VP Joe Biden The hard fight to end violence against women. Today, its hard for many people to fathom a day in which Americans ignored this violence, or worse, condoned it. But its true. And it was against that backdrop I introduced the Violence Against Women (VAWA) in 1990, the first federal law that directly held violence against women as a violation of basic civil rights and fundamental human dignity. It had three simple goals. Make streets safer for women. Make homes safer for women. Protect womens civil rights. It met those goals comprehensively by: increasing violence prevention, investing in shelters, enhancing services, and training police, lawyers, and even judges to better investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate domestic violence cases. But it took four years for the bill to get signed into law in 1994. We know there is still more to do, but years of struggle and progress have spurred a national understanding that you cant talk about human rights and human dignity without talking about the right of every woman on this planet to be free from violence and free from fear. Joseph R. Biden Jr., a former U.S. Senator from Delaware, is vice president of the United States. #Read more here: delawareonline/story/opinion/contributors/2014/09/06/hard-fight-end-violence-women/15199597/ #VAWA #violenceagainstwomen via Delawareonline
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:33:45 +0000
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