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Crime Policy

Crime Policy

Senate Set to Vote on VAWA Reauthorization

By: Victoria Fitzgerald | January 31, 2013

The U.S. Senate is poised to vote next week on passage of the Violence Against Women Act. The act failed to win approval in the GOP-dominated House last year for the first time since it was introduced in 1994.

Crime & Law

Cyber-Safety Savants Say Less is Best Online

By: Mitzi Perdue | May 15, 2012

Cybercriminals may be “spear phishing” your Facebook or Twitter account. A gorgeous PowerPoint attachment may harbor a malicious program. Women are more vulnerable to online security breaches, so here are a few words from the Web-wise.

Arts & Culture

Bike Invention Pedals in New Era of Freedoms

By: Sue Macy | March 18, 2011

The rise of the bike in the late 1800s changed women’s approach to both private and public life, Sue Macy says in this adaptation of an excerpt from her new book “Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom.”

Politics

Bangladesh Praised for Reducing Acid Attacks

By: Karsten Strauss | January 28, 2011

Bangladesh is singled out from neighboring India and Cambodia for taking stronger measures to stop acid attacks on women in a report released Thursday. The attacks to disfigure and isolate victims are called acts of gender terrorism.

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U.N. Envoy Paves Diplomatic History for Women

By: Amy Lieberman | March 30, 2010

They work like stepping stones to pave a major fresh path in women’s history: First 1325, then 1820, now 1888. These are U.N. resolutions that in the past 15 or so years have put wartime sexual violence on the international policy map.

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