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From End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI)
VAWA 2012 Prohibits Exam Costs for Victims and Requires Public Education
As many of you already know, the term forensic compliance refers to two specific provisions within the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) addressing a sexual...
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March 19
2013
INTEGRITY OF RAPE KITS FOR OHIO SURVIVORS
Recently, the Ohio Department of Health issued an alert to all Ohio hospitals regarding the use of sexual assault evidence collection kits assembled by a specific company prior to 2012. Contamination of some kits by their assemblers was...
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March 4
2013
WCRS, Conscious Voices Radio
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January 11
2013
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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January 4
2013
By Anne Seymour and Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D.
It simply boggles our minds and breaks our hearts that rape has been far too casually leveraged within the realm of politics in our country.
For the millions of women, men and children in America who are victims of rape and sexual assault, the psychic wounds of victimization seldom heal. Every...
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October 29
2012
The Miami Student
The posting of a flyer at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on the “Top Ten Ways to Get Away With Rape” underscores the continued need for addressing the cultural acceptance of rape and the environment created when individuals choose to make sexual assault a laughing matter.
Katie...
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October 18
2012
The News Record
The University System of Ohio Campus Safety hosted a meeting at the University of Cincinnati Tangeman University Center Thursday to discuss and reinforce guidelines for sexual assault response set by the Ohio Board of Regents.
Universities throughout the state had representatives in attendance...
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September 16
2012
Cleveland Plain Dealer
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Nearly a month after the arrest of two Steubenville High School football standouts on charges of rape and kidnapping divided this Ohio River Valley town, there's been a swell of public support for the West Virginia teen who reported the assault -- and for a second girl...
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September 14
2012
Cleveland Plain Dealer
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- It’s Monday, and ominous-looking clouds are pushing over Harding Stadium as dozens of football players in practice jerseys prepare to take on Cleveland’s Benedictine Bengals.
But this day two key players are missing from the field.
Police had arrested two...
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September 4
2012
Cleveland Plain Dealer
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and his Human Trafficking Commission, is now reviewing a report analyzing the depth of sex trafficking in Ohio.
The report was compiled by commission member and University of Toledo professor Celia Williamson, took more than a year to compile...
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August 8
2012
Cleveland Plain Dealer
For the first time, police departments across the county have the chance to all follow the same rules when investigating sex crimes.
A policy put together after months of work by police, prosecutors, nurses and victim advocates will be unveiled at a news conference today.
The collaboration took...
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May 23
2012
WKSU
The Violence Against Women Act was first passed in 1994 but the Senate is has yet to reauthorize it, as is required every five years. Democrat Sherrod Brown is supporting it, saying it helps state law enforcement and non-profit agencies prosecute perpetrators and protect victims.
“In...
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March 22
2012
Sen. Brown: With More Than 38,000 Reported Incidences of Domestic Violence in Ohio Last Year, We Must Pass Tough Legislation to Combat Abuse
Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act Would Give Law Enforcement Officials the Tools they Need to Protect the Public, Help Crack Down on Domestic...
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March 21
2012
C-Span
Mar 15, 2012
U.S. Senate
Several women senators spoke about domestic violence and sexual violence and push for passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act.Thank you to Senators Klobuchar, Feinstein, Murray, Hagen, Murkowski, Mikulski, and Shaheen.
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March 18
2012
National Task Force
Thenk you Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator Daniel Inouye (D-IA) for joining Mark Warner (D-VA) and 48 other Senators for supporting VAWA. We now have a majority in the Senate, but we need 9 more Senators to reach our March 20th goal!
Senators Leahy (D-VT) and Crapo (R-ID) want to...
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February 16
2012
The Washington Post
Even though I didn’t know Yeardley Love, I feel that we had a lot in common.
Our early lives were both marked by privilege. We both discovered and tested our strength in the burgeoning world of female athletics. We both went away to college — looking forward to bright futures as...
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February 13
2012
National Task Force
VAWA Update: Senate Judiciary Passes S. 1925
Thanks to all of our valiant VAWA Supporters, S.1925, the Leahy/Crapo bill to Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Feb.2!
In the past few days, we’ve...
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February 3
2012
Washington Blade
A Senate panel approved LGBT-inclusive legislation on Thursday that would extend and strengthen programs working to combat and prevent domestic violence.
The Senate Judiciary Committee reported out the legislation, known as Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, on a party-line vote of 10-8....
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February 2
2012
National Partnership for Women and Families
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Wednesday outlined a series of initiatives designed to reduce sexual assaults in the military, though critics say the measures do not go far enough, Stars and Stripes reports (Carroll, Stars and Stripes, 1/19).
According to Panetta, the number of sexual...
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January 20
2012
Gongwer News Service
Three Democratic lawmakers rolled out a proposal on Wednesday that would provide treatment for pregnancy and disease prevention to victims of sexual assaults.
Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland), along withRep. Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) and Rep. Nancy Garland (D-New Albany), called the measure (SB...
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January 18
2012
Prevention Institute
People are still talking about Penn State. This week, a judge released the timeframe for the events leading up to the trial of former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky. His arrest last November triggered a wave of news coverage. But what is the media coverage saying, and how might it affect the public...
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January 13
2012
DOJ
The following post appears courtesy of Susan B. Carbon, Director of the Office on Violence Against Women.
In a victory for survivors of rape and their advocates, the Attorney General announced a newly revised definition of rape for nationwide data collection, ensuring that rape will be more...
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January 6
2012
Significance
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of sexual violence. New findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), a study launched by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010, report that nearly 1 in 5 women are estimated to have been the victims of...
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January 6
2012
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