Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act through fiscal years 2006-2009. This includes the 2005 Bipartisan legislative history of VAWA 2005 immigration and the legislative history of the VAWA Unit see pp 116-125.
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[pdf] Combating Modern Slavery: Reauthorization of Anti-Trafficking Programs (+)
Transcript of hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives.
[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.
[pdf] The Continued Importance of the Violence Against Women Act (+)
A hearing discussing the Violence Against Women Act.
[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.
[pdf] Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 (+)
A legislative hearing on HR 3083, the Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999.
[pdf] Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act Testimony (+)
A testimony of Lynn Rosenthal of the National Network to End Domestic Violence before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the Violence Against Women Act of 2005.
[pdf] Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (+)
A hearing on legislation to protect women against violence.
[pdf] Violence Against women Act of 1999, Stalking Prevention and Victim Protection Act of 1999 (+)
A hearing on legislation addressing violence against women and stalking.
[pdf] Leading the Fight: The Violence Against Women Office (+)
A hearing to check in with the Violence Against Women Office and to figure out how we are going to end violence against women.
[pdf] Implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (+)
A hearing regarding the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act Provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.
[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.
[pdf] House Hearing on Crimes of Violence Motivated By Gender VAWA 1994 (+)
An oversight hearing on crimes of violence motivated by gender.
[pdf] VAWA 1994 Violence Against Women: Fighting the Fear (+)
A hearing to examine the rise of violence against women in the state of Maine and in other rural areas.
[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.
[pdf] Hearing on Violence Against Women Before the House Judiciary Committee (+)
A hearing examining violence against women.
[pdf] Violence Against Women Act of 1991 (+)
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill (S. 15), having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill as mended do pass.
[pdf] Violence Against Women Victims of the System (+)
Hearing before the committee on the Judiciary United States Senate; a bill to combat violence and crimes against women on the streets and in homes.
[pdf] Violence Against Women Act of 1990 (+)
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill (S. 2754), having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill as mended do pass.
[pdf] Women and Violence (+)
Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate on legislation to reduce the growing problem of violent crime against women.