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Urge Your Member of Congress to Co-Sponsor I-VAWA and Improve Our Government's Response to Violence Against Women and Girls Worldwide

Jan 22, 2010

Urge Your Member of Congress to Co-Sponsor the International Violence Against Women Act

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No woman or girl deserves to be beaten or raped in the United States or anywhere in the world.
 
The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) is the first comprehensive piece of legislation in the United States aimed at ending violence against women and girls around the world.  Please help us pass it.  The I-VAWA would improve our government's response when women and girls are victims of sex trafficking and rape during war and would provide aid to women's groups on the ground working to help survivors of domestic and sexual violence. It would focus resources on prevention and ensure that our dollars are used in the most effective ways possible to help the people who need it most.  In some countries, it truly could mean the difference between life and death for a woman or girl.
We are asking you to urge your Members of Congress to become co-sponsors of this important piece of legislation. It will be introduced on February 4.

Violence against women is a human rights violation and a worldwide pandemic - approximately one out of every three women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.  In some countries it's up to 70 percent.

Look at what the passage of I-VAWA would mean to women around the world:
  • Increased efforts to prevent violence against women during conflict and in humanitarian crises, like what's going on in Haiti right now;
  • Legal reform and commitment to finding perpetrators and bringing them to justice;
  • Help for victims and survivors to escape from abuse or heal after violence;
  • Fewer women and children dying from HIV/AIDS and death during childbirth
  • Expanded economic and educational opportunities that would help women who are abused flee their abuser or reduce their risk for sexual exploitation; and  
  • New programs to work with men and boys to be leaders and allies in ending violence against women and girls.
Speak out against the horrors women suffer around the world. Show your support for Senators Kerry (D-MA), Boxer (D-CA) and Snowe (R-ME) and Representatives Delahunt (D-MA), Poe (R-TX) and Schakowsky (D-IL) for their commitment to ending violence against women and girls worldwide by urging your own Member of Congress to co-sponsor the International Violence Against Women Act today!

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