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AVP's Executive Director, Sharon Stapel, on why the Violence Against Women Act must explicitly include LGBTQ survivors of violence

on December 19, 2012

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is our nation’s response to the epidemic rates of domestic and sexual violence in the United States. As its name suggests, the 1994 law focused on eradicating this violence as it disproportionately impacts women, a specifically gendered problem that was ignored and dismissed for decades before VAWA was enacted. Read the full article here »

 
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