Domestic Violence

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The bill includes provisions aimed at improving access to justice and services for victims from a range of backgrounds, and continuing efforts should include advancing protections for immigrant victims of violence during the process of comprehensive immigration reform, Human Rights Watch said.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/27/us-house-don-t-fail-violence-victims-again">US House: Don’t Fail Violence Victims Again</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 27, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The United States House of Representatives should approve a Senate-passed bill to renew the Violence against Women Act (VAWA), not a weaker House version that undermines protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Approving the Senate-passed bill would ensure that all women who are victims of violence have access to protection and services, Human Rights Watch said. The House is expected to vote on renewing the act this week.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/18/don-t-overlook-domestic-violence">Don’t Overlook Domestic Violence</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 18, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">According to December 2011 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four women in the U.S. has been a victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Nearly one in five has been raped.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/13/canada-abusive-policing-neglect-along-highway-tears">Canada: Abusive Policing, Neglect Along ‘Highway of Tears’</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 13, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in northern British Columbia has failed to protect indigenous women and girls from violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Women and girls Human Rights Watch interviewed also described abusive treatment by police officers, including excessive use of force, and physical and sexual assault.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/06/dc-police-should-release-documents">DC Police Should Release Documents</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 6, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Comments by the Washington, DC police chief Cathy Lanier reported in the news media suggest that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) may not have provided documents it was legally obligated to release in response to a freedom of information request and a settlement agreement, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Chief Lanier.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/30/china-commute-death-sentence-domestic-violence-case-0">China: Commute Death Sentence in Domestic Violence Case</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 30, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Chinese government should immediately commute the death sentence against Li Yan, a woman convicted of killing her husband following months of violent abuse</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/25/making-sure-dc-police-take-sex-assault-seriously">Making sure the D.C. police take sex assault seriously</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 25, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">In spring 2011, a federal government employee in her 30s was sexually assaulted in the District by a man she met on an Internet dating site. At Washington Hospital Center, where she went for a forensic exam so medical personnel could collect evidence from her body, a female detective from the Sexual Assault Unit of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) questioned the woman for three hours, interrupting her frequently in a manner — as the woman saw it — meant to discourage her from reporting the assault and to minimize the seriousness of what had happened to her.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/24/us-dc-police-mishandle-sexual-assault-cases">US: DC Police Mishandle Sexual Assault Cases</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 24, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Victims of sexual assault in Washington, DC are not getting the effective response they deserve and should expect from the district’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Sexual assault cases are too often not properly documented or investigated and victims may face callous, traumatizing treatment, despite official departmental policy to the contrary.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130501024401/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/26/laws-hurting-bangladesh-women-linger-books">Laws Hurting Bangladesh Women Linger on the Books</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 26, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Successive governments in Bangladesh have allowed harsh, discriminatory personal laws to persist. 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