U.S. Congress > U.S. House of Representatives

Publisher: U.S. House of Representatives

Narrow your search:

[pdf] House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, Hearing on H.R. 3083 the “Battered Immigrant Women’s Protection Act of 1999″ (July 19, 2000) (+)

George Fishman, Chief Counsel and Lora Ries, Counsel, Hearing on H.R. 3083 the “Battered Immigrant Women’s Protection Act of 1999.” House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims 4 (July 19, 2000) Discussing VAWA 2000’s immigration protections.

Published July 19, 2000 by

Topics:

[pdf] The 2005 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act: Why Congress Acted to Expand Protections to Immigrant Victims (+)

A brief history of the Violence Against Women Act and congressional intent that lead to the expanded legal protections for immigrant crime victims in the 2005 reauthorization written by Representative John Conyers, Jr.

Published May 2007 by

Topics: , , , ,

[pdf] Markup before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives (2005) (+)

Includes topics of: Encouraging the U.S. Government to Actively Support the Democratic Political and Social Forces in Nicaragua; Urging the Secretary to Coordinate with other Governmental Agencies and NGOs in Creating an Online Database of International Exchange Programs and Related Opportunities; Congratulating Israel on the Election of Ambassador Dan Gillerman as Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly; Recognizing the Commencement of Ramadan and Commending Muslims for their Faith; and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. (H. Con. Res. 252, H. Res. 192, H. Res. 368, H. Res. 472 and H.R. 972.)

Published October 7, 2005 by

Topics: ,

[pdf] VAWA IV Researcher Perspective on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (+)

A memo regarding important research based information about how the provisions in HR 4970 roll back and eviserate the victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other violent crimes suffered by non-citizen women and children in the United States.

Published May 15, 2012 by ,

Topics: ,

[pdf] The 2005 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (+)

Ranking Member John Conyers provides an overview of the history of congressional involvement with the Violence Against Women Act’s (VAWA) provisions to protect immigrant victims of domestic violence and other forms of violence against women. He also outlines the reasoning behind, and purpose of, the most recent enhancements in legal protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and foreign fiances and spouses that were included in the recently reauthorized VAWA 2005, also describing the bipartisan work that resulted in this newest piece of legislation.

Published May 2007 by

Topics: , ,

[pdf] Report on Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 Part II (+)

Report to accompany H.R. 972. The Committee on International Relations, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 972) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

Published December 8, 2005 by

Topics: ,

[pdf] Report on Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 Part I (+)

Report to accompany H.R. 972. The Committee on International Relations, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 972) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

Published November 18, 2005 by

Topics: ,

[pdf] Violence Against women Act of 2000 (+)

HR 1248 would reauthorize and make key improvements in programs created by the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Those programs include: law enforcement and prosecution grants to combat violence against women, national domestic violence hotline, battered women’s shelter and services, grants for community initiatives, education and training for judges and court personnel, grants to encourage arrest policies, rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement, national stalker and domestic violence reduction, federal victims’ counselors, education and prevention grants to reduce sexual abuse of runaway, homeless, and street youth, victims of child abuse, and rape prevention education. It would also create new programs, including civil legal assistance for victims, safe havens for children pilot program, protections against violence and abuse for women with disabilities, standards, practice and training for sexual assault examinations, and a requirement that a domestic violence task force report back to Congress on any overlapping or duplication of Federal agency efforts addressing domestic violence.

Published July 20, 2000 by

Topics: , , , ,

[pdf] Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996 (+)

Witness hearings on the fiscal year 1996 budget request. A series of hearings on the fiscal year 1996 budget request with representatives of the Administration coming before the Subcommittee to defend their budgets has already occurred. Now, it is interest groups and individuals’ opportunity.

Published 1995 by

Topics: , ,

[pdf] Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 Part II (+)

Report to accompany H.R. 2620. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2620) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes, having considered the same report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

Published September 29, 2003 by

Topics: ,

[pdf] Report on Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 Part I (+)

Report to accompany H.R. 2620. The Committee on International Relations, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2620) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.

Published September 5, 2003 by

Topics: ,

[pdf] Domestic Violence: Not Just a Family Matter (+)

This hearing is about 4 million women a year whose names and faces are not gracing magazine covers and are not on the evening news. This hearing has three purposes: let you know that this could happen to someone you know, learn about mandatory arrest, and we are dedicated towards stopping domestic violence.

Published June 30, 1994 by ,

Topics: , ,

[pdf] VAWA 1994-The Response to Rape: Detours on the Road to Equal Justice (+)

This report culminates a three year investigation by the Judiciary Committee’s majority staff concerning the causes and effects of violence against women. Women in America suffer all the crimes that plague the nation. But there are some crimes that disproportionately burden women. Through a series of hearings and reports, the committee has studied this violence in an effort to determine what steps we can take to make women more safe.

Published May 1993 by ,

Topics: , ,

[pdf] House of Representatives: Commerce Justice State Appropriations Report 1996 (+)

The Committee Report from the House Appropriations Committee providing legislative history on the FY 1997 Appropriations Bill discussing appropriations for the Departments of commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related agencies. Contains legislative history of the Kennedy Amendment.

Published July 16, 1996 by

Topics: ,

[pdf] Battered Women’s Testimony Act of 1992 (+)

The Committee of the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (HR 1252) to authorize the State Justice Institute to analyze and disseminate information regarding the admissibility and quality of testimony of witnesses with expertise relating to battered women, and to develop and disseminate training materials to increase the use of such experts to provide testimony in criminal trials of battered women, particularly in cases involving indigent women, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

Published October 3, 1992 by

Topics: , ,

[pdf] Expressing the Sense of Congress that Expert Testimony Concerning the Nature and Effect of Domestic Violence (+)

Mr. Brooks, from the Committee on the Judiciary submitted the report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 89) expressing the sense of Congress that expert testimony concerning the nature and effect of domestic violence, including descriptions of the experiences of battered women, should be admissible when offered in a State court by a defendant in a criminal case, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the resolution be agreed to.

Published October 3, 1992 by

Topics: , ,