Gender-based violence against women and girls violates CEDAW. As the CEDAW Committee wrote in 1992: “Gender-based violence is ...

Prohibition aimed to curb male violence. Instead, it gave rise to female bootleggers, policy advocates, and a cultural shift ...

Attorney General Letitia James is leading a multi-state charge to block what she calls an “illegal attempt to play politics” with life-saving federal funds for survivors of domestic violence and ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, alongside a coalition of 21 other attorneys general, has taken legal action to protect funding for organizations aiding ...

‘We're disaster planning’: Trump’s funding freeze rattles domestic violence nonprofits The DOJ Office on Violence Against Women removed all open funding opportunities from its website in ...

Looking back at the Violence Against Women Act after 30 years of protection Johns Hopkins Professor Jacquelyn Campbell, who contributed to the original act three decades ago, discusses what's changed ...

The law was the first federal legislative package to designate domestic violence and sexual assault as crimes and require community-coordinated response to violence against women.

On VAWA’s 30th anniversary, it’s worth remembering how the justices struck down a provision in 2000 that let victims of gender-based violence sue perpetrators in federal court.

President Joe Biden continues to cement his political legacy during his final months in office, marking the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act at the White House on Thursday.

The Biden-Harris administration is set to announce over $690 million in new funding to support survivors of gender-based violence.

President Joe Biden Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act that he wrote and championed as a U.S. senator with new actions to reinforce its work on preventing ...

An Albanian women’s group is asking the government to criminalise cyber violence against women after two were pushed to suicide so far this year.