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Climate of Indifference IS Part of Why the Sandusky Sexual Assaults Occurred
This morning, Joe Paterno’s family released their report contradicting much of Judge Louis Freeh’s report on why the child sexual assaults at Penn State University occurred. In this report, they state...
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VAWA Passes Senate: One Step Toward Ending the Climate of Indifference...
The climate of indifference that I talked about in my blog on February 10 is pervasive both here in the US and around the world. Which is why Eve Ensler has called for a worldwide day of action to...
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A Further Comment on Violence Against Women and Children on V-Day
I received a comment on LinkedIn this morning in response to my posting titled VAWA Passes Senate: One Step Toward Ending the Climate of Indifference Towards Violence Against Women. My status...
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House Republicans Introduce Partisan VAWA that Fails to Protect ALL Victims
Today, I am presenting a guest blog by my dear friend and colleague Pat Reuss. Pat describes herself as “a longtime women’s rights activist pretending to be retired and currently serving as a policy...
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Rising in Celebration of the Passage of VAWA
Today, the US House of Representatives passed the comprehensive Senate version of the Violence Against Women reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) by a vote of 286-138. The Senate passed the same bill on...
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US Congress passes Violence Against Women Act: Article via AFP
This article was first posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:12:14 PM. It gives a very good summary of how the Violence Against Women Act passed and why it took so long. US Congress passes Violence...
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The “Unholy Alliance” that May Defeat Comprehensive UN Call to End...
Last week, on International Women’s Day (March 8), I participated in the 24-hour Global Tweet-a-Thon to end gender-based violence. This event was held in conjunction with the 57th session of the...
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Powerful UN CSW57 Document on Ending Gender-Based Violence Created
On March 14, I wrote a blog entitled “The “Unholy Alliance” that May Defeat Comprehensive UN Call to End Gender-Based Violence.” I talked about an alliance between the Vatican, Iran, Russia and a...
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Pennsylvania General Assembly Again Attacking Women’s Reproductive Health
Keep Abortion Legal Safe, Legal and Accessible (http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/) It’s 2013 and the Pennsylvania General Assembly continues to attack women’s access to reproductive health. According...
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Civil Rights Denied: PA’s Proposed Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban
“working to win the freedom to marry in more states, grow the national majority for marriage, and end federal marriage discrimination. ” http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/about-us A couple of days...
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Montana and Pennsylvania NOW File Judicial Conduct Complaint Against Judge G....
Today (September 24) at noon MDT, Marian Bradley, President of Montana NOW delivered a complaint to the Montana Judicial Standards Commission calling for the removal of Judge G. Todd Baugh and...
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Pennsylvania’s Proposed Women’s Health Agenda
Kate Michelman discussing strategy with women’s health care advocates and members of the General Assembly Health Care Agenda Caucus. Yesterday (Monday, September 30, 2013), I attended a two-hour...
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Urge Senate to Pass Military Justice Improvement Act
I received an email today from the National NOW Action Center regarding Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) Military Justice Improvement Act. I pulled the text of the email and then rearranged and...
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Montana and Pennsylvania NOW Respond to Judge G. Todd Baugh
On September 24, 2013, Montana NOW and Pennsylvania NOW submitted a complaint about Judge G. Todd Baugh to the Montana Judicial Standards Commission. In my capacity as a member of the Executive...
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Women’s Groups File Amicus Brief in Montana v. Rambold
Stop Violence Against Women NOW In August 2013, Judge G. Todd Baugh issued a 30-day jail term for one guilty plea by Stacey Rambold for one count of sexual intercourse without consent against a 14-year...
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Sample Letter Opposing Sick Leave Preemption Bill
Help Stop ALEC Yesterday afternoon, the Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee forwarded a sick leave preemption bill — HB 1960 — to the floor of the Pennsylvania House of Representative...
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Montana! Again! More Victim Blaming
Stop Violence Against Women NOW In several earlier blogs, I’ve written about the minimal sentence given to convicted rapist Stacey Rambold. This sentence was overturned by the Montana Supreme Court at...
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Censure and Suspension of Judge Baugh
Stop Violence Against Women NOW The Montana Supreme Court has just handed down their decision on the ethics complaints filed against Judge G. Todd Baugh in his mishandling of the rape case against...
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NOW Public Censure Statement re: G. Todd Baugh
Today at 1:00 p.m. MDT, the Montana Supreme Court held G. Todd Baugh’s public censure hearing in Helena Montana. Here’s a video of the entire hearing, courtesy of the Billings Gazette. We were one of...
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The Rape Myth Problem Within the Judicial System
civilrightsactivist:You probably have heard this before: “She asked for it.” “She didn’t say no.” “She really meant ‘yes’ when she said ‘no.’” “She looks older than her chronological age.” “She [a...
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