Nigerian Police force has said incidences of rape, women and child abuse, trafficking and other gender based offences which have been fallouts of violence against women and children would soon be a thing of the past following the passage of the violence against -LSB-...]

In practice this would have undermined the Elimination of Violence Against Women Law, making it almost impossible to prosecute crimes against women in the home including domestic violence.

Concepts in Creating Culturally Responsive Services for Supervised Visitation Centers (PDF - 2959 KB) Williams (2007) Helps supervised visitation centers and safe exchange programs funded by the Office of Violence Against Women examine how they serve culturally diverse populations.

Objective To explore psychometric properties of the Violence Against Women instrument in a randomly selected national sample of women (N = 573) aged 18 — 65 years and residing in Sweden.

Incidents of IPV were assessed using the Conflict Tactics Scale and the Severity of Violence Against Women Scale.

Measures include Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS), the Severity of Violence Against Women Scales, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Attitudes About Family Violence (AAFV) Scale, the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Anxiety and Parental Childrearing Styles Scale, and the Harter Perceived Self - Competence Scales for Children.

The governor's proposal was drawn up following the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas, where Cuomo said the gunmen in each shooting had a record of violence against women or threatening violence against women.

«Elimination of violence against women takes more than one - off announcements, photo - ops and slogans.

Two types of violence against women in the American family: Identifying patriarchal terrorism and common couple violence.

The research project, conducted in 1999 (Morris 1999), discovered that in these cases of alienation, male perpetrators of violence against the women and / or children use an arsenal of strategies to deliberately undermine mother - child relationships.

«I vividly remember her work to break the cycle of violence against women and to stop discrimination based on race, income, religion, ability, region, gender identity, or genetic information.»

«Today's long overdue passage of the Violence Against Women Act is a victory for women across the country.

Slaughter was a co-author of the Violence Against Women Act, a landmark 1994 law aimed at preventing domestic abuse and helping its victims.

What that means for how he will govern on the critical matters of violence against women.»

The events are a way for men to raise awareness in their community about the seriousness of violence against women and to raise funds in the process by collecting donations to walk a mile wearing red high - heeled shoes.

Prevention of violence against women starts with early role - modelling and talking to children about respectful relationships and positive attitudes towards girls and women.

A Christian NGO wants men to spearhead a campaign to stop of violence against women, as the first of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence drive gets underway across the globe.

But what concerns me most about the Fifty Shades phenomenon is how deceptive these fantasies are in how they twist the realities of violence against women.