The Atlantic looks at the challenges facing the passage of I-VAWA (S.2982, HR. 4594), or the International Violence Against Women Act, which was recently delayed in Congress.
“Given its high-profile congressional backers and Obama administration’s emphasis on foreign aid, it seems that I-VAWA may be successful in committee come November,” the publication writes, noting that the bill is unique “among foreign aid bills in its assertive approach to helping alleviate women’s suffering abroad.” These attributes include a promise “to address the issue of women’s violence along multiple fronts: health, legal, economic, social, and humanitarian” and propose creation of programs “for 5-20 countries, all using various best-practice data that the nonprofits involved in the legislation’s development have already gathered.”
2010 The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
For full article, visit:
http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2010/October/08/GH-100810-Int-Violence-Against-Women-Act.aspx
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 8 October 2010
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