What is I-VAWA?

The International Violence Against Women Act (H.R. 4594, S. 2982) is a major step and unprecedented effort to end violence against women and girls across the globe.

If passed, it would for the first time comprehensively incorporate proven solutions to ending gender-based violence into all U.S. foreign assistance programs, as well as make ending violence against women a diplomatic priority. It would require the U.S. government to invest in grassroots women’s organizations that are successfully working to reduce violence in their communities, and respond to critical outbreaks of gender-based violence in armed conflict in a timely manner.

The I-VAWA would place women’s equality initiatives high on the global agenda—like promoting women’s economic opportunity, addressing violence against girls in school, and working to change public attitudes—making a huge impact on empowering millions of women worldwide to lift themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty.

VAWA is currently scheduled for reauthorization in 2010. (more…)

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Violence against women and girls is a worldwide problem of enormous proportions.
Based on what country data that is available, up to 70 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime. Unfortunately, the majority of this violence comes from husbands, intimate partners or someone else they know.

Among 15–44 year-old women, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined.

Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, violence against women devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development. It takes many forms and occurs in many places — domestic violence in the home, sexual abuse of girls in schools,

sexual harassment at work, rape by husbands or strangers, in refugee camps or as a tactic of war. (more…)

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