Violence against Women and Children: A Worldwide, National, and Local Epidemic
Violence against women and children is a worldwide, national, and local epidemic. Yesterday, a 23-year-old medical student died in a Singapore hospital of injuries she sustained December 16, 2012 in a...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff, Sandy, VAWA and Congress’s Adjournment
Last night, I stayed up to watch the final vote on the Biden-McConnell compromise Fiscal Cliff bill in the US House of Representatives on C-Span. The final vote was 257-167 on the bill. Most of the...
View ArticleClimate of Indifference IS Part of Why the Sandusky Sexual Assaults Occurred
This morning, Joe Paterno’s family released their report contradicting much of Judge Louis Freeh’s report on why the child sexual assaults at Penn State University occurred. In this report, they state...
View ArticleVAWA Passes Senate: One Step Toward Ending the Climate of Indifference...
The climate of indifference that I talked about in my blog on February 10 is pervasive both here in the US and around the world. Which is why Eve Ensler has called for a worldwide day of action to...
View ArticleA Further Comment on Violence Against Women and Children on V-Day
I received a comment on LinkedIn this morning in response to my posting titled VAWA Passes Senate: One Step Toward Ending the Climate of Indifference Towards Violence Against Women. My status...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Introduce Partisan VAWA that Fails to Protect ALL Victims
Today, I am presenting a guest blog by my dear friend and colleague Pat Reuss. Pat describes herself as “a longtime women’s rights activist pretending to be retired and currently serving as a policy...
View ArticleThe “Unholy Alliance” that May Defeat Comprehensive UN Call to End...
Last week, on International Women’s Day (March 8), I participated in the 24-hour Global Tweet-a-Thon to end gender-based violence. This event was held in conjunction with the 57th session of the...
View ArticlePowerful UN CSW57 Document on Ending Gender-Based Violence Created
On March 14, I wrote a blog entitled “The “Unholy Alliance” that May Defeat Comprehensive UN Call to End Gender-Based Violence.” I talked about an alliance between the Vatican, Iran, Russia and a...
View ArticleCivil Rights Denied: PA’s Proposed Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban
“working to win the freedom to marry in more states, grow the national majority for marriage, and end federal marriage discrimination. ” http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/about-us A couple of days...
View ArticleFacebook Guidelines Need to be Changed
Reblogged from Nel's New Day: MySpace was a popular social network several years ago, but it was quickly taken over by Facebook and pretty much disappeared. Now, the most popular social network is...
View ArticlePennsylvania’s Proposed Women’s Health Agenda
Kate Michelman discussing strategy with women’s health care advocates and members of the General Assembly Health Care Agenda Caucus. Yesterday (Monday, September 30, 2013), I attended a two-hour...
View ArticleUnderhanded Attempt to Pass a Paid/Unpaid ALEC Sick Leave Preemption Bill?
Help Stop ALEC In December, I posted a blog about some Pennsylvania legislators’ connections to ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Among those legislators is Representative Seth Grove of...
View ArticleSample Letter Opposing Sick Leave Preemption Bill
Help Stop ALEC Yesterday afternoon, the Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee forwarded a sick leave preemption bill — HB 1960 — to the floor of the Pennsylvania House of Representative...
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