by Charles Cameron | Sep 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some surprising twists here, if you think of IS as entirely lacking compassion or religious and moral consideration ] . I am going to take the religious issues out of their original order to create a smoother reading experience with regard...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — first of three posts collecting key points from a major article on Yazidi women, IS & possibilities of rescue ] . Today Matthew Barber posted one of the saddest stories I have read in several years of monitoring religious violence on...
by Dr. Tiffany McNair | Sep 13, 2014 | Monitor
President Barack Obama signs S. 47, the “Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013,” (VAWA), which reauthorizes several Violence Against Women Act grant programs through FY 2018; and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 through FY 2017, in the...
by Tanya Somanader | Sep 9, 2014 | Monitor
Vice President Joe Biden speaks on the 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, at the National Archives, in Washington, D.C. September 9, 2014. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann) Twenty years ago this week, President Clinton signed into law...
by Lindsay Holst | Sep 9, 2014 | Monitor
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, which was signed into law on September 13, 1994. The President issued a proclamation commemorating that anniversary. You can read the full text of that proclamation below. Twenty years ago, our...