Harold Monteau

The U.S. House of Represents recently passed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) (H.R. 4970) on a largely Republican partisan vote....

June 13, 2012
Caroline P. Mayhew

Amid the current election excitement and heightened national focus on the politics of women’s issues, Congressional efforts to reauthorize the Violence Against Women A...

May 29, 2012
Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) railed against the Republican-led House version of the watered down Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as an affront to herself as a woman of ...
WASHINGTON – A reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed the Republican-led U.S...
Jefferson Keel, President, National Congress of American Indians

There is a group of criminals, on Native American lands, who assault, rape, and abuse Native women—and they can’t be arrested. These criminals are non-Native men....

May 14, 2012
While congressional lawmakers in Washington are trying to strip the Violence Against Women Act of its protections for indigenous women, indigenous delegations at the United Nations...
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led U.S...
Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation of Indians President

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) recently issued a statement on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Sen....

May 08, 2012
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led U.S...
Ray Cook

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) recently issued a statement after the passage of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, in which he argued that tribal governments (...

May 08, 2012

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