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Urge Congress to Do Its Job and Do Right By ALL Victims
July 26th, 2012Congress has only a few legislative days left to act on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). We need to tell our legislators to do their job. We need you to act in these last few days.
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Take Part in National 10 Days of Action for VAWA
June 25th, 2012The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is stalled in Congress, and we need your help to push VAWA over the finish line!
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Tell the House that Adams Bill Harms Survivors
May 10th, 2012This misguided bill fails to include protections for ALL victims of violence and reverses protections for courageous immigrant women and girls that have been in place since VAWA’s original passage in 1994.
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Support Legislation to Prevent Child Marriage
December 2nd, 2010Every day, girls as young as eight or nine are forced to marry men who are often decades older. If we do nothing, an estimated 142 million girls will be married as children by the end of this decade.
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Reverse Harmful Asylum Denial for FGM Survivor
April 22nd, 2008The nation’s highest immigration court recently issued a disturbing decision denying an asylum request from a young woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation as a child and fears a forced marriage if she is returned to Mali. We need your help to put gender-based asylum law back on track.
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Vote Yes on SB 441
March 2nd, 2008SB 441 is a public safety imperative in Virginia that would make a powerful—even lifesaving—difference for the women and girls we serve.