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[pdf] Kennedy, Delahunt Announce New Guidelines For Immigration Raids (+)

Statement released by Senator Edward Kennedy and Congressman William Delahunt regarding the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Guidelines for Identifying Humanitarian Concerns among Administrative Arrestees When Conducting Worksite Enforcement Operations. The guidelines set forth best practices for quickly identifying persons arrested who are sole caregivers or who should be released from custody for other humanitarian reasons.

Published November 16, 2007 by

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[pdf] Section 104 VAWA 2005 Introduced: Ensuring Immigrant Crime Victim’s Access to Legal Service (+)

Text of the Amendment introduced by Senator Durbin became Section 104 of Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”) of 2005. The Amendment permits programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation (“LSC”) to use LSC funds or funds derived from a source other than the LSC to provide legal assistance to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or trafficking, consistent with VAWA and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

Published March 24, 2005 by

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[pdf] Turning the Act Into Action: The Violence Against Women Law (+)

In the making for over four years, The Violence Against Women Act is finally law. Now it is time to turn the Act into action. Beginning in 1990, through a series of hearings and reports, the Senate Judiciary Committee studied the kinds of crimes- namely rape and family violence- that disproportionately burden women. What we learned is that our society and our criminal justice system routinely ignore and dismiss this violence, with tragic consequences for women, for their children, and ultimately for all of us.

Published October 1994 by

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[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 ,

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[pdf] Civil Protection Orders: Victims’ Views on Effectiveness (+)

Domestic violence has moved into the spotlight in public debate in this country, particularly with the 1994 passage of the Violence Against Women Act. After years of considering domestic violence a “family matter,” the criminal justice, legal, and medical communities are now collaborating to protect women and children from abusers.

Published January 1998 by ,

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[pdf] Violence Against Women: A Week in the Life of America (+)

A report that graphically portrays the human tragedy of a single “Week in the Life of America’s Women.” We have found that in 1991, at least 21,000 domestic crimes against women were reported to the police every week, almost one-fifth of all aggravated assaults reported to the police are aggravated assaults in the home, and these figures reveal a total of at least 1.1 million assaults, aggravated assaults, murders, and rapes against women committed in the home and reported to the police (unreported crimes may be more than three times this total).

Published October 1, 1992 by

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